General Chat

The much loved bear has been banned............

He's a what????????????

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/winnie-the-pooh-banned-from-polish-playground-for-being-an-inappropriate-hermaphrodite-9872278.html

The world has gone completely MAD.

Winnie the Pooh was subversive no wonder he gets into hot water with the politically correct brigade.

Very likely the fierce opposition to the Tories renewed attempts to sell off the nation's woodlands and forests is rooted in a folk memory of 100 Acre Wood.

It is a shame that ownership of the little bear has ended up with the saccharine Disney Corp. Not at all what A A Milne would have wanted.

The Government continue to sell-off social housing stock.

'Since coming to power in 2010, David Cameron's government has reinvigorated the totemic Tory policy, by reinstating big discounts previously withdrawn under Labour. Today, some tenants can get over £100,000 off the price of their home'. (*From 'The Report' on Radio 4 yesterday.)

How can the country's dodgy finances continue to 'bear' this?

Maybe everybody not earning over £ 150K pa or getting a right-to-buy subsidy (*) will just have to move to an asteroid someplace. Forget all about Sussex or even Canning Town.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30127477

(*) It is possible that those exercising right to buy in Kensington will end up paying mansion tax. Larf.

Apparently, the bear Winnie the Pooh is based on, was female!
I heard this news on the radio last week.

From the Winnie the Pooh FAQ website:

According to my friends at the White River (Ontario, Canada) Museum, a Canadian officer named Lt. Harry Colebourn bought a female black bear cub from a trapper for $20 on August 24, 1914 that had been orphaned after its mother had been killed by a hunter. Lt. Colebourn decided to name the cub "Winnie" after his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

During World War I, Lt. Colebourn took Winnie to England where he was stationed. While in England he was promoted to Captain. Later, Winnie was donated to the London Zoo for safekeeping when Capt. Colebourn's military unit was ordered to France. Supposedly, Winnie was a very popular attraction. Author A.A. Milne took his son, Christopher Robin Milne to see the bear. Christopher so liked the bear that his father decided to name the character in his new book after Winnie, the black bear at the zoo.

Whatever next!
Ban Hoodie wearing Pixies!... `twould give the wrong signal to impressionable toddlers that gangsterism is OK.

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Pretty certain Tigger was on something ;-) ;-)

Bear rescue central

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30141111

I still have my own bear brought back by a rellie serving with the BAOR. It must terrible to lose your bear.

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I have just brought one for my great nieces baby Henry and he absolloutely adores it. ;-) ;-)

And to think the Polish birth rate in England is the higher than any other nationality here!!!!

LOL HAHAHAHAHA

****falls of chair laughting******

Sorry you Polish people but!!!! our bear is half naked and you are having the babies!!!

Just discovered the real reason as to why Pooh Bear upset a few people.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/10457233

And now for something completely different........

Winnie IN the Pooh!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561563/Who-flushed-Winnie-Pooh-toilet-Giant-stuffed-bear-lurking-Scottish-sewer.html

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