Things they banned while you were in school/work?

drunkmonkey

There's always someone that ruins it for everyone else, anybody end up having something banned your enjoyed?

I used to love British Bulldog until some soft kids got hurt and we weren't allowed play anymore : (

pappyodaniel

A friend of mine told me that the headmaster in his primary school was a priest and used to ban anything and everything. He got sent home from school once because he was wearing a Zig&Zag tracksuit when he was 9.

tomwaterford

Boys and girls holding hands in a somewhat valient effort to stop sex


Failed miserably. ...something like 8 of the young wans in my year were up the pole for the leaving cert

Mister Jingles

Tipp-Ex

drunkmonkey

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Tipp-Ex

Forgot about that and the big blue markers you could sedate a horse with.

mansize

Apparently corporal punishment was banned, not all of the teachers got the circular in my school

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

The word "christmas" in primary school.

These jelly snake things in secondary school, because people were using them to whip each other.

kyogger

Me

Mint Sauce

In primary school you couldn't have lines in your hair, or shorter than a grade 2 or 3. In the final year the Head Teacher said we could not get our shirts signed as it was not a tradition. Although shirts had been signed the whole time I was there.

Also tried to ban Bull Dog as well, and could only be played under PE supervision. Although our PE teacher included an element of Dodge Ball to it as well.

:eek:

mansize

Rugby at lunchtime was banned by our new Primary School teacher, the previous one used to let the boys fight...

The Backwards Man

We were banned from playing rounders with Tippex and the window pole.

Nazi bastards!

groucho marx

Red rover

mansize

I remember as well there was a line across the yard the junior classes couldnt cross- It was treated like the Berlin Wall - some mad young lad would make a dash for it, only for it all to end in tears

mansize

(The Berlin Wall was in situ when I was in junior classes)

r93kaey5p2izun

Running in the yard was banned. A total overreaction.

tomwaterford

Do remember we were banned from playing hurling unsupervised

Due to sporadic outbreaks of violence and teacher car park located near the pitch/lane

Miaireland

Tipex, chewing gum, Crisps (I have no idea why). Running on they playground. . Any kind of game that involved a ball

Renegade Mechanic

Running. You weren't allowed to run. I'm not even joking, running in the yard got you detention. This was the early 00s, so small wonder half the lads in school now have bigger tits than the young wans :rolleyes:

Mint Sauce

Miaireland wrote: »

Tipex, chewing gum, Crisps (I have no idea why). Running on they playground. . Any kind of game that involved a ball

In secondary school, anything bigger than a tennis ball was banned, even for football. Couldn't even use them mini world cup promotional balls from coca cola.

In national school junk food and tamagotchi' were banned

Worked as a rep for a year, there was me in Munster, a chap in Connaught and 2/3 in Leinster.

Boss banned us ringing each other, back than (10 ish years ago) there wasn't many free minutes with mobile phone deals. Was really grim as an ole natter with the colleagues is always good imo.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Deleted User wrote: »

In national school junk food and tamagotchi' were banned

Oh yeah god I forgot about those. Think there was an attempt to ban Pokemon too but they couldn't quite figure out what they were banning so it was quietly dropped

Speedwell

Work story. I was hanging out with a bunch of students from the art school down the block that year, and I attended life drawing classes with them. I was pretty good. The teacher complimented me highly on one particular piece, a rough, vital study of the regular nude model, a small and wiry man as strong and flexible as steel strapping, who posed with Japanese weapons. I took the sketch, framed it, and hung it in my cubicle. The next week the sexually frustrated schoolmarm of an office manager banned all artwork in our cubicles. (sigh)

Miss Demeanour

You know that game where you swing someone around by the hands in the air to make them dizzy? Yeah well we used to play that until I got it into my head that it would be great craic to leave her go mid air......ambulance and concussion later it was banned funnily enough.........

Edit: that was school btw.....

BalcombeSt4

Bianca Old-fashioned Paper wrote: »

Running in the yard was banned. A total overreaction.

I think we had a similar ban. There was 2 yards on are school the small one for 1st - 3rd classers & the big for 4th - 6th and I think it was the small one you were banned from running.

I also remember an odd punishment being if you done somthing bold in the big yard you got sent to the small yard for the rest of break just to humiliate you and break you as a person and break your will to resist.

Itssoeasy

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Tipp-Ex

Yep this was banned in secondary school for me.

I was in first year and was talking to my friend and whatever way I looked there was this white thing on his eye and this guy wore glasses. It was the liquid tip-ex stuff in the bottle that was banned.

spurious

Clackers.

Pffth. As if a broken wrist ever hurt anyone.

SEPT 23 1989

The American Dream

Grandeeod

Wasn't banned in the school as such, but was banned while I was in National school.

Condoms.
Certain movies and books.
Homosexuality.

r93kaey5p2izun

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

I also remember an odd punishment being if you done somthing bold in the big yard you got sent to the small yard for the rest of break just to humiliate you and break you as a person and break your will to resist.

We were put "out by the wall". You had to stand against a wall in the yard and when the teachers came out to collect their classes after lunch your teacher would come over and tell you how disappointed she was in you. Nobody was really bothered about standing at the wall tbh, other than getting bored, but it was tough to see you had let down your teacher if you liked her - as I did all my lay teachers in primary. The nuns would give a few slaps too.

hairyslug

Every Friday in work, we would all chip in €2, send someone down to aldi and buy the makings of a fry for everyone in the Dept. One lad wouldn't pay and he made it for everyone so everyone was happy.

