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English: I'm a Paddington Bear fan. I found this picture on the internet at the blog called "Drink-soaked Trotskyite popinjays for War" (see here). I thought it really belonged on Flickr.

By the way I think more people need to be like Paddington. Michael Bond, the creator of Paddington, has this to say about Paddington and the Paddingtonian virtues:

"“Paddington to me is very real. I have a great belief in his character — if I saw him walking down the street, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. I think people like him because he is kind and polite; he embodies the old-fashioned virtues that people envy these days. He is based not on me but on my father, who had a very strong sense of right and wrong. He always wore a hat so that if somebody came along he’d have something to raise.

“Paddington is essentially a refugee who has made his own way and come out on top. He is a little man up against life’s problems. He gets himself into trouble but always gets himself out of it again. "