Stupidest thing to ever be banned?
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wow,I found,why in a waldo book?chris11246 said:a where's waldo book was banned because there's a woman is lying down without a top on on a beach
Wait, are you serious? I go to a Catholic school and nothing like this has ever happened. Sure we have uniforms but once a month they let us wear normal clothes and as long as the clothes aren't too revealing it's a-okay with my teachers. Skirts, red shoes, open-toe sandals are all okay (the girls actually have to wear skirts as part of the required uniform).Alden Hou said:
Also the stupidest thing to be banned according to me is Kinder Surprise eggs. Seriously, wtf America. Thankfully here in Canada you can still buy Kinder eggs.
Prostitution. It isn't band it's just that the people involved must also be accompanied by either a full film-crew or, they must be using a camera with the intent of either duplicating the video of their intercourse or, putting the video directly online for sale.
Once again: not band but there is a lot of red tape involved which makes engaging in prostitution difficult unless you're the one buying the tapes.
Once again: not band but there is a lot of red tape involved which makes engaging in prostitution difficult unless you're the one buying the tapes.
Not to sound stupid but what war did the Swiss use the Swiss army knife?thenumberthirteen said:
There's actually a very good reson for that, two actually:thenumberthirteen said:
1. There have been numerous cases of people using replica weapons to threaten people and rob them.
Are you gonna be the one to claim it's a fake.
2. There have been people killed by the armed responce unit for carrying replicas, even plastic ones are hard to tell from the real thing at a distance.
Granted the garish paint wont help in the fiorst case as paint exsists, but it does help cut down on the second.
Alcohol in America during Prohibition. By far the worst idea ever, and all it ended up accomplishing was local law enforcement spending half their time chasing down privately owned stills that would be rebuilt within two days.
Close runners up are:
Anything Australia bans
Giving advice in the advice forum here that isn't roses and sunshine
NES/SNES Roms
Dueling
Wikileaks doing its' job once the US govt. gets caught
Prostitution
and so on
Close runners up are:
Anything Australia bans
Giving advice in the advice forum here that isn't roses and sunshine
NES/SNES Roms
Dueling
Wikileaks doing its' job once the US govt. gets caught
Prostitution
and so on
I think I can top your stories. A few years back (2001, I thing), in Germany, Sailor Moon was the next hottest thing to run on TV, so obviously, there was also merchandise, such as an Animanga, a comic where they take pictures from the Anime, put sound words and speech bubbles into it in order to tell the story. The releases these things weekly, covering one episode a week.
A few episodes into the Sailor Moon S season (Season 3), one of these comics got indexed. Indexing means: You can't put the comic on display any more, run any sort of commercial (whether print or TV) for it and can't sell it to anyone under the age of 18. After 25 years, the medium is reviewed, and a new decision is made.
The reason for the indexing? To paraphrase it: According to the BPjM (the guys who do the indexing) in this comic, Chibi-Usa gets raped by a young boy about her age, not only that but she gets off on being raped. Even worse: The whole thing is supposedly treated as an "episode" within the comic, as it is neither referenced to nor talked about later.
I shit you not, this was the official reason.
So what happened here? Well, do you know Shin-chan? A couple of episodes actually aired in the US (and way later in Germany). In Japan, Shin-chan began in 1992 and runs up to this very day, having over 724. In terms of pop culture, Shin-chan is roughly the Japanese equivalent of the Simpsons.
Shin-chan, the main character (who in some ways is pretty similar to Bart) has a prank where he drops his pants, draws stuff on his genitals to make it resemble an elephant (no, really) and runs around flashing the people like this. There is nothing sexual in this, and if you remember, the Simpsons actually got away with showing Bart's nether regions in the movie, both front and back. Even the TV series has regular shots of his (and many other characters) butt.
This particular episode of Sailor Moon contained a Shin-chan reference, with the boy (who is also shown to own a Shin-chan doll) dropping his pants. There is *no* actual nudity shown in this episode, in neither version (English, Japanese, German). Chibi-Usa screams out in surprise and the boy's mother whacks him on the head for it.
Lacking a clean, non-dirty mind, German censors thought there was something to read between the lines, which there wasn't. Lacking knowledge of Anime-symbology, Chibi-Usa's hyper-deformed screaming mouth was declared to be a "tongue protuding from her mouth as she moans in lust" (Again, I shit you not). Lacking any knowledge about sequential art, the whole bone of contention (pun not intended) is exactly one page long.
See for yourself - I assure you, its completely Safe For Work!
http://jetzweb.de/h.o.r.s.t./SailorMoon21.jpg
A few episodes into the Sailor Moon S season (Season 3), one of these comics got indexed. Indexing means: You can't put the comic on display any more, run any sort of commercial (whether print or TV) for it and can't sell it to anyone under the age of 18. After 25 years, the medium is reviewed, and a new decision is made.
The reason for the indexing? To paraphrase it: According to the BPjM (the guys who do the indexing) in this comic, Chibi-Usa gets raped by a young boy about her age, not only that but she gets off on being raped. Even worse: The whole thing is supposedly treated as an "episode" within the comic, as it is neither referenced to nor talked about later.
I shit you not, this was the official reason.
So what happened here? Well, do you know Shin-chan? A couple of episodes actually aired in the US (and way later in Germany). In Japan, Shin-chan began in 1992 and runs up to this very day, having over 724. In terms of pop culture, Shin-chan is roughly the Japanese equivalent of the Simpsons.
Shin-chan, the main character (who in some ways is pretty similar to Bart) has a prank where he drops his pants, draws stuff on his genitals to make it resemble an elephant (no, really) and runs around flashing the people like this. There is nothing sexual in this, and if you remember, the Simpsons actually got away with showing Bart's nether regions in the movie, both front and back. Even the TV series has regular shots of his (and many other characters) butt.
This particular episode of Sailor Moon contained a Shin-chan reference, with the boy (who is also shown to own a Shin-chan doll) dropping his pants. There is *no* actual nudity shown in this episode, in neither version (English, Japanese, German). Chibi-Usa screams out in surprise and the boy's mother whacks him on the head for it.
Lacking a clean, non-dirty mind, German censors thought there was something to read between the lines, which there wasn't. Lacking knowledge of Anime-symbology, Chibi-Usa's hyper-deformed screaming mouth was declared to be a "tongue protuding from her mouth as she moans in lust" (Again, I shit you not). Lacking any knowledge about sequential art, the whole bone of contention (pun not intended) is exactly one page long.
See for yourself - I assure you, its completely Safe For Work!
http://jetzweb.de/h.o.r.s.t./SailorMoon21.jpg
California banned ferrets because the vermin could breed out of control...so wait you cannot have a neutered, microchip registered ferret.
Newspapers and book at your desk at work during lunch time, because it makes the office look untidy and makes the team look unproductive, even when there is not enough space to do it else where, but you could read the news on the internet...it did not last very long now you can read as much as you want on your lunch break.
Newspapers and book at your desk at work during lunch time, because it makes the office look untidy and makes the team look unproductive, even when there is not enough space to do it else where, but you could read the news on the internet...it did not last very long now you can read as much as you want on your lunch break.
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?
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?
Go to your local Wal-Mart and take a good look around. Then you tell me what's wrong with public nudity.replingham153 said:
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.
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.
