Chilean Miners

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The Biscuit Queen

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39625809/ns/world_news-americas/?gt1=43001

They are currently being rescued!!! Several are up, and more are on their way. Thank you everyone for your prayers, this is just an amazing thing, and it is so nice to have a good ending to one of these tragedies.
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betcha there are a few guys who are wishing they could stay down there.

who do you hug and kiss-your wife or your girlfriend?

Men's Rights Activist

They brought #3 up around Midnight California time.   It's 6:18 a.m. now and #12 is up.  The elevator takes 15 min. up and 15 min. down.  Two men per hour, roughly, is the rate so they are progressing pretty steadily.  If they are able to keep on this schedule, they should have #33 out (plus two volunteers who went down) by roughly 7 p.m. tonight, Pacific time.  Keep praying that the little elevator that can keeps chugging along, getting those men out.
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Keep praying that the little elevator that can keeps chugging along, getting those men out.


Those men??? Oh, the miners you mean, right?  Our hearts go out to all the men and women who must work below ground.
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Our hearts go out to all the men and women who must work below ground.


There certainly are not any women miners trapped in this hole so spare me your PC.  I'll mention women when one is relevant to the story.   Until then, I speak correctly and you don't.
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Keep praying that the little elevator that can keeps chugging along, getting those men out.


Those men??? Oh, the miners you mean, right?  Our hearts go out to all the men and women who must work below ground.


I was going to mention... looks like these people are not human but just miner drones... These miners must not be men because we all know that if they were we would hear about it just like we do  :angel4: women  :angel4:.

Right Paul?

They must be robots. Thats what i'm thinking.

:MRm3:


rph3664

Those men??? Oh, the miners you mean, right?  Our hearts go out to all the men and women who must work below ground.
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There may be women miners somewhere, but I have never heard of a mine rescue  or disaster ANYWHERE that had female casualties.  Truthfully, it's a job very few women could do because we just don't have the upper body strength to operate jackhammers and some of that other heavy equipment.

As for some miners having two wives, one legal and one common-law:  This may not be by choice in some cases.  A Chilean poster on another board said that divorce is very hard to get in Chile, and in fact has only been legalized for about the past 10 years.

Virtue

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There may be women miners somewhere


I will bet a billion internet cheeseburgers that you cant find evidence of a single female miner anywhere.
Imagine waking up tomorrow to find
that unbelievably rape is now legal.

You would be freaking out, telling everyone you ran into this is crazy- something needs to be done... now!!! And then every man you told this to just very smugly and condescendingly says...

"Hey... not all men are 'like that.'"

rph3664

Some have tried.  I haven't seen the movie "North Country" but am familiar with the story, which was more about sexual harassment than mining.

Virtue

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/10/business/the-plight-of-female-miners.html

A quick search yeilded the above article which states

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3,800 women who have been hired since 1973


Which frankly is about 3798 more female miners than I thought there were....according to this document

http://www.nma.org/pdf/c_trends_mining.pdf

The 3088 are a fraction of a percent of total number of miners.

After reading the Wiki article (which may or may not be accurate) I can see why there are any woman at all in the mining industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining

Basically regulations forced the industry in to a much LOWER risk category......only AFTER the industry was made massively safer did women start to work in the mines.

Women will NOT work in unsafe jobs other than one exception here or there.
Imagine waking up tomorrow to find
that unbelievably rape is now legal.

You would be freaking out, telling everyone you ran into this is crazy- something needs to be done... now!!! And then every man you told this to just very smugly and condescendingly says...

"Hey... not all men are 'like that.'"

neoteny

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http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/10/business/the-plight-of-female-miners.html

Written 23 years ago... fascinating. A factory job paid $2.45/hour and the miner wage of $15/hour was excellent.

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rph3664

I wonder when she went to work for that mine, because minimum wage was $3.35 an hour through most of the 1980s.

TheDude

I remember I made the princely sum of 2.35 an hour at my first job in 1977.

The Biscuit Queen

I think Paul was being sarcastic.
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