Winnie the Pooh.
I absolutely detest the whole Winnie the Pooh phenomenon. I fail to understand why anyone over the age of 5 would find it cutsey or worthy of cultural reference. It's a mediocre, twee children's book that has been made even more sickly and annoying by Disney marketing. Adults in Winnie the Pooh sweatshirts or Tigger t-shirts? Indicative of special needs, surely.

People who quote Winnie the Pooh strike me as being similar to people who dote on cats: emotionally stunted.

Flushing's too good for him.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:35, 19 replies)

You might not like this book then...
www.amazon.co.uk/Tao-Pooh-Te-Piglet-Wisdom/dp/0416199259
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:36, closed)

Obviously.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:42, closed)

Shame really.
Not a bad read.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:43, closed)

The line in the review that says
"reading the book for the first time I felt like a child again" sums it up.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:45, closed)

Sounds like Glitter could have written that line.

( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 12:32, closed)

Cats are awesome, so you're wrong there
but I agree with you about Pooh - I remember it being on in our house when I was a kid, and there's a bit where Christopher Robin has to say "Tut tut, looks like rain." My sister (who was probably only about six or so) repeated this phrase ad nauseum for the next month. I can feel the rage boiling inside me now.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:44, closed)

But he's sooooooo cute
The original stories (non-disney) are also jolly good.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:54, closed)

I had an ex..
who loved Winnie the Pooh, so to satisfy the lady I bought her a giant Pooh bear for Christmas, then broke up with her on New Years Eve.
Sharing the bed with a 4ft Pooh bear was the last Pooh stick believe me!
(wobbler, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:59, closed)

Can't agree
Disney, sure - especially the later spinoffs (we went to see 'Piglet's big movie' when my daughter was about 3, and it was truly hideous), but the original book was far from twee. It's a very subtle book with great characters and stories - and for its era, it feels very genuinely childlike in its view of the world.

The very last chapter, where Christopher Robin goes off to school and says goodbye to them all, is about as heartbreaking as books for small kids get. The toys can't understand why he's doing all this education stuff and leaving them behind. Think Toy Story 2 - you all know the bit I mean (sob).
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 12:23, closed)

"genuinely childlike"
is my point - small children are the target audience, not functioning adults.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:04, closed)

I still play with Lego.
It often brings about a heady nostalgia and reminds me of a time when I was innocent and carefree.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:12, closed)

this reminds me of that old, dragged out bible phrase that gets on my wick:
"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways"

fuck that, now I got older I can buy all the toys I want (I'm running out of space...)
( Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:16, closed)

*Crosses Winnie the pooh compendium from list of new baby presents*

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:18, closed)

Babyface will be allowed to read them until the age of five.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:19, closed)

If Babyface's father has his way, all Babyface will be reading will be computer manuals.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 14:48, closed)

I think I know who clicked "I Like This" a few hundred times for this image...

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:44, closed)

I went to a Pooh-themed funeral a few years ago for a woman in her 40s
There was a reading from one of the books, where the toys promise to go to the top of a hill when they're all alone and think about each other... *sniff*
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 14:09, closed)

Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

(lanternchikk hat eine schwere Bohlenallergie, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 15:16, closed)

So, you're saying
they are bears of very little brain?
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 20:16, closed)