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New way of looking at it!?♀️
Jan 19, 2024 3:39 AM
josielinwood
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New way of looking at it!?♀️
Howfuckinhardisittogetausername
Cheaper than boarding school
YupYupNope
The book is a crazy read as well. The movie doesn't include the youngest siblings, the twins. They can communicate with animals because of their age.
gtotherizzle
Someone is too young to understand upper classism
HerrHat
Mary Poppins wasn't "Off the streets"
She was a legit nanny who responded an add for one. - Ok the add was distributed by ripping it up and tossing it to the fireplace - but she wasn't picked up off the streets.
Maybe the person is mixing it up with My Fair Lady?
TheFunGuyinOz
Her other job is as The Acid Queen.
But ya gotta pay before she'll start.
brickius
I mean... Absent father... He went to work ffs, if you wanna talk about absent how come the mother had no job AND a nanny AND a maid
goodtimehadbyall
And your mom doesn't have a job so apparently neither one of them actually want you.
TheFunionKnight
It was Victorian cough syrup which had a similar effect to meth
failurefile
This seems to check out today. I would do the same if I wanted someone to expose the greatness of cough syrup...
CatSparkleBreaker
Mary was pushing that Lean
honkynell
Having never seen Mary Poppins I'd have thought there was more to the plot of it than that. Otherwise I think I'd have seen it.
IFoldlyGo
Here's a trailer for Mary Poppins, so you can decide if it is safe to watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
gobnaitOLunacy
The Wizard of Oz: country girl moves to new land, immediately kills one of the residents, recruits 3 more to go on a killing spree while searching for local kingpin
tupactopus
gentrification in the old days
Captainplanetmotherfucker
I think that since they put all manner of drugs in cough Syrup, the kids were just tripping mad balls.
zechor
Oh, it's better. She wants to vaccinate the kids.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/us/spoonful-of-sugar-mary-poppins-vaccines-trnd/index.html
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
Sure... run your mouth. Now that she's dead, she can't hunt you down.
chunkylover73
It’s called “lean”.
flounder35
And then there’s an American that does a terrible British accent while singing about how chimney sweeps life isn’t that bad.
DigiT00l
DvD's British accent was decent, his Cockney accent was bad, but that is because Disney hired a voice coach from Yorkshire who had never even seen London
flounder35
Ah
devasto
Stargrave3000
You've just described a regular nanny (albeit with singing). They need to step up their "x is weird" game. This is basic bitch stuff.
FaptainPicard
It’s so weird though… The pants she wears have just 1 leg hole. A big tube that goes all the way down to her ankles. And it connects at her neck. What kind of long-single legged person were those pants made for?!?!?
Stargrave3000
I mean Mary Poppins is weird, but for reasons completely omitted in the post.
Pukako
Pretty much how my dad did it. Worked out okay, with much less singing. Or dancing.
FeloniousMonk13
Hey, i didn't need Mary Poppins to convince ME to drink my cough syrup
onlymostofthetime
it was actually the polio vaccine
Bokkanb
"Absent" new word for 'hard-working, provider, "keep us off the streets" father. Amazing you never would hear this for working moms.
HowDoYouMakeAnElephantFloat
Then she takes you to the park to do psychedelics with a vagrant & her high at a random old man’s house afterwards
ardtay
Sherry Bobbins would kick her ass.
ThatLeftistBlackMetalWeeb
If the song slaps I don't mind
Imalwaysready
That’s the movie. If you think that’s weird, you should really try the books. Mary doesn’t want to be there all that much (some larger cosmic force is clearly making her), is vain as hell (way beyond the movie level), takes the kids on even weirder adventures (including meeting a woman implied to be old as time itself who literally snaps off several of her fingers and gives them to the children as candy—who then proceed to be totally OK with this and happily eat them), and best of all, anytime >
purgruv
TIL there are books.
