Things they banned while you were in school/work?

the_syco · 21-07-2016 09:16PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:21PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:28PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:29PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:31PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:37PM

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 21-07-2016 09:38PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:50PM

Bulldog.

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

21-07-2016 09:57PM

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 · 21-07-2016 09:59PM

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

Alf Stewart. · 21-07-2016 10:11PM

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

And me the bloody champ too.

FizzleSticks · 21-07-2016 10:28PM

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jester77 · 21-07-2016 10:35PM

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 · 21-07-2016 10:43PM

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 · 21-07-2016 10:50PM

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 · 21-07-2016 10:56PM

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 · 21-07-2016 10:56PM

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 · 21-07-2016 10:58PM

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 · 21-07-2016 11:04PM

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 · 21-07-2016 11:05PM

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.

fg1406 · 21-07-2016 11:07PM

In primary school, anything that they school deemed junk food was banned. This included but not limited to biscuits and yoghurts. We had daily lunch box inspections which lead to playground trades in contraband junk food that would be smuggled in.
Running was also banned both indoors and outdoors.
Wearing "outdoor" shoes inside the building was also banned. We had to change shoes once we stepped inside.
In secondary school Tipp ex, dyed hair of any sort, make up, any more than one pair of earrings, shoes with a heel greater than 1 inch were all banned

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 21-07-2016 11:13PM

When the age for buying cigarettes went up from 16 to 18, my secondary school finally banned smoking and done away with the designated smoking room. I'm deadly serious. You had to have a note signed from your parents to say that it was ok for you to smoke, then you'd get access to the room and be allowed to puff away to your hearts content alongside your fellow students and teachers.

Funnily enough, once they banned smoking in the school, they also banned students from doing it anywhere at all while in uniform, and if you were caught you were fined €20. Bloody hypocrites.

mzungu · 21-07-2016 11:14PM

nullzero wrote: »

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.

Promptly reinstated in 1994 no doubt.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 21-07-2016 11:24PM

Smoking was allowed in designated areas in my school.The sounder teachers and 5th and 6th years would smoke fags and play pool during the breaks.

It was banned the year after I left,1989.Would make the International news if it went on now.

drunkmonkey · 21-07-2016 11:26PM

Ishaan Juicy Smoker wrote: »

Funnily enough, once they banned smoking in the school, they also banned students from doing it anywhere at all while in uniform, and if you were caught you were fined €20. Bloody hypocrites.

Did ye have the radiator fine as well, anyone caught sitting on a radiator was fined 10 pound, not sure why.

donegaLroad · 21-07-2016 11:33PM

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Tipp-Ex

it was Tipp-ex thinners that was banned at our school.

RayM · 21-07-2016 11:33PM

Does anyone remember that game where you'd deliberately hyperventilate and then your friends would press your chest until you pass out? And then they'd catch you (unless they didn't, in which case you'd split your head open off the edge of a radiator).

They banned that in primary school, the miserable fuckers.

mzungu · 21-07-2016 11:37PM

RayM wrote: »

Does anyone remember that game where you'd deliberately hyperventilate and then your friends would press your chest until you pass out? And then they'd catch you (unless they didn't, in which case you'd split your head open off the edge of a radiator).

They banned that in primary school, the miserable fuckers.

Never heard of that one. Just as well, sounds dangerous.

nullzero · 21-07-2016 11:40PM

I remember the sweets Nerds and Dweebs being banned because someone said there was aluminum in them.

drunkmonkey · 21-07-2016 11:41PM

we had a different version of it but you still ended up unconscious, it had something to do with a few peoples fingers on your neck or back somewhere until you passed out, it's 25 yrs since I played it, will have to ask one of the lads can they remember,

we had another one where everyone put pressure on someones head then 4 lads could lift them up with a finger each. Very devil worship'ish.

Things they banned while you were in school/work?

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