Posted on 07/23/2014 4:33:53 PM PDT by TigerClaws
There are many terrible children's programs through which parents must suffer during their child's young life. For every Sesame Street, there is an annoying Caillou or an acid-trippy Yo Gabba Gabba. But Thomas and Friends is – or was – the one show with enough subversive messages to make me turn it off for good.
My son, now three-and-a-half years old, thankfully never never went through a manic train fascination like so many other children. But once in a while, he'd get a bug in his brain to watch Thomas, and every time I sat and watched with him, I winced and groaned almost as much as Percy.
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I guess it was a 'micro-aggression'?
Lionel hating ass of a parent
Tracey’s gone off the rails on a Crazy Train.
lol
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.
Good lesson for a boy to learn. Could save him a beating at school.
satire or just the full scope of Guardianista leftist insanity.
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Meanwhile this sensitive liberal soccer mom no doubt excuses the Muslim murder of Christians as a cultural difference.
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.
And oddly enough we;
Drive on the Parkway and park in the driveway.
Cargo travels on a ship or airplane while shipments travel by land.
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..?
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?
I think she's whining about the fact that it hasn't.
God help this woman’s son.
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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?
There certainly are some strange birds out there.
The creepiest things EVER were the Teletubbies.
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Thomas had Pierce Brosnan, Ringo Starr AND George Carlin on the show.
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.
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