Imalwaysready
the kids try to talk about any of the adventures afterwards, Mary TOTALLY GASLIGHTS THEM and denies anything like that happened at all and the kids must be crazy—even when it’s just the three of them. She even threatens to punish them if they won’t stop. In fact, she’s so mean to the kids, that’s literally how they know she’s leaving them in the end…because she’s suddenly uncharacteristically nice to them, leading to this quote straight from the book:
Imalwaysready
''’Perhaps she was only being nice,’ said Jane to sooth him, but in her heart she felt disturbed as Michael was. She knew very well that Mary Poppins never wasted time in being nice."
Disney, Schmisney! The REAL Mary Poppins “NEVER WASTED TIME IN BEING NICE.”
Realizing something’s off, these little Stockholm syndrome victims chase after her and literally the next line we hear them saying is; "Oh, do be cross, Mary Poppins! Do be cross again! It's not like you. Oh, I feel so anxious..."
RustiPianowire
It has been a really long time, but I remember in the last book they had a neighbor who had a little African boy as a slave who came in a suite case. Mary Poppins took him to space to speak with a man on the moon, which ended racism. I didn't know what racism was, but my uncle, who read it to me, was confused as well.
Imalwaysready
That sounds like our Mary all right!
It’s weird to me now that I’ve read the books just how mad Travers was with Disney for “ruining” her character (she wouldn’t even attend the premier), but damn…Walt is the ONLY reason Poppins is not only remembered, but loved, to this day. Makes me wonder what the hell he saw in the character to begin with. How did he read those & go “I can make this vain, manipulative, aggrieved and indignant demigod(?) into a beloved children’s icon for decades to come!”
L0rdinquisit0r
But back then it was the real stuff with morphine, cannabis & chloroform to make sure you got a solid sleep
thotterpop
I'm not sure if it took place in that time era. Though, I haven't seen it in a long time, so I probably missed more of the references
jonReremy9669
no cocaine, no care
Wrinkle666
That looks the bomb just a couple of shots before heading out ! YEEHAAAA
WynnCreek
Suddenly the movie makes a lot more sense 🤣
GrandChampion
That explains Dick Van Dykes accent
Idontneedrealfacts
Kid: "mum, Mary Poppin's pulled a whole hat rack out of her hand bag! and there were penguins in the park, and all the chimney sweeps did a dance and" / Mother: "yes yes dear, take your cough medicine and go to bed. actually, bring me the bottle once you had yours"
imcrimson
That'll take care of a cough alright
likerice
Nungerner
“Skillfully combined”…. lol… by a self administered chemist I bet.
Nungerner
https://www.craiyon.com/image/fIuLWYL0S5CZHLzLCpDhNw
fishmaceins
l8rrose
Like they say for Benadryl, you can't can't cough/sneeze if you're unconscious.
Imalwaysready
OR dead. Either one.
phordlesscone
I had some Benadryl after a bad reaction to my sister's new cat. I slept for the next ~24h.
ElbowDeepInUserSub
That's just science!
Leithoa
Benadryl doesn't make me drowsy
BladeTurMoiL
False. I do both.
viila
Opiates are one of the few cough suppressants that actually work better than placebo.
Kbantar
And theobromine in large doses.
PostalHeathen
Well, shit. That's just childhood here in Appalachia.
SarcasticComment
Leather Britches and cough syrup. Mmmm Mmmm
MeekrabJones
The difference is that one is paid with $10 in EBT credit and a gram of ditch weed. Although technically, we never find out how Mary Poppins was compensated so it could be the same.
spookyu
She did it for free, just hoping to see true fear in their eyes at some point.
Webel
Is that per day or? I feel like my future is in Spain where having someone working at/on the home isn't weird and can be pretty reasonably priced, but not like 10$ a day reasonably priced 😂
MeekrabJones
It's more of a one-time thing, she forgets about it for a couple of weeks from the ditch weed and glue sniffing, she finally remembers and asks for another payment, and the cycle repeats until the kid gets pregnant and married off at 14.