[TigerClaws]

On the show black smoke is bad. Therefore, THOMAS THE TRAIN is racist.

I guess it was a 'micro-aggression'?

[Revelation 911]

thankfully never never went through a manic train fascination

Lionel hating ass of a parent

[dfwgator]

Tracey’s gone off the rails on a Crazy Train.

[Drew68]

My 5-year old is absolutely hooked on Thomas and Friends and has been since he was born. He knows the name of every engine. I buy him those "Trackmaster" sets that run off the AA battery. Turns out there are quite a few and some of them are collectable (and thus expensive).

I need to learn how to fix those little engines. He's probably got a dozen that have gone to the great train graveyard.

Funny, he's actually taught me a few things about trains. I always thought the car that carried people would've been called a "passenger car". My then 4-year old son corrected me that it is actually called a "coach".

Anyways, I love that racist Thomas and his racist friends, even if that famous racist and homophobe Alec Baldwin drops in from time to time.

[Hugin]

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.

Good lesson for a boy to learn. Could save him a beating at school.

[Viennacon]

satire or just the full scope of Guardianista leftist insanity.

[Talisker]

Meanwhile this sensitive liberal soccer mom no doubt excuses the Muslim murder of Christians as a cultural difference.

[Steely Tom]

Thomas’ highest goal was to be “a Very Useful Engine.”

This essay was written by a man who aspires to be a very useful idiot.

[gaijin]

Maybe they could fix the tracks, so to speak, by having Pink Thomas take a fun side-trip to a park bathroom while wearing fairy wings and sucking on a pacifier.

Or maybe a highway rest stop..?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Thomas was one of the shows I enjoyed watching with my kids. What is this bird brain whining about? Has the show gone PC over the years or something?

[Mears]

God help this woman’s son.

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[jocon307]

You know what one is pretty good “Curious George”. I never really like that Thomas the Tank Engine, there was always something creepy about it.

And the “Cat in the Hat” is OK.

And the song from “Dinosaur Train” is great.

Can you tell I have a wee grandchild now?

[jacknhoo]

There certainly are some strange birds out there.

[AppyPappy]

Thomas had Pierce Brosnan, Ringo Starr AND George Carlin on the show.

[buwaya]

I sat through a lot of these myself as my boy was a huge fan (this was back when the Thomas shows came on VHS). There is, I found, both charm and integrity in this series.

I thought of writing a “How Not To” management book -

“Confusion and Delay: Autobiography of Sir Topham Hatt”

Not too many of the target audience would get the reference though.

[Billthedrill]

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

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

[a fool in paradise]

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????

[PhiloBedo]

“peep, peep” = peeps to Holder

[BenLurkin]

"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.