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Three women become the first females to serve in a Royal Navy submarine
Three women have become the first females to serve in the Royal Navy Submarine Service: they are pioneering lieutenants Maxine Stiles, Alex Olsson and Penny Thackray, reports UK defense news. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh no! Women on those pesky submarines, of which there are millions lurking off the shores of Argentina, just waiting to attack (according to CFK and her lapdog Pepe).
May 06th, 2014 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I find this a surprising move though. Women can get PMT quite badly. Submariners are notoriously good at winding up people. They've made it into an art form over the years.
So put these together in a pressurised tin can under the sea and it could spell disaster!
Those submariners won't stand a chance against the PMT monster!!!! AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
On the other hand, what happens if the boat sets out on a year long patrol with 110 crew members, and comes back with 111?!? ;P
three beauties, indeed.
May 07th, 2014 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ Lep
May 07th, 2014 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'd imagine that given the work environment (a big tin tube with no daylight at a constant alert footing where if anything goes properly wrong they'd be recovering the bodies with a tea strainer) anyone would have to have had an unreasonable amount of headshrinker time before they put to sea at all.
That and I'd imagine that long-term contraceptives would be standard issue/required (partly for the obvious reasons, but also it has been reported to lessen the symptoms of PMS), especially seeing as one of the three is going to be playing with the buckets full of sunshine.
I watched a new item on this when it was first announced that women would become submariners. The reason they were not allowed was on health grounds. It was thought they may be adversely affected by carbon dioxide and this was later proved unfounded. I also remember the possibility of the effects on an unborn child was another consideration.
May 07th, 2014 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have to say I do not think PMS was ever a consideration. Blokes can be moody too.
@4 ElaineB
May 07th, 2014 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know...women have got away with murder using the PMT defence. ;)
And the submariners I have met are all experts at annoying people.
However, all joking aside, the health fears that were used exclude women from being submariners have all proved unfounded.
Good luck to these pioneering women of the RN. Rather them than me, being stuck in a tin can under millions of tons of water. Hats off to all those that serve in the silent service.
Be VERY careful from now on. The coasts of BR, UR, and AR now gender-rich zones.
May 07th, 2014 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mermaids comin' up from under. Be very afraid, CFK.
I'm not affraid of them. CFK as president of Republica Argentina has more destructive capacity than three women working iu a nuclear submarine.....
May 07th, 2014 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 women in a steel can full of seamen, what could go wrong.
May 07th, 2014 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#7 Both can destroy a whole country, it's just that Cristina is taking a couple of years longer than would the gals in the nuke.
May 08th, 2014 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0[Nice care taken with your spelling, Klingon.]
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