Stupidest thing to ever be banned?
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i know this has been said but basically anything electronic on school grounds. Mostly cell phones; we're still going to text and most teachers don't care at my school as long as it's not during a lecture or test.
Yep. It just led to a rise in crime. A lot of gangsters in that era came to power through bootlegging illegal liquor into the country.AccursedTheory said:
Not sure, but the Headteacher was an ex-mother superior, she also said pokemon taught devil worship.Father Time said:
I've seen a few people say their Schools Firewall was stupid, But I think my High school's wins. It was so restrictive we couldn't even access Google. In our first year of High School we found the back door, but if you were caught using it you would loose your computer privileges for the year, and the back door was removed before the next year started. Out computers were useless as Research Aid's as the only thing you would be able to access is the "blocked page" page >.>
Where were women banned from video games?? That one would have to come close to winning for most stupid.Aylaine said:
If not for this one: A book. ANY book. Ever.
OoPs!! Ellen of Kitten beat me to that but thanks to having an internet with a speed best defined as "geriatric" I missed it since it didn't load the whole page. *sigh* You know it's time to upgrade when you get Ninja'd....TWO days ago!! So good one Ellen of Kitten! Geez talk about sentances you never thought you would find yourself using....
Actually someone did post that earlier in the thread, and it turns out it was never really banned.Harklen said:
My Elementary School banned computers during indoor recess, i can't exactly remember why, but i think it had to do with me showing the whole class the Epic Movie trailer, everyone crowded around the computer, all thought it was hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKIr7r6Op4
i wasn't trying to say it's a great book or anything, i'm just saying it being "sooooo contraversal" and it getting banned for that "fact" is the stupidest ban everRowdyRodimus said:
In my old city of residence (Coon Rapids, Minnesota) there is a city ordinance that bans trains from using their horns at railroad crossings due to people living near railroad tracks who complained about horns at night.
To add insult to injury: the number of injuries/deaths at railroad crossings in that city has skyrocketed ever since, and there's no indication that the ordinance is ever going to be repealed.
[sarcasm] Gotta love people who ban things that are meant to protect you from being killed, huh? [/sarcasm]
To add insult to injury: the number of injuries/deaths at railroad crossings in that city has skyrocketed ever since, and there's no indication that the ordinance is ever going to be repealed.
[sarcasm] Gotta love people who ban things that are meant to protect you from being killed, huh? [/sarcasm]
Lame, I mean the US could recognize Taiwan and Hong Kong as independent countries (which Taiwan is but I don't know about Hong Kong)but Tibet is ignored?icame said:
The stupidest bans tend to be in schools because of retarded moms that base their parenting off Fox news and other stupid media outlets. Like banning the Giver from Elementary schools because they thought their kids aren't smart enough to not act like the people in that book.
Well, it might not be THE stupidest ban, but schools banning cellphones doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I mean, yeah, take them up if you see people using them during class, but cellphones make communication with parents for afterschool activities about 99 times easier. Luckily my school realized this and adopted the same policy I described.
This. Also i think its funny that with hemp we can get more paper with one acre, then with 16 acres of trees...and it grows about a million times faster...Hubilub said:
The ban of cellphones on planes is pretty stupid. No modern plane can be effected by the tiny signal from a phone, yet the fear that this ban has created resulted in some kid getting punched when he refused to turn his phone off (the attacker, a 52 year old, is facing assault charges but seems to have felt justified because he was defending everyones lives).
There was an energy drink released here in NZ which got banned cos it contained trace amounts of a chemical that could potentially cause cancer. The importer complained saying the chemical was in cigarettes in ten times the concentration and those were legal. Of course while a valid arguement it didn't help him.
And when I finally got to watch Clockwork Orange, I thought "OMG it got banned for years, it must be brutal!". Man was I disappointed...
There was an energy drink released here in NZ which got banned cos it contained trace amounts of a chemical that could potentially cause cancer. The importer complained saying the chemical was in cigarettes in ten times the concentration and those were legal. Of course while a valid arguement it didn't help him.
And when I finally got to watch Clockwork Orange, I thought "OMG it got banned for years, it must be brutal!". Man was I disappointed...
Well, this person captured it excellently. After all it caused a rise in drunkards, alcohol drinking, the black market and crime. Bravo.Dr_Horrible said:
Although there is ONE thing I think is even worse than that: Flat chests in Australia. WHY?!