[HN Gopher] Winnie-the-Pooh brings 100 years of fame to forest
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Winnie-the-Pooh brings 100 years of fame to forest
Author : 1659447091
Score : 50 points
Date : 2025-12-25 03:49 UTC (6 days ago)
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| nephihaha wrote:
| The original bridge where Milne and his son Christopher Robin
| created the game Pooh sticks became worn and unsafe in the late
| 1990s.
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| It was dismantled and replaced with a replica which is still in
| place in Ashdown Forest.
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| The original structure sold at auction in 2021 for PS131,000.
| privong wrote:
| Why copy and paste text from the article without adding any
| commentary?
| fallinditch wrote:
| For anyone with young children I highly recommend reading them
| Winnie-the-Pooh for bedtime stories - much fun!
| vitaelabitur wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5HllbvLf4, The Many Adventures
| of Winnie the Pooh (1977) Ending
|
| I was a quiet kid. Books, shows, and films shaped my
| sensibilities and moral tastes.
|
| I wonder if that remains possible today. Content designed solely
| for the dopamine hit seems to crowd out everything else.
| Telemakhos wrote:
| > I wonder if that remains possible today.
|
| Parents still have the ability to raise their children
| according to their own values, despite the most earnest and
| eager intentions of the dopamine-dealing crowd. That bug hasn't
| yet been engineered out of society.
| RattlesnakeJake wrote:
| Yet when we do this by, say, homeschooling, the HN
| commentariat piles up hundreds of comments accusing us of
| child neglect and a lack of concern for society.
| jemmyw wrote:
| Do they? I've mentioned homeschooling on hn before without
| issue. There's always knobs who can't have a nuanced view
| of course, but generally the discussions I've seen have
| tended positive.
| SauntSolaire wrote:
| This[1] thread has a good collection of them. Has plenty
| of comments in favor of course, but the negative ones are
| present in high quantities. There's a reason even anodyne
| headlines like that can get 800+ comments on HN.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999842
| jemmyw wrote:
| I missed that one. But it seems like a lively debate for
| the most part rather than a single opinion pile on.
|
| But yeah I get your point that it's like there's an
| unreasonable number of people who have a strong opinion
| on it despite having no actual experience or evidence or
| reason to comment. Homeschool is a small minority and the
| majority are biased to what they know. We homeschool 3
| kids, didn't intend to to it before it happened, and I
| would have held some very incorrect opinions about it
| too, for what little thought I ever actually gave it.
| RattlesnakeJake wrote:
| Yeah, that's the one that came to mind.
|
| I was surprised at how much negativity surrounded the
| topic, despite what feels like a general dissatisfaction
| with the public schools at this time.
| vitaelabitur wrote:
| You are right, parents can still steer their children.
|
| But in some cases like mine, parents might not have the time
| or inclination to do so, for whatever reasons.
|
| I was able to discover Pickwick Papers, Hardy Boys, Harry
| Potter, Lord of the Flies, Spirited Away, Almost Famous, etc.
| on my own. If I were young today, I don't think I would
| discover the right things.
| conception wrote:
| There is a lot of recent kids programming that's pretty amazing
| - Stillwater, Wolf Boy, Pinecone and Pony
| vitaelabitur wrote:
| That might be the case. Maybe I am writing from a place of
| nostalgia and subconscious declinism.
| jemmyw wrote:
| I've always loved the books. I grew up near Ashdown forest. When
| I visited the UK again I stayed in Hartfield and went to the
| little cafe they mention in the article. It was nice, my kids
| enjoyed it.
|
| I was reminded this year that my Winnie the Pooh is not everyones
| when someone at work posted a quote that made no sense to me. I
| read some of the poems Milne wrote, thinking it must be from
| those. Of course it was just from a more recent Disney movie. It
| was about being smarter than you think, it made me chuckle anyway
| because quite a few of the original stories are about what
| happens when you think you're smart. Milne might not have the
| best reputation as a good bloke, but his writing about childhood
| was subtle and grounded.
| greatgib wrote:
| Regarding the context with Taiwan, at first I thought that the
| news was about the Chinese dictator!
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