To believe “wind the bobbin up” is inappropriate and to ask my child’s Nursery not to sing it.

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Wind the bobbin up originated in the cotton mill towns of the north of England in Victorian times. As anyone who knows a bit about a bit history can tell you, the cotton mills were horrendous places which horrifically exploited women and children, forcing them to do dangerous work in appalling conditions for little pay.

How can it be right to trivialise these horrors by getting children to sing a light-hearted ditty about it... It’s offensive to the memory of all those who suffered these horrendous conditions and experienced serious injury or even death as a result of hideously exploitative working practices.

You really do need to get a life luv.

Well my husband actually works in a mill now... He really does wind the bobbin up!!! Is he allowed to sing it??????

And still they don’t actually RTFT

I think I’ve managed to do something quite unusual and get consensus on MN! Pity exactly the rationale consistently!

Sorry....meant to write ‘pity this rationale can’t be applied consistently’.

Seems like the lyrics should be changed to ‘wind The Sun up’

Op

Yes it is about the plague.

Oh dear, the twats are all piling in now.

Have they been bought here by the Sun?

I was grinning because I saw the big reveal very early on btw not because I thought you were being serious.

I always think there are few things more stupid than taking the time to go on the internet to tell someone they 'need to get a life'.

I mean, seriously?

Jesus Christ what a silly thread !!

uk.yahoo.com/style/mum-right-offended-popular-nursery-rhyme-130649476.html clearly yahoo can't be arsed to RTWT!

Haha sorry hahaah Seriously ring a ring a roses is about the plague no one cares.

I always liked ‘oranges and lemons’. It has gory begeadings in it. No euphemisms necessary.

Your poor child

He used to get upset by ’how much is that doggy in the window?’ Or maybe it wasn’t singing?

Wind the bobbin up should be banned but purely as it's an annoying as hell song. No other reason.

You are not winding the bobbin but winding the thread up!!! See what i’ve done there!!

Yes, it should be banned cos it’s a tedious song!

Seriously. Good history lesson. Surely we can all learn from the past. No point banning history b

People really are monumentally thick.

It's staggering.

I think you should start a petition to sing baa baa black sheep instead.

Unless the 3 and 4 year olds are ready to imbibe the said history lesson with all the implications it carries, then yes, YABVU. It's a nursery rhyme.

Because of attitudes like this, soon noone will be able to speak, think or behave in any but proscribed way. Mental dictatorship, if you ask me.

Take a chill pill.

You silly silly women....why don’t you focus your energies on subjects that matter you total idiot.
If Wind Up The Bobbin is really that offensive to you then you are a very very sad women indeed

Some people seriously need to rtft - especially Sun readers