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The daddies on the bus go “nod nod nod”. Get to fuck.

103 replies

Bebepoor · 26/02/2018 21:40

Oh they are so tired from their full night’s sleep, 10 hours sitting in a chair drinking hot coffee then bathing one child and reading one story. Gah.

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OutyMcOutface · 26/02/2018 22:39

In my version the mummies say shh in response to babiessaying way and daddies react with I love you.

OutyMcOutface · 26/02/2018 22:40

Oh and thechildren are the ones who chatter.

JediStoleMyBike · 26/02/2018 22:44

The Simple Songs version has both mummy and daddy soothing the crying babies.

mommy2018 · 26/02/2018 22:53

Round here there r no daddies on the bus, the kids go chatter, chatter, chatter followed by the babies going wah, wah, wah causing the mummies to go stop that noise (2 the kids chatter upsetting the baby I always thought)

taylorj86 · 26/02/2018 22:54

Jedi that is the best version. True gender equality expressing the emotional capacity of both mothers and fathers.

Ellendegeneres · 26/02/2018 22:58

My 19month olds favourite bit is the children on the bus go upppp and downnnn etc
Love him, knows how to make me work 😂

JoeyMaynardssolidlump · 26/02/2018 23:16

Our group mummies go ‘chatter chatter chatter’ and daddies say ‘don’t do that’

Equally annoying.

Don’t start me on rhythm time and the ‘grannies knit by the fire and rock theyre chairs’

Ffs even I protested at this as I attend with my grandson on my one day off as s senior nurse practitioner and a gran!!!

Grandson loves it though. Smile and fucking nod! Grin

GummyGoddess · 26/02/2018 23:24

Ours just takes it in turns for the mummies to 'shh' and then the daddies also 'shh'. At home Daddy goes 'snore snore snore' until DH tells me to stop singing Grin

LouHotel · 26/02/2018 23:30

Once sat next to a ladt who loudly protested with

'' the mummies on the bus have engineering degrees, engineering degrees''

Bloody fantastic.

wonkylegs · 26/02/2018 23:42

Our version for our 22mo is the daddies on the bus play with their phones, play with their phones, play with their phones ... our 10yo came up with that inspired line
Daddy does spend a bit too much time on his phone!

Lalliella · 26/02/2018 23:50

“Bus wankers!” (Inbetweeners)

Mistoffelees · 26/02/2018 23:58

The babies on my bus (nursery teacher) go fast asleep, gives me a 5-20 second break however long the children can be still and quiet for don't tend to do mummies and daddies so not sure who's looking after all the babies!
I do change the doctor in Miss Polly to a female doctor on occasion Halo

JoeyMaynardssolidlump · 27/02/2018 00:07

Lou Grin

The bloody irony is most middle class snowflakes have never been on s hloody bus anyway.

GrockleBocs · 27/02/2018 00:22

I think we had Daddies go snore. A sexist trope no doubt. Except DH does go to sleep in a car or on the sofa very, very easily and slept through ALL the night wakings which was annoying but I was ebfing so I had to wake up

SleightOfMind · 27/02/2018 00:29

Mine are older now but I do remember this rankling.
We PAly changed it to: ‘’Dads on the bus go, ‘Tap tap tap.”

Cavender · 27/02/2018 00:36

Our Daddies said “ha, ha, ha”.

Just ask your group leader to change it.

BzyB · 27/02/2018 00:43

Funny I was singing this earlier and asked my 4 year old what we should sing for daddies and she said “play their phone, probably” and mummies? “Snuggle the babies of course!”

parrotonmyshoulder · 27/02/2018 01:35

We always had ‘play on their phones’ from as soon as the dc could talk.
When singing with groups, i always have children choose what the people do. Doesn’t always scan well but more fun!

EssentialHummus · 27/02/2018 02:08

Essential - please fill me in on hipsters and squid.

The hipsters go “Tweet tweet tweet” and the squid go “Squidge squidge squidge”, I decided. Poor girl. But I have 10 min of cream drying time to fill.

4Funnels · 27/02/2018 02:10
Biscuit

Does anyone actually care?

Ladybirdbookworm · 27/02/2018 02:44

It's a nursery rhyme ....thats all ..........
Does anyone object to ' ring a ring a roses ??
Because if you want to be pedantic its
making fun of a plague that killed thousands .
I know for a fact that my daughter is no less a feminist for singing the wheels on the bloody bus as a toddler..

BeverlyHillsBillie · 27/02/2018 03:02

There have never been daddies on any of the busses in any of our play groups. Which is in itself quite sexist.

I dont remember any Daddies on the bus either, and I'm quite old.

To be fair, all the daddies had cars were I lived. Maybe at your playgroup no-one has a daddy. I think we need a version with Mummy 1 and Mummy 2 now.

Or Trans Mummy.

Mummy with the penis goes Me Me Me. .

Shadow666 · 27/02/2018 03:11

I used to sing fart, fart, fart, but changed it to play candy crush.

4Funnels · 27/02/2018 03:14

"Mummy with the penis goes Me Me Me. ."

Jesus fucking Christ.

There's really no escape from you lot is there. Is that little vote over so you can all crawl back under your bridge?

Shadow666 · 27/02/2018 03:37

I think it should be like Christmas. They need a trans talk section and trans talk in other areas should be banned.