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Thread ID: 66823 2006-03-08 03:03:00 Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep ... KiwiTT_NZ (233) PC World Chat
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436577 2006-03-08 03:03:00 You have got to be joking. !!! :groan: :help: :annoyed: UK kindergartens bleat about nursery rhyme (www.nzherald.co.nz) because "the original words alienate and offend young black children."

Hope MAPP stops it here.
KiwiTT_NZ (233)
436578 2006-03-08 03:19:00 Don't worry. In a few days the gay advocates will find the term "rainbow" offensive. And we'll probably learn that sheep are holy to some African tribe. So the song will just end up being "Baa Baa Baa Baa" and no-one will want to sing it. imarubberducky (7230)
436579 2006-03-08 03:29:00 It is my understanding that black sheep are a genetic throwback and therefore a discriminated upon minority... therefore deserving of the protection and equal opportunities provided to the white sheep.

We wouldn't want kiddies in kindergarten to think that black sheep are inferior now, would we? :thumbs:
Shortcircuit (1666)
436580 2006-03-08 04:28:00 The black sheep had "three bags full" of wool. Its productivity was far too high. It's the lazy white ones which wanted the black one converted to mutton. Graham L (2)
436581 2006-03-08 10:01:00 Next owners of run-down black cars will have them removed from the road because black drivers might find them offensive and crash...

Mike.
Mike (15)
436582 2006-03-08 12:46:00 I used to own some black sheep.

My farmer feller hated them.
Not because of their colour, but because every single scrap of their wool had to be cleaned from the shearing shed in case it contaminated the majority white wool & lowered its price in the bale.

But spinners & weavers loved them. The fleeces were far more interesting than white - hence individually worth more.
Sadly homespun went out of fashion & my sheep died of old age.

So bring back the fashion & black sheep could rule the world of haute couture.
Then those kindergarten kids - who've probably never seen a sheep - needn't have their nursery rhymes stuffed up by the PC Police.
Laura (43)
436583 2006-03-08 19:56:00 Hmm, first there was Noddy, then there was Christopher Robin, now its Baa baa black sheep???
Do they have nothing better to do over there than whinge about anything that takes there fancy?? What next... Bob the builder because its sexist?? or maybe Postman Pat because his relationship with his cat is just nooooot quite right??

Funny thing, if you ask the whingers, there is nothing wrong with them and they are perfectly normal.. right. But I wonder what their Moms read them when they were kids.... most likely; the same stuff they are trying to ban

Political Correctness... gotta love it NOT
Myth (110)
436584 2006-03-08 20:25:00 Baa Baa minority ethnic ruminator
Have you any biogradeable natural product?
Yes my duly appointed head-of-department
Three bags full.
One for the elected representative of the people,
One for the elderly single lady,
And one for the junior member of our society who lives in the community housing scheme.
KiwiTT_NZ (233)
436585 2006-03-08 20:36:00 I can't remember the origional ba ba black sheep. Greven (91)
436586 2006-03-08 21:13:00 I can't remember the origional ba ba black sheep.Because I'm over political correctness, here is the original version in all its unedited unpolitically correct in-yer-face glory:

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool;
Yes sir yes sir three bags full.
One for the master, and one for the dame;
and one for the little bot who lives down the lane.

Hehehe ... score one for joe blow :D
Myth (110)
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