I wasn't always like this...: You're Shitting Me...

Monday, March 13, 2006

You're Shitting Me...

I couldn't help myself.

I tried to shut my eyes, close my ears, not pay attention... And honestly, I swear to you, I try not to get too worked up over stupid things, stuff I really have no control over, or retarded crap that makes me shake my head and wonder who it is I share this planet with...

However, **this** story made me just a bit crazy today and I need to say...

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

Comments:

No kidding...

Rainbow sheep? Since they're being so 'PC' wouldn't they worry that "Rainbow" might offend gay and lesbian groups?

::rolls eyes::

RIDICULOUS.

# posted by

RisibleGirl : 11:34 AM

Even more than the black sheep thing (which is incredibly stupid), I'm bothered by changing the end of Humpty Dumpty. Isn't it odd that, the scarier and more uncertain the world becomes, the more we try to insulate our children from every last bit of unpleasantness? And then we wonder why, when we open the bubble at 18, they can't cope at all with the real world.

My daughter is 5, and while I certainly try to shield her from anything horribly graphic, she does understand two things that I think are very important:

1. All living things eventually die.

2. Sometimes this happens because one living thing is killed by another living thing.

I understand the desire to keep our kids innocent, but there's adifference between preserving their innocence and letting them grow up naive.

# posted by

Chris : 11:36 AM

I don't know that I want to read about gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered sheep.

And I most certainly don't care if Humpty fell over and cracked his ass either. *snort*

Have you read Mamacita's latest post about changing literature? It's a good one.

# posted by

Chicka : 11:39 AM

Sadly enough, it's true. We actually have a whole book of 'politically correct' nursery rhymes at the preschool where I work. Yes, somebody took the time to rewrite them all. I think it's ridiculous and petty.

# posted by

Jen : 12:35 PM

Yet one more sign that the apocolypse is upon us...

# posted by

The Dung Beetle : 1:03 PM

I think that is total bullshit. People need to just get the fuck over them selves and get along.

end of rant.

# posted by

Burfica : 1:50 PM

I tried to sing it (and gawd only knows that's a bad thing first vocal of the day...) and all I have to say is this...

SICK FUCKERS!

# posted by

BTude a.k.a. GlassHoppah : 2:34 PM

"Snow White and the Seven Little Mythical Mine Workers" just doesn't do it for me either.

How about "Little Neutral Riding Apparel?" "Jack and the Vegetable Stalk?" "Winnie the Dump?" (now that one gives real meaning to his Honey Pot!)

# posted by

D Brooks : 2:42 PM

I loved the commenter (Chris) who said this "Isn't it odd that, the scarier and more uncertain the world becomes, the more we try to insulate our children from every last bit of unpleasantness? And then we wonder why, when we open the bubble at 18, they can't cope at all with the real world. " It sure rings true with me. Our 7 year old has been taught the same things about life and death. If all the kings horses and all the kings men can't put Humpty back together again..... how is this any different than if Mommy and Daddy just can't make their marriage work or Uncle Joe has a drug problem and keeps falling off the wagon?

I sometimes think we underestimate our children and what they can and can not handle. No one wants them to grow up any earlier but I do want my child to grow up.... not live in a fantasy world where everything is peaches and cream all the time.

Just my .02 worth.

I read that:
Georgie Porgie. Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry; When the boys came out to play, Georigie Progie ran away
is an early reference to sexual harrasment. WTF???? I thought it was a boy who liked to kiss girls.

# posted by

Sheri : 2:49 PM

That's pathetic.

# posted by

Queen of Ass : 3:56 PM

Why stop with the color? They're not supporting "equal opportunities" by singling out the poor sheep like that. If they were serious about making it all equal, they would have changed it to "Sound, sound rainbow animal." Oh wait, no, that's not fair to non-animals. Nor animals that don't make sounds. {rolling eyes}

But y'know, the Humpty Dumpty thing is kinda funny, because it shows how society has decided that ignoring things is the better approach than explaining them to children. Especially since the nursery rhyme has nothing to do with death . . . it's about a canon that was destroyed during the English Civil War.

Phil
Echoes in a Nomad's Head

# posted by

Phil : 4:03 PM

Oh my lord.....does it get any better than this?! For pete's sake....(who's pete anyhow?)

# posted by

Cody & Momma Jade : 4:05 PM

PC Idiocracy, a sign of the times. Feh.

# posted by

Flaurella : 4:45 PM

Unbloody beliveable. We are crazy in the U.K.!! You know that don't you? Apolgies from me at least. Insane crazy bloody brits.

Take care

# posted by

Britmum : 5:42 PM

I never would have considered this rhyme about a color, I always thought it had more to do with the outcast of a family. I was the blacksheep, and I know several others that were the blacksheep, and we are all white.
Not having children I must say that who wants a thrity year old son or daughter still living at home because they were never taught to cope with life?

# posted by

Sandi : 5:46 PM

I heard Georgie Porgie was King George (III?) who used to share it about a bit while husbands werent looking.

Thing is this came up back in the seventies - even then there was the joke about Baah Baah ethnic minority sheep, and Ealing Council barred the sale or mention of black and white coffee in the Council cafeteria - you had to ask for it with or without milk.

I know, I'm going to make a claim of racial harrassment because of White Christmas & Little White Bull.

You're right, it's bonkers.

# posted by

Cheryl : 5:54 PM

don't get me fucking started, political corrected is fucked up. it's gone too fucking far, these people are trying to turn us into a race of cotten wrapped fuckwits, unaware fo the harsh realities of the world.

it serves no purpose but to give me a fucking coronary ranting about it

# posted by

barefoot wanderer : 7:10 PM

I'm starting to think that group of people who killed themselves when the hale bopp comet came were on to something.

