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[KidInTheDark666]

What's your 'favourite' part? The (baby) sun? The Tubbies themselves? The vacuum cleaner? Or is it something else entirely?

I loved that show but I know lots of people, myself included, who were terrified of the vacuum cleaner.

 

[Saapanael]

I'm still getting a mixture of the woman with the chain mail backside and stuff aimed at Muslims

It was really funny how you called it a “scantily chainmail-clad arse” last time.

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

I don't know how people say Thomas the Tank Engine is a creepy show when these and the Teletubbies exist.

Thomas was dumbed down for the telly.

 

[Brigantium]

Thomas was dumbed down for the telly.

At risk of starting yet another Thomas discussion, agreed. The Rev W Audrey books were lovely little stories for kids with pictures.

 

[Brigantium]

It was really funny how you called it a “scantily chainmail-clad arse” last time.

Next time the ad appears I'll do a screencap. She's wearing a G-string or something similar under revealing mail, which barely covers her bum, plus chainmail stockings. Definitely not practical battle wear, although I am aware that someone once wore a mail bikini on the field at a Battle of Tewkesbury re-enctment.

What's your 'favourite' part? The (baby) sun? The Tubbies themselves? The vacuum cleaner? Or is it something else entirely?

It's the freaky "eh oh" when the windmill starts going around or one of those talking sprinklers pops up. The Noonoo (vacuum cleaner) is quite good.

 

[Black Wizard]

@Brigantium @Black Abyss Babe its pots & pans o'clock.

 

[Brigantium]

Not here it isn't. Absolute silence.

 

[Black Wizard]

They've all probably gone to the park to meet people from outside their household!

 

[Saapanael]

Next time the ad appears I'll do a screencap. She's wearing a G-string or something similar under revealing mail, which barely covers her bum, plus chainmail stockings. Definitely not practical battle wear, although I am aware that someone once wore a mail bikini on the field at a Battle of Tewkesbury re-enctment.

Yeah, I’ve seen that ad, that’s why it’s funny.

 

[Saapanael]

Visiting the forum for the first time with my new phone.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Visiting the forum for the first time with my new phone. ☎

That looks like an old phone. Is that how mobile phones look like in the former Soviet Union?

 

[Brigantium]

I saw an Estonian air force plane on Flightradar24 today, crossing the North Sea, heading towards an RAF Atlas or Globemaster. The transponder went off after a few minutes though, so I don't know where it went.

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

The Rev W Audrey books were lovely little stories for kids with pictures.

I've never read any of them but the Boyfriend, who has, says that some of them are very dark indeed, eg one of the engines got bricked up in a tunnel for having a sulk, and another was turned into a stationary generator, again as some kind of punishment. The message, in his words: "not so much no pudding till you've finished your dinner, more like no food ever again until you starve to death you little sh-"

Spoiler

Also they're alumni of the same Oxford college. I may have mentioned this before.

 

[Black Wizard]

I saw an Estonian air force plane on Flightradar24 today, crossing the North Sea, heading towards an RAF Atlas or Globemaster. The transponder went off after a few minutes though, so I don't know where it went.

Into the sea.

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Into the sea.

Past nordic grounds
And further away from my (air)port!

 

[Brigantium]

I've never read any of them but the Boyfriend, who has, says that some of them are very dark indeed, eg one of the engines got bricked up in a tunnel for having a sulk, and another was turned into a stationary generator, again as some kind of punishment. The message, in his words: "not so much no pudding till you've finished your dinner, more like no food ever again until you starve to death you little sh-"

Spoiler

Also they're alumni of the same Oxford college. I may have mentioned this before.

One did end up as a generator of some sort. The one bricked up was forgotten about, I think, when his branch line closed. Old Granpuff AKA Duke. He was very grumpy. The Fat Controller fell through the roof and rediscovered him, and he was brought back into service. Incidentally, the picture of the Fat Controller falling through the roof looked a lot like my uncle. He's never forgotten me telling him that and still refers to himself as the Fat Controller.

 

[Jer]

I’m still beside myself that @Diesel 11 has not joined this discussion.

 

[Brigantium]

He's not into Old School Thomas.

 

[Black Wizard]

He's not into Old School Thomas.

Fucking hipster.

 

[Diesel 11]

One did end up as a generator of some sort. The one bricked up was forgotten about, I think, when his branch line closed. Old Granpuff AKA Duke. He was very grumpy. The Fat Controller fell through the roof and rediscovered him, and he was brought back into service. Incidentally, the picture of the Fat Controller falling through the roof looked a lot like my uncle. He's never forgotten me telling him that and still refers to himself as the Fat Controller.

Well actually it was the Fat Clergyman, the in-story caricature of the Reverend’s friend Teddy Boston, who fell through the roof and discovered Duke. (Awdry himself was the Thin Clergyman.) Duke was left alone in a shed, but not bricked up — the mine had shut down and no one bought him. What Black Abyss Babe is referring to, I believe, I when Henry stayed in a tunnel to avoid messing up his paint with rain, and since he didn’t leave they decided to keep him there (he was let out in the very next story).

Also I prefer Old School Thomas. I love certain seasons of the TV series, but there are a lot of crap ones too. The Railway Series is much more consistent.