@Kathrin @nocontextpics @nocontext Can't park that there, mate. If you don't move it, we WILL move it for you.
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50 years later .... parking enforcement is still placing paper tickets on the windshield.
There's a museum about the industrial revolution and steam power in my country and its façade pays homage to this event.
Thomas the Tank Engine got dark in the later seasons.
There is an actual Thomas episode where they brick one of the other engines into a depot tunnel. This feels like the logical next phase of the Thomas the Torture Engine reign of terror.
They let him out in the very next episode, which people seem to forget. Henry was bricked up for blocking the main line, which was a vital artery for the entire country in the show.
You seem to have knowledge of the lore. There was one with two of the engines trying to strike for better conditions, right? Or did I misremember?
That was a season 1 episode, and the strike wasn't about their working conditions, it was because the three main tender engines (Gordon, Henry and James) decided they were too important to be shunting or fetching their own passenger coaches. They believed it to be beneath them, something only a lowly tank engine like Thomas should do. Since Thomas was away to work on his new branch line, they refused to work.
The Fat Controller got fed up with their jackassery and hostility towards another tender engine, Edward, and ended up buying Percy to do the shunting work. He then locked the three engines in the shed to teach them a lesson while letting Thomas, Percy and Edward do their work so they could think about how silly their actions were.
It's worth noting that Sodor didn't have much of a road system, and it was entirely reliant on the railway to move goods and passengers around. Having over half of the railway's motive power on strike for such a silly reason put Sodor and its people in a very precarious position. The engines were let out a few episodes later once they realized their own egos had put everything at risk.
Ok well maybe 'better conditions' was a loose-fitting term but I think it just about works. Wonder how it sat with certain groups ppl when the episode came out 😂
Thanks for the detail though, does reframe my memory a bit.
I think I watched that episode with my lil' cousin back in the day, bc I vaguely remember learning the word "deputation" (i.e. a representative, who was making the demands).
They actually did basically this exact crash in the Season 5 episode "A Better View for Gordon" when Gordon smashes through a station wall. Season 5 was wild.
Hey, you can't park there.
If anyone is curious, this image is used as the cover to a text book "An Introduction to Error Analysis". I have a print of it hanging on the walls in my bedroom that my mom found at a thrift store years ago.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781940380087/an-introduction-to-error-analysis/
That's the image used in the Mr. Big album Lean Into It!
This image is hanging on the wall of a sandwich place I like
It’s a well-respected mood.
Had that as a postcard
Had that as a 90s rock album.
I knew the French can't drive cars, but it looks like they cannot drive trains, too!
Haha made me think of this time in college an east texas redneck guy said “I hit bottom and she yelped”