Tintin

[huncamunca]

Anyone still read tintin ? its a favourite sit down poo or long bath read in Huncamunca acres, despite it being rather politically unsubtle -Do modern parents tolerate Tintin these days ?

[Brendan]

My cupboard is full of tins.

[Alan Medic]

Since when did something politically unsubtle bother you hunc or what modern parents might or might not tolerate? I read the Beano and I just don't care!

[david_carnell]

I've been planning on starting to read Tintin for the first time but have had trouble finding copies in book shops.

I now have had it confirmed by a source that Chener stock issues so I clearly didn't look very hard.

And I don't think there is anything particularly politically unpleasant about it is there?

[StraferJack]

Depends on how het up you want to get I suppose

some background here

[mockney piers]

I believe that there were some rather stereotypical portrayals of Africans and Jews in a couple of the books

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The latter probably the dodgier especially given the time and what was going on. I'm inclined to think the former is just a cartoonish stereotyping, no worse than that seen in the Tarzan films of the time, but doubtless will get into hot water for saying so.

Chinless fops anyone?

 

[david_carnell]

You called?

[HonaloochieB]

And Captain Haddock used to use Bashi-Bazouks as an expletive.

The Bashi-Bazoukist b@stard.

[????]

I was always more of an Asterix fella

[Otta]

Same here.

[mockney piers]

Me too tbh, tintin takes itself a little too seriously.

I still want dogmatix as a pet!!

[StraferJack]

Another Asterix fan here. Plenty of TinTin books around the house growing up, I just never found them that interesting

[Otta]

I still want dogmatix as a pet!!

I want Getafix as a neighbour!

[????]

I'd like Cleopatra.

[HonaloochieB]

I was quite happy with both.

Our French teacher used the French Asterix books in our lessons, though he considered Getafix to be in poor taste.

Good old 'Turd' O'Halloran.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I picked up 15 Asterix books from north cross rd last year. Was reading Asterix and the Normans this morning. The village mail delivery man, Postaldistrix made a rare appearance.

[Alec John Moore]

I can't recall, is the mere d'Asterix called Matrix?

[HonaloochieB]

And is the owner of the pizza joint named Dominatrix?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Fishmonger is unhygienix and bard is cacophinix. The books I picked up were pamphlet sized and fit nicely in the reading room. Best buy of 2010.

[*Bob*]

I was always particularly partial to the Viz Tintin parodies.. mocking but drawn with a fond eye.

The one where Tintin follows some 'suspicious-looking characters' - and ends-up at a rave - was very, very funny.

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to pronounce 'menhir'?

[HonaloochieB]

It's just like you said it Ms B.

[Guest]

My small nephew is already expressing concern about my pronunciation of dinosaur names. It's a worry. He's not supposed to realise how uncool I am until he's at least six or seven.

[mockney piers]

I was always told off for my pronunciation of thesaurus at school by my grumpy english teacher Mr Ash.

"It's not a bloody dinosaur" he'd say. I think of him every time I consult a thesaurus, which is really annoying because he was a right bastard.

[Moos]

24 posts, and no-one is commenting on the sit-down poo?