Trigger Warning :Hickory Dickory Dock for kids
 

[Hickory Dickory Dock has been given
a trigger warning after almost
300 years — as a cat chases a mouse]


Utter Madness


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/355207...igger-warning/

Utterly beyond ridiculous

This is one performance in one theatre, where they've said there is a tense scene where a cat chases a mouse. It's not news and not worth getting annoyed over :laugh:

Grrrrrrrrrrr :laugh:

It was in a newspaper

Is a cat even mentioned in the original nursery rhyme?

I was thinking this. A cat isn’t mentioned at all,

Hickory dickory dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory dickory dock.

So are crosswords.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/...6403.jpg?w=940

I dont think it relates to the rhyme but there is a terrifying cat in the show no doubt a person of pink and or blue hair decided it was time to warn the bairns

:joker:

Sorry but you must have the saddest and most uneventful life imaginable if you get up in arms over one theatre production putting a warning out for sensitive toddlers. :joker:

…no it was more purrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I think…

Kitterally

The Nurse needs to make sure that these people that abuse trigger warnings stay on their medication.

Even one show is one too many.

But why? This isn’t some Government-led conspiracy that they’re implementing through the back door. This is a private decision made by a private company to warn that kids under 3 might be scared of a cat chasing a mouse.

Nobody is being forced to attend, nobody is even being asked to take it seriously, it changes nothing. It’s okay to say it’s silly, but it’s ridiculous to call it news and pretend like it’s this big deal that that signals the downfall of society.

It’s just one company giving a warning to their very few attendees for one play. Why are we not okay about a small independent theatre company in some town making a private decision about how they market their own play, regardless of how silly it seems.

Articles like this are designed to outrage people who want to be offended over every little thing.

They’re playing you, they’re creating a division based on nothing, and you’re playing into their hands.

…there isn’t even any type of trigger warning on the company’s website, there is nothing but reviews from parents who have taken their children to see the production…I have no idea what the article is referring to but as BBXX says, it definitely feels as though the theatre company aren't the only people ‘putting in a show’….these things are so much cultivated by media to create outrage and divide…

"but it’s ridiculous to call it news and pretend like it’s this big deal that that signals the downfall of society."

the only person doing that is you

everyone else is laughing at it

wasn't grrrrrrrr more likely to be tigre :nono:

To me it's simple.

Trigger warnings should be there for more adult material, not Hickory Dickory Dock.

You don't see children being scared of similar stories like Tom & Jerry for example.

So they're not putting up a trigger warning?

If so then BBXX was correct, and the Media are ****-stirring.

…unless I’m just not looking properly…you see if you can find one, Mock…

https://garlictheatre.org.uk/

Wee Willy Winkie, breathes a sigh of relief.

And little Boy Blue can still blow his horn

I think we should consider this is The Sun. It's a scummy newspaper who run a campaign called 'Wokeapedia' in a big to rile up people who get het up about the smallest thing. It belongs in the bin.

I can't see anything about it on there personally.

Fair point.

The Sun are awful.

…it’s one of those trigger warnings that are challenging to find…like a Where’s Wally of trigger warnings…?…

Exactly.:laugh:

…I think the thing is, which is sadly more the way atm …it’s not about fair points or any points at all, it’s all about reaction and apealing to outrage type reactions…

…according to wiki, the rhyme began as Hickere Dickere Dock and changed to Hickory Dickory around 1765…darn 1765 wokism and trigger-ness, it was a nightmare at that time…I should know, I was there…

Its not just kids shows!

Treated like a snowflake!' University slaps woke trigger warnings on
Shakespeare plays for 'storms' and 'depiction of magic' :laugh:

A University has added trigger warnings on Willian Shakespeare’s works,
including for “extreme weather” and “popping balloons”.

A total of 220 warnings were added to his works, as well as famous
adaptations from the BBC, ITV, and theatrical versions.

The University of the West of England (UWE) told drama students that TV
adaptations of Macbeth referenced “war” and “psychological distress”.

For The Tempest, viewers were warned there may be “extreme weather” and
“depiction of magic.”

https://www.gbnews.com/media-library...500&quality=90

A 2016 stage adaptation was flagged because “popping of balloons” were
involved.

Warnings on The Winter’s Tale include “references to wild animal attack,” due
to it being alluded that a character was killed by a bear.

The same play also warns of “puppetry” and “pregnancy” as potential causes
of distress amongst the audience.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/universi...kespeare-plays

i love ye olde english :laugh:

Of course GB news reported on it. :laugh: They are frothing at the mouth over a silly content warning. :fist: :fist: :fist:

Remember when a group of relgious people burned Harry Potter books because of depiction of magic? People get triggered over all sorts.

You seem to want to add all sorts of hyperbolic language around basic reporting?

Its most odd

Someone who consumes news via GB News should be used to hyperbolic language, I was just trying to make you feel at home.

it's a news item designed to make a specific demographic angry, and it works every time. Making people angry is the best way to get return readers

Indeed look at the BBC :joker: