Stupidest thing to ever be banned?

[masher]

Tokyo Manga ban.
Friggin' Ishihara...

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

catcher in the rye

 

[sheic99]

Yeah...not sure I'd use those words, but "girls cant play games, *bans" basically sums it up. :/

I'm not alone in that experience either. Which is sad but also is a bit of a relief that other women might know what it's like. :3

How many times has that happened?

OT: I remembered something, there was a school that banned the oxford dictionaries because they had curse words.

 

[scorptatious]

Alcohol in the 20's


Search your feelings, you know it to be true

OT: One time over here in America, I was playing laser tag with my brother-in-law and my nephews. The lady at the counter asked what name I should be given, because at the end of a game, points are tallied among players and are placed on a ranking board. I chose my XBOX LIVE name, GUNMAN003. She then told me that the word "gun" wasn't allowed in the names.

Really? What the hell do you call the thing that shoots lasers then? That's just ridiculous. You're telling me that people actually get offended by the word "gun"?

 

[justnotcricket]

Bullrush. Anyone else remember that game? And we used to play it on concrete. Kids were hardier in those times ;-)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldogs_(game)

 

[Chaingang]

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.

 

[Dogstile]

Alcohol in the 20's


Search your feelings, you know it to be true

That scene loses so much of what made it serious when you get told that underneath luke is a pile of mattresses.

OT:

My school banned colourful socks. SOCKS. Also colourful underwear, dyed hair (on blokes, girls got away with it), long hair on guys was treated like a bad thing and many teachers openly insulted anyone who had long hair (of course they got insulted back, so no harm done really).

Why? It might distract other students. Thats right guys. My colourful socks are going to distract you. Sorry I fancied wearing bright red ones today. I hope I didn't mess up your class too much.

I'm so glad i'm at college now.

 

[Fenra]

While it never actualy went through, there was a band of local mothers here who when I was a child tried to ban pop-tarts because children were burning thier tongues... I mean really?! If they are stupid enough to get burnt by a pop tart thats just natural selection at work.

 

[Dungeons]

They banned all CCG at my elementary school because one kid lost some of her cards.

 

[Athol]

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.

 

[L8NEYET]

Dodgeball from schools.
Kickball from schools.
Pokémon from schools.
Media players from schools (even outside of class time).
Silverware from schools.
Basically anything that schools have ever banned that wasn't drug or weapon-related.

Flat chests in Australia.
Violent video games in Australia.
Lolicon, shotacon, and all other types of porn that doesn't involve real people in any given part of the world, which means Australia again.
Half of the things banned in Australia.

Is Australia even allowed to look at this site? You may want to check to see if it is on the banned list.

 

[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.