Things they banned while you were in school/work?

mansize wrote: »

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

We had the exact same in my school. It was like a rite of passage that all must make. Run into the older boys territory, touch the far wall then make it back.

The older lads always got you. They we organised as well. Used to patrol in groups of 2 or 3 like the outside perimeter of a gulag.

Good times.

Anyway, for my one.

Footballs were banned in the yard long before I was there, so we used to all play football with tennis balls instead. There were usually several matches going on in different areas of the yard. Looking back it probably did wonders to develop our technique.
One day a tennis ball rolled towards the teacher on yard duty, she went to kick it and, not blessed with the Maradona like skillz that I possessed, twister her ankle and fell on her hoop.
She happened to be the headmasters wife. Tennis balls were banned the next day and my football skills went down hill. Probably the very reason I'm not at Real Madrid now,.

In primary school:

Going helping with the silage - Farmer in the fields behind the school getting the last cut in September, being a nice day, a bunch of the bigger boys decided "Feck this, we're helping with the silage" and went and hopped the fence, and off into the field, and ignored the teacher shouting at them. They ended up missing the bus home, and their parents had to be called.

In secondary school:

In 4th year, football for some reason. We weren't allowed to play football at lunch, or before school started, or after it ended when we were waiting for the bus. The school team in the league went from being ****, to really ****. So we did what any normal school did, try to start a firm. That was also banned.

Elastic bands. Use to make pingers. Which went from being folded bits of paper, to having tape wrapped around them, to having paperclips inside them, to having thumbtacks in the end, while the elastic bands went from being cheap stationary items to industrial rubber.

Plastic bottles. When the pingers were banned, they were upgraded to poppers. The tops of plastic bottles with either a finger of a glove or balloon taped to the end, into which you put a BB, stone, snail, gob of chewed up paper, whatever, and fired at people. These were really vicious.

Those promo CocaCola yoyos. