Rainbow Sheep to be Taught in British Schools

RyushiBlade on 12/3/2006 at 01:10

The sheep shot the teachers and tried to fly south
Because they were all retarded from hoof and mouth.

Badoom tish.

Ulukai on 12/3/2006 at 01:23

Nursey rhymes aren't supposed to be politically correct. For the most part, they're nasty rhymes based on even nastier truths.

Can't say this surprises me though, it's typical of the kind of cretinous tosh certain elements of British society come out with these days.

RyushiBlade on 12/3/2006 at 01:24

Damn it, Ulukai, you messed up our raptastic song.

Ulukai on 12/3/2006 at 01:26

I think maybe that was a blessing in disguise.

Paz on 12/3/2006 at 01:43

Look you slags, read the thread. This is, as ever, just fabricated bollocks.

GET READY FOR A BIG SHOCK!

ARE YOU READY!

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4782856.stm)

"Pact has established that children sing a variety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme," the charity said in a statement.

"They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc and they also exchange boy and girl at the end of the rhyme.

"This encourages the children to extend their vocabulary and use up some energy."

Well fuck me, it was to do with teaching children about colours all along. HOW UTTERLY SURPRISING.

But we'll continue to get people posting on this thread that IT'S PC GONE MAD OH MAN WHAT WILL THOSE MUSLIMS MAKE US DO NEXT OH FUCK IT'S OUR PRECIOUS HERITAGE AT STAKE. And the poorly researched and 'accidentally' badly reported tabloid stories will continue to appear.

And.

They're.

All.

Fucking.

Lies.

Ulukai on 12/3/2006 at 02:31

Oh come on! Big scary man-size fonts or not, it reeks of a pre-emptive excuse to get over zealous teachers out of an imagined hypothetical shit storm in a teacup no matter what they claim. Never underestimate the ability of PTA meetings to drum up some of the most incredulous non-issues you can imagine*

Unfortunately, we'll never actually know the motive behind the butchering of this particular rhyme.

What I do know is that baa baa rainbow sheep is just...crap. There's no flow to it. The alliteration is lost.

*I'm still bitter because they banned marbles shortly after I won a queenie-dob off Simon whatsisface. "These are eye-size. They're a definite no-no" ¬¬

Jennie&Tim on 12/3/2006 at 05:42

Quote Posted by fett

In his defense, isn't the Times the same paper that had a reporter confess to fabricating stories a few years ago? Yeah, it was only one guy and so on, but fool me once, shame on me...

Are you thinking of the New York Times and the foofoorah about one of their writers perchance?

fett on 12/3/2006 at 06:17

Yeah - so I've got the wrong paper. Carry on. :p

Now look - you've all gone and pissed off Paz. You won't like him when he's angry.

Goblin on 12/3/2006 at 07:29

Quote Posted by Paz

My other point would be that teachers dick around with 'classic' songs all the time.

I'm still scarred from my Grade 1 teacher forcing us to sing the Mary Had A Little Lamb Rap. We're talking 1991 here. What business did schoolteachers have with ebonics in 1991? It's practically mandatory 15 years later, but fuck.

Aja on 12/3/2006 at 07:30

In elementary school our Theme Song was just Laverne and Shirley with new lyrics.

Apparently the music teacher wrote them.