Posted on 05/12/2022 4:58:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"Why are all the grandparents in one bed?"
My daughter and I were watching the 1971 classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory when she asked the question I'd been asking myself for years: What's up with that four-person bed?
I answered her in the simplest way possible: Because they're poor.
Confused, my daughter shot back, "But they're white."
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I’m sure they are the best food producers and distributers in the world too.
Once they figure out how to swim that is.
I have no doubt she taught her daughter to think that way.
What city did it take place and when was the time?
But why would you let your child watch TV in the first place?
I guess some people have never been to Appalachia. Plenty of poor folk. Down the road from me about 25 miles is South Mountain. (more like a miles long ridge than mountain) There’s plenty of people without running water and indoor plumbing. I don’t feel bad for the them, and certainly not guilty. They are a subculture and in their own ways they are very smart and innovative.
In fantasy TV world, black people are thriving. Next, take your child to visit Wakanda.
Girl I dated in HS used to get coal from the mountains in E.TN.
Scattered off the trucks as they were coming down.
Heat when it is below zero outside.
It is what it is. 80’s BTW.
“But they’re white”
In England, they didn’t have much choice.
Nope. Not unless her parents taught her to be a racist in the first place.
I caught that the first time I saw the movie as well.
As with most good art, it tells you things on several levels.
In many places, the social commentary of Willie Wonka is less subtle.
I recall someone saying something like this...
Something about how black kids can be just as smart as rich kids or something..
.. oh yeah. That was Biden. The most racist president we’ve had since.. we’ll, the last Democrat president.
And kamala also said “fweedom”. Let’s not forget that doozy.
And even Schwartzenegger with his “I saw nazi tanks roll through my town as a boy” schtick.
That was common in PA too. You would go to the train tracks and collect coal along the side of tracks. There's still coal that falls off trains here. I go fishing on the Susquehanna River and one of the places that I go I have to cross train tracks.
Those coal trains used to be very long and frequent. No so much anymore though.
Coal makes for a great heat, but has a unique smell. I sort of miss it.
The Buckets are supposed to be the poorest family in London.
Racial stereotypes are okay if they are about white people. :)
I thought Daisy and Onslow were the poor-but-happy couple in Keeping Up Appearances.
You forgot to mention “White Privilige”.
You know, that thing that allows me to have a job and continue working (because I can’t afford to retire).
kinda get the AOC vibe...cousins?
A‐Sleepin’ at the Foot of the Bed
Song by Little Jimmy Dickens
Did you ever sleep at the foot of the bed when the weather was a whizzin’ cold?
When the wind was a whistlin’ round the house
And the moon was yellow as gold
You give your good one mattress up to aunt Lizzy and uncle Fred
Too many kinfolks on a bad night so you went to the foot of the bed
They say some folks don’t know what it is
Having company all over the place
To wrestle for cover on a winter night
With a big foot sitting in your face
Or a cold toenail just scratching your back
And the foot boards grabbing your head
I’ll tell the world you ain’t lost a thing
Never a sleepin’ at the foot of the bed
Remember the Payola Scandal about game shows?
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