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Middle Barael wrote:

I honestly can’t tell if you really think this is in good taste or not, this is so racist

How so, my dear?

Mount Seymour wrote:

Indeed. And Then There Were None, in fact, is... the last line of this rhyme (the title was originally a different, much more problematic phrase from it). It's a major part of the book's plot. Certainly the rhyme itself is racist and should not be used as a nursery rhyme or folk chant today, but in this context -- a poll about mysterious murders -- it's clearly a Christie reference, so I'd say it's okay.

Ah, so it is! I don't see how it is racist, though. In a colonial context, there are quite a number of Indians in the UK, and while it gets a bit morbid at times (as all the most fun rhymes do) it doesn't appear they are doing anything stereotypical to where replacing them with British boys would change the meaning of the poem.

Girelna wrote:

While I agree it has no business here, sadly it is a quote from an Agatha Christie book of some variety. In fairness, the fifth boy does go to law school...

Another one apparently met a bear at a zoo and made a lifelong friend, choosing to stay there with it rather than continue with the others. Of course, another was swallowed by a red herring (oh ho ho!), so I suppose they're all not particularly good at handling animals.