Post by Aulius on Jan 31, 2009 0:01:53 GMT
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I've really have enough of this crap. We grew up with these rhymes like "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and has it made us violent racists? No.
Three little pigs is conceivably offensive to Muslims but these rhymes have been around for generations so why is it now that they should kick up a fuss over these rhymes. This is Britain, those who come to our country should not expect us to change our ways to become like the country that they left which does not share our sense of democracy, equal rights and liberal (by their standards) ideas. Changing rhymes to be something else is stupid, it is historical fact that sailors were given a ration of rum, some abused this and of course were drunk so why change it? Because in this modern day parents are over protective caused by the excessive media attention on dangers to children be it pedophiles or germs. People should grow up being exposed to these things (obviously not directly to pedo's but to have an awareness) because otherwise you will end up with people with no understanding of the dangers the world has and a lack of immunity to illness. I'm going off on a tangent now (kinda cause I'm a little drunk) but still this is getting ridiculous, black sheeps exist, drunken sailors is part of history, Three little pigs teaches us what buildings should be made out of and that wolves are dangerous, and humpty dumpty is just a retard who landed on his while sitting on a high wall (I'm guessing). If these are offensive they can leave this country because its part of our heritage and was good enough for the generations before us.
This was more of a rant but its a little hard to construct stuff when drunk.
I've really have enough of this crap. We grew up with these rhymes like "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and has it made us violent racists? No.
Three little pigs is conceivably offensive to Muslims but these rhymes have been around for generations so why is it now that they should kick up a fuss over these rhymes. This is Britain, those who come to our country should not expect us to change our ways to become like the country that they left which does not share our sense of democracy, equal rights and liberal (by their standards) ideas. Changing rhymes to be something else is stupid, it is historical fact that sailors were given a ration of rum, some abused this and of course were drunk so why change it? Because in this modern day parents are over protective caused by the excessive media attention on dangers to children be it pedophiles or germs. People should grow up being exposed to these things (obviously not directly to pedo's but to have an awareness) because otherwise you will end up with people with no understanding of the dangers the world has and a lack of immunity to illness. I'm going off on a tangent now (kinda cause I'm a little drunk) but still this is getting ridiculous, black sheeps exist, drunken sailors is part of history, Three little pigs teaches us what buildings should be made out of and that wolves are dangerous, and humpty dumpty is just a retard who landed on his while sitting on a high wall (I'm guessing). If these are offensive they can leave this country because its part of our heritage and was good enough for the generations before us.
This was more of a rant but its a little hard to construct stuff when drunk.