Whilst learning how to handle a fire extinguisher today and blasting a carpark tarmac with water and C02 more importanly I gleaned from my colleagues that...
Baa baa rainbow sheep have you any wool, yes (person of a certain gender, yes person of a certain gender) 3 bags full is the new nursey rhyme children must adhere to.
Children aren't allowed to sing about Baa baa Black sheep or gingerbread men- now we must say gingerbread people. Please can I have a gingerbread person to take-away!
Also noddy and big ears aren't allowed to share a bed and all the scenes of Tom & Jerry where they are smoking have been cut...I can't remember them smoking.. but it's ok for them to hit one another on the head with frying pan!!!..anyway the fire fighter said he certainly didn't take up smoking when he was a youth because he'd watched a cartoon... but I was always nifty with a pan!!
I think if we survived Rainbow the TV show we'll be alright :>)
Seems Political Correctness is the vogue of the day.
What will be next?
Monday, October 23, 2006
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Don't even get me started on this... Recently many schools here decided there would be no celebrating a child's birthday in the classroom, as it made the other kiddies feel bad.
Pleeease!!!!
What will be next? A new law requiring children to wear blinkers and a nose-peg in the street in case they see anybody smoking and become permanently traumatised.
Gingerbread people? You've got to be kidding!
I certainly think that some rhymes needed to be updated or removed, but these examples seem crazy! What on earth is wrong with a sheep producing black wool? Is that racist? I don't get it. I also heard some kids saying "All the king's horses and all the king's men, PUT Humpty together again". Oh for fuck's sake, I was a sensitive kid and even I wasn't traumatized by an egg remaining in pieces.
I wish I was kidding Torn :>)
and Snooze as sensitive as I still am I think even I can cope with Humpty in pieces too- nice for you all to drop by.
No No Naughty Wislon. If you'd come to me first, you'd have heard the truth.
No-one has banned "Ba! Ba! Backsheep!". What happened was a teacher in one school decided to sing about different coloured sheep (including rainbow sheep) but they were still singing black sheep.
And one firm of confectionaries shipped out an order of Ginger Bread men and ginger bread women under the title of "Ginger Bread People" because it was less effort than calling them "Ginger Bread Men and Ginger Bread women"
You've been reading the Daily Express again haven't you.
Sorry Cavy will make sure I listen to a reliable source such as your good self next time :>)
better hide all of those Daily Expresses!!!
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