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As a UK resident, I would like to know if the children's storybook character Mr Tickle is as well known elsewhere as he is here. He has got to be a contender for the Ler with the highest public profile in the world. His deeply annoying and frankly irresponsible non-consensual tickling activity doesn't seem to attract any criticism from the vanilla public. They just smile tolerantly. Like they would (not) if anyone of us went around sticking their long arms into the open bedroom windows of sleeping tickle victims.
Personally I think he is the stuff of nightmares.
Ironically, I own a coffee mug with his image on it, though not through choice. Some years ago I used to volunteer in a class of 8-year-olds at school and some of them discovered that if they sneaked up on me from behind and gave me a quick tickle I would jump amusingly. Needless to say I did my best to act like tickling was not of the slightest interest to me and of course I never tickled back. Nevertheless when I left that class at the end of the term, the teacher, bless her, gave me a gift from the class - that "Mr Tickle" mug. If only they had known...My parents saw it once at the back of my kitchen cupboard when they came visiting, and I had to explain it nonchalantly. I never, ever use it.
I am guessing that everybody knows this character?
As a UK resident, I would like to know if the children's storybook character Mr Tickle is as well known elsewhere as he is here. He has got to be a contender for the Ler with the highest public profile in the world. His deeply annoying and frankly irresponsible non-consensual tickling activity doesn't seem to attract any criticism from the vanilla public. They just smile tolerantly. Like they would (not) if anyone of us went around sticking their long arms into the open bedroom windows of sleeping tickle victims.
Personally I think he is the stuff of nightmares.
Ironically, I own a coffee mug with his image on it, though not through choice. Some years ago I used to volunteer in a class of 8-year-olds at school and some of them discovered that if they sneaked up on me from behind and gave me a quick tickle I would jump amusingly. Needless to say I did my best to act like tickling was not of the slightest interest to me and of course I never tickled back. Nevertheless when I left that class at the end of the term, the teacher, bless her, gave me a gift from the class - that "Mr Tickle" mug. If only they had known...My parents saw it once at the back of my kitchen cupboard when they came visiting, and I had to explain it nonchalantly. I never, ever use it.
I am guessing that everybody knows this character?
