Even Fireman Sam’s a victim of PC bollocks
IT shouldn’t really surprise me, should it?
Let’s face facts, here – the time when Britain could claim to be a sensible, grown- up nation is long past.
We now appear to be 60 million people standing on an island, shrieking: “You can’t say THAT! I’m offended!”
And nothing – NOTHING – is immune from this madness that has reduced a once- imperial power into a gibbering, blubbering, bedwetting basket case.
The latest victim of this insanity is Fireman Sam. F** king Fireman Sam! The character has been axed as a mascot for a fire brigade over fears he could put women off joining.
Someone sat down and actually thought that up. Someone with a brain. Someone who can probably wipe their own bottom.
They thought that having kids’ favourite Sam as a brigade mascot would put women off signing up.
If Fireman Sam is off- putting, how are you going to fare against, say, a burning building?
If you are such a simpering snowflake that a made- up mascot is going to offend you, it’s probably best you stay out of the whole, “climbing up ladders and rescuing people from infernos” business.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service said the children’s TV character was outdated and did not reflect the message it wanted to achieve. LINCOLNSHIRE! I could understand this sort of shit if it came out of Brighton or one of the London boroughs.
But Lincolnshire? I thought they were more sensible than that.
Chief fire officer Les Britzman said Fireman Sam would be replaced with fire extinguisher- shaped mascots called Freddy, Filbert and Penelope. For the love of sweet c** t! Mr Britzman said the service already struggled to recruit women firefighters and Fireman Sam might be behind that.
“There’s been a lot of research that says that images that young people have about what careers they want to do are formed when they are about four or five.
“If you are promoting that image we might be stopping people wanting to apply for the fire service 20 years down the line.” OH. F** K. OFF! Is this a competition? Is there a contest – run by The Guardian, probably – to come up with the biggest bundle of bullshit in the public sector?
I really hope that if my house catches fire, the firemen and women who come with the hoses are more concerned about dousing flames than gender stereotyping.