A person got transferred from a different Dept. didn't like the idea of us having a fry (and a lad going to the shops and another taking time out of the day to cook it for us) anyway, that was the end of it for us.

the_syco

School;
Beating the crap out of kids for no reason.
Banned British Bulldog on the green area, so we just played it on the playground, minus the tripping. The other kids tended not to get in the way :P

Felix Jones is God

Metal tipped rulers..... the pain you could inflict on some poor bastard when he bent over if you managed to just make bare contact with his arse cheek on the downward swipe ..tears...rips in trousers...and then the ban

freshpopcorn

Miaireland wrote: »

Tipex, chewing gum, Crisps (I have no idea why). Running on they playground. . Any kind of game that involved a ball

I've heard of crisps being banned because they used be very hard to clean up when they got mushed into the carpets.

Sam Kade

drunkmonkey wrote: »

There's always someone that ruins it for everyone else, anybody end up having something banned your enjoyed?

I used to love British Bulldog until some soft kids got hurt and we weren't allowed play anymore : (

Bubble cars and red rover.
Funny how the headmaster banned red rover because he thought it was too rough and he could give you a wallop of a cane but that was grand.

bottlebrush

A place I used to work in didn't allow the ladies wear trousers. I remembered one girl who decided to brave it one day being sent home to change

fermanagh_man

Bleaching/highlights in hair off the boys was automatic suspension - this back back between 96-01

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Makeup. The principal kept baby wipes in her office and would make you scrub it off if she caught you with any on. She would confiscate the makeup bags from the regular offenders and tell you she'd give them back at the end of term.

Unnatural colours in your hair. Though half my teachers were pushing 60 with blonde and brown heads on them. Just as unnatural if you asked me, but nobody ever did. I was constantly in trouble with my hair.

Piercings. Only studs allowed in your ear lobes. One pair. In second year practically the entire year got their belly button pierced and then all they could do was ban anyone from flashing their midriff. Most of the girls ended up with infections and they'd tie their shirt above their belly button to let the air at it.

Walking on the right side of stairs/corridors.

Mobile phones, I was an expert at texting with my phone up my sleeve.

Your socks had to be long. Your skirt had to be at least to your knee. Then they brought in these awful parachute skirts that would billow out if you tried roll them at the waist. Had to keep your shirt buttons closed up and your tie tight. Though nobody ever did, not even the nerds.

The_Valeyard

Bulldog.

Because Peter K. Had to he a tool and get himself stitches. Ruined it for all of us. C*nt.

Was reading somewhere an interview with Manchán and Ruán Magan recounting their days in the fee-charging Gonzaga College of all places. Apparently during the Hunger Strikes in 1981 they arrived into school with black armbands on them. The principal was not impressed and instructed them to remove them immediately.

They weren't able to as their granny had strong views on the issue and sowed the black armbands on to their uniforms the night before so that the buachaillí would be unable to facilitate any requests to remove them and the lads were duly banned from attending classes and sent home.

This ferociously spirited Irish granny? Síghle Humphreys (1899-1994), famous Cumann na mBan member during the War of Independence who went on hunger strike for 31 days when imprisoned for republican activity as a 24-year-old in 1923. Brilliant! Ireland needs far more of these fiery principled sorts!

failinis

Short hair?
Even though the principle had short hair herself?
(All girl school)

Alf Stewart.

The bastards banned soggy biscuit half way through my stint in boarding school.

And me the bloody champ too.

FizzleSticks

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jester77

When I was in the lower classes, probably up to 1st or 2nd class, we were not allowed to go to the toilet unless you could ask in Irish... w*nkers. Alot of kids peed their pants and were left sitting there humiliated in the them.

Umekichi

Running, crisps, coke(despite the school shop selling Lucozade etc.), pens(unless you had the approval of the teacher i.e. if you were the teacher's pet you could), makeup(even if it was just foundation, the principal would give you baby wipes to clean your face with) and jewelry(except for stud earrings, which I can kinda understand from a H&S point of view).

Umekichi

jester77 wrote: »

When I was in the lower classes, probably up to 1st or 2nd class, we were not allowed to go to the toilet unless you could ask in Irish... w*nkers. Alot of kids peed their pants and were left sitting there humiliated in the them.

We had this as well, particularly when it came to seachtain na gaelige and we had to say it properly, if we made a mistake we had to repeat it again from the beginning until we got it perfect from the get go. I remember being in 5th class and a girl had a bladder/kidney infection(can't remember which). The girl really needed to go badly but she couldn't say it properly and ended up wetting herself, in front of the whole class. I think after that her parents got involved and since then the "rule" disappeared.

Actually when thinking about it, in 6th class I remember a girl asked if she could go to the toilet because she felt sick. The girl suffered from stomach ulcers and you could tell she genuinely needed to go. The teacher refused because she didn't believe her, and she vomited blood and vomit all over the floor.

drunkmonkey

We had the pee thing as well, seen a few girls pee themselves in class. They were cailin danas though, was one way of wee..ding them out.

foggy_lad

Miaireland wrote: »

Tipex, chewing gum, Crisps (I have no idea why). Running on they playground. . Any kind of game that involved a ball

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I've heard of crisps being banned because they used be very hard to clean up when they got mushed into the carpets.

In national school all those packets of crisps and other sweets were banned not for our health but because the old 3 room school's main toilets which were in the Yard and the other prefabs with toilets were always backing up and getting blocked because of the plastic packets, especially in winter meaning the school had to close a few times.

nullzero

There was a game we called IRA in primary school (80's) where one kid was given a word(info) to keep secret, then the other kids would knock the living sh1t out of them until they spilled their guts and gave up the word, for some reason it ended up banned.

stampydmonkey

Tennis ball soccer...prick of an old school headmaster used to cut it in half infront of the class if he caught us.."no fortheign games allowed".... eventually we got the lazy lads to keep lookout. Simpler days

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Coke was banned for us as well, even though other fizzy drinks were allowed.

I doubt my school were doing a UCD and banning it in support of striking Colombian workers.