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    RIP Tosa, my trolling end now Senior Member Devastatin Dave's Avatar
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    Default Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/du...r/14157633.htm
    LOL...
    Unbelievable. When I read the title I thought, "rainbow sheep, what the hell?". I thought it was maybe the homosexuals running another recruiting campaign for new meat at the schools for their "life choice" or maybe to get some sheep for, well, anyway.
    So is this PC going to far again or is it just to make sure we don't offend any black sheep out there minding his/her own business, chewing on some yummy grass?
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    Standing Up For Rationality Senior Member Ronin's Avatar
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    Wink Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    ok....america has long gone nuts on the "PC" craze, and now it seems that the UK is following suit.....that story is an absolute joke.


    to counter this age of rampant moronic political correctness I leave you guys with the image of a chocolate sweet that is sold here in portugal.




    politically incorrect?....damn straight....


    does anyone make a fuss about it? nope.


    ahhh...the joys of living in a country that hasn't gone completelly bananas......


    at least....not yet.
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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=62164

    This 'rainbow sheep' thing is really over-the-top, and does completely forget what the poem is actually about.
    "Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"

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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    What's next? "The black sheep of the family"? Will that comment be made politically incorrect despite it has to do with the trouble a siglne black sheep would cause a sheepfarmer when it came to collect the wool?

    My dear... Black nights, blacks seas (wow consider the Black Sea in itself)... All out of the window. Now we are at it, let's just remove the word black... and yellow (yellowbelly could be considered an insult to asians by the PC police)...

    By doing this, the PC police is in fact reinforcing the feeling that 'black' is an insult, thus MAKING it an insult to people who never even considered it as such. This way the word can never become simple everyday thing we use. It becomes something we fear... I doubt anyone would like that, especially not people who are considered black.
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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    whoah that's pretty absurd.

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    Political correctness gone mad

    I'd have thunk it was from South Park, really, but it seems genuine.
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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    political correctness gets so pointless

    at least it makes the rhyme more interesting though

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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    I double-dog dare any patron of the Org to defend the "Rainbow Sheep" song. Go ahead. I dare ya.

    PC thinking is already well past its prime here in the U.S., but I guess it has pockets of resistance in the U.K.

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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
    I double-dog dare any patron of the Org to defend the "Rainbow Sheep" song. Go ahead. I dare ya.
    Hey, it's great!
    You get more variety, and the children get to improvise.
    "Baa Baa Bouncing sheep", that's hilarious!
    hmmm..
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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    In Norwegian, this song goes: "Baa baaa little lamb...", such that we don`t have to worry about this.

    Runes for good luck:

    [1 - exp(i*2π)]^-1

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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    As has been pointed out, there was already a lengthy thread on this very same topic.

    And yes, it is ridiculous.
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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
    I double-dog dare any patron of the Org to defend the "Rainbow Sheep" song. Go ahead. I dare ya.

    PC thinking is already well past its prime here in the U.S., but I guess it has pockets of resistance in the U.K.
    I will.

    The song goes black sheep, then white sheep, then rainbow sheep. It's just an extended variation on the traditional song. The whole thing is a total non-story - which is a real departure for 'Political Correctness Gone Mad' stories
    "The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney

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    RIP Tosa, my trolling end now Senior Member Devastatin Dave's Avatar
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    Default Re: Baa Baa "politically correct" sheep, have you any wool?

    Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
    As has been pointed out, there was already a lengthy thread on this very same topic.

    And yes, it is ridiculous.
    Sorry, didn't see it. Can a mod please combine the threads...
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