Thomas the Tank Engine is EVIL (apparently)
Jul 24th 2014, 1:57 am
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Jul 24th 2014, 2:00 am
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Jul 24th 2014, 2:06 am
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Jul 24th 2014, 2:11 am
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Seems like kids' books are definitely a good cover for political material. In fact hasn't Dr Seuss been criticised for being too liberal?
I liked the Butter Battle Book, used to read that to my kids a lot. Two factions hate eachother depending on whether they butter the bottom or top of their bread. Nothing has changed then.
Jul 24th 2014, 2:16 am
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Indeed. When I first came across them as a boy, there were only 3 or 4 books.....I read the covers off them! Now there are dozens. I don't think the diesels even featured in the original stories? And the very first one didn't really feature Thomas much at all...I think it was about the "big" engines...Henry, James, Edward?
I'm just surprised that the, err, "journalist" didn't bring up Annie and Clarabelle....I mean, the 2 main female characters don't even have power, need to rely on a male character so they can get anything done, spend their days going where they're told, doing what they're told, and carrying what they're told...by a male engine! Unless that's how the natural order is supposed to be....
I'm just surprised that the, err, "journalist" didn't bring up Annie and Clarabelle....I mean, the 2 main female characters don't even have power, need to rely on a male character so they can get anything done, spend their days going where they're told, doing what they're told, and carrying what they're told...by a male engine! Unless that's how the natural order is supposed to be....
Jul 24th 2014, 2:18 am
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Ps...teed that one up for you...now let's see who has read/remembers the books....
Jul 24th 2014, 2:25 am
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Edit: I just checked our bookshelves, and the only ones to survive the book-culls are books free with the Daily Mirror that were sent over by my parents.
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Jul 24th 2014, 2:39 am
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Jul 24th 2014, 2:49 am
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Jul 24th 2014, 2:56 am
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Hopefully you waited till your nails had dried....
Given the current propensity for bollocks degrees, I wonder when the first one will come out, studying the social and psychological impact of Thomas The Tank Engine....
If you look back, you could probably put a racist/sexist/anything-ist spin on just about any "classics" if you wanted to...Dickens, Bronte, Shakespeare.....why don't we just burn the lot and start with a clean, politically correct slate. Maybe lock up (or, better still, execute) anyone who claims to know anything about them. There's a novel, never been tried idea......oh, wait a minute.....
Jul 24th 2014, 3:01 am
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Hopefully you waited till your nails had dried....
Given the current propensity for bollocks degrees, I wonder when the first one will come out, studying the social and psychological impact of Thomas The Tank Engine....
If you look back, you could probably put a racist/sexist/anything-ist spin on just about any "classics" if you wanted to...Dickens, Bronte, Shakespeare.....why don't we just burn the lot and start with a clean, politically correct slate. Maybe lock up (or, better still, execute) anyone who claims to know anything about them. There's a novel, never been tried idea......oh, wait a minute.....
Jul 24th 2014, 3:01 am
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Now that's a load of bollocks and a waste of bandwidth if ever I saw one. I watched Thomas the Tank Engine all the bloody time when I was a kid and all I remember it as was a fun show about talking trains.
Christ on a bike, people need to remember that these things only take on negative connotations if you attach those connotations yourself.
Once again, I'm embarrassed to be alive in these arse-bogglingly banal times
Christ on a bike, people need to remember that these things only take on negative connotations if you attach those connotations yourself.
Once again, I'm embarrassed to be alive in these arse-bogglingly banal times