To have watched Mary Poppins this afternoon and...

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...to be pissed off that, when Mr Banks has clearly agreed to take care of the children for the day, and this falls through, it's suddenly Mrs Banks' responsibility to arrange for emergency childcare? And when she comes up with the perfectly reasonable expedient of leaving them with a friendly chimney-sweep, there's all kinds of raised eyebrows. I mean, it's not like she's got anything important to be doing, is it, just GETTING WOMEN THE VOTE...

Or am I taking this a bit too seriously?

I thought it reminded me of Fiona Phillips.

oh i missed it....

best film ever, imo

yanbu. mr banks is clearly not a hands-on type of father!

Well, I've always found chimney sweeps to be a great stand-by in times of childcare crises. YANBU

Yeah, twould have been better to feed the birds with the tuppence.

Feeeeeeeeeed the buuuuurds

YANBU and IME chimney sweeps are often an under-valued source of childcare.

we had the chimney swept where we used to live, the kids were small (maybe 3 or 4) and it was the most exciting thing they'd seen for ages!

wouldn't have asked him to do a bit of childminding though - he had a dreadful cough & he probably would have coped as well as mr banks

Not posh enough to have a chimney sweep, we could have a bloke round to rub our fake coal but I doubt it would be exciting

I quite like the way the cook and housekeeper aren't having any of it, saying 'Forget it, it's baking day, and I've not done me brass' (which I intend to use as a multi-purpose excuse in future )

Have you seen Seven Brides For Seven Brothers? That really got me riled up.

no chimney now. fake coals as well, but they don't work any more!!!!

We saw it yesterday on Disney. So topical! Campaigning mothers. A run on the bank. Mysterious men taking children for a drug-addled trip to the park. Practically perfect in every way nannies with no children of their own.

Yes dp kept saying the run on the bank was topical.

Oooh, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - I was indignant in the first 20 minutes when she's expected to cook and clean for them all - and that's before you even get to the whole 'Oh yes the rape of the Sabine women - an excellent historical precedent' plot.

well, mrs banks really isn't much better, you know.

She does have the ostensibly noble intention of winning the vote for women but we know that in fact she has too much money, too much time on her hands, too little brain power and she just feels like joining her posh mates on a jolly because there is so littlke else in her life.

har

Well I think it's ridiculous. I have clicked my fingers at drawers all day and NOTHING has happened. It's still a shit hole. Especially with all that bird crap on the window sill.

pointy: she's, like, the Ladies who Lunch of the late 19th century then?

Today she'd be buying a table at a New York charity gala for all her anorexic paralysed Botoxed friends who only eat the garnish and buy the services of the gigolos waiters for afternoon entertainment?

yeah yeah yeah

roffle Wilf

I have always suspected the hard hitting political message of disney was somewhat lost in the music..

Isn't the chimney sweep Dick Van Dyke? Can't go wrong leaving your kids with Dr Sloane surely? They could be solving murders as an educational daytrip!

Mary Poppins - doesn't believe in references; leaves children with unapproved men with dodgy accents who take them dancing on roof tops without parental consent; drinks rum punch. You wouldn't give her a job, would you?

...'though we adore men individually.We agree that as a group they're raaaather stuuupid'[I love that song]

frosty, frosty. wipe the scales from your eyes. Mrs B is dippy and cares about little.

YANBU ,at all I also get annoyed when Grandpa Joe in Charlie & the chocolate factory jumps out of bed after laying there 20 years because of the chance of a good day out .
If I were Mrs B I would have thrown that cabbage soup on his head and come on here and wrote a thread about what a tosser my FIL is .