Comments on: ‘Humpty Dumpty’ Too Violent For Today’s Kids?

By: smartalix

smartalix — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:06:33 +0000

Don’t these idiots realize children made up these damn things in the first place? No to mention the nursery rhyme is oral history, dealing with King Richard III, the hunchbacked monarch’s defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field. He fell from his steed, named “Wall” (as famously quoted in Shakespeare’s “Richard III”). Next thing they’ll try to stop kids from saying “ashes, ashes, they all fall down” in “Ring around the Rosie”.

By: Fatpie42

Fatpie42 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:39:38 +0000

My first reaction to this was “if you got this from the Daily Mail, I will bitchslap you”.

It turns out that you managed to do even worse. You got it from the Daily Express! Heck, at least the Daily Mail occasionally prints news. The Daily Express is barely a paper. We are talking about a tabloid that had the same picture of Madeleine McCann on their front cover for a whole year!

By: bobbo, international pastry chef and economic misanthrop

bobbo, international pastry chef and economic misanthrop — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:13:00 +0000

“You know”–all this adult “childhood means xyz” is just more crap. Kids are individuals too. I don’t remember being scared by clowns. Hanzel and Greta meant don’t go off in the woods by yourself. Humpty Dumpty was an EGG–if you break it, you can’t put it back together again===be careful around eggs, and so forth.

More parental projection. Love your kiddies, answer their questions, try to let them grow up to be the people they want to be.

By: meetsy

meetsy — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:48:32 +0000

the end isn’t near, the end is here…..
The world isn’t all safe and cozy and kids need to learn that early. Nursery rhymes were to inform kids, and give them some sense of danger. There are spiders that children should run away from, there are wolves who do eat children, and not everything broken can be fixed.

By: Improbus

Improbus — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:38:05 +0000

What is next? Mandatory sleeping helmets in case the tot falls out of bed? Jeez.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:51:10 +0000

PC’s taking over the western civilization. Another sign the end is near

By: chrish

chrish — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:28:28 +0000

I think we shouldn’t talk to kids at all. Too risky.

By: raintrees

raintrees — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:06:59 +0000

I guess that affects versions my friend used to tell: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider who sat down beside her, and she smashed it with her spoon. The others were less printable…

By: t0llyb0ng

t0llyb0ng — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:44:09 +0000

Skanky banker turned out to be a rat

Leapt off a building & made a great splat

By: ArianeB

ArianeB — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:36:38 +0000

#3 Exactly.

Many nursery rhymes and fairy tales were designed to help children deal with tragedy, as there was a lot of it at the time they were written. That’s why so many of them were violent.

By: admash

admash — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:23:08 +0000

Wow, this is cool….

Kids can grow up happy without the chance of failure, be fed and entertained without the inconvenience of work, be told what to think without the consequences of asking questions and have all of their problems solved by someone else.

What are we complaining about??

/sarc

By: tcc3

tcc3 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:02:11 +0000

Idiots. Nursery rhymes and fairy tales are supposed to be “the world is a dangerous place 101″

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:40:35 +0000

I’d recommend changing “Little Miss Muffet” because it’s too close to saying muff.

Eeewwww

By: SparkyOne

SparkyOne — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:33:34 +0000

and a CCTV to verify that bad stories are not told to young`unz

Oh and mom and dad can not talk about the economy or race issues or flu jabs or job loss or a trip to the pub or bathroom issues within ear shot of a child