Raymond
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Is this what we pay our TV license for?The BBC has defended a decision to change the ending of nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.
A version used on the 'CBeebies' channel was altered so rather than "couldn't put Humpty together again" all the King's horses "made Humpty happy again".
The broadcaster said the change was made purely for creative reasons rather than trying to give a soft version of the rhyme for children.
A spokeswoman said: "We play nursery rhymes with their original lyrics all the time and the small change to Humpty Dumpty was done for no other reason than being creative and entertaining."
Labour MP Tom Harris told the Independent on Sunday: "For goodness sake. Obviously children will find it far too violent, distressing and horrific that Humpty should not be put back together again.
"This is what happens when adults try to make these kinds of judgments."
He told the newspaper that he had also seen Little Miss Muffet changed on the channel, so that she made friends with the spider instead of running away.
But the BBC spokeswoman said that alteration was made for similar creative reasons and there was "nothing more to it than that."
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Raymond
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It makes you wonder how they might change 'Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub".
Funnily enough, that was always my favourite nursery rhyme as a kid.
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david hobbs
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The world has gone completely mad.
At least the part of it that I know.
Give Humpty a good kicking and then jump on his frigging great big eggy head.
The kid's will love it I promise you.
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billy nomates
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the bbc is a state run propaganda machine........and the insult is increased by a £140 per year fee..........to pay phuqwits like jonnie woss widiculous money........i dont have a tv now......there are many more things to do instead of watching endless shite like east enders......
three men in a tub is now 3 men,a muslim,2 trannies and a lesbian celebrate diversity with the taliban !!!!!!
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Scott
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oh my goodness that is ridiculous. humpty dumpty has been around for years why change it? the stupid thing is somebody was paid to come up with the new ending and probably paid very well for it. where can i get a job like that?
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sheelanagig
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I used to read the original brothers Grimm fairy tales to my 3 as they were growing up.
Nearly all their tales had horrific and barbaric inserts or endings.
Cinderella's sisters cut off their toes so their feet would fit in the glass slipper, but bled to death.
In Hans Christian Anderson's story of the little mermaid, she turned to sea foam as she did not win the princes heart or get a kiss from him in the allotted time set by the sea witch.
I grew up with these tales, and they made me and my children realise that life is not always happy endings, and we have to work to get what we want.
The children of today are not brought up with the word failure, how on earth are they going to be able to cope when they find out that life 9 times out of 10 does not have a happy ending?
How will they ever understand that we have to give and take in a relationship to make it work?
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david hobbs
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This is nothing new
A man in our village cut of his own toes.
It was nothing to do with tight shoes but rather a really sharp pair of scissors and piss poor eyesight.
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Raymond
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And there was me thinking you were the village idiot Hobbs.
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david hobbs
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Thinking was never your strong point dear.
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Raymond
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Up your snatch!
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david hobbs
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Well as you can't tell up from down I don't know how to take that.
Unlike your good self that is.
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Raymond
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| david hobbs wrote: | | Well as you can't tell up from down I don't know how to take that. |
I may not be able to tell up from down but I can certainly tell the difference between in and out.
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david hobbs
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In is when you are watching strictly
Out is when you are watching it at a friends house.
Simple
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Raymond
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In, is when I am drinkng cheap vodka from Lidl.
Out, is when I am at a party and insist I only ever drink Dom Perignon.
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david hobbs
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You can spell it but saying it after a few vodka's is an entirely different matter.
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Raymond
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And no matter how many bottles I consume I never spill a drop, even when I fall over and lose control of bodily fluids.
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david hobbs
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Now that's a real geezer!
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Hunter
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When you think Humpty Dumpty is supposedly either King George I or Henry VIII, then the non royalist pc pricks will of course change things.
As I said once on another site my favourite book as a child was "Little Black Sambo", a book now banned. I think changeing nursery rhymes "not to upset the little children", is really a hark back to the old BBC hassle from the '70s. I don't think our little angels are more sqeamish than we were. I think that we're getting prudish like our American bed fellows !
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sheelanagig
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OOooooo I loved the tales of little black Sambo.
And later, Poo Poo and his Dragon
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