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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2073043,00.html

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"teachers at the nurseries have reportedly also changed the ending of Humpty Dumpty"

He doesn't fall and has tea with the king...and they all lived happily ever after

the end... (of common sense)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2073043,00.html
Sigh. The real question here is "just how long are the rest of us going to put up with this sort of nonsense?"

This is the only thing I have ever agreed with the Daily Mail on (They started a campaign on this in the middle of the week)

Black sheep to rainbow sheep? Racism to homophobia? Makes no sense.
Totally agree with this person:
"It’s the sort of thing that people continually do nowadays — it’s become something of a curse,” he said. “Why do people waste time and money doing this sort of thing when there are far more important things to think about when it comes to educating our children?”

This is assinine. I can't think of a more apt description.

Rainbow sheep? :mad:

:upyours:

I have done a lot of hiking all over the UK, and I have seen a lot of black sheep. And brown ones. Especially in Yorkshire. Never, in my life, have I ever seen a rainbow sheep. FFS. It doesn't even fit the beat.

I don't know where people even get these ideas from. Who sings 'baa baa black sheep' and thinks "gosh! That's racist!"

You get black sheep...is the word 'black' now politically incorrect? I have a black jumper, must I refer to it as a 'rainbow' jumper now?

They tried this before, and it was dropped when black parents called it ludicrous. It really is astonishing that people waste time and money on something so pointless.

Seriously, we should all write to our political representatives and tell them to get their heads in gear and at least get one little thing right. Political correctness is fine, if you're just doing it on an individual level to be polite. But when it has become so enshrined in our system that quite intelligent people are changing their language out of fear, we have discovered a threat to our very culture.

Do we want our children so twisted up that every word they speak is banned for racial connotations? How long before 'grey' and 'dull' are banned from the language due to the negative way it portrays old people? How the hell will we describe British weather?

While we're at it, let's repaint the black chess side in rainbow colours and stop coin-tossing for the 'white moves first' rule. :rolleyes: It's clearly racist.

How the hell will we describe British weather?
'Perfect.' I like the rain. :p

While we're at it, let's repaint the black chess side in rainbow colours and stop coin-tossing for the 'white moves first' rule. :rolleyes: It's clearly racist.

The world if political correctness had it's way:

"Check out my new African-American Porsche!"

"My uncle breeds African-American rabbits."

"I got that new PS2 shooter, African-American!"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
This is just dumb.

Now they are makeing fun of Gay sheep

I'll accept this when I see a sheep naturally grow a fleece that a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet*does mnomic thing, good didnt forget any*. Until then it's a black sheep.

And what on earth is wrong with Humpty Dumpty? It clearly teaches kids that faling off walls is bad.

I lost all faith in humanity when Little Bunny Foo-Foo started kissing field mice on the head.

However, this is not something I have to worry about. In America, it'll always be black sheep.

The world if political correctness had it's way:

"Check out my new African-American Porsche!"

"My uncle breeds African-American rabbits."

"I got that new PS2 shooter, African-American!"

I get your point, but America is not the world. Would be rather silly to start referring to French people of African descent as "African-American", now wouldn't it?

Anyway one remember when Galaxy or some such company pulled an ad that used the words 'Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe". I was blissful ignorant of that rhyme. I'd always thought the original word that was used was Tiger.

I'd always thought the original word that was used was Tiger.
"Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, catch the tiger by the toe"? That's how I know it.

"Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, catch the tiger by the toe"? That's how I know it.Indeed, as did I. Now what racist word kinda rhymes with 'tiger' or at least ends in the same three letters?

Ignorance was bliss. Those damn politcally correct black minorties group that got the ad removed. I never would have known if it hadn't been for them.

To be fair to Labour, this was in no manner a politically correct move compelled by their government, however it remains risable.

Bah Bah Rainbow Sheep:rolleyes:

However, what they make of "ennie meenie miny mo", with either a ****** or mouse, will be interesting.;)

"Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, catch the tiger by the toe"? That's how I know it.
That's how I learned it too, but I was told by some racist aquaintances that I knew in my teen years that it's "catch a ****** by the toe".

That's how I learned it too, but I was told by some racist aquaintances that I knew in my teen years that it's "catch a ****** by the toe".

I heard that one too, but I never got it until long after I was told not to say it.