has anyone noticed how cruel nursery rhymes are. me and my brother thought of it and the more we think on it the moe sure we are that they are cruel. i'll give you an example

It's raining,
It's pouring,
The old man is snoring,
He went to bed,
And bumped his head,
And never woke up in the morning.

you can't say that that isn't cruel.
here is another example

Jack and Jill,
Went uop the hill,
To fetch a pale of water,
Jack fell down,
And bumped his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

so many nursey rhymes are like that. how cruel are these people that wrote these?

you know, ring a ring o roses came from the great plague :)

*DL wanders off, humming, and content that she has imparted weird knowledge at least once today.*

exactly my point, pretty much alll of them involve someone getting hurt in some form

her are more examples

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
They all began to sing.
Now, wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the King?

The King was in his countinghouse,
Counting out his money;
The Queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes.
Along there came a big black bird
And snipped off her nose!

then there is

Three blind mice,
See how they run!
They all ran after a farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?

and

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

Perhaps the nation's children are becoming more violent as a result of nusery ryhmes, not watching people shoot each other and brain, guts and gore go flying everywhere...

Eh, who knew? :P

maybe, although i think the watching of people shooting each others brains out with the gut and gore evrywher helps that as well.

anyway, you can see my point that a great many nursery rhymes are violent

has anyone ever been on the website
www.happytreefriends.com
that is so disgustine. the name is so kuwaii.

do you just post random things in random places. at least my posts have some relavance to the reply before.

dag nammit this thread is about nursery rhymes

*pats Kaithar*

Calm down dear, it's just a commercial... well, actually, it's a post, but you get the idea.

I think I've found a nursery rhyme that isn't violent:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are...

Although it is placing a high value on materialism. So many hidden messages in nursery rhymes, no wonder we're all corrupt! :P ;) ^_^

yes there are a few that arn't violent

another one would be mary had a little lamb. but nurery rhymes clearly corrupt us.

Twinkle twinkle little star was invented by mozart or someone, wasn't it? Some child genius.

yes, i beloive it was. invented by a person that hadn't yet been influenced by nursery rhymes corrupting ways

I had a dream about beating up nursery rhyme characters last night....

:blink:

And the corruption begins....

lolness! How odd! :blink:

that really is odd :blink:

"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! alack!
The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissorman.
Oh! children, see! the tailor's come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb.

Snip! Snap! Snip! the scissors go;
And Conrad cries out - Oh! Oh! Oh!
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast;
That both his thumbs are off at last.
Mamma comes home; there Conrad stands,
And looks quite sad, and shows his hands;-
"Ah!" said Mamma "I knew he'd come
To naughty little Suck-a-Thumb

do you find this one a bit cruel?
this rhyme is ment to stop children sucking their thumbs!
how evil are the mums who read this to their children?

Mary had a little lamb, her father shot him dead. Now Mary takes the lamb to school between to hunks of bread

what about this one?
thats why i never eat beef or lamb. :(

but you eat other meats. that is really strange

and that one isn't the classic nursery rhyme so it doesn't count.

it will be a classic!

aine will teach it to little children and make them cry... :blink:

when i am older i will be a child phycologist. do you think that is a good job for me? ha ha ha

yes, just as i would make a great psychologist. every-one would o out with even worse mental problems than they cam in with :P

I think that you two would be great, cos then the people would come out, like, 'Thank God I'm not as bad as them...'

:P

i was hoping people would be nice to me but i now i see you are all EVIL
:(

welcome to au. :P

anyway. if you are intent on becoming a psycholgist then you need o work hard at school even though it is annoying. you probably need to have similar standard of grades as you would a doctor because basically youare a doctor. this means that you need to do another 7 or so years study after school. this is what urns a lot of peole off

Yup. welcome.





Well, i've done my bit!

Oh no wait. Dad taught me this one:



Mary had a little lamb, she thought it rather silly,
so she threw it up in the air and caught it by the...
Willy was a scotsman sitting on the grass,
Along came a bee and stung him up the...
Ask no questions, tell no lies,
have you ever seen a chinaman doing up his...
flies are a nuisance, bees are worse,
this is the end of my little verse!

hi batch, haven't heard from you in years.

kaithar, you make things sound so comlicated.
at least batch isn't evil.
oh no, now that i said that he will probably try to be as evil as possible. <_<

Batch you total spammer! Double posting! What kind of an example is that for an admin to set a poor impressionable n00b like aine? :P

Hmm, I actually think that it would be v.gd if you were a child psychologist, aine. Its a noble ambition :D

yes i think it is.(to polute other kids minds with my insane random weird things)
ha ha ha :P

A cat came fiddling out of a barn,
With a pair of bagpipes under her arm.
She could sing nothing but fiddle dee dee,
The mouse has married the bumblebee.
Pipe, cat; dance, mouse;
We'll have a wedding at our good house.

how strange and random?

Have you ever heard him say this? It's great fun! Every time you get a '...', he takes an almighty breath... :P

Batch, do you still like pears? :wickedgrin:

i don't make things so complicated, everything i say follows perfect illogical steps.


and batches one was very good. but your dad taught it to you? thats quite strange

yes, i like that rhyme, it is so rare!

What about this:

Jump over the moon the cow declaired
with a dish and a spoon not me
I'll need a suit and a space rocket and filmed by the BBC
I want a roomy caption stall for when i blast away
and astronaught as a dairy maid and a bail of meddow hay

She gave a twitch of her lazy rump
space travel takes up time
and I certainly dont intend to jump for a mad old nursery rhyme

good init i learnt it in year 5 and can still remember it

Please excuse my dodgy spelling too. ^_^

you must have really good memory, cos i can't even remember wat i did a week ago.
i think i went ice scating. ...or was that the week befor that.
-_-

lolness!

And Gemz.....whats this about pears? Tell me! PM it! Whatever.

Lol, tis some poem about pears that I cannae remember, but that Batch recites very well, in a farmers voice... All I remember is it's funny!!!

I just heard it!

:lol:

And for those at home,

*farmer accent*
I was eating pears.
Oh arr, I likes pears.
But when I eat pears I fart,
And when I fart I shit myself,
And it all runs down my leg,
And I smell,
And people pay me money to go away,
And with that money, I buys more PEARS!
Ooh Arr, I likes Pears!

We can thank my dad for that one as well.

that is so exceptionally odd. i don't think there is much else to say about that other than how odd

:lol: Its hilarious with the added accent :D