Things they banned while you were in school/work?

drunkmonkey · 21-07-2016 07:57PM #1

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 · 21-07-2016 07:59PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:00PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:01PM

Tipp-Ex

drunkmonkey · 21-07-2016 08:02PM

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Tipp-Ex

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

mansize · 21-07-2016 08:03PM

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

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-07-2016 08:03PM

The word "christmas" in primary school.

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

kyogger · 21-07-2016 08:04PM

Me

Mint Sauce · 21-07-2016 08:04PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:04PM

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

The Backwards Man · 21-07-2016 08:06PM

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

Nazi bastards!

groucho marx · 21-07-2016 08:07PM

Red rover

mansize · 21-07-2016 08:08PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:11PM

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

r93kaey5p2izun · 21-07-2016 08:12PM

Running in the yard was banned. A total overreaction.

tomwaterford · 21-07-2016 08:13PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:13PM

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

Renegade Mechanic · 21-07-2016 08:16PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:29PM

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.

21-07-2016 08:31PM

In national school junk food and tamagotchi' were banned

21-07-2016 08:32PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:37PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:39PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:40PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:43PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:43PM

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 · 21-07-2016 08:47PM

Clackers.

Pffth. As if a broken wrist ever hurt anyone.

SEPT 23 1989 · 21-07-2016 08:52PM

The American Dream

Grandeeod · 21-07-2016 08:53PM

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

Condoms.
Certain movies and books.
Homosexuality.

r93kaey5p2izun · 21-07-2016 09:04PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:10PM

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.

Things they banned while you were in school/work?

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