[arista]

Sky News Text :
[Spoilsports" want children banned from
singing What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor
and the words changed to "grumpy pirate",
according to the Daily Star.]






Leave it Alone

[Mystic Mock]

What sad case is campaigning for this change?

Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe this.

[Livia]

Jezuz Christ.. who's going to fight our wars in the future??

[joeysteele]

For sure things have gone really crazy.

[Nicky91]

but Drunken Sailor is a classic, and very funny song

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

Jezuz Christ.. who's going to fight our wars in the future??

You can’t say Jesus Christ ….


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[user104658]

Realistically has any child sung this at all since about 1993.

Originally Posted by Livia

Jezuz Christ.. who's going to fight our wars in the future??

Robots, drones and accountants. Like our current wars. I would think.

[Alf]

And what's the punishment if they do sing it?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zizu

You can’t say Jesus Christ ….


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I can't? Holy Moses!

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

Realistically has any child sung this at all since about 1993.



Robots, drones and accountants. Like our current wars. I would think.

Everyone on front lines in the recent past and currently will be very relieved to hear that.

[MTVN]

Sounds offensive to pirates tbh

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

Everyone on front lines in the recent past and currently will be very relieved to hear that.

Well it's not random conscripted children/young adults, is it, and realistically isn't going to be again. It's going to be tech and professional soldiers. If the argument is that there will be fewer people who want to become professional soldiers, or that they'll be less effective soldiers than previous generations, because they didn't sing certain children's songs... well, that's another debate but I can't see much of a strong argument behind it.

"That mission wouldn't have failed, goddamnitt, if only Jim had sung about drunken sailors instead of angry pirates!!"

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Alf

And what's the punishment if they do sing it?

Hopefully the adult will get whipped by Susan Boyle in a Dominatrix outfit.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Get whipped by Susan Boyle in a Dominatrix outfit.

Potentially engage brain before posting Mock - we're talking about primary school children and you don't want the old bill coming round to rifle through your hard drive.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The lyrics are woke mind virus nightmare!

What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Put him in a long boat till his sober
Put him in a long boat till his sober
Put him in a long boat till his sober
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Put him in the bed with the captains daughter
Put him in the bed with the captains daughter
Put him in the bed with the captains daughter
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

Well it's not random conscripted children/young adults, is it, and realistically isn't going to be again. It's going to be tech and professional soldiers. If the argument is that there will be fewer people who want to become professional soldiers, or that they'll be less effective soldiers than previous generations, because they didn't sing certain children's songs... well, that's another debate but I can't see much of a strong argument behind it.

"That mission wouldn't have failed, goddamnitt, if only Jim had sung about drunken sailors instead of angry pirates!!"

What the hell are you rambling about?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

What the hell are you rambling about?

The fairly obvious fact that changing a children's song lyric from drunken sailor to angry pirates is not going to result in a generation of soft-soldiers who can't fight wars .

[Jessica.]

What's the harm in changing it to something more appropriate and relatable to kids? Using the word "ban" is an exaggeration too, obviously they just want to encourage the use of an alternative version, nobody is enforcing a full on ban of the words to a children's song.

[Beso]

Hosepipe bottom sounds like one of those labels Ali has for everything.

[user104658]

I think we should change it to "What shall we do with the whinging boomer" and watch an implosion

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I think we should change it to "What shall we do with the whinging boomer" and watch an implosion

Why?

They ain't the ones whinging about it needing changed!

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I think we should change it to "What shall we do with the whinging boomer" and watch an implosion

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Beso

Why?

They ain't the ones whinging about it needing changed!

But they sure are whinging about it being changed. And it would be funny.

Wasn't there a similar "incident" a few years ago with another kid's song?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

Well it's not random conscripted children/young adults, is it, and realistically isn't going to be again. It's going to be tech and professional soldiers. If the argument is that there will be fewer people who want to become professional soldiers, or that they'll be less effective soldiers than previous generations, because they didn't sing certain children's songs... well, that's another debate but I can't see much of a strong argument behind it.

"That mission wouldn't have failed, goddamnitt, if only Jim had sung about drunken sailors instead of angry pirates!!"

Well that's exactly what's happening in a major European war right now

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

The fairly obvious fact that changing a children's song lyric from drunken sailor to angry pirates is not going to result in a generation of soft-soldiers who can't fight wars .

You're such a literalist when it suits you.