Rhyme uttered by boy at school

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Shouldn't matter but in case it does to some, it was a private school.

"Boys go to college to get more knowledge, girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider."

Ignoring the irony of 'stupider' - I was that things like this even exist in this day and age. I hope it was an older sibling that planted it (kid was about 7/8y) and that parents would be mortified... but how depressing?

When my son was at primary school, his best friend taught him to say 'Man U are magic, Liverpool are tragic'. I was fuming, but soon taught him the error of his ways. I feel your pain, OP

i remember hearing the version the other way round, girls go to college and boys to jupiter, make of that what you will. it's just a kids rhyme

My daughter came home with "girls go to Mars to get more powers, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider" I think she was about 7 or 8 then. Didn't even occur to me to be mortified - why would I? She knows it's a silly rhyme with absolutely no bearing in reality. I think she said it about twice and haven't heard it since.

I'd fucking love to go to Jupiter.

"My boyfriend gave me an apple,
My boyfriend gave me a pear,
My boyfriend gave me a kick up the bum and threw me down the stairs"

Sung by my 6yo DD

My boyfriend gave me an apple,
My boyfriend gave me a pear,
My boyfriend gave me a kiss on the lips so I threw him down the stairs.

I threw him over London,
I threw him over France,
I threw him over the Eiffel Tower and he lost his underpants.

Is the version both dc (boy and girl) sing here.

I went to a private convent school in the 1980s. Our favourite song was

"Maggie Thatcher put her in the bin, put the lid on Sellotape her in. If she gets out, bonk her on the head. Glory, glory Maggie Thatcher's dead". Oh the irony of us in little boaters and the boys in short shorts looking every inch the middle class ideal raging at Maggie Thatcher.

It's a playground rhyme for heaven's sake!

How absolutely ridiculous to get so worked up about it! As other posters have pointed out, these rhymes go both ways & have absolutely no bearing on a child's future life or opinions!

I think the OP was on the wind-up, tbf.

No! It goes, Girls go to Mars to get better cars and boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider

We are the naughty girls we wear our hair in curls anyone?!

Happygirl: Does it continue "we wear our dungarees/ to hide our dirty knees/ we wear our bras too tight/ to show that we can fight..."?

I rather naively thought that one was just sung at my school (in the first line, "naughty" was replaced by the name of our school).

I've heard rhymes go both ways but either way they're not great.

Our local version is "girls go to Mars to get more stars, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider".

I've heard that rhyme many times, but it's always been the other way round with the boys who get stupider

Yeah, I think most if those things adapt with the audience and the singer.

Have you been away for a bit, Fay?

ours is:

my boyfriend gave me apples
my boyfriend gave me pears
my boyfriend gave me mwah mwah mwah
and kicked me down the stairs

I kicked him over London
I kicked him over Spain
I kicked him over USA
and made him miss his plane

I gave him back his apples
I gave him back his pears
I gave him back his mwah mwah mwah
and kicked him down the stairs