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to really bloody hate Thomas the cocking Tank Engine?

66 replies

MadameBoo · 24/05/2011 20:21

DS loves it. I just had to read 3 of the buggers at bedtime tonight. 'Naughty' engines. 'Boastful' engines. Buses who think they're better than engines. Engines who think they're better than other engines. Cranes who think they're better then engines.

It. Bores. Me. Stupid.

and breathe.

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BooBooGlass · 24/05/2011 21:31

Magic railroad is possibly the most terrible, least coherent film ever made. But my ds adores Thomas. Truly truly loves it. It's his third birthday in two weeks and it'll be like someone vomited Sodor up in our house. It's going to make his day. So maybe you are being a teensy bit unreasonable. But o god it's repetitive. And it makes me want to shot Ringo Starr

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 24/05/2011 21:32

tiredmelly......halfway through Reception is the cut-off point, I reckon. Unless he is past that stage....

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 24/05/2011 21:36

I think I'm going to watch it now... DCs are in bed. Maybe one never grows out of it... Mwahhhahhhaa... Grin

Pictish · 24/05/2011 21:37

Yanbu - chirpy little blue prick.

BooBooGlass · 24/05/2011 21:39

sat here chuckling at 'chirpy little blue prick'. Too true. My ds learned his colours amazingly early thanks to Thomas though. He'll say each character then the colour. Mad.

tiredmelly · 24/05/2011 21:39

Ooh thanks for that Curly. He's in nursery starts in full-time reception in September. There is hope yet then. Grin

EggyAllenPoe · 24/05/2011 21:43

my daughter likes yelling 'Wake Up lazybones!!!!'

it was cute.

now...not.

piprabbit · 24/05/2011 21:46

DS loves Thomas and has loads of the videos.

I am gradually training him to ask for Johnny Depp movies. We've only got as far as Willy Wonka so far - a marginal but definite improvement.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 24/05/2011 21:47

There are worse things for children to be into than Thomas. It taught mine all their colours, numbers etc. Even early maths and writing - the spin-off magazines used to be great (not sure if they still are). It honestly really helped my DS1.

Let's face it. It could have been Bob The Builder.....yuck.

jayho · 24/05/2011 21:47

Yep, in month four of 'troublesome trucks'. DS mouths along to the story so can't even skip bits!

leonoravonwagner · 24/05/2011 21:47

Cor, Thomas and The Magic Railroad.

DS is a big lad now so haven't seen it for years. Think at one point I knew all the words. Blush

Could never get over how different "Frenchie" from Grease looked in it. Still had same silly voice though.

FreudianSlipper · 24/05/2011 21:48

i can't get that fucking tune out of my head they're two they're four they're six they're eight shunting trucks and hauling freight arghhhh

CurlyhairedAssassin · 24/05/2011 21:50

Yes, one day, Tiredmelly, you will feel a stab of sadness in your heart at your DS's upset little face as he comes out of school at hometime saying "A big boy laughed at my Thomas lunchbox, he said it was for babies! It's not, Mummy, is it?" Then a week later: "Mum, I want a Toy Story/Mario/Batman lunchbox." And he will secretly still play with his Thomas toys at home for a while, but want to hide them if he's got a friend coming round to play.

Sad
TattyDevine · 24/05/2011 21:51

Worst, most unimaginative modulation every too Freudianslipper. I've heard Westlife songs pull a key change off better.

ZXEightyMum · 24/05/2011 21:53

YANBU Thomas and Friends are turgid and dull wankers.

Very popular with autistic boys, according to the NAS. My son has ASD and I am praying that I never have to read anything like the Thomas "literature" I have seen to him. Ever.

PMSL at training DS to like Johnny Depp movies. My son quite liked Charlie. I'm thinking that Edward Scissorhands might be the next step...

Hassled · 24/05/2011 21:57

Thomas and the Magic Railroad :o. God, that was one bad film. We still have the video somewhere. One of the Baldwins was in it - was it Alec? Shockingly awful.

Years and years ago I read something that put Thomas etc in a Communist context. All done deadly seriously. The Fat Controller was Stalin, I believe.

BornInAfrica · 24/05/2011 21:59

My DS grew up on Thomas - he was crazy for it and the untold fortune we spent on Thomas shit - I could cry now. But he loved every bit of it so well spent I guess.

And can I just add - this is as funny as fuck!

Himalaya Tue 24-May-11 21:05:52

...And Percy the shitting small engine, Gordon the bastard big engine, Toby the cunting tram engine, fucking cranky the fucking crane and the pissing fat controller.

ChristinedePizan · 24/05/2011 22:00

OMG it's Frenchie! I knew she looked familiar but couldn't think where I knew her from :o

MotherMucca · 24/05/2011 22:00

YANBU. Tommy is a smug, simpering wee twat.

nagynolonger · 24/05/2011 22:01

I hate TTTE but have had 5 sons........They have all loved the stories.

DH used to read the original stories that he remembered from his own childhood to DS1. DH insists that the original books were technically correct. DS1 loved them and it was something he could share with his dad.

DS2 was in the Ringo/ladybird book generation......he loved TTTE. We had all the videos and OO guage modles that kept him amused for hours.

DS3, 4 & 5 all loved the stories, TV, and videos. We have loads of 'stuff' in the attic. It will be worth £££s in a few years! Not many people still have a TTTE soap dishGrin.

They have all turned out quite normal dispite growing up with thomas........'Tis better than Barbie!

LordOfTheFlies · 24/05/2011 22:02

Many,many years ago in M&S a sweet little boy was asking his gran the names of the engines in his TTTE book.She didn't know and I said " Oh that's Edward,that's James, that's Gordon,he's sooo bossy isn't he?"
Gran probably thought I was a nutter and the boy looked at me with awe( I hope). I had to explain I had a 4yo son.
The shame of it! If you have to know this useless info,keep it to yourself

bethylou · 24/05/2011 22:05

I can't decide!!

We are coming out the other side of DS1's year-long Thomas obsession and I'm quite glad. However, he's moved swiftly onto the movie Cars (thanks DH!) and I find that even less riveting! At least I used to test my brain by making the most impossibly complex Brio tracks possible when Thomas was the thing. Now, I just get to race cars along the wooden floor (which is doing my knees in) whilst trying to learn all the new names (such as Leakless and Snotrod f.f.s!) However, I think I will always be able to do a specialist subject on Mastermind on Thomas and kind of hope that DS2 likes it too. I really can't face having to develop such an in depth knowlegde on something else as well, like Bob the boring builder!!

LordOfTheFlies · 24/05/2011 22:11

Have you done the TTTE days out,eh??
We trotted off to Burnham-on-Crouch to a steam railway place where they dress up the trains and have a real Fat Controller.DS loved it, real trains, real steam.
They also did Santa Express trains which were lovely (he was 3)

Liv77 · 24/05/2011 22:13

DS came home after a shopping trip with his nan last week clutching bloody TTTE handwash which sings the theme tune when you pump the dispenser. So now everytime he goes for a wee I have to listen to THAT song. (Also the soap stinks, like bugglegum, it's vile)