corevalue Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 A splendid piece of PC fackwittery! http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/22/thomas-the-tank-engine-children-parents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orleans Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Thank you; funniest Guardian piece I've seen in a long time, intentionally or otherwise. The comments are even funnier: there are discussions raging that not only take the article's premise seriously, but embellish it with examples the author may have missed. F**k me. It's kids' entertainment FFS, not Das Kapital for preschoolers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Agreed this is faux outrage. Blooming hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I didn't find it offensive that nearly all the engines were blokes, as ships are usually ladies! I did find Andy-Pandy most intriguing however, as they all disappeared into a basket at the end! I think it pretty hard to write something fairly contemporary, that people 50 years from now won't find strange! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Well :( Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 This got me to read an article from the Grauniad - something I shouldn't do, it is bad for my health. I hope never to read one again. I should have remembered that the moron that is Yasmin Alibhi Brown writes for it. Anything to do with her should be avoided. It makes the Daily Mail look like a quality paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Sutton Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I wonder if it's Craig Brown with another creation for the Grauniad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Any children's book with a character called Fat CÏ…nt Roller is OK by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Any children's book with a character called Fat CÏ…nt Roller is OK by me. On an island called Sod'er! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronyx Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I used to call one of my mate's girlfriend the fat controller. I found it funnier than he did.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yasmin Brown seems to have missed the phallic symbolism of the trains. She needs to write another article. God, she must be tedious to live with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitevanman Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I used to call one of my mate's girlfriend the fat controller. I found it funnier than he did.... Which one of them was fat?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 You've fallen for their trap. Guardianista equivalent of the Mail click bait. Yep. The Guardian are quite as shameless as the Mail when it comes to phony 'provocateur' articles designed to garner page hits as has been pointed out on here before. Since hardly anyone buys the newspaper anymore that online ad revenue is important to their survival. Surprised people fall for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 This got me to read an article from the Grauniad - something I shouldn't do, it is bad for my health. I hope never to read one again. I should have remembered that the moron that is Yasmin Alibhi Brown writes for it. Anything to do with her should be avoided. It makes the Daily Mail look like a quality paper! Shes the racists anti-racist! Almost certifiable enough to be an inner city Labour MP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Which one of them was fat?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Voice of Thomas the Tank Engine quits over contract dispute: 'I feel so bullied'He should make a monetized show on Youtube, not with Thomas the Tank engine, but perhaps with a bunch of toy trains with a small outlay - he'll make a fortune in no time. People like coming back to a friendly voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "Yeah, because I want to teach my kid to admire a controlling autocrat." The Fat Controller is not intended to be a role model. He has no personality. He's fat, he's bossy, and runs the railways - that is all. He's only there to introduce a bit of conflict to the narrative (duty vs mischief). It's not some big capitalist conspiracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thank you; funniest Guardian piece I've seen in a long time, intentionally or otherwise. The comments are even funnier: there are discussions raging that not only take the article's premise seriously, but embellish it with examples the author may have missed. F**k me. It's kids' entertainment FFS, not Das Kapital for preschoolers... When I saw it a few days ago a good proportion of the comments seemed to find the article as ridiculous as it is. I particularly liked one "Did you mean to submit this to the Daily Mash?" I find it hard to imagine that people can genuinely believe this sort of thing and not write it as a spoof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Do not listen too carefully.....talking about the fat controller...stevie with a stutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ames Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Ha ha. The best/most pertinent one is here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 How did that get around the ****ing swear filter? If it's OK for 5-year-olds, it's OK for HPC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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