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If the men let the women & children go first make sure that you dont let them have the credit cards !!

Thanks Joy.
Well, it says on our buses that 'These seats are reserved for the elderly and disabled'. Now, if I am old enough to have a free bus pass. then one of them seats has got me name on it, and then me b*m. LOLOL
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Julia in Derbyshire

passes julia one of my arm bands we will share hun

I'm not up on Maritime Law, so don't know if 'woman and children first' still applies.
I have never learned to swim, although I have done plenty of sailing on the periphery of thr Atlantic.
These days, I would come under 'aged and infirm first'. Does this count .LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

If I was in that situation (not likely cos cruising isn't for me!) and I was on my own, I would expect families with children to get first priority, also elderly/infirm people (both sexes). If I was with OH, I would stick with him :-). Would not expect preferential treatment because of my gender, even though I can't swim, lol!

Male or female wouldn't come into it for me.

Children and the infirm first........then it's a free for all as far as i'm concerned lol x

yes hayley


i would be shouting my replyback from the lifeboat lol

All though now on cruise liners they dont have classes sections like they did on Titantic, how would you feel if you was stood there with your child to board a life boat and was told you had to let the passagers with a up graded cabin on before you, " sorry love she has a suite and a balcony shes before you, there would be outrage.

I can't swim :( but I think families off together first, then ( and it is very subjective) women, then men...and men last only because I think that men do have more physical strength over all.

But if I was part of a couple, I wouldn't go without him lol...I can't stand 'Titanic' because of that silly woman clinging to her piece of wood , which was plenty big enough to support Leo' as well , and even if it wasn't she might have let him have a turn out of the icy water :-|

Would you expect to be given the choice first Joy as a women?

based on the fact men are usually better swimmers
i think the woman and children first is aceptable
unless the woman decided to stay with their man
the choice is hers in that case

as a rubbish swimmer i would be first in the life boats

During much discussion to day with regards the cruise liner. It was someone scorned upon by a couple of mature colleagues that it has been reported that, a couple of male passages refused to leave their wife and children. One colleague claimed it was a “ rule of the sea women and children first” maybe it was in 1912, I said it was out dated rule or expression. I personally wouldn’t go anywhere in that position with out my OH. One young male colleague claims he would be with his children come what May and no self-respecting parent would let them go without him. So what ever happened to the age of equality? We as women expect to be accepted as equals, however faced in a life and death situation suddenly become the damsel in distressed? In my opinion it has to work both ways.