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2006-09-17 06:28:10 · 25 answers · asked by Bailey P 2 in Entertainment & Music Other - Entertainment

all you people getting serious . I am just pulling your plonker!!! its a JOKE although some people dont undertstand bad humour

2006-09-17 06:33:51 · update #1

just read dedclevers response. oh my god that cannot be serious that you cant say it in class. That is political correctness gone mad!!!

2006-09-17 06:34:55 · update #2

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If baa baa BLACK sheep is a racist, then using the same logic of Political Correctness, we'd conclude that:

>> Instead of Jack & Jill, we'd have Jack & John (bearing in mind the increasing trend & "equal opportunity" for the lovers of same sex)
>> Mary should NO LONGER have a little lamb, since it'd potentially denote the suffering of a "muted animal"
>> Twinkle, Twinkle BIG start, since the "little" could be seen getting picked-up for its "little" size
>> If the London Bridge getting falling down........... Claim the compensation on the construction firm
>> Humpty Dumpty should think about the HEALTH & SAFETY before sitting on the wall

2006-09-17 06:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by j4mes_bond25 2 · 1 0

No Black sheep starts with a b just like baa baa, it is all to silly the way we have to be so careful these days.

I had to laugh at work the other day, I work in a youth hostel and when people leave behind surplus food we put it on the free food shelves, given some people were confused which were and were not the free foods shelves, we got a tin of paint from from the cellar and painted the free food ones a different colour.

By chance the colour of the paint was brown. When I explained to an Asian guest about the food shelves and free food shelves he got a little confused as his english wasn't too good and said "so for people like me, you say we have to use the brown shelves"?

It took me a few seconds to realise that he thought I was being racist! Brown shelves for brown people kind of thing! Thankfully when I explained again more slowly he realised his mistake and felt a bit silly.
People are far too senitive over colour - skin is skin to me.

2006-09-17 13:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by pendlewrenn 2 · 0 1

Oh no. Not this one again. Baa Baa Black Sheep is not racist, and no one has ever seriously claimed it was. The stories about nurseries having to sing "Baa Baa Blue Sheep" were all fabricated by racists seeking to undermine genuine steps towards racial understanding, by ridicule. Dedclever, have you actually been told you shouldn't sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, or is the unease just in your own head.

2006-09-17 13:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

i think this kind of question is an example of the world gone mad...
How can it be racist if its simply copying an old nursery rhyme, which like so many of the old fashioned songs was simply what was going on around them , if you take a look around the English countryside its very common to see little black lambs all over the place as well as white ones, would it be racist if they had called it baa baa white sheep.
I don't think it was intended to be multicultural or racist it simply is what it is, a nursery rhyme from a bygone era.....

I find it very sad that things can't be taken at face value.

2006-09-17 14:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by britchick 3 · 0 1

Neither. A blacksheep is an albino, which contradicts the definition of an albino. Usually albinos lack pigment making them white. I think that the nursery rhyme showed that people believed that a blacksheep had magical powers. A blacksheep would have produced black wool, which would have been very rare.

And I dont see the humor in your joke.

2006-09-17 13:42:15 · answer #5 · answered by the redcuber 6 · 0 1

It's political correctness and do gooders gone mental. Just the same as a shop local to me some months ago being reported for selling 'Gollywogs'. Someone will probably have a moan at me now for mentioning that!!!

2006-09-17 13:38:13 · answer #6 · answered by kaydee 3 · 1 1

My first thought was that you were one of those bleeding-heart liberals who want to give away the family silver. Looks like the joke backfired a bit, so hard luck; it appears we have all been sensitised to political correctness, which is a device which divides and alienates people.

2006-09-17 13:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by ALAN Q 4 · 0 1

It's terrible how the upper class exploited that poor little sheepy by stripping it of it's wool and giving it away to the masses..
Ya know, like WALMART... LOL
Just kidding..
It's a poem, however, there are always those who will find the strangest things in the strangest places..

2006-09-17 13:37:40 · answer #8 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0 1

I'm black, but like most nursery rymes in this country it has nothing to do with race, but i believe it has to do with an accounting system in the victorian age. Most nursery rymes are based on actual events.

2006-09-17 13:43:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

It is a nursery rhyme we were singing this long before immigration issues. What a sad state of affairs!!!!!

2006-09-17 13:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by wizard 2 · 2 0

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