Is it April fools day?

[milly143]

WTF? Is this the most ridiculous story there is? If that's the only problem Poland has, I'm moving there.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070529/ten-tele tubbies-in-polish-gay-probe-ea4616c.html

[cruella]

Hi milly143
I was just thinking of that article you referred to in the above post.
I read it in the paper today at the office and my colleague and I thought it was the most ridiculous thing we have ever heard.
Like yourself, they are lucky that is all that they have to concern them.

[kwicky]

This Polish story seems almost a rewrite of the story that happened in the UK a few years ago. I'm not sure what came first regarding the colour purple worn in homosexuality clothing especially ties but it caught on in a big way. Didn't they also have a purple wristband for recognition?

http://whyy.org/education/rtl/tubbies.html

[sp1814]

Weirdly, I believe the issue centres on Tinky Winky's adoption of a handbag as a fashion accesory.

Apparently that could influence the under-fives into becoming gay.

...God only knows how they are going to censor pictures of Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss. They're always photographed carrying the latest Prada satchel.

It's a disgrace...an outrage...(ad lib to fade).

[jno]

it's also a symptom of a much wider anti-gay agenda the conservative Polish government is pursuing. They were also at daggers drawn with Germany this year because a German newspaper laughingly said the Polish president (or it may have been the prime minister - they're twins, believe it or not) looked like a potato. So the current Polish regime sees problems everwhere. Don't go if you're gay, milly!

[milly143]

It's funny when you think about it. I expect very few 2 year olds have given a second thought as to whether Tinky Winky is a boy or girl, never mind what his sexual preference is. Promoting homosexuality! ha ha.

Maybe that's why there are so many Poles living here now, because they're gay or resemable a potato!

[NJOK]

"If that's the only problem Poland has, I'm moving there."

I bet you there's a Polish equivalent of Answerbank on which a bunch of moaners are complaining that their country has gone down to the dogs and they're desperate to emigrate etc etc.

Every country has them!

[Kromovaracun]

The Polish Government obviously doesn't realise that there are handbags for men. You can almost hear the crescendo of foreheads being slapped.

Poland (and most of Eastern Europe generally) has multiple economic and social problems. Mostly due to the destruction wrought by communism.

Mass emigration is generally not a sign of a healthy state...

[sp1814]

As none of the Tellytubbies have genitalia, I think the fact that Tinky Winky carries a handbag is neither here nor there.

Polish version of a storm in a tea cup.

More worrying is the reaction that Peter Tatchell and Richard Fairbrass got in Moscow earlier this week.

Nasty...very nasty.