Mr Men books and their sadistic lessons

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I tried to post this in a different fashion but MN thought it was serious and deleted it - as an AIBU from the point of view of the villagers in “Mr Nosey”, who stage increasingly violent interventions on Mr Nosey until one villager is standing behind a fence, presumably to saw off his nose if he is nosey?! (It doesn’t come to that, thank god, because Mr Nosey had learnt his lesson, having had his nose hammered previously)

anyway the Mr Men books. My children are obsessed. Anyone care to discuss the most maniacal one they’ve encountered?

If the door was shut when he bounced out of bed he'd bounce into it and hurt himself. Where as bouncing straight down the stairs is fine

I can't remember which Mr Man it was, (was there one called Mr muddle or similar?) but my DH still insists on saying to my kids "have a day nice" when he or they are leaving the house. They are teenagers and haven't read Mr men books for about a decade!😂

Thank you - that makes total sense now 🙃

Mr Skinny has an eating disorder and body image issues.

So he goes to his doctor who (whilst eating a large tray of cream cakes during the consultation) sends him to stay with Mr Greedy for some alternative therapy.

An idea so effective, Channel 4 stole it as an idea for a program 40 years later….

I remember our reception teacher reading Mr Greedy to us in 1975 when it was quite new. I loved it & bought a copy with my birthday money, it was 20p.
30 years later both my dds loved the Mr Men, they seem so dated but timeless somehow!

They are timeless because they are mental and they are dated because they are mental 😀

lol @mrcow

Mr Worry was goodi could relate as I was a worried child “walking along worrying or worrying along walking” or something

Not a Mr Men, but I have similar thoughts about Rainbow Fish.

RF is asked to give away something precious to them, and that's part of their body. RF says no.

The whole community turn against RF because they said no, so the wise one tells them to give the scales away anyway.

RF does so and everyone is happy.

So RF is forced to self mutilate to get friends, is subject to corporate bullying and is taught that having control over your body by saying no when someone wants a part of it is wrong.

Don't get taken in by the shiny scales. RF is a horrid story.

I always think about this. Also sounds scarily like communism - everyone must have the same/nobody can be special etc

DH is Jewish and always says Mr Nosey is antisemitic and that the Tiger that came to Tea is about the Nazis

I can relate to a lot of them I just don’t want to receive the mental punishments

as an aside, the cotton wool filled, toothpaste topped cake Mr Mischief makes Mr Greedy looks fucking delicious, like a huge iced bun. Yum.

I thinnk this particular story was written in the 1940s though... (Can you tell my lads never seemed to grow out of these books...??)

Yeah this is Mr Muddle. Afternoon Good!

@Bathtubbathing Agree with you about the rainbow fish.

I remember when I took dd to the playground to play with her glider plane for the first time a girl ran over to her and asked if she could have a turn. Dd daughter said no because she hadn’t even played with it yet. The girl’s big sister came up to me and told me that I should teach my dd to share.

I looked at her and replied: well it is my dd’s brand new toy that she hasn’t played with yet and she doesn’t know your little sister at all. How does she know if your little sister will look after it or give it back? If I went up to your parents right now and asked for the keys to their car because I would like a turn at driving it, would they say yes and give me the keys? She said no, they wouldn’t.

I don’t think forced sharing of your own belongings is healthy so I don’t make my dd share. I do ask her to choose out of her toys the ones that she is happy to share, so that she learns to share in a healthy way.