"PC gone mad" Myths and truths
 

So what is true and what is not in this crazy world? :suspect:

Has anyone heard you can't sing Ba Ba Blacksheep anymore? Or that they switched blackboards to whiteboards as so not to offend?


Most seem to originate from a ridiculous facebook post and goes from there. Or the Daily Mail or course. Which ones have you heard and do you believe any?

Or the one where you Can't say Happy Christmas anymore, you have to say Happy Holiday instead :laugh:

PC Gone Mad , sadly.

The whiteboard thing is true.

Latest I've heard is that they're revamping old children's stories. "Billy Goat Gruff" with the troll under the bridge is too aggressive, Rumpelstiltskin is about kidnap and execution so that's going to be abolished.

Also Goldilocks promotes theft and trespassing as well as Snow White being sexist.

#gonetothedogs

Can't say Spotted dick anymore as it's offensive to acne sufferers and people named Richard

Lol, when I read the thread title, Joe, I had a vision of your computer actually going mad, when I read pc....:D

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Ba Ba Blacksheep one is true. It was banned at my little brother's school.

They changed it to "Ba ba white sheep put the light on" or something. Which is double standards imo. If you're going to go all PC on one colour of skin then you can't just use the other.

I Love Spotted Dick

http://spotteddick.net/spotted-dick-with-custard.jpg

I think most of the kids stories started off quite brutal and have gradually been watered down over the years.

The babaa blacksheep one is true Im pretty sure. Gavs daughter learnt it at school, and it is rainbow sheep that she sings :suspect:

ba ba..rainbowrsheep

not having that! :shocked:

The blackboard one especially, is absolutely insane :bored:

Yip, my daughter came home from nursery singing Baa Baa Rainbowsheep! It's ****ing ridiculous! I taught her the correct words.

they could of at least made it something that fits with the syllables, christ

Exactly Nathan! Although the fact that its been changed at all makes me mad!

I was with Year 1s for work experience couple of weeks ago and they sung black sheep so it hasn't hit everywhere yet

I've just asked both my kids about it... they both say that they sang "black" and "rainbow" in nursery :conf:

I wonder if this is mainly in town schools.....we don't have any of these restrictions in our village schools...ba ba has always been a black sheep and still is

..there was probably two different sheep

don't really know if it fits, but i remember last year someone tired to call out one of my professors for using the word *****rdly. she didn't even know what it meant lol

Just doesn't work :bored: I feel sorry for the kids

...but there's still a black sheep, did you say?

Does anyone remember these shops? Pretty apparent why they no longer exist

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Can hardly find anything on google about them either

What's actually the supposed problem with Baa Baa Black Sheep, I have heard it's about slavery but I don't think it is :suspect: I think most of these stories are exaggerated anyway, I doubt it's the norm for it to be changed to Rainbow sheep now, or for the word "blackboard" not to be used, if they do get called whiteboards it's probably because they're used more these days instead of the old chalk on blackboard