This is some serious fuckwittery…
Sylvia Anderson, who died this week – co-creator of Thunderbirds and the voice of languid Lady Penelope – famously helped give us some of the most unrepentant smokers in screen history. It wasn’t just Penelope herself, elegantly wafting her cigarette-holder around: many of the International Rescue team relaxed with cigarettes – off-duty, admittedly, not in uniform.
Fucking Hellski, but this cretin is seriously expecting us to believe that it’s all Thunderbirds’ fault. Yup, a puppet is seen smoking on TV so all we young, impressionable children rushed out and started smoking.
Thunderbirds flourished in an age when newsagents sold packs of “sweet cigarettes” to children: confectionery starter-fags for kids, to practise holding them between the middle and index finger, or speaking with them in your mouth.
Yeah, I did that. We thought it was cool when we were eleven years old.
I have never smoked a cigarette, though. So clearly the brainwashing didn’t work, did it? The whole risible article is hysterical bullshit. These people really are scraping the barrel here.
The comments below the line are the usual CiF insanity. I sometimes find my self wondering just how I came to be sharing the same planet as these vile people. I must have upset someone, somewhere…
Well, they view us all as mere puppets, so this isn’t so very surprising..
Nah, I can see light… they have scraped right through the bottom of the barrel!
I loved Thunderbirds – and sweet cigarettes! I was so impressed by my father smoking that my Mum used to make me ‘roll-ups’ with a cotton wool filling so I could emulated him.
I’ve never smoked either…
I loved candy cigs, liquorice pipes – remember those’? – and toy pipes.
My grandfather smoked s pipe. I used to sit and watch as he cleaned out the pipe, cut the baccy, rubbed it, tamped it into the bowl, and lit it with a match… clouds of lovely smelling smoke.
Both parents smoked quite heavily. Whether despite or because, I never smoked. And I was a fan of Thunderbirds (are go!) too.
Hate smoking… but if others want to do it, not near me, that is their choice.
I used to love the sweet ‘tobacco’ that you could get – I think it was desiccated coconut, with colouring added?
Loved Thunderbirds, ate sweet cigarettes, including ones that were a stick of chocolate wrapped in rice paper, never smoked.
Never bought those sweetie cigarettes, and only ever watched Thunderbirds a couple of times. Neither of my parents smoked. I’ve smoked (and enjoyed smoking) for the last 50 years, apart from a couple of year-long breaks back in the 70s and 80s. (As an aside, I also never get ill and am fitter and healthier than most guys ten years my junior).
“It wasn’t just Penelope herself, elegantly wafting her cigarette-holder around: many of the International Rescue team relaxed with cigarettes – off-duty, admittedly, not in uniform.”
Er, and pretty much every second adult you met in the street, on the buses, and even in schools: our *teachers* used to smoke when off the clock.
Thunderbirds merely added to the background noise.
I’m curious what these idiots think of “Joe 90”: by their logic, we should have seen more fathers deliberately abusing their children by subjecting them to massively invasive brain control technology so they can help defeat foreign spies.