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Thomas the Tank Engine needs more female trains, Labour MP says
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8:48AM GMT 27 Dec 2013 | Steven Swinford and Olivia Rudgard

Posted on 12/27/2013 5:56:44 AM PST by Olog-hai

Thomas the Tank Engine is setting a poor example to children and needs more female engines to encourage girls to become train drivers, Labour’s shadow transport secretary has said.

Mary Creagh described the lack of female train drivers in Britain as a “national scandal” and said that children’s television shows and “negative stereotypes” are partly to blame. […]

Mrs. Creagh said that train companies need to offer female drivers more flexible working hours so they can care for their children. She said: “There are quite a lot of stereotypical attitudes in the industry. I was talking to one freight operator who said, ‘We think women don’t like working night shifts,’ and I said, ‘Well, have you told that to all the NHS nurses who work nights in hospitals across the country, and probably do it for half the pay of train drivers?’” …

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: labour; liberalagenda; railways; uk
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sorry,ladies,I just couldn’t help myself.

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I’m a lady, and I love it! Don’t apologize.


21 posted on 12/27/2013 7:27:23 AM PST by Bigg Red (Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.--Ps3)
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To: Bigg Red

Google “Lionel Corporation Girls’ Train Set”.

With its pink frosted locomotive & tender, plus pastel shaded box cars, the Girls’ Train Set was the worst known marketing decision ever until the Edsel and New Coke.

It was finally realized that girls who wanted Lionel trains for Christmas wanted the exact same models as boys did.


22 posted on 12/27/2013 7:38:17 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I thought all oil tankers and box cars were female . . . (ducking)


23 posted on 12/27/2013 7:49:43 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Olog-hai

I wish my biggest problem in life was worrying about how many female trains there are in “Thomas the Tank Engine.”


24 posted on 12/27/2013 8:38:05 AM PST by Nea Wood
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To: Olog-hai; Revolting cat!

What sex is the train she rides to work?


25 posted on 12/27/2013 10:51:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: P.O.E.

Natalie Would?


26 posted on 12/27/2013 10:53:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: P.O.E.
What woman would want to shovel coal?

Or pull a train.

27 posted on 12/27/2013 10:56:28 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: elcid1970

It was finally realized that girls who wanted Lionel trains for Christmas wanted the exact same models as boys did.

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Yeah, all 6 of them that actually wanted such a thing.

These feminazis are so annoying. There are mohammedans ruling parts of England with sharia law, and there are mohammedans who kidnap and rape English girls to use them as prostitutes, and this dimbulb is wasting time and energy on the fact that not enough women drive trains.


28 posted on 12/27/2013 11:23:18 AM PST by Bigg Red (Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.--Ps3)
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To: Bigg Red

The funniest part about the Lionel girl’s train was dealers repainting the locomotives black so that they would finally sell.

Decades later, unscrupulous collectors were repainting common black locomotives pink & fobbing them off as original girl’s train set.

I suppose Thomas the Tank Engine will soon have a gay colleague cruising along the tracks. Maybe that one will be painted pink, who knows?


29 posted on 12/27/2013 12:24:00 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: P.O.E.

I’d shovel a mile of her coal just to see where it came from.     =;^P


30 posted on 12/27/2013 2:04:44 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Gun horror is not a productive emotion, but learned helplessness disguised as moral superiority.")
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To: elcid1970

I suppose Thomas the Tank Engine will soon have a gay colleague cruising along the tracks.

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With the way the homosexual activists have taken over the production of children’s programs, I am surprised that is not already the case.


31 posted on 12/27/2013 2:04:47 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.--Ps3)
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To: Clemenza

Have you ever seen the satire called “Starvation Games?” Kinda funny. You’re right, the Hunger Games movies are stupid and depressing.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 7:36:11 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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