to dislike Mary Poppins, the sinister cow.

[Get0rf]

Worst children's film ever.

Taking the children to see all and sundry, along with her ne'er do well mate with the funny accent.

Look into Julie Andrews eyes and see the axis of evil.

Fly a kite off.

Mary Poppins is cool although I agree she keeps some fairly dubious company!! I love love love the sound of music. I stayed at a hotel in the Austrian lakes where the view from the balcony was the opening sequence of the SoM-so beautiful.

Cavemum, I chose my bed for that very reason. And the knob unscrews.

Getorf, I think the drugz don't work, they just make you worse. First Mr Darcy, then Mary P

I think you need to take a spoonful of sugar with your paranoia medicine GetOrf

Love SOM and really don't mind MP although DD is getting a bit old for it now so it's been relegated to the back of the DVD cupboard.

I love Mary Poppins but to be fair if I hired a nanny and found out she spent her time taking the DCs to hang out with her boyfriend and some dodgy uncle I would be non too pleased.............

DD and I were watching MP singing about the robin feathering his nest some years ago, and my DH came in. 'Why does that woman have a dead bird strapped to her finger?' he enquired. I've never been able to withstand it since [shudder].

Mary Poppins AIBU post:

AIBU - i have just taken on a new nanny position in an affluent area of London, the kids are OK but the husband is a right grumpy sod who doesnt tolerate the kids (and he works in banking ) and his wife is a raging feminist, although she still manages to hire a cook a maid and a nanny even though she is a SAHM (some feminist eh?)

Anyway, the problem is that i have just met this bloke, he talks funny, cant hold down a job for more than one day (last week he was a chimney sweep, a street musician and a chalk artist), he is rather sweet though, showers me with compliments (which of course i deserve as i am fabulous) and takes me to heaven and back (literally). I think he is on drugs too, he took me to his mates house and they took one sip of their tea and they were on the ceiling

The kids love him, but do i stay with him? He is obviously a fool.....

WWYD???

Having read this thread through, I have reached the decision that, GetOrf, you are a wuss. Frightened by cartoon characters -pfftt! And I mean that in a caring way.

So glad you said this.

As a kid - Mary Poppins felt very sinister - not comfortable with her at all!!

As a child I loved Mary Poppins, but Worzel Gummidge always frightened me.

Mary Poppins was evil and manipulative. Talk about gaslighting! Remember the scene where the children are in bed all buzzing after their day at the cartoon races and she denies it ever happened?

And steam rollering Mr Banks into taking them to the bank but setting up the downfall of the entire economy by feeding Michael all that bobbins about pigeons?

My nn at school was "Jules", short for Julie Andrews.

I thought it was because I was pretty and sweet and wholesome. :) < me

Now reading this thread, it's more likely it was because I was sinister, evil and manipulative. The dodgy boyfriend bit is bang on, I have to admit...:(

Alice in Winderland terrified me as a child and still does

it is a very very sinister tale (but then so is hansel and gretal, be good kids or your mum will die and you will be starved by a witch)

I love Mary Poppins & wished she had been my mother nanny! She was definitely saner than my mother. I used to dream of being tucked up in one of those lovely high beds with a squishy eiderdown & someone playing tidy up games like she did!
Bugsy phones the therapist ...... again!

I read the MP book first (in my early teens) and wasn't really sure if I like her or am scared of her, then saw the film and thought - oh she's actually really nice! :)

You see at that age I wouldn't have picked up on the evil axis. But I get what you mean, GetOrf.

I still like her though - in both MP and SOM (which is boring except for the Hills are alive song )

I find Santa Claus, in all his many guises, much more sinister than Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins is so not sinister! Nanny McPhee is far scarier.

Bintofbohemia, since the banking crisis, that entire MP bank scene with that demented old man-crone trying to snatch Michael's tuppence and singing about how

Soon that tuppence
Safely invested in the bank
Will become compound
And you'll achieve that sense of conquest
As your affluence expands
In the hands of the directors
Who invest as propriety demands

gives me the creeps. Especially when poor wee Michael (terribly cute child actor!) would have been better off feeding pigeons with his pocket money anyway...

Used to wish Truly Scrumptious - from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my mum. Now she was a lovely, kind, smiley, warm, pretty floaty clothed lady.

oh yes so they are while being kept in a cage

i had a book of russian fairy stories given to me by my mums friend (who didn't liek children but i was ok) stephen king had nothing on them really weird stories and from what i remember no happy endings

The dad was made out to be in thrall to the nasty step mother and so could not be responsible for leaving them in the woods - like he was a nice kind man deep down.

I heard Dick Van Dyke in an interview saying he was so drunk while filming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that he doesn't remember whole songs. Think it was the one he sings at the carnival to make enough cash to buy Chitty - total memory blank.

My granddad was the little girl in Chitty's dentist!

You can't watch SOM as an adult, though - made a friend of mine watch it and she hated every moment. It has to be a childhood memory to work.

I really really hated Mary Poppins as a child (too twee), but then I've always had a psychotic hatred of musicals. SOM is the only WWII film I've seen where I actually wanted the Nazis to win.

YADBU....I luuuuuuurve Mary Poppins!!! Have very fond memories of family christmas' and Mary