Do your balls hang low, Can you swing 'em to and fro, Can you tie them in a knot, Can tie 'em in a bow, Do you get a funny feeling, When they're hanging from the ceiling

Do your balls hang low, Can you swing 'em to and fro, Can you tie them in a knot, Can tie 'em in a bow, Do you get a funny feeling, When they're hanging from the ceiling

Well of COURSE this is racist. Why not. How could I expect a nonsense rhyme from my childhood not to be horribly offensive in some way FFFS. I don't recommend looking up the origins of this silly rhyme (which I thought was Rik Mayall).

@TheBreadmonkey every British childhood song and scrap of folklore is either racist or about wife beating, cock fighting or dying horribly of the plague. I don't know how historians get out of bed in the morning.

@TheBreadmonkey There's a neighbourhood of Exeter called Heavitree and I spent years thinking "oh, how lovely, I bet there was an enormous beautiful tree they wanted to commemorate." No, it was the hanging tree where they hanged women accused of being witches. Never look anything up.

@afewbugs @TheBreadmonkey The good news is that ring a ring a roses being about the plague is Probably Bollocks. All the other stuff is true though.

@afewbugs @TheBreadmonkey Ring a ring a roses being about the plague is something that I was taught in school so obviously it’s the one that’s not true. Everything I was taught in school has turned out to be basically “citation: some bloke in a pub, once”.