What do you call a person who puts out fires?

[Anonymous]

I was reading an article about political correctness and it got me to thinking how many people actually use the terms that are deemed pc. I know I don't. I guess answer the question so I can see what people think also domyou believe pc comes from the left?

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I am not going to say the term it used in what I read as to not Influense answers.

[Habakkuk]

political correctness is very irritating to me, and I goes against the principles of free speech. I'm not a politician and I don't want to be. Politicians ruin the world. Don't look to your side to find your enemy (left and right) look up, at washington D.C. or any other government institution, whether we're left, right, central, or something else, if we're not part of the government, then we're all in it together to protect ourselves from them and their will. Sorry, that was my little political rant

[Dom163]

Squirtle

[wkwan81]

Firefighters and firemen...firewomen, but then there are female firefighters, but in honest truth I think I've only seen female firefighters once in the past five years.

[cun7n1nja]

I just call them firefighters, lol, because that's what they do.

[DebiPie]

Firefighter. Unless it's in the forest, then, smoke eaters.

[Delaisback]

PC comes from the left who are afraid of any possibility of offending somebody, and life is a competition on who is more a victim than the next person, who is less privileged, and who feels more guilt for being more privileged than somebody else.

Its called a FIREFIGHTER regardless of sex. Personally I'd let a woman carry me out of a burning building any day :P

[Asker]

So it does come from the left I kind of thought the idea seemed like something they would do.

[proudtexasgirl]

"and life is a competition on who is more a victim than the next person, who is less privileged, and who feels more guilt for being more privileged than somebody else."

I couldn't agree more.

[Delaisback]

Thank you Texgirl, try not to take any sociology classes. It was my minor and I got over 100% in both classes I did take, but my two professors one black and one white, turned their class into a white bashing festival. The black one called George Washington a child rapist, and the white one apologized "on behalf of white people" to every ethnicity in the class.

After the final exam I told him that his class disgusted me, because it truly did.

[proudtexasgirl]

Wow... Yea, I would be disgusted too.

[LPLove]

I agree with your comment, completely. And I see that you are a former Marine, so I wanted to say thanks (:

[ryanrhino]

I call them firefighters. Now, I help put out computer issues, or 'fires', as we call them.

Some more creative answers:

flamequellers

waterpeople (instead of watermen or waterwomen - inspired by the film 'The Waterboy')

firewarriors

hydrantusers

heroes

[Confused614]

That goes for a lot of titles though. Firemen, Policemen, Mailmen, Milkman, Doorman, and the list goes on. I say either Firemen or Firefighters.

[Whistling_Dixie]

FireMAN!

Flame on!

("Is that what you're looking for OP?"

[Shaun]

Firefighter, not because I'm pc but because it sounds gay when a man says 'fireman'.

[Anonymous]

why is the term firefighters not politically correct? I don't understand

[Asker]

Fireman is not

[SayHelloToMyAfro]

I think you failed on your update? QA.

[Asker]

I know I guess

[DeanWillis]

Fireman. I even spelled that wrong and my iPhone fixed it. Firewoman if it's a female of course.

[SayHelloToMyAfro]

I call them firemen, maybe they're fire-officers though?

[dIO_oIb]

Firefighters, f*** being politically correct.

[Asker]

I don't like being pc either but when I saw some of the pc terms they are thi gs I never say

[SayHelloToMyAfro]

I think he means firemen. Firefighters it probably the politically correct term.

[dIO_oIb]

yea, I know. But in general.. F***being politically correct.

[nermalinda]

combustion antagonists

[yagurlnira768]

Firemen, FireFighters...Etc..

[irykiryk]

Fire-putter-outter.

[SayHelloToMyAfro]

Pyrophobic.

[Anonymous]

Definitely called a upholster

[HidingMyHeart]

anti-arsonists?

[KarKingJack]

A reverse arsonist

[DebiPie]

Tee Hee! :D

[KarKingJack]

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[xzinax2]

firefighter?

[AmberChick]

Firefighter.

[Anonymous]

Fireperson

[kevlar]

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