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Thomas the Tank Engine had to shut the hell up to save children everywhere (Racist train!)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/22/thomas-the-tank-engine-children-parents ^

Posted on 07/23/2014 4:33:53 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: TigerClaws
Consider the audience: immature, intellectually undeveloped, and dreadfully earnest.

I'm talking about the Guardian, not Thomas The Tank Engine.

21 posted on 07/23/2014 5:15:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Zeneta

And don’t forget that there are Interstate Highways in Hawaii.


22 posted on 07/23/2014 5:23:16 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Mears
The creepiest things EVER were the Teletubbies.

I think the target audience for Teletubbies were college kids on drugs.

23 posted on 07/23/2014 5:35:26 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

“”Funny, he’s actually taught me a few things about trains””

Same here with my 5 year old grandson. He could tell me the difference between a steam and a diesel engine when he was three. If I make a mistake in describing one of the cars, he’s right there to correct me; “that’s a tender, grandma.” His grandpa keeps a supply of AA and AAA batteries on hand and the grandson knows where to get the right ones for him to change. They do start at a young age and are an absolute delight. Sure made birthdays and Christmas easy - only two days apart - which trains or accessories didn’t he already have???

I figure the person who wrote this is a democrat even if in the UK - may he/she never step foot on our shores.


24 posted on 07/23/2014 5:39:12 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Mears

Don’t really know them. My kid was too old by the time they came along. I saw a bit of the wiggles with my niece and nephew. And Spongebob is OK I guess, although there kinda really is a gay undercurrent to that show. But I think it might be just ironical gay, not true homo gay, if you know what I mean and I’m not sure I do.


25 posted on 07/23/2014 6:00:25 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: TigerClaws; GeronL
Inevitably, the trains get in a fight with or pick on one another (or generally mess up whatever job they are supposed to be doing) until Hatt has to scold one of them about being a "really useful engine", because their sole utility in life is their ability to satisfy his whims. Yeah, because I want to teach my kid to admire a controlling autocrat.

It's a bleedin' train! What else is it supposed to do than be "a really useful engine"? Join the Royal Ballet????

26 posted on 07/23/2014 6:10:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: dfwgator; Slings and Arrows
Liberalism is a mental disorder.


27 posted on 07/23/2014 6:12:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: GeronL
In the episode "Tickled Pink", poor vain James, is ordered by Topham Hat to get a new coat of paint. But while James has only had an undercoat of pink slathered on, Topham Hatt interrupts and demands that James go pick up Hatt's granddaughter and deliver her and her friends to a birthday party right now. James is mortified that he has to travel while pink and proceeds to hide from all the other trains along the way.

... But once James gets back on the rails and picks up Granddaughter Hatt and her friends, all seemingly ends well because the girls love pink.

Well guess what? It's not OK. You think a little boy watching Thomas is going to file away the lesson that pink is OK for boys? No, what kids remember is that James was laughed at, cruelly, over and over again, because he looked different and was clad in a "girly" pink color.

Maybe the train was mortified that it had to go out in public wearing only its underpaints!

A lot of people don't like to be seen driving their car around town with a panel painted in primer gray.

28 posted on 07/23/2014 6:15:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: GeronL
And that's not even to get started on the female trains. Well, actually it's hard to get started on them, because they barely exist.

There are boy trains and girl trains? Do go on, continue...


29 posted on 07/23/2014 6:16:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: TigerClaws

“peep, peep” = peeps to Holder


30 posted on 07/23/2014 7:11:04 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: TigerClaws
"vain but lots of fun." (Wait, it's OK to be vain if you can show others a good time occasionally?

Interesting criticism from a gal who gets her vanity rant published -- and I'm guessing she is NEVER a lot of fun.

31 posted on 07/23/2014 7:43:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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