Stupidest thing to ever be banned?

[emeraldrafael]

They banned the use of any electronic device besides a calculator during school hours. I understand some of it but then there's the walking into another, less frustrating teacher's room and telling their students what to do.

So you couldnt use lights, pencil sharpeners, clocks and computers (among other such common devices)? Wow... school must have been rough.

OT: Speaking of schools, I got something banned at my school once. For the longest time we werent allowed to bring keys to school. The school had Heard I had gotten jumped over the weekend, and I had stabbed someone with a key in defense, so they said no one could brings key of any kind, pens, or non wooden pencils.

... it was an interesting month.

 

[khaimera]

I think weed is the most annoying ban for me.

 

[Harry Mason]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

A children's book that is a true story of two male penguins in a zoo who coupled and adopted an egg together, meant to help children of same sex couples understand the uniqueness of their family wasn't evil or unnatural.

People went APESHIT over the gay penguin story, and banned it in many places. *Facepalm*

My school actually made a puppet show for kids about that story. I voiced Silo.

That sounds AMAZING!

 

[Lilani]

Alcohol. Prohibition was so silly. And now we're seeing the same thing happen with weed.

the difference being, weed was never legal in the first place.

Um, yes it was. Hell, George Washington grew cannabis on his plantations way back in the day.

There were no laws passed restricting marijuana in the US until 1906, and even then that was only in the District of Columbia. A national law wasn't passed until 1937.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Pokemon cards were banned in our primary school, just because we never put the things down and would battle and trade in class, but you were'nt allowed them in the playground either.

 

[Harry Mason]

Alcohol. Prohibition was so silly. And now we're seeing the same thing happen with weed.

the difference being, weed was never legal in the first place.

Um, yes it was. Hell, George Washington grew cannabis on his plantations back in the day.

There were no laws passed restricting marijuana in the US until 1906, and even then that was only in the District of Columbia. A national law wasn't passed until 1937.

Same deal with Cocaine. Where do you think the word "Coca-Cola" came from? Back then it was REALLY REALLY REALLY TASTY.

 

[WorldCritic]

My high school banned Sun Chips because the bags made too much noise.

 

[Trogdor1138]

Mortal kombat in australia. not cool.

That could be said of the Australian governments attitude towards video games in general

Fix'd that for you. Our government should not be confused with our people

 

[RowdyRodimus]

catcher in the rye

That deserves it because it's a really, really shitty book.

OT: When I was in school they banned "We Are the Champions" from being played at football games because the year before the band started it up with less than 30 seconds left with our school ahead in the State Championship and lost the game in the next 20 seconds.

 

[Solid Reece]

Alcohol in the 20's


Search your feelings, you know it to be true

I never drank once nor plan on it.

 

[Dusk17]

Didn't they ban Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs from the United States on the grounds that "It's like hiding something within something else, so it teaches kids about contraband".

If not that reason then for some other reason. I just know I heard that they banned them.

They banned them because kids were choking on them i think

 

[chris11246]

a where's waldo book was banned because there's a woman is lying down without a top on on a beach

Spoiler: try to find her

 

[Jessta]

My schools ban's work by seeing frequented sites, and ban hammering them, I think if it gets visited five or so times, the school site was banned so there were no announcements for a week and no teachers had anything for us to do in class because it just so happened that half of what they relied on for their lesson plans was banned for student computers. Best day of school ever, we just played cards while they went around trying to unban enough sites to function like a school.
now everything is banned until unbanned, so we have a really shitty time doing research since our library only has 50 books, our magazines are dated sports magazines, we're not allowed to leave campus during school hours, and three of our six teachers consider wikipedia untrustworthy and in creditable for information so we have like... fifteen rare sites that can give us information on our topics when we are in school... Under this, I base the words, school is a big fucking waste of my time since I seriously cannot get 1/10th of my assignments done there.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Replica Firearms in the UK. It is Illegal to buy a toy gun that hasn't been garishly painted or is made of clear plastic to make it extremely obviously fake. Which sort of defeats the whole damn point.

Also while not outright banned there are very tight restrictions on carrying around a Swiss Army Knife. Almost any other type of knife is banned. Less stupid in that it has a point, but it's a pain in the ass if you're a Pirate, Ninja, or door-to-door knife salesman.

 

[DaMullet]

I'm gong to say Weed. The medical properties are worth it and I don't see how its any worse then cigarettes and booze.

 

[Quazimofo]

Kissing was banned at my secondary school, I should have gone on a free love campaign..

I kinda' agree with that one. There's this 12 year old couple at my school who practically mount each other ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

It get's quite... weird

yeah the kids who sit behind me in lunch (well not technically kids as it is high school but whatever) spend the entire lunch period basically doing striptease dances, mounting each other, and so on. its weird because it makes me feel like im violating someone's privacy. even if i dont look.

other than that, half the crap banned in schools.

 

[Quazimofo]

Replica Firearms in the UK. It is Illegal to buy a toy gun that hasn't been garishly painted or is made of clear plastic to make it extremely obviously fake. Which sort of defeats the whole damn point.

Also while not outright banned there are very tight restrictions on carrying around a Swiss Army Knife. Almost any other type of knife is banned. Less stupid in that it has a point, but it's a pain in the ass if you're a Pirate, Ninja, or door-to-door knife salesman.

damn, guess im not going to the uk any time soon. i hate people who make my life as a ninja pirate blade salesman difficult.

 

[FalloutJack]

Trolls. Banning them isn?t stupid, but they are the stupidest thing TO BE banned.

Very probably and I tip my hat to you, sir.

OT: As for me, I say Surge, the drink. There is no legitimate reason to throw that out when we have high octane energy drinks. Hell, we actually HAVE Powerthirst now, the drink that was just a joke spread online!

 

[Quazimofo]

Absinthe, silly people thought it caused halucinations.

A cup breasts in porn in Australia. i am serious look it up. they banned it for reasons it looks like Loli porn. I can not kid you here.

Also this, I am not Australian, but this is just fucking stupid.
I find it funny Australia is so uptight about things considering Britan just shipped all its convicts there.

yeah, it's a bit ironic isnt it?

 

[Dr_Horrible]

Alcohol in the 20's


Search your feelings, you know it to be true

I never drank once nor plan on it.

I don't drink either, but prohibition was still a moronic idea