To be furious over 'ba ba spotty sheep'

[Littlesmiler]

As the title really! My DD started school nursery in September, and this past week, when she has been at home and singing nursery rhymes with us, she's been singing baa baa spotty sheep as opposed to black sheep.

We have always sang the 'black sheep' version as it's what myself and DP learned when we were little and as it is the 'proper' version. All the family sing the classic version also, as is traditional. So the only place that's singing this ridiculous version is school.

I just can't believe they're changing a kiddy nursery rhyme that's been around for god knows how long, as someone somewhere has deemed it inappropriate? I'd love to know why- as black sheep are an actual thing! Would it be the same if it was 'white sheep'? Probably not.

Just so annoyed, probably being irrational as I've had the implant out after 3 years and having my first visit from Mother Nature 🙈

AIBU to just want classic nursery rhymes to stay as the classic version??

I have a head ...do we all have heads - lets unite

My head wasn't screwed on and I don't remember where I left it 😢

Hahaha, my neighbours? Yeah they're hell. Drug dealing hell. The difference is I live next door to them, praise the lord I don't know who any of you are in reality! I think I just might commit if I did😂

Having only read Page1, I am now disinclined to bother with the rest having seen the drivel in this page.

maybe it ran off with my fat ass :(

I literally seethe when people say 'because he was an egg' at the end of Humpty Dumpty. These people are the worst humans ever.

It's baa baa BLACK SHEEP.
Always was and always will be.

You might commit what...?

OP

Get some wine, ASAP

Ahh, wine o'clock
Cheers!

Why's it all about people's bottoms now ?

Cheers quencher (alcohol free wine for me as i'm up the duff )

Sheep and asses, its wonderfully Christmassy!

Wine? Shouldn't we all be quaffing Black Sheep ale?

Haveacup Cheers! Happy baking.

Shouldn't we all be quaffing Black Sheep ale?** Is there a white one to balance this out?

Am all for London pride ale.

I remember hearing about the difficulties the Black Dyke Mills Band had when they went on tour in America...

It is ridiculous. It is as ridiculous as making teachers say chalk board instead of black board and not being PC using the word black bag ffs

yes that is ridiculous - and totally untrue

Ghosty, you are wrong.
It has been a 'thing' where i teach. It is totally true. I am a teacher

There are schools that still use blackboards???

I think there are some schools that are obliged to keep using them so that there's something for the professionally unoffended to get hot under the collar about........

Yes. We still have a blackboard. Of course we have an interacive board and a whiteboard too. Every class still has a blackboard in the school i teach in.

I thought it was Baa Baa black sheep because of the alliteration and one syllable. So Baa Baa blue/big/brick/bag/beige/bin/bland/bean/bronze/brown sheep would work just as well, but turquoise/burgundy sheep wouldn't flow as well.

funny never a 'thing' for my mum, step dad, grandfather - all teachers or myself - working in schools for the last 21 years

maybe your school was run by a twat

Or what about Baa Baa Bling Sheep?

It's a sheep.
It just so happens to be black.
Someone wrote a song about it.
That's it really.