AC Graham should give us smiles to help us signal that we are tongue in cheek.

My lady could handle a 40 Ft yacht in a howling gale, [including one cyclone], while I was busy with reefing or putting extra lashes on stuff.

She could ride a 16.2 hands eventer at a flat gallop over big jumps in cross country events, & could manage the accounts department of a fairly large & complex operation.

She has few equals.

She was & still is bloody hopeless driving cars or cooking, but she is pretty sexy. I guess you can't have everything in a single package, & I would hate her to be Prime Minister.

Ttbn well it is not just short women in the Vicpol! I am waiting to come across a full on midget or dwarf getting the Premiers congratulations! I noticed this over the last few years and what worries me is a small bloke has to shoot someone bigger when most people are bigger. Nothing to do with Noel Cowards observation to not trust short men because their brains are too close to their bottoms!

JB,

Short males cops too. Useless. But that's equal opportunity. If you can have females, you have to have midget men too. Little cops. Brainless teachers. There is no reason why the old standards for everything can't be re-introduced, and they might be one day if we get governments with nuts; and there's a other thing - governments with small or no nuts. We used to have men like Bob Menzies and Ben Chifley, and look what we've got now!

The mind boggles to read some of the sh!te here. Truly it does.

A bullet squeezed off on target is not effected by the size or strength of the person so doing.

And I know some big, strong girls who would toss you feeble old fools round like a rag doll, and with one squeeze of the appropriate muscles snap your puny, shrivelled up old @#%^'s in half and leave you to bleed out.

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The fire fighters are generally extraordinarily brave people. And they deserve full living wages i.m.o.

rEPRUSu

Silly name, silly comment, bearing all the marks of juvenile ignorance.

Anyone like you thinking that it’s OK to shoot a person just because you can’t handle him, without facing serious ramifications, up to and including, a murder charge, is pretty naive and unworldly. Police in this country still can’t going around shooting people to subdue them and get away without disciplinary action, including criminal charges and the the sack.

We “feeble old fools” aren’t looking for physical demanding work, and a good many of us could not be handled by anyone but extreme Amazon women; certainly not by a girl like you. Your “living wage” crap puts you in the luvvy Left brigade.

reprusa, thanks for the virtue signal and the pathetic attempt to divert attention from the fact you are a bit short in the brains department. Firefighters are very well paid and we have a dedicated and efficient service. If a crew has to carry someone that is OK until the carry ons are in the majority. Also this is the start as we all know the next thing is a woman has to be placed in charge. Great if you are female but not as great if you are male, unfair is what it is.
Equality does not mean half of all firefighters or police have to be women it is equality of opportunity that is the goal not the outcome!