Xela Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 This made me LOL and despair: Quote Why kids love 'fascist' cartoons like 'Paw Patrol' and 'Thomas' ...."Thomas," the long-running television franchise about a group of working trains chugging away on the Island of Sodor, has been called a "premodern corporate-totalitarian dystopia" in the New Yorker, imperialist and sinister in Slate, and classist, sexist and anti-environmentalist in the Guardian. And yet people -- presumably parents -- spend $1 billion on "Thomas" merchandise every year. "Paw Patrol" is equally polarizing. The show, about a group of rescue dogs led by a boy named Ryder, is a regular source of complaint among parents and of adoration among their kids. Buzzfeed called the show "terrible" and pointed to instances of gender and social inequality that go unchecked on the show. In the Guardian, Ryder is described as a megalomaniac with an implied "unstoppable God complex." "I watched 'Paw Patrol' once with my daughter, and on that episode, Skye volunteered for a mission, but then Ryder picked two male pups," said Rebekah Pajak, a mother of a 2-year-old and a 1-year-old in Chicago. Skye is the only female in the core team of six rescue pups on the show. "I remember thinking, 'There's a glass ceiling in this cartoon!' http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/22/health/thomas-tank-engine-paw-patrol-fascist-cartoon-strauss/index.html CNN - or fake news as Donald likes to call it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 You can find a rent-a-quote to say anything these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 16 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: I hate NYE and I'm not keen on NYD. It's just nice to get back to normal, even though it's horrible started back to work, but you soon get back into the swing of things. Same here Ruge, The Cheltenham new years day meeting usually clears the cobwebs though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted December 28, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2017 Shoehorning in the lines of 34 different sports in a single gymnasium. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 59 minutes ago, Tegis said: Shoehorning in the lines of 34 different sports in a single gymnasium. I pretty sure that's how Scotland stumbled across Tarten, purely by accident it seems. It was an unforeseen (see gym picture) by-product of them desperately trying every sport imaginable in the despairing hope they would as a nation be at least average at one of them, it was disbanded year's ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Having an extreme case of Diarrhoea come on just before I finished work, this bus journey home is 50/50. I'm on pretty dicey ground at the minute... #prey4leemond 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Made it by the skin of my teeth...or perhaps by the cloth of my boxers is more fitting. Man it's gunna be a long old night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 3 minutes ago, leemond2008 said: Made it by the skin of my teeth...or perhaps by the cloth of my boxers is more fitting. Man it's gunna be a long old night Embrace it for what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 3 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: Embrace it for what it is. The perfect time to get a few pages of my book done, its quite fitting that I'm re-reading Date's Inferno at the moment, my guts are in one of the 7 circles of hell at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Just now, leemond2008 said: The perfect time to get a few pages of my book done, its quite fitting that I'm re-reading Date's Inferno at the moment, my guts are in one of the 7 circles of hell at the moment. One for the things i don't get thread. Reading on the toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 minute ago, Rugeley Villa said: One for the things i don't get thread. Reading on the toilet. Ah so you are one of the VT post while you poo people then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 28, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said: One for the things i don't get thread. Reading on the toilet. 140-odd books in our upstairs loo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 28, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2017 Glad to see that toilet paper in the @mjmooney household is hung in the correct overhang way. I’m convinced I was in a silent war with my ex on how it should be hung. Every new roll she would put out was always underhanging, it was hell. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 21 minutes ago, mjmooney said: 140-odd books in our upstairs loo. That's unbelievable 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 And all covered in millions of tiny poo particles! Call yourself a book-lover 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Ice Rink! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 28, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2017 21 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: And all covered in millions of tiny poo particles! Call yourself a book-lover You must be an American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 5 hours ago, leemond2008 said: Having an extreme case of Diarrhoea come on just before I finished work, this bus journey home is 50/50. I'm on pretty dicey ground at the minute... #prey4leemond Well I'm still struggling massively, this ain't fun #prey4leemond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted December 28, 2017 Moderator Share Posted December 28, 2017 6 minutes ago, leemond2008 said: Well I'm still struggling massively, this ain't fun #prey4leemond Get well soon mate. The two-bob-bits ain't no fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 17 hours ago, leemond2008 said: #prey4leemond You'll have to share with this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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