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Offline Flipside

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Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
on: January 30, 2009, 04:16:06 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7860869.stm

What shall we do with the Grumpy Pirate?!?!?!?!

What.The.****?

Words cannot describe the morons who thought this up.....
  

Offline Hellstryker

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #1 on: January 30, 2009, 04:28:24 pm
 :wtf:
 

Offline portej05

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #2 on: January 30, 2009, 04:40:25 pm
Wow.

On a totally unrelated note, while I can remember my parents reading some of these when I was a bit younger, I better remember reading Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes at a slightly later age (maybe 9,10?). Here's one I can remember from then (I don't know why, but this one has stuck with me a while!):

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I had a little nut tree
Nothing would it bear
I looked in all its branches
But not a nut was there
I asked 'O little Tree
just give me a few'
The little tree looked down at me
and said 'Nuts to you'
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Offline Snail

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #3 on: January 30, 2009, 04:49:02 pm
Quote from: portej05 on January 30, 2009, 04:40:25 pm
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I had a little nut tree
Nothing would it bear
I looked in all its branches
But not a nut was there
I asked 'O little Tree
just give me a few'
The little tree looked down at me
and said 'Nuts to you'
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Offline Angelus

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #4 on: January 30, 2009, 04:50:33 pm
Quote from: Flipside on January 30, 2009, 04:16:06 pm

Words cannot describe the morons who thought this up.....

Yep.


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However, a study in 2004 showed that nursery rhymes exposed children to far more violent incidents than an average evening watching television - including Humpty Dumpty's serious head injury.

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« Last Edit: January 30, 2009, 04:53:41 pm by Angelus »
 

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #5 on: January 30, 2009, 05:02:25 pm
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Last year, a story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale was turned down by a government agency's awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims.

Let me guess. No one actually thought to ask a Muslim if this was actually offensive but simply assumed since they can't eat pork that they might be offended. :rolleyes:
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Offline iamzack

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #6 on: January 30, 2009, 07:52:05 pm
People need to be offended. Eventually, some of them might question why they are so mad over something so completely ****ing infantile.
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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #7 on: January 30, 2009, 08:00:23 pm
I Give this a 5 Star Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! rating...

I mean seriously...whoever is behind this ought to be disposed of in every manner dicribed in nursury rhymes
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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #8 on: January 30, 2009, 08:40:58 pm
So let me get this straight...

A mention of sailor in inebriated state is not acceptable for a nursery rhyme, but instead a bad-tempered pirate is acceptable?

They leave a sailor - which is a very honorable profession in the end of the day - on the shore and replace him with a pirate? A person whose profession mainly consists of plundering, pillaging and ravaging (aside from sailing)?

What insanity motivates these people I shall probably never find out, and that's likely a good thing... :blah:


EDIT: It's not even a nursery rhyme to begin with. It's a sea shanty. :wtf:
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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #9 on: January 30, 2009, 09:51:50 pm
Children around here (in my part of the US) are no longer sitting "Indian Style", or with their legs crossed.  They are now sitting "Criss-Cross Apple Sauce"
 

Offline Dark Hunter

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #10 on: January 30, 2009, 09:59:50 pm
"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?" -DEATH, Discworld
 

Offline Dilmah G

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #11 on: January 30, 2009, 10:40:39 pm
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Manhole covers being renamed "Personnel Access Units" to avoid offending women.

 :lol:

Seriously :wtf: grow some balls. Some people really need to swallow some cement and 'Harden the **** up' if nothing else does it for them. There was also some talk over here a few years ago about not commemorating 'ANZAC Day' (day named after the 'Australian New Zealand Army Corps, a force who got slaughtered by the numbers in WW1 over in Turkey, but represented the first time Aus went to war) in schools because it may 'Offend Turkish Students'. When a country's national holidays are at stake over P.C. something is seriously wrong with the people suggesting it.
 

Offline S-99

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #12 on: January 31, 2009, 01:09:37 am
hmm restricting holidays as not to offend people is way extreme. That'd be like over here in america if people were to ban veterans day as to not offend the many nationalities of people living here that my country warred with in the past.

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Manhole covers being renamed "Personnel Access Units" to avoid offending women.
They think of everything :lol:
« Last Edit: January 31, 2009, 01:13:27 am by S-99 »
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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #13 on: January 31, 2009, 01:36:11 am
Quote from: S-99 on January 31, 2009, 01:09:37 am
Quote from: Political Correctness gone mad
Manhole covers being renamed "Personnel Access Units" to avoid offending women.
They think of everything :lol:

Too true  :lol:
 

Offline S-99

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #14 on: January 31, 2009, 01:43:35 am
"Personnel Access Units" sounds wrong though when you think about it in the context of offending women.
Every pilot's goal is to rise up in the ranks and go beyond their purpose to a place of command on a very big ship. Like the colossus; to baseball bat everyone.

SMBFD

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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #15 on: January 31, 2009, 01:57:38 am
Quote from: S-99 on January 31, 2009, 01:43:35 am
"Personnel Access Units" sounds wrong though when you think about it in the context of offending women.

  ;) , if anything, they just made it sound worse.

Now women aren't manholes, they're Personal Access Units  :lol:

I have no idea why the feminists haven't been all over that one yet
 

Offline S-99

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #16 on: January 31, 2009, 02:01:00 am
Personally i wouldn't have ever seen manhole covers being retermed due to not offend the female populace. Manhole would seem to be more of a prison slang with manhole cover along with it.
Every pilot's goal is to rise up in the ranks and go beyond their purpose to a place of command on a very big ship. Like the colossus; to baseball bat everyone.

SMBFD

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Offline Davros

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Re: Nursery Rhyme abuse - again
Reply #17 on: January 31, 2009, 09:26:31 am
little jack horner
sat in the corner
cos he had a square ass
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