It's time to vent your anger again

[Oneeyedvic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7860869.s tm

"Drunken sailors" have been removed from the lyrics of a nursery rhyme in a government-funded books project."

What shall we do with the grumpy pirate?
What shall we do with the grumpy pirate?
What shall we do with the grumpy pirate?
Early in the morning

Hooray and up she rises
Hooray and up she rises
Hooray and up she rises
Early in the morning

Do a little jig and make him smile
Do a little jig and make him smile
Do a little jig and make him smile
Early in the morning

[craft1948]

I just give up.............pathetic!!!

[jake-the-peg]

Oh lets trot out the pantomime villains again and see who's the first to shout

"PC Brigade"

We can't have them messing with the classics can we?

[Gormless]

I'm with them on this one, the sailors might have been Black or Minority Ethnic, but a pirate can only possibly be white. Unless off the coast of Somalia. Isn't life complicated?

[China Doll]

Am I the only person now humming this in an annoying fashion to my collegues?

[DrFilth]

you have to laugh , they have started selling beer at 1pence a pint

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[R1Geezer]

what about "enee menee minee mo" then? The kids have got the words wrong these days! something about cathing a pig by it's toe!

[saxy_jag]

They are sooooo behind the times.

This little booklet first came out in October, for National Bookstart Day, which took the theme of Pirates. The National Bookstart scheme, for those of you who aren't aware, is aimed at introducing a love books to under fives.

If playgroup leaders had gone out there teaching kids to find humour and fun in the antics of drunks, then they'd have had complaints from the other end, viz, a vocal minority of anal retentive parents.

Sometimes, you can't do right for doing wrong.

[naomi24]

^^ What he said.

This makes interesting reading.

http://www.capc.co.uk/ridiculous_political_cor rectness.htm

[beso]

Intoxicated sailor (perfectly normal socially acceptable professional) replaced with a pirate (antisocial criminal). How is this more politically correct?

I have long wondered at the way pirates are portrayed in literature and movies. Much better our children become pirates than sailors or course.

Why not grumpy sailor if they don't like the drunken bit. What is it about sailors that is so undesirable?

[anotheoldgit]

Since the matter of the pirates in Somalia has been brought up.

Watching them hack open the container that held the ransom, and then escaping in their open boat, got me thinking.

Why couldn't these tankers have a weapon of a fair sized caliber hidden away? It could then be brought out when the pirates vessel was well away from the ship, and then used to blast them out of the water.

The ransom would be lost of course but it is lost anyway, but at least the pirates will have received their just deserts.

[madmondeo]

what have they done with baa baa black sheep ?? anyone know ?