# posted by

I.M. Dedd : 8:19 PM

I love you, Kim. You tell 'em, sister.

Ever since my two-year-old daughter stood up in her high chair at a family reunion, put her hands on her hips, and said "Oh Mommy, I wish I could say SHIT," I've tried to watch my horrific potty mouth. But some things just make the word "Fucktard" bubble right from my brain out of my mouth.

Oh shit, did I really say FUCKTARD?

TWICE?

Yup. I did.

I meant it, too.

(No apologies to offended fucktards. You deserved it.)

I guess I just blew my wholesome image, huh.

Make that THREE times. Sigh.

# posted by

Mamacita : 8:51 PM

KImmy I agree , fucktard spectacular there , I hope you don't mind I used this post to ... you got a mention :)

# posted by

dom : 9:01 PM

This gets a huge EYE ROLL!!!

# posted by

seeingdouble : 10:37 PM

That reminds me... I hate whitebread too

# posted by

D Brooks : 12:38 AM

Idiots. Pfffft!

# posted by

Ms Mac : 12:55 AM

That is most heinous!

Thank you for the title of this post. My wife hates that phrase, which I use regularly, most often spoken, "You gotta be shittin' me." She had me wondering if I was the only one using it.

# posted by

Karlos : 5:48 AM

That is just so fucked up. If I had the job of rewriting them, I'd have some fun, I have to tell you.

# posted by

Bud : 7:27 AM

Oh wow, just speechless at the stupidity. Why are there so many stupid people in the world? And why can't we hurt them and just be done with it?

# posted by

Katherine : 9:33 AM

Why is it that everything has to come down to predjudice? FFS! We all listened to the same fucking nursery rhymes as children no matter what our color or gender. Whites didnt have different than black and visa versa. Boys and girls listend to the same thing whether they were straight, gay, bisexual or whatever! No one fucking cares and if you are one that does care then maybe you are the one that has the issue not the rest of us, FFS!
Why does the world see it fit to raise our children for us? Why do these people want to shelter our children from the horrors that is life?
I listened to these damn nursery rhymes and I haven't killed anyone (YET).

I dont see how the black sheep are offened? Do the sheep even know they are black? And if so, do the white sheep pick on the black ones? If so, dont you think they are now going to harrass the "rainbow" sheep? And what about the white sheep? Who is going to stand up for them in this world of instanity? Who is going to defend their rights as equal white sheep?

This is really pathetic and a waste of someone's valuable time.

# posted by

Chris : 12:45 PM

I take comfort in knowing that you also shake your head and lose sleep over retarded crap like that.
I love the new design!
Lois Lane

# posted by

No_Newz : 2:10 PM

Oh goodness....that is why taking a break sometimes is good for the soul!! People are insane...except those of us in Ohio.

# posted by

jenbeauty : 3:29 PM

This is crazy... Who has ever seen a friggin rainbow sheep? and what was he smoking? and wouldn't it undermine the war on drugs if we teach our kids to sing about rainbow sheep?!...
We need to have a Rainbow Sheep award, like a Darwin award, only we'd give it to individuals and groups that have managed to take PC to a whole new level... as in this example.

# posted by

Goldie : 3:51 PM

I just hope they don't take the black jelly beans out of the Easter Candy this year, they are my favorites.
If they are going to change other nursery rhymes, what about Peter Peter Pumpkin Eaters wife, and the children of the Old Lady who lived in the Shoe?

# posted by

Sue : 5:06 PM

Mamacita (one of the best school teachers around if you haven't read her blog) just posted about childrens' classic books being "updated". Why can't they just leave stuff alone!

# posted by

Junebugg : 11:23 PM

Gosh this is where political correctness goes way too damn far. I can understand not using certain racial slurs or any type of insults, but man...what does a black sheep have to do with racial issues??? It's absolutely ridiculous when everything changes just because of the fear of offending someone or certain groups.

# posted by

Donna : 9:51 AM

Shit - what is next?!?! That is so stupid.

# posted by

AL : 2:34 PM

Whoa, relax. Don't lose sleep over it. If they're not doing it to you, or in your area, just let it happen. Life is too short to react to folks like that.

# posted by

Pave the Whales : 5:24 PM

What can I say but Fucking the Politically Correct Brigade who along with the Health and Safety mob wanna take away most of the "fun" aspects of being a kid, like learning nursery ryhmes, falling over and hurting yourself, playing "conkers" in the autumn - it's a british thing if your wondering :P,
I mean today i read an article in a UK national paper - The Sun, where a teacher phoned a parent just to make sure it was "OK" to put a plaster on her little girls finger (just to make sure she didn't get sued!) I mean I remember many a time, falling over getting hurt, getting up again, maybe getting a plaster put on it if it was bad. Today it's all "PC" and "H&S" oh that and hmm well they've discovered the kids are often can't read or write properly due to them fucking up the education when they are in school. Envy of the world the UK system used to be not now. *Ends Rant*

# posted by

Gopher : 6:45 PM

Nothing surprises me anymore...

3T

# posted by

3rdtimesacharm( 3T ) : 7:42 PM

So insane.

# posted by

Marel Lecone : 12:30 AM

Kim, I'm forever fascinated with the way folks attempt to 'sanitize' the world. Offend no one, appeal to everyone it's like life attempting to immitate TV commercials.

To quote Dennis Leary "Life hurts, get a helmet!"

and one of the earlier posters (burfica) "People need to just get the fuck over them selves and get along."

Thanks for the info!

# posted by

Bill : 10:47 AM

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