Baa Baa woolly sheep???

[Tissy]

Dd(3) tells me it's "not nice" to sing baa baa black sheep. Why, FFS? Surely the sheep was black wasn't it? I can't imagine any way in which the song could be construed as derogatory...

At DDs' school they sing "black sheep" and have second verse:

Thank you says the master
Thank you says the dame
And thank you says the little boy who lives down the lane.

Which I think is quite sweet.

The kids at the school I used to work parttime at in Zim used to LOVE baa baa BLACK sheep.

Oh did I mention it was an almost EXCLUSIVELY black - said it again - school with - - black teachers!!

My mother told e she had hurt her finger doing some DIY and had a "black man's pinch" on it. Ouch (politically as well as in sympathy with my mother).

PMSL at the dark forests at night comment. My DD has been drawing the wind for 3 months. Looks remarkably like scribble.

Baa, bah (sic) differently pigmented ovine
Have you any textured , spun, stolen product?
Yes, mate, no person-of-equal-standing-in-society, three containers adequatly filled.
One for the bigoted person temporeraly in control, one for his spouse-or-live-in-companion, and one for the male child of limited grown who lives in a temporary residence.

When I was at school (different nursery rhyme this time) we had to recite the following if we had forgotten our hankie:

Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.

Those were the days. God, I wish I had been a teacher then

When my cousin ran a mums and tots group - voluntarily - she had to remove on the orders of the local authority all books that had animal characters that were dressed as or acting like humans as it 'anthropomorphised' them.

Wish I was joking.