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Originally Posted by truncated
Paddington Bear always manages to cheer you up and invoke nostalgia.
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Paddington's the greatest.
There are two types of children's story characters, generally. Ones hat teach you to do nothing more than fulfil a societally conditioned role (Postman Pat, Bob the Builder etcc) and those who teach you to be an individual ans explore things (Paddington, etc). I prefer the latter, and I tink children should be generally dissuaded from the former. The exception to the above rules is the very funny and excellent
Roobarb and Custard, which was all about spite, one-upmanship and and scorn.