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Old 31-12-2016, 17:17
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I don't mind leaving the conversation alone as long as you don't put the words inspired and inspirational in my mouth.
Don't go trying to spin what I've said, I don't like it.
I apologise. It was not my intention to misrepresent your opinion.
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Old 31-12-2016, 17:47
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I used to walk a friends little lad to school, (he's early twenties now) I'd use house doors, cars, etc to teach him colours and counting, use what's to hand.
I used to do exactly the same with my children. "Who can see the letter G first on the number plates of parked car". "How many red front doors can we see?" "Can you see number 8 on a front door?". That and random times table questions made the 15 minute walk go quickly. I suggested to other parents to try it and got blank looks back. You are the first person I have heard do the same. Totally off topic from MM but I've never seen that show
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Old 31-12-2016, 17:56
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I used to do exactly the same with my children. "Who can see the letter G first on the number plates of parked car". "How many red front doors can we see?" "Can you see number 8 on a front door?". That and random times table questions made the 15 minute walk go quickly. I suggested to other parents to try it and got blank looks back. You are the first person I have heard do the same. Totally off topic from MM but I've never seen that show
It's a grittily realistic drama set in in the murderers and psychotics hotbed of Midsomer. It featured DCI Tom Bergerac, although a few years ago he regenerated and changed his 'name' (alias, really) to DCI John 'the Bear' Barnaby.

I think that's about right, anyway. I've started early.
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Old 31-12-2016, 18:10
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It's a grittily realistic drama set in in the murderers and psychotics hotbed of Midsomer. It featured DCI Tom Bergerac, although a few years ago he regenerated and changed his 'name' (alias, really) to DCI John 'the Bear' Barnaby.

I think that's about right, anyway. I've started early.
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I'll stick to the Nordic Noir or French crime dramas if it's all the same. Though oddly MM is popular in Scandinavia. They slightly misconstrue the title in Sweden, it translates back as Murders in Midsummer there u go your pointless bit of info for the day
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Old 31-12-2016, 18:26
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I used to do exactly the same with my children. "Who can see the letter G first on the number plates of parked car". "How many red front doors can we see?" "Can you see number 8 on a front door?". That and random times table questions made the 15 minute walk go quickly. I suggested to other parents to try it and got blank looks back. You are the first person I have heard do the same. Totally off topic from MM but I've never seen that show
I thought everyone did it? (Not nowadays, of course, because parents/carers are usually too busy texting to talk to the child they're with).

One thing I never did, though, was say "What colour is that sheep?" and expect any answer other than white or black, or black-and-white.

If I'd sung "Baa baa red sheep" my children would have looked at me in amazement and disgust. but then we did live in the country - they knew there were no red sheep. Sadly some city children may have grown up thinking there were, apparently.
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Old 31-12-2016, 18:45
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cheers!
I'll stick to the Nordic Noir or French crime dramas if it's all the same. Though oddly MM is popular in Scandinavia. They slightly misconstrue the title in Sweden, it translates back as Murders in Midsummer there u go your pointless bit of info for the day
Well, they wouldn't have any real-life actual towns like Midsomer Norton in Sweden to make the pun - perhaps they should have been a bit more imaginative with the Swedish title.
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Old 31-12-2016, 19:44
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I thought everyone did it? (Not nowadays, of course, because parents/carers are usually too busy texting to talk to the child they're with).

One thing I never did, though, was say "What colour is that sheep?" and expect any answer other than white or black, or black-and-white.

If I'd sung "Baa baa red sheep" my children would have looked at me in amazement and disgust. but then we did live in the country - they knew there were no red sheep. Sadly some city children may have grown up thinking there were, apparently.
Ha ha remember going on a school coach trip to see the countryside. We went past sheep, pigs then cows. The shout outs were "look dog! Bigger dog! Even bigger dog!!!" And we weren't even that thick!

I promise u that 20 years ago anyone I mentioned that "game" to looked at me blankly. I recommend it to young mums now that I know and they look at me like "mad/foolish cow" still as u say most couldn't move their eyes away from their phone long enough to engage with the child let alone look up before pushing the buggy into the road to check that it's safe for them to cross without bothering to look. Grrrrr one of my major bugbears
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Old 31-12-2016, 19:52
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I thought everyone did it? (Not nowadays, of course, because parents/carers are usually too busy texting to talk to the child they're with).

One thing I never did, though, was say "What colour is that sheep?" and expect any answer other than white or black, or black-and-white.

If I'd sung "Baa baa red sheep" my children would have looked at me in amazement and disgust. but then we did live in the country - they knew there were no red sheep. Sadly some city children may have grown up thinking there were, apparently.
These country children didn't baulk at the black sheep that answered questions in English, mind.
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Old 31-12-2016, 19:59
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These country children didn't baulk at the black sheep that answered questions in English, mind.
They're wiley those country kids, they know sheep can talk and have an opinion about 15th century wool price policies.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:53
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The question over whether this was an urban myth relates to the reasons behind the change. If a teacher decides to use different words in a nursery rhyme for positive reasons, to make it more fun or as part of a class topic, that's not political correctness gone mad. If a school or local authority decides to implement a policy that nursery rhymes must be politically correct, that is clearly ridiculous. But there is a whole scale of idiocy along the way, from sensible to bonkers. Unless you know where your nephews' school sits on the scale you can't be sure their experience is down to PC madness or creative teaching..

When I was on the PTA of a local school we spent hours debating whether to buy interactive whiteboards for the classrooms. The topic of blackboards never came up. Why would any school use chalk nowadays?
whats creative about changing the words to 'woolly sheep'?... thats fcukin ridiculous!
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Old 01-01-2017, 11:40
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These country children didn't baulk at the black sheep that answered questions in English, mind.
Well, no. They were English sheep, after all. It would have been surprising, though, if they'd spoken French.
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