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?

Oh yes CWWM..That has always really annoyed me too.

yeah, grandpa joe's quite nifty on his feet once he gets out of bed. You're right, whine

'Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus....

Well done! Sister Suffragettes!'

I bought this for DD (3) this Christmas and she loves it. She rarely answers to her name any more and insists on being called Jane

I always think that feeding the pigeons is encouraging "rats of the air" to hang around London buildings and destroying the limestone with their poo. I think I need to get out more. I would have put my tuppense in the bank as I'm always nagging encouraging DH to save more money.

Oh shit I think I'm going to lose my job and be replaced by a chimney sweep.

Dragging this back up as I couldn't let y'all slag Mary Poppins. Best film ever, everything you need to know about life is here.
Mrs Banks was an excellent, if rather vague, mother who managed to combine keeping her difficult husband happy with political action and running a modern home. Let her alone.
Mr Banks was sadly consumed by his work (clue's in the name) until reminded of the fleeting nature of childhood by Cheeky Cockney Chappie Dick van Dyke.Excellent lessons to be learned here.

The film was way ahead of its time, raising modern issues like feminism, domestic gender roles, fox hunting, care of the elderly, collapse of banks etc.

It also has a firm grasp of the importance of tidying up. What's not to like?

All good points. Mrs Banks is also sound on the importance of making time in your day to go and throw things at the prime minister.

And there's a lifetime's worth of philosophy in the statement 'Feed the birds, and what have you got? Fat birds.'

Oh yes. I think I would be an excellent mother and suffragette were I to have a full-time staff of at least 3, a City Banker husband, a trust fund and a hotline to Belgravia's best opium dealer (or whatever it is giving her that glassy eyed look...)

har - you have her down to a tee, wilf