Read it carefully and understand one thing: THIS IS THE WORLD CONSERVATIVES WANT YOU TO LIVE IN. On the basis that it’s best to know your enemy, then, here follows the tried-and-tested playbook they now want Sam to follow. Sam’s a super-amiable cartoon firefighter, not Neymar.īut it’s not enough, is it? These people screaming about Fireman Sam won’t be satisfied until this committed local fire officer, who wants no part of it, has been made to own the libs. There’s no “I” in Pontypandy, and the minute someone reckons they’re bigger than the fire station, then it’s over. What sort of example would that be setting to naughty Norman Price, or nice Mandy, the nurse’s daughter, or – most pressingly – to his boss, station officer Steele? If Sam pulled the tantrums you lot do, he’d be out on his ear. Sam knows that if it brings in more great female fire officers like Penny, then we all win.īecause here’s the thing about Sam: he’s not some professional media snowflake who has to wet his Depends every morning about something just to feel alive. He’s already achieved far, far beyond what he set out to when he joined the Pontypandy service, and he would be absolutely cool with someone else having a go at being a mascot for – hang on, let’s remind ourselves here – a single county branch of the fire and rescue service. How can toddlers be better at this than you? Still, I want to be inclusive, so let me break it down for the angry folks. Yet incredibly, it seems there are a whole host of middle-aged media twats, who have actual jobs, who have somehow misunderstood the profoundly opaque character of pre-school fave Fireman Sam. Not even as a C-plot in a 10-minute episode. Wouldn’t mind one bit about being dropped as the mascot. So let me tell you, as a true expert in this field: Fireman Sam himself would be totally fine with this. In summary, not only is there jack shit about Pontypandy that I am not on top of, but there is literally nothing about the eponymous character that I don’t know. Mainly because it means they’re finally over and we can do Lego or something instead. I have watched Fireman Sam in stop-motion I have watched Fireman Sam in CGI animation and I have watched all the feature-length Fireman Sam specials till I mouth along to their last lines with the same climactic reverence I would reserve for “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” or “Forget it Jake – it’s Chinatown”. I have watched all of them at least twice, in most cases many, many more times. Over the past six years or so, I have not just watched every single episode of this show. As always with these things, you can divide the two sides of the “debate” into People You Might Care to Have a Pint With, and People Who Should Be Ended Like Tommy in Goodfellas (“They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn’t give him an open coffin at the funeral”).Īnyway. N ews that the children’s TV character Fireman Sam is to be dropped as Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue’s mascot – for not seeming inclusive enough to girls who might wish to join the service – has provoked the usual adult males into howls of airtime.
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