Stupidest thing to ever be banned?

[Escapefromwhatever]

Being openly homosexual.
Non-whites from University.
Women from voting.

I could go on.

 

[Shirokurou]

Light bulbs that aren't ecologically safe were banned from production and sales pretty recently. I still have few, I guess I'm a dirty criminal.

 

[Akalistos]

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?

ZING!
I can't stand cigarette either but I didn't have a problem with second hand smoke.

Zing? Oh dear lord no he called out my shooped avatar! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

I don't find any form of smoking "cool", but I don't care if someone else wants to do it as long as they don't do it in my face (And a cat with a pipe and a hat is just classy).

In your face? You mean they run around you and blow smoke in your face? I don't see why it's such a big deal to get some smoke in your face, as long as it's not intentional.

 

[dementis]

I never drank once nor plan on it.

Haha I used to say that until I turned 18.

 

[Sassafrass]

Hugs.
My secondary school banned hugs. For the following reason.

"We have heard rumours that people have been hugging others without their permission. We ask you now to stop as you are being hugged against your will, which could lead to emotional trauma." ... -_-

Oh, and they banned couples kissing on school grounds. So what did all the couples do? Stepped outside school property.

 

[JaffaFrost]

Fat chicks. That's what's wrong with that.

Things get banned all the time. Sometimes its for legitimate reasons. Other times the reasoning behind seems to of been done by someone with half a brain.

The stupidest i can think of is when china banned football manager 05' for portraying Tibet as a country. China does a lot of stupid stuff but cmon'!

Public Nudity. What is wrong with it?

Nothing.
Nothing is wrong with that.

Fat chicks. That's what's wrong with that.

Damn loop holes!

also, double post fail.

 

[Lord Kloo]

1984 by George Orwell, banned in Russia, USA and Britain during the cold war.. kind of ironic if you ask me..

Are you sure it was banned in Britain and the USA?

Only briefly when it first came out in 1949 although the ban was lifted quite quickly in Britain, soon after in America and then I'm not sure when the USSR approved it, probably after the fall of the USSR..

 

[mikev7.0]

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.

7 or so times for me. :/

Things get banned all the time. Sometimes its for legitimate reasons. Other times the reasoning behind seems to of been done by someone with half a brain.

The stupidest i can think of is when china banned football manager 05' for portraying Tibet as a country. China does a lot of stupid stuff but cmon'!

Banning girls in video games 4-6 years ago. Cmon guys, we just want to play too. :3

Where were women banned from video games?? That one would have to come close to winning for most stupid.

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....

Hehe, it's not as bad as it sounds, and it was only in other video games. Not a law or anything.

Thank God. What games? Anyone who thinks women can't play games are forgetting or don't know that one of the ways that girls differ from guys is in spatial perception and that they can think of multiple subjects easier than men. (source: Dr. Lin, Psychology teacher)

Then again banning women from BEING in certain games wouldn't even cause Gloria Steinem to object. Duke Nuke'em Forever springs to mind....

 

[mikev7.0]

Being openly homosexual.
Non-whites from University.
Women from voting.

I could go on.

All fixed thanks to 80's pop, Thurgood Marshall (Actually he just put an end to "Seperate but equal" which was basically the same thing. There was nothing equal about the cultural quality difference in education, in truth we still struggle with that today in my opinion, but it is much better thanks to him.) and the Sufferage Movement.

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

I guess trench knives. Oh, it's illegal to spit on the ground where I live.

 

[Alden Hou]

my school has a really conservative catholic principal, and she banned bright red sneakers, open toe sandals, and skirts. because they were "the devil's work"(her words, not mine(and its not even a catholic school))

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).

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.

i am completely serious, i am an athiest and i vote liberal, so you can see the problems i have with this.

 

[locoartero]

My country's goverment was hostily taken over by a military dictatorship back in '76 that killed over 30.000 people just for commiting the hideous crime of thinking.
This soldiers also happened to be pretty stupid (as any soldier) and they banned a chemistry book entitled "La Cuba Electrolítica" because the "Cuba" in the title made their tiny psychopathic minds think it might be a communist book.

 

[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.

So giving those crime lords money is the better option. Right.

I never said giving them money was better. I said that it's pitiful that people were so desperate to get their alcoholic fix that they had to turn to local crime lords to get them a drink.

 

[Chubbs99]

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 >.>

What's the point in a school having computers if they don't even allow you on Google? That's a popular search engine to find information for school assignments. I know I've used it a bunch of times for research assignments.

Yes, this is a question I and many of my friends asked ourselves each day. But, considering this was a High School who's computer class had you learning how to draw in MS Paint, was a sure sign that they had no idea what a computer was for. And I kid you not. Module 1: Drawing in MS Paint. Module 2: "Drawing" in MS Word. o_o;;;

 

[Arcticflame]

Your article is wrong, Australia really DID ban small breasts.
... And most videogames... And plastic display weapons... Aaaaand wooden display weapons.
Besides that its openly gay-bashing, zealously religious to the point they imitate the states and not to forget the many many natural disasters...
The only upside would be Steve Irwin... But he's dead now.

Not sure if sarcastic or not, but I'll bite.

Australia doesn't ban video games, it's a problem of their being a legal loophole, technically they aren't even banned.

Plastic display weapons? Um? I see them in shops all the time.

Wooden display weapons, well certainly not at the dojo's I've visited.

Australia is certainly not openly gay-bashing, I walk down oxford street in sydney all the time, and if it was openly gay-bashing, there would be a rather large proportion of bruised homosexuals...

Natural disasters we have sometimes, but more regularly recently, generally it's not so bad, certainly there are a lot of worse countries to be in.

Religious to the point they imitate the states? Uh? No, certainly not, the vast majority of Australians are non-religious in the sense that they may have some belief or may not, but simply don't visit church.

 

[ddrfr33k]

When I worked at a food court, we had a bottle of hand sanitizer for people who wanted to use it. We saw it as a common curtesy. The health inspector had us remove it because it was a "dangerous chemical." Those were her exact words.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

The city I currently live in has a law against dandilions, of all things, not that you'd notice when driving around shopping areas and those little patches of grass being overrun by the little yellow things. Not really a ban, but still something silly to not allow.

Anything that is Zero Tolerance, like expelling a six year old for bringing a Lego gun to school. C'mon... Not even an inch long, no moving parts, not even very accurate to a real gun, and teachers still throw a fit? That's some silly stuff to ban right there. If the kid lost the gun? Oh well. That'll teach him not to bring toys to school just as well as having the principal call the cops and the parents and terrorizing the poor thing over a piece of shaped plastic.

 

[Laser Priest]

Schools have banned students from reading Fahrenheit 451.

If you don't know what the book is about, look it up to see why this is so saddeningly hilarious.

 

[Azaraxzealot]

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.

As above, except we started to program games on the calculators.
Now calculators are banned in Calculus.
/facepalm

fighting teenagers entertaining themselves is like fighting piracy.