25-10-2018, 01:28 PM
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Women first ?
Yes I'm an occasional loose woman watcher and today they asked should we still have the rule women first in emergency situations ?I can't see why really unless they are helping their children out with them. I think we wanted equality and that's part of it. Any thoughts anyone ?
btw they told a funny story about a married couple whose car flipped over and the only injuries the wife got was from where her husband stepped all over her getting out first !
25-10-2018, 01:56 PM
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[QUOTE=Julie1962;1552227the only injuries the wife got was from where her husband stepped all over her getting out first ![/QUOTE]My gosh, how terrible, but funny, I can just see that with some selfish men.......
However; I do believe women and children should be first as they are not as physically strong as the men so their chances of survival wouldn't be equal. Does that make sense?
25-10-2018, 02:17 PM
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Re: Women first ?
Originally Posted by May
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Children,elderly,disabled first...then it's Everyone for Themselves...survival of the fittest 
...I don't watch 'loose Women'
25-10-2018, 02:21 PM
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I think in this age of equality then "women first" has no relevance,we cant have our cake and eat it too...but Id still like to think the menfolk would do all they could to help out as well ofc as females if they were capable of doing so. It has to work both ways imo
25-10-2018, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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Most of us are now elderly, so maybe we should go last and let ALL the young 'uns out first.
.You think I'm gonna let a big strapping young Laddie /Lassie go before Me....nae chance 
25-10-2018, 02:26 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_children_firstThe practice of women and children first arose from the actions of soldiers during the sinking of the Royal Navy troopship HMS Birkenhead in 1852 after it struck rocks. Captain Robert Salmond RN ordered Colonel Seton to send men to the chain pumps; sixty were directed to this task, sixty more were assigned to the tackles of the lifeboats, and the rest were assembled on the poop deck in order to raise the forward part of the ship. The women and children were placed in the ship's cutter, which lay alongside.The sinking was memorialized in newspapers and paintings of the time, and in poems such as Rudyard Kipling's 1893 "Soldier an' Sailor Too".
As a code of conduct, "women and children first" has no basis in maritime law. According to disaster evacuation expert Ed Galea, in modern-day evacuations people will usually "help the most vulnerable to leave the scene first, likely to be the injured, elderly and young children."
25-10-2018, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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Most of us are now elderly, so maybe we should go last and let ALL the young 'uns out first.
25-10-2018, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by May
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.You think I'm gonna let a big strapping young Laddie /Lassie go before Me....nae chance
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