Firefighters, HO!

For those of you that don't know, Indianapolis is a pretty desirable place for conventions. We have a large convention center attached to a stadium (well, not at the moment, but more on that soon), and a large number of our hotels are connected to the convention center and Circle Centre Mall by covered walk way. So, even if you have to suffer through bad weather, it isn't like you have to go outside.

With the RCA Dome demolished, Lucas Oil Stadium opening, the new Marriott Place opening bringing over 1000 new rooms to downtown, and finally, the expansion of convention center, Indianapolis will continue to attract big crowds to its centralized location in the US. Sure, it ain't Vegas, but it is relatively cheap, too.

Anyway, every year for the past few years, the largest firefighters training convention in the country has come to Indy towards the end of April. I don't know if it is the shaking off of the winter doldrums or what, but it always seems to create an extreme case of the hornies in both the straight female and gay male community. Already, my female friends are planning on being downtown on Friday night to try to snag a firefighter, and the gay males, which I can speak more forcefully about, are putting out the "welcome" mat for some patented Hoosier Hospitality on Craigslist.

It is highly funny and borderline pathetic to see all these ads offering to help firefighters "release some tension" or this peach of a headline "SURELY THERE'S A FIREFIGHTER DTN WANTING FKD." I'm sure there are plenty of gay firefighters out there, just like there are gays everywhere, but the infatuation mainly comes from our idolizing men in uniform and their perceived manliness, and the fact that we've elevated firemen so high, we think they all look like this:

When they really mostly look like this:

 

(This is a guy who was fired in England for being a tub)

In fact, I found a story from last month that said in Massachusetts, 75% of new firefighter and paramedic recruits were overweight or obese.  So, people, before you get all caught up in this fantasy that you're going to get a ripped stud, remember, the majority of these guys do not look like this:

 

 

But this:

 

Sorry to be a kill joy...

Carry on :)