Tributes have been paid to actor Simon Shelton, best known for playing purple Teletubby Tinky Winky, following his death at the age of 52.
[...] The original Teletubbies ran on the BBC from 1997 to 2001 and spawned a number one single, called Teletubbies say 'Eh-oh!', in December 1997.
Speaking in 2008, Shelton said he had little inkling Teletubbies would be the success it was when he was cast as Tinky Winky.
"I didn't know it would be as big as it was, but I did know as soon as I started working on it that it had something special," he said.
The original Teletubbies series was watched by around one billion children in more than 120 countries in 45 languages.
Shelton, a father of three, lived in Ampthill in Bedfordshire.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42788001
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:15PM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:07PM
You fool [xkcd.com]!
Now that the sheeple have been wakened from their 10,000 year slumber, I propose an international coalition of scientists and engineers. They should be divided into 5 different teams (perhaps blue, orange, silver, red, and green) each to realize their own vision for a perfect fighting machine. We'll need asteroid mining missions to refine vast quantities of gundanium alloy. Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @05:36PM
i came to post something similar.
"but I did know as soon as I started working on it that it had something special,"
yeah, slave. it's called a psyop and dumb ass parental guardians (the state owns your children, you're just the shitty baby sitter) stick their babies and toddlers in front of it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:23PM (5 children)
Cloned monkeys, botoxed camels, Grumpy Cat, and Teletubby stories all on the same day. Teletubbies are cool though, it's like watching Sesame Street on LSD.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:25PM
And as you're coming down you can check out the Star Wars holograms.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:43PM (2 children)
He wasn't the gay one with the purse, was he? Falwell warned me about him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:11PM (1 child)
He was.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:51PM
So, it has come to this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:18PM
Teletubbies is nothing like Sesame Street on LSD... Teletubbies are much more mellow.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:31PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCWKzXR1LoM [youtube.com]
(This video makes about as much sense as anything from the 2016 election.)
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:53PM (21 children)
Isn't Tinky-Winky the one that certain American preachers were calling "gay", because of the symbol on his head being a pink triangle?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:56PM (6 children)
He could be a bisexual father of three. Or a closeted gay with children and a wife. Or adoptive parent with gay partner.
(Score: 5, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:44PM (5 children)
Or an ACTOR doing ACTING.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:57PM (2 children)
So you are saying it was intentional gay propaganda to turn the kids gay?
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:27PM (1 child)
Of course it was.
My children are exactly the right age to have enjoyed the teletubbies when they were spewing their pro-gay propaganda onto our airwaves, and they are both gay now.
The fact that my sons do not acknowledge their homosexuality and in fact associate with nice young ladies they call their "girlfriend" just shows how pernicious the teletubbies communist, homosexual propaganda really is.
They have made young men gay, and they don't even know they're gay.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday January 26 2018, @12:35AM
Straight gays are the worst. And you just know the grandkids will turn out exactly the same...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday January 26 2018, @12:52AM (1 child)
For an actor, that happens a lot. People see you on TV, they see you in a movie, you're acting. But they mix up the actor with the ROLE. So you gotta be careful. You make that work for you. Not against you. You play a loser, everybody thinks you're a loser. Like @Rosie [twitter.com]. Bad example, she's a total loser. But you know what I mean, I think you know. If you're smart you don't play a play a fat slob, you play a winner, people think you're a winner. And it can open many, many doors!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @04:48AM
https://www.getdjtrump.com/videos/4590f14f8617b469ec95/people_see_you_on [getdjtrump.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:02PM (3 children)
Yes, Tinky Winky was supposedly the "gay" Telletubbie because:
1. He was purple, the gay pride color.
2. He had a triangle on his antenna, the gay pride symbol.
3. He carried a magic bad that looked like a purse.
4. He was named "Tinky Winky"... come on!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies#Tinky_Winky_controversy [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:08PM
That supposed to be "magic bag", not "magic bad".
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday January 26 2018, @01:06AM
In New York, in NYC, the gays always have a Rainbow banner. Beautiful! The others do purple? OK, also a very pretty color. My favorite color is whatever I'm wearing. But my second favorite color and favorite thing is GOLD!
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday January 26 2018, @05:57AM
5. Po (the red one, played by Pui Fan Lee) had catchphrases "faaidik faaidik, maan maan maan" (Cantonese for "fast" and "slow"). When conservative parents misheard a Po doll [cbsnews.com] as saying "faggot faggot, bite my butt" (listen [youtube.com]), this led to replacing that recorded phrase in the next batch of dolls.
Or was she talking smack about Tinky Winky all the time?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:11PM (9 children)
> American preachers were calling "gay"
Because, you know - where people stick their penises is the absolute #1 most important thing in the entire universe!1!!11!1ll1l!1 Because imaginary magic sky daddy says so.
Pay no attention to the preacher molesting the 5-year old boy behind the curtain.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:50PM (8 children)
You know, the funny thing is that the book that the imaginary magic sky daddy supposedly wrote actually doesn't say that at all. It's only 1 item on the top 10 list, and one that Jesus specifically told people not to enforce later on. So the question is, given that the imaginary magic sky daddy didn't place much emphasis on this point, why do so many believers in the imaginary magic sky daddy think it's an essential element of the faith?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:53PM
Sin only matters if you like the sin.
