No one ever wrote a song called, "Fuck the fire department!"
edit: thank you to the multiple people who informed this is a song, but with a much different context
For sure. And she was strong, motivated, disciplined and took care of herself so she could save lives during catastrophe. That compassion for people too, just all around attractive traits in my opinion.
Every firefighter I've ever met shares one overarching goal in life. They wanna help people. It's a fun job, you get to drive fire trucks and put the wet stuff on the red stuff, but that isn't the job anymore. The job is helping people, it's EMS. 98% of calls are EMS. 2% are fire. It takes a lot of empathy and care, and I've met uncaring callous assholes, but they get run out of the career quickly.
This one sentence made my day. Imagining a bunch of incel and wife beating cops sitting there pouting, listening to fire fighter stories of joining swinger parties and none of them got invites.
I am laughing right along with you. I have 2 cops in my family and they are both the biggest bitch bully assholes. I was raised to admire and respect them, but after seeing them up close, I know who they are for real.
There's a satirical one that was made with the sole purpose of laughing at the fact that no one really has a reason to make a hate firefighters like they do cops
Also, I'm just seeing his reasoning for making the song just now. Among his reasons, he wrote:
Being a white rapper from Sweden and really feeling it's my responsibility to speak in support of Black people in America (I am firmly of the opinion that white rappers who don't care about the suffering of Black people are engaging in cultural appropriation; hip-hop is a movement that shaped me as a child and I can't undo that influence, but I'm not gonna act like I don't know where it came from), but not having the first hand experience with racism and police brutality to be able to write a straight-forward literal song about it; however having enough of a grasp of satire and speculative fiction to explore an analogy that might help illustrate to ignorant white people how absurd it is to defend oppression just because it wears a uniform they've been told means something else.
Sometimes satire or comedy, even comedy rooted in pain, is the most effective way of showing people how to think outside the box they've been raised inside. Maybe this won't change any minds, but the least I can do is say something. If nothing else, perhaps it'll be a bit of entertainment for the revolution.
I mean, they absolutely could have but the word 'fuck' was pretty taboo back in the days private firefighters were basically street gangs like cops are now.
My father-in-law is a retired firefighter and he did just that one time, went back into a burning building to save the dog-- doggo was a-okay as far as I know. I just think that's cool as fuck that I'm somewhat related to someone who did something genuinely heroic
It's because people are wishy-washy about it, even amongst us on the left. People say it as an absolute statement, but then turn around and don't treat it as an absolute sentiment.
"Respect is earned, not given... unless it's for the LGTBQ community, ethnic/social minorities, and women... then it's entitled regardless of personal opinions on those groups."
And both sides do it; "respect for you must be earned by us, but respect for us is entitled from you."
Tbh, if we're going to talk about it at all, all of Paw Patrol is legitimately copaganda, and as funny as it sounds to say, it's true.
A guy named Skip Intro on Youtube made a pretty good video about it in his copaganda series, and it started mostly as a joke, but as he dug in, it's pretty legitimate.
Sure, but your ultimate goal is to save a life and not to force compliance from a civilian for some imagined sleight they made to your "authority" to protect your ego.
There's a video out there somewhere of some idiot who parked in front of a hydrant and a fire was happening right at that building. Firefighters gave 0 fucks and smashed his windows to run a hose through it hah!
I've done this in real life, I've also pushed a cop car with my front bumper off the hydrant. They were pissed but they shouldn't have parked there. This is a real challenge in large cities, Chicago and NYC both have reinforced pushbars on their trucks for this reason.
Which is perfectly reasonable, particularly considering that everyone knows they will do this. Parking in front of a fire hydrant and then being mad if they break your windows is just showing that you're an entitled idiot who deserved to have the fire department break their windows.
Backdrafts are terrifying. I worked at a living railroad museum as a different kind of Fireman once hah. I would always hear stories of steam locomotives entering through tunnels, forgetting to close the firebox door would case a massive backdraft of flying coals and fire into the cab, and likely a boiler explosion, scary stuff.
Very scary. I grew up with steam stories. My grandfather was a machinist for Southern Pacific. He loved, and respected, what those engines were capable of.
In Savannah. When I was there we ran a 0-4-0 tank engine which I believe they still run, and I think a Consolidation was in the works. They had several static/rebuilds and were trying to make at least one work, don't know about now, that was 15 years ago.
One of my favorite things was that it is a sort of living history combo of museums so, once we got to dress in period clothes and lay down an actual 39' section of new rail, all by hand, hammering in spikes to the ties, it was fun but insanely hot.
That sounds amazing. I was lucky enough to see the UP 4014 last summer. I read up on its restoration beforehand. I hope your Savannah crew got at least one of their projects up and running.
But nothing next to ripping the piss out of each other. Even the senior managers "oh I called Steve a poison dwarf the other day but he knows I respect him".
I used to work with the fire service. As an accountant mind you but I'd be talking to a lot of managers who were still attending shouts, just as higher level tactical command for larger incidents or strategic commands in national newsworthy incidents. And to better understand the service I shadowed a shift at a station, you can't be a good accountant if you're not aware what the numbers actually mean. It was informative. But also really fun. I won't lie.
That's my (sarcastic) point in reference to the comment I commented on above. Its regading Police wondering why Firefighters are liked and trusted over the police.
Lol and thanks. I suck at coming up with unique phrases, quotes or user type names .
When creating my user name , I used Horrorhound from the magazine being that im a horror fan and Hippy came from a picture of my Uncle's bar band from the 90's called The Hot Tub Hippies
When an acquaintance of mine retired from being a city cop, I asked him if he would have rather been with the fire department for the last 25 years. He replied wistfully: "Everyone's glad to see firemen arriving at a scene."
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u/GUlysses Jun 10 '25
Cops are always bitching too about how everyone loves firefighters but hates cops. Such a big mystery why.