ba ba rainbow sheep?

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well then, we better have have the 'rainbow forest in germany' and a horse called 'rainbow beauty' oh, and rainbow pudding.


Yes, that's better, must remember to change my sirname to rainbowburn (after the town of the same name obviously)

Don Minquez

WTF?

fat buddha

my sentiment entirely

WTF??

[Deleted User]

I'd heard 'Baa Baa Green Sheep' was already in use in some schools / nurseries. Which is just plain weird. Green sheep would be wildly impractical, and very difficult for the farmers to spot from a distance.

fat buddha

ah - I see now........political correctness and all that bollox......

Don Minquez

Ooooh ar!

I bet you can't even buy Black Jacks anymore... tut.

[Deleted User]

Ah, 'tis an old one. My daughter was taught to sing "Baa baa woolly sheep" at nursery school 12 years ago.

[Deleted User]

But that's daft. It's clear that a woolly sheep has some wool. You woldn't need to ask the question.

XFR Bear

I'd have thought it was a daft question anyway - talking to a sheep for a start, but surely you can tell just from looking if its fleece is long enough to produce wool?

can't see what's wrong with saying "baa baa black sheep" - black's a perfectly valid word in its own right without any racial connotations

Don Minquez

I bet you can call a sheep white.

[Deleted User]

How can you be the black sheep of the family if you are green?



Yours Confused of Brighton

PirateATOM

is a green sheep more environmentally aware

[Deleted User]

Maybe the issue is that it portrays the 'black' sheep as being subservient to the 'master'.

Or maybe whoever decided to change the words needs to take a short holiday in reality.

[Deleted User]

I started seeing the thought police hiding round every corner when my daughter spontaneously sang "Baa baa black sheep, have you any bananas?"

[Deleted User]

She also learned "Four and twenty jackdaws baked in a pie."

Don Minquez

[bites lip]

[Deleted User]

DM - don't bite too hard. You'll hurt yourself.

Nessie

[thumps head on desk]

[Deleted User]

Out of interest, which paper was this in? The Mail?

PirateATOM

It's on Annanova

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SoVery

think it was The Mail, just heard it on tv report as i was leaving for work.

Ye Olde Dragon

I would have thought that it was the 'little boy who lives down the lane', was the one being marganilised here!

The black sheep has the power, because it has something that everyone wants!

I mean, why was that little boy confined to 'down the lane', what had he done?





........in all seriousness, this changing traditional rhymes in the name of Political Correctness is the world gone mad. Besides, is it not giving the youngsters messages that there may be something wrong with 'Black' if we are avoiding even mentioning it?

XFR Bear

as one of my former students (who incidentally was black) said "why not call it a blackboard - it's black isn't it?"

he thought all this PC stuff was complete bollox

Bunbury

Well quite. There are black people, there are black boards and there are black sheep. There are also black berries and black currants. Surely deciding that 'black sheep' may cause offence, thus suggesting that black people ought to consider themselves comparable to sheep, is the biggest insult of all?

popsider

Rainbow sheep sounds nicer than black sheep though. Imagine it, a lovely rainbow coloured sheep - no wonder people would want its wool.

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It's a rhyme, there's deliberate illiteration and if you change it to rainbow, it just sounds cr*p.

FFS, are kids going to be growing up thinking that there are rainbow sheep in the field? What colour are sheep naturally? Brown, white & black.



Grrrr, I hate this political correctness b*llox.

XFR Bear

you could call it a blue sheep and keep the alliteration, but you still don't get blue sheep.

Unless maybe it was punk?

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Imagine it, a lovely rainbow coloured sheep - no wonder people would want its wool.

Popsider... step away from the pipe now...

;o)

Jj

an awful lot of this so-called "PC gone mad" stuff is actually urban legend. There was one recently that tried to make us believe we couldn't use the term "brainstorm" in deference to loonies*.
Utter piffle with no foundation.


































*shameless and deliberate, yes.

XFR Bear

Rainbow coloured sheep?

The "brainstorm" re "loonies" may have been a made-up example, but there has been a rumpus about it with regard to peeps with epilepsy. Or more to the point - people worried about offending them.

One of the leading Epilepsy organisation in the country did a survey of peeps with epilepsy and the vast majority thought it was PC gone mad.

Another example of where the peeps who are supposed to be offended don't actually mind in the slightest.

Voods

Actually, you do already get Rainbow Coloured Sheep - but only in tupping season!

We've just had this very same conversation. Apparently, Rams are made to wear this special rucksack type garment which is filled with special sheep dye. When the Ram mounts a Ewe, the rucksack deposits some of the dye on the Ewe's back, therefore producing Rainbow Colour Sheep, and a few weeks later, little lambs )