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Elite Baiter Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 1693

This must be madness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7860869.stm

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A digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues".

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including Humpty Dumpty's serious head injury.

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:19 am

Not as bad as here a few years ago, *The Little Red Hen* story was pulled from libraries and playschool/kindergartens/ because it didn't teach children to share

Socialistic sock and sandal wearing PC freaks

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:33 am

Did you hear the latest one?

What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor? has been modified to What shall we do with the Grumpy Pirate?

I think we may know where Shiver has been hiding out. Shocked

Playschool (that's Kindergarten for US bods).

LOL!

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

^That's what this one is?^

Words can't describe the sheer amount of /facepalm needed here. (EDIT:- the /facepalm is for the story, not about you Trixi

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:47 am

I'm not making this up - seriously!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7860869.stm

Edit :Bugger didn't follow link on original post. Oops! Just read quotes and have realised that it's the same link. Surprised that "Grumpy Pirate" didn't make anyone else react though. Hey Ho.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

No seriously, that's the same link and story as the OP.

EDIT: Also, the little red hen is all about sharing. You share the workload and then share the profit. That's the moral isn't it? Don't be so damn lazy, help the chick out and you might get a "reward".

EDIT 2: grumpy pirate made me react with a /facepalm.

EDIT 3: When did it become 4:00am? Grr, I have an early morning too. Sleep time.

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:52 am

Bit slow me. But I got there in the end. It is 3:53 AM here so I think I should be excused for being temporarily Blonde.

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:02 am

@New, I doubt even Picard can fulfil it.

Playschool in Australia is hilarious. Instead of PCness' they have political satire. Quite a few years ago the former PM John Howard complained about the "two mothers' wooden spoon family. So Playschool did this family:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-_Zk36b99g&feature=related

Edit: Go to bed, Trixi. Laughing

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:55 am

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While new terms have been agreed upon, Nine drew the line at increasing Humphrey’s clothing allowance for pants to match his vest.

i wonder when the national parks and wild life are going to start putting pants on all the bears in the woods Laughing

If you go out in the woods today your in for a big surprise :yikes:

dady whats that ? dont look johny there R rated photo,s of Winnie the Pooh.s big cousin

http://www.humphreybbear.com/popup_album7.html

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

Not about nursery rhymes, but apparently it isn't a blackboard anymore, it's a chalkboard. A whiteboard isn't called a pen board though.

I'm sure my opinion on such things has been stated on many occasions, but it'll do no harm to say it again. Those PC, liberal, everyone is equal, socialist bastards should shut up and climb into their nuclear bunkers.

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:31 pm

^^ Reading craig is like listening to his avatar. Very Happy

Are they the same person in RL?

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

^Nah
not unless they've moved Chipping Norton

Craig is probably od- ing on Frankie Boyle dvds

Oh you see how Asda now has warning labels " may contain milk"
on its MILK!!

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:17 pm

Newdonym wrote:

Words can't describe the sheer amount of /facepalm needed here.

How 'bout this little guy?:

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:37 am

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*The Little Red Hen* story was pulled from libraries and playschool/kindergartens/ because it didn't teach children to share

Ahh.....That was one of my favorite stories as a child. But we're not supposed to teach our children to 'share' responsibility are we!

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Not about nursery rhymes, but apparently it isn't a blackboard anymore, it's a chalkboard.

Of course! Sometime around the 60's or 70's, a popular series of books called The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew (in the U.S) yielded to PC'ness and removed the extremely offensive words 'dark and swarthy looking' from the text. The reason? It was stereotyping the 'bad guys'. And then there's Little Black Sambo..... And then there's......

oh wait, never mind. Just got a paper cut at work and have to call my attorney.

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:18 am

In the late 50s or early 60s, Stan Freberg did a skit on his radio show called "Elderly Man River." It's hilarious.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

I'm not OD'ING on anything, it just so happens that these famous and highly intelligent people happen to relfect my own opinions!

Dairy MILK chocolate also has that warning, which is ridiculous because there are two glasses of milk on the wrapper art!

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

Soya milk isn't dairy. /devils advocate.

Master Baiter Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 236

Nanny Ogg wrote:

Oh you see how Asda now has warning labels " may contain milk"
on its MILK!!

...

This is nearly as bad the sea-kittens, for breaking my brain.

Who honestly needs warned that milk has milk in it?

Really?

Anyone?

I think I'm going to go and hide now, because world implosion has to be close.

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:50 am

I with you MeridianAlicante.
I would like to know What does not give you cancer.

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:57 pm

Reaper wrote:

Edit: Go to bed, Trixi. Laughing

I did but you weren't there so I got up again.
LOL_sign

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:16 pm

well im still up for tricks trix,s Wink

you trixi

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:19 pm

It's a long line and not everyone makes it to the front.
Of course some have a special pass which mean they don't have to wait at all. But you'll have to do something fairly spectacular to get one of those. Like send someone to Abeche for instance.

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:23 pm

work in progress as we speak. i am typing on the shuttle flight to arrange Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:27 pm

Ho hum, this isn't the post whore thread, you'll find that somewhere else. If we're all done railing about political correctness, which is where we started, this thread has served its purpose, ie wound up craig007. Laughing