Swallows and Amazons

[Horse_Apple]

Ended up watching part of this classic film on Saturday morning, it having been one of my favourite films as a child.

It’s amazing just how blind and ignorant we are as children. I used to think that this story was about a group of children who go away on holiday with their mother, as the father is working too hard to join them and end up have an excellent time sailing around the Lake District.

I know realise that it is a horrific tale of bad parenting, law breaking off-spring and a paedophile.

It’s amazing how 12 years of Nu Labia and a declining quality in media can change things.

[rovermorris999]

Indeed. Mrs Walker would have the children taken away from her as she was neglecting them and Captain Flint would be on a register somewhere.

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

and calling a girl "Titty", juvenile snigger, what was he thinking of...



...I still loved the stories and read every one though

regards,
Jet

[JMGS4]

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how 12 years of Nu Labia and a declining quality in media can change things.

Too true and amazing how quickly the gullible public has swallowed the socialist creed and all their lies without even blinking...!!!!
what are the odds on these numbskulls voting Broon and his crims in for another term?

[MartG]

And ( IIRC ) not a life jacket in sight, kids cooking on an open flame, kids sailing boats unsupervised, meeting charcoal burners who haven't been CRB checked, etc. etc. - an H&S nighmare

Films like this must be banned as they show today's kids how much fun we used to have

[Dunk76]

Even by late Primary school in the early-mid 80s when I read them they were excruciatingly twee.

Don't ever recall a paedophile though?!?

[loafer123]

Dunk76 said:

Even by late Primary school in the early-mid 80s when I read them they were excruciatingly twee.

Don't ever recall a paedophile though?!?

You know the saying...if you don't know who it is, it's probably you...!




Only joking ;-)

[Dunk76]

loafer123 said:

Dunk76 said:

Even by late Primary school in the early-mid 80s when I read them they were excruciatingly twee.

Don't ever recall a paedophile though?!?

You know the saying...if you don't know who it is, it's probably you...!




Only joking ;-)

Lol

In all honesty by the age of Seven I was more interested in the covert reading my Commando comics during the class reading of Swallows & Amazons.

[hidetheelephants]

Class! 'Better drowned than duffers; if not duffers, won't drown!'

[Mondeohdear]

MartG said:

And ( IIRC ) not a life jacket in sight, kids cooking on an open flame, kids sailing boats unsupervised, meeting charcoal burners who haven't been CRB checked, etc. etc. - an H&S nighmare

Films like this must be banned as they show today's kids how much fun we used to have

And have you seen The Railway Children? Young children playing on railway lines And taking off their undergarments to wave at trains, little hussies!

[Horse_Apple]

Mondeohdear said:

MartG said:

And ( IIRC ) not a life jacket in sight, kids cooking on an open flame, kids sailing boats unsupervised, meeting charcoal burners who haven't been CRB checked, etc. etc. - an H&S nighmare

Films like this must be banned as they show today's kids how much fun we used to have

And have you seen The Railway Children? Young children playing on railway lines And taking off their undergarments to wave at trains, little hussies!

Don't forget the train full of Paedos.

[Horse_Apple]

hidetheelephants said:

Class! 'Better drowned than duffers; if not duffers, won't drown!'

Would be cheaper than GCSEs?

[B Oeuf]

You better not watch that other film about an Outward Bound course gone astray called Lord of the Flies then

[Horse_Apple]

B Oeuf said:

You better not watch that other film about an Outward Bound course gone astray called Lord of the Flies then

I thought that was a documentary about Westminster?

[Mondeohdear]

And one of my favourite books from Roald Dahl, Danny, The Champion of the World. A single parent who is a career criminal who actively encourages his son to take up a life of crime!

[Oilchange]

[quote] And have you seen The Railway Children? Young children playing on railway lines And taking off their undergarments to wave at trains, little hussies!
[/quote]

I got a rather nice postcard and signed photo from Jenny when I was out in dusty places. I had a huge crush on her when I first saw 'The Railway Children'...

[GBGaffer]

Don't mention 'Walkabout' - now that was a seminal work if ever there was one!

[Mondeohdear]

Oilchange said:

I got a rather nice postcard and signed photo from Jenny when I was out in dusty places. I had a huge crush on her when I first saw 'The Railway Children'...

.. and then Walkabout and Logan's Run!

Nice photo by the way, she's still lovely

[Horse_Apple]

GBGaffer said:

Don't mention 'Walkabout' - now that was a seminal work if ever there was one!

That's the one where two kids drag some poor local into the outback and then kill him?

[Mondeohdear]

Horse_Apple said:

GBGaffer said:

Don't mention 'Walkabout' - now that was a seminal work if ever there was one!

That's the one where two kids drag some poor local into the outback and then kill him?

Something like that, although he was a pervert who exposed himself to them so it was justified.