Mary Poppins unsuitable for children ... In the words of Mark Twain and Ron White , "You can't fix stupid"

#1

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Mark Twain

Well Ok, Julie did flash and Richard Van Dyke* drank a little … but come now."
*I had to use his BC name as Giza found his stage name to be unsuitable for children.

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”

― Milan Kundera

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#2

Boy I can see why the word is best not to be made available in the pop culture sense. It has quite an unfavorable history for the British and Dutch colonization of Africa, casts a rather ugly side of their attempt to “civilize” the continent.

#3

“No. No. I’m listening. It just takes me a minute to process that much stupid all at once.”

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