Stupidest thing to ever be banned?

[schiz0phren1c]

have seen some very good ones here,
but I'm gonna go with banning Fahrenheit 451.
its been banned a ton of times in a ton of schools etc(same as 1984)
it just makes the Irony machine explode from overload when you ban a book about burning books...
I wonder did they burn the banned copies?

 

[B1i nd Luck]

video games in greece. they have been totally banned all together.

 

[Boba Frag]

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.

Well it will if it has wormwood in it... Then you just may start seeing some weird things! But apart from that, it probably won't, you'll just get horrendously drunk...

 

[nerdsamwich]

Public Nudity. What is wrong with it?

Go to your local Wal-Mart and take a good look around. Then you tell me what's wrong with public nudity.

 

[Duskflamer]

Yu-Gi-Oh cards in my Middle School, this requires a little explaining.

In the morning, when everyone arrived, but there was still a lot of time before classes started, they had all the kids meet in the lunch room to hang out until it was almost time for class. To pass this time, me and some other kids started playing Yu-Gi-Oh. This worked out fine for a while until some dumb kids (the type who thinks they're cool) started annoying us, snickering and giggling as they yelled to use a certain card or threw our decks on the ground. We finally complained when one of them belly flopped onto the table we were playing on.

The school responded not by telling the idiots to knock it off, but by banning the card game. Stupidest ban I've ever witnessed.

 

[Kurokami]

On my highschool, smoking wasn't allowed on school grounds. So everyone took 1 step outside of the fence and smoked. Pretty damn stupid if you ask me.

No... Cause I don't want your smoke in my face or anywhere near me when I have to be at school.

That and smoke alarms.

 

[Chuck Svenson]

Local schools have banned Tag during recess

 

[Kiju]

Alcohol in the 20's


Search your feelings, you know it to be true

Considering the fact that people couldn't drop it to the point of going to criminal organizations just to keep drinking? I think it was a good idea. People were, and still are, apparently very desperate towards drinking alcohol if they'll turn to crime lords to get their fix.

 

[Ghaleon640]

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

wow,I found,why in a waldo book?

Hah, thanks for posting. I remember as a kid that when I saw a dentist, and he was talking to my mom, it was brought up that I liked the books. He said how it was actually banned in some places (can't remember where because I was like 10) because of things that they would throw in there in order to make it more interesting, get you to look longer and keep your interest. He then whipped out the book to that page and pointed her out. I remember in a couple of my old search and find books there was stuff like this to a varying degree. X-men had a few half naked women, and pokemon... Well, I lost pokemon years ago and can't quite remember, but I want to say... a charcter, (Misty?) was in a shower or something? Sorry, again, I was young. I actually want to find that book again. I used to spend hours digging through it with my brother.

 

[Ellen of Kitten]

Books. The lamest thing to ban might be books. Or free speech in favor of "free" speech.

 

[Chuck Svenson]

In primary school, all pokemon cards, games and merchandise were banned... Because Pokemon evolved (hurray catholic school!)

I think it was more the fact that they saw it more as people forcing small critters to fight one another for money (In the game at least >.> )

 

[schiz0phren1c]

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

Except weed was never legal to begin with.
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Misinformed there Sven,good post otherwise,
weed only became Illegal,Demonised,and morally savaged because the cotton growers of the good ol' us of a(the same good ol' boys who brung us slavery ya hear? were shit scared of Hemp cos as a crop it pisses all over Cotton in its versatility,and the Medical uses of THC had the major Pharma companies all in a tizzy.
I'm not a weed smoker myself anymore by the way except extremely casually and in company.
I'd cite a load of references and post links but its 3am and im up at 7... google it,can't remember the name,but theres one documentary in particular that exposes a shitload of "no way!" stuff about it,I'm sure our fellow escapists will help out.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

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

wow,I found,why in a waldo book?

Hah, thanks for posting. I remember as a kid that when I saw a dentist, and he was talking to my mom, it was brought up that I liked the books. He said how it was actually banned in some places (can't remember where because I was like 10) because of things that they would throw in there in order to make it more interesting, get you to look longer and keep your interest. He then whipped out the book to that page and pointed her out. I remember in a couple of my old search and find books there was stuff like this to a varying degree. X-men had a few half naked women, and pokemon... Well, I lost pokemon years ago and can't quite remember, but I want to say... a charcter, (Misty?) was in a shower or something? Sorry, again, I was young. I actually want to find that book again. I used to spend hours digging through it with my brother.

Gross,isn't she like 10?

 

[Ch@Z]

Blasphemy in Pakistan and in other countries.

 

[Ghaleon640]

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

wow,I found,why in a waldo book?

Hah, thanks for posting. I remember as a kid that when I saw a dentist, and he was talking to my mom, it was brought up that I liked the books. He said how it was actually banned in some places (can't remember where because I was like 10) because of things that they would throw in there in order to make it more interesting, get you to look longer and keep your interest. He then whipped out the book to that page and pointed her out. I remember in a couple of my old search and find books there was stuff like this to a varying degree. X-men had a few half naked women, and pokemon... Well, I lost pokemon years ago and can't quite remember, but I want to say... a charcter, (Misty?) was in a shower or something? Sorry, again, I was young. I actually want to find that book again. I used to spend hours digging through it with my brother.

Gross,isn't she like 10?

Just don't quote me on that. Like I said, it was a long, long time ago. And I think she was older than Ash... but since I don't know his age... never mind.
Edit: And upon further retrospect, would it have even been all that bad since I was 10 at the time? Granted when I was a kid I thought it was strange.

 

[archvile93]

I think one of the popes in the 1100's banned using Crossbows against Christian armies. Something to do with English crossbowmen massacring French knights and Nobles during some battle.

Got you history abit muddled there. The Pope banned the use of crossbows esentially because it gave the commoners the ability to kill armoured nobles easily. The massacre was English longbowmen against French knights at the battle of Agincourt.

If I was a commoner back then I would've laughed my ass off. Oh yes I'm totally going to give up my only defense against a bunch of maurading rapists, murderers, and thugs. If i recall correctly, this waas around the time the concept of knights faded, so I'm guessing it didn't take.

OT: I'd have to agree those saying anything Australia bans.

 

[Duskflamer]

Gross,isn't she like 10?

Just don't quote me on that. Like I said, it was a long, long time ago. And I think she was older than Ash... but since I don't know his age... never mind.

Ash and Misty were both perpetually 10 years old, until one of the more recent series aged Ash up to a whooping 13 years of age. In any case, if you are remembering right there's no way they actually showed her nude, racier anime then Pokemon use steam to sensor bath scenes.

 

[ekkaman]

On my highschool, smoking wasn't allowed on school grounds. So everyone took 1 step outside of the fence and smoked. Pretty damn stupid if you ask me.

Ever heard of "Passive Smoking"? I think that's the real reason for this "stupid" ban, personally I gag whenever I inhale cigarette smoke, I doubt I'm the only one who finds it utterly disgusting.

Yet you find cats smoking cool?

 

[Akalistos]

]Plastic bags have been banned where I live.

Me too, but It's far more stupid here when you discover that we are the biggest producer of plastic bag in the world. Woohoo of unemployment!

 

[Harklen]

I did not want to search the whole thread But Donald Duck in europe somewhere because he does not wear pants....really....i know right....hes a duck....