Trump fucks a pr0n star unprotected while married and is forgivable. No big deal.
John Edwards has extra marital affair. Huge deal to many of these same republicans.
Could go on and on
The republicans,in sex issues, have never had a moral high ground. But there sheep are easy to lead by their bastardized Shepards.
So you get all this Telly rubies nonsense.
Also the tubbies are make believe stuff which is in direct competition with their make believe stuff.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:52PM (3 children)
If you're referring to the whole thing where Jesus was criticized by the Pharisees et al. for associating with prostitutes, it wasn't because he didn't consider sexual stuff sinful. The Pharisees just liked to think that prostitutes etc. were worse sinners than they were because sexual sins were "worse" than other sins. Jesus was just pointing out that a sin is a sin and everybody was sinful.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 25 2018, @06:01PM (2 children)
I was referring to the famous "He who is without sin can cast the first stone" incident. Where Jesus specifically instructed the crowd not to enforce the law against adultery. Yes, on the grounds that everyone else was sinful too, but he didn't seem to have that same level of tolerance for, say, moneychangers in the Temple.
Although that does have me wondering why there isn't a day during Holy Week where bankers are beaten up. Or at the very least the collection plate shouldn't be passed during any of the services that week.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:39PM (1 child)
The Pharisees really did like to play these games where they asked a question and whichever way he replied he was screwed.
Apparently our posting filter has a thing against referencing books of the Bible. Nice. Or is D****ronomy the one that fun guy who claims he has the right to kill his ex-wife always quotes?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:06PM
Correct. The posting filter filters out child abuse material.
(Score: 4, Informative) by fritsd on Thursday January 25 2018, @06:34PM (2 children)
Because many of these same people, regardless of their opinion on Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, secretly break lots of other Leviticus commandments ESPECIALLY Leviticus 19:11, 19:13, 19:33-34, 20:10.
What do you think of Leviticus 19:19:
Don't protect [wikipedia.org] your cabbages with Nasturtiums [wikipedia.org], and don't wear suits made of linen and wool!
How are you supposed to do biological gardening then??
Shun the Apple computers with rounded edges, also: Leviticus 19:27
Many others of the rules are difficult to interpret for me. You shouldn't sacrifice children to Moloch it seems (Lev. 20:1-3), OK I'm 100% with that.
Deporting illegal aliens and refugees is also a no-no: Lev. 19:33-34
How many US Republicans (mostly descended from immigrants themselves) respect THAT rule, you think?!?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:18AM (1 child)
Great, a Teletubby dies and you have to pick apart your ancient book of ball gargling and rub it in our faces.
When someone from My Little Pony dies, can we expect an all out religious war?
Eh, you will pull it apart at the drop of a hat. Look at it sideways and there must be something about hat dropping in there.
(Score: 1) by fritsd on Friday January 26 2018, @05:15PM
Nope. I just looked. No hats in the Bible.
My comment may have been a smidgeon off-topic, I grant that.
Have a nice weekend!
P.S. Have you seen how that Sun-baby is looking down at those Teringtubbies [youtube.com]?! Like: "You look colourful, I'm gonna reach my arm down to earth, pick one of you up, and gum and drool on you a bit!". Creepy..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:01PM (3 children)
Someone made a wallpaper [wallpapersafari.com] that will look familiar to some of you.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:06PM
Hey, Microsoft hasn't released Windows Gay, yet (otherwise codenamed Deep throat).
Please keep releasing information about this in the closet!
--Microsoft 'Bob'
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @10:57PM (1 child)
another one in the same vein: https://web.archive.org/web/20030623075459if_/http://www.digital-ink.co.uk:80/teletubbiesXP.jpg [archive.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @10:30PM
better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20020201210206/http://www.digital-ink.co.uk:80/page.ink?pageno=93 [archive.org]
(Score: 3, Touché) by WalksOnDirt on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:42PM (3 children)
I was ridiculously too old for Teletubbies, but I still watched some. The colors were so bright, the setting so peaceful and the rabbits so cute that it was hard not to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:25PM (2 children)
You were too old? My father watched and enjoyed the original series!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:59PM (1 child)
Considering the original series was only about 20 years ago, I'm not sure what conclusion I am to draw about you and/or your father (your father watched it with you? You are actually only three years old? Etc.).
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:11PM
Nah, I was a teenager and already "too old" for it. He watched it of his own choice.
Now I'm a parent myself, and I've seen some of the new (widescreen, HD) series with my youngsters. I don't think it's as good as the old series: eight new CGI mini-teletubbies added to the cast, for example.
In The Night Garden (made by the same company) is far, far better than either incarnation of Teletubbies, IMHO.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday January 26 2018, @10:06AM
Hate to sound heartless, but this isn't newsworthy. Can anyone here honestly tell me they knew who Simon Shelton was before seeing the article?
In the coming decades, actors' deaths will become more and more frequent. Until then, do we have to pretend they're all front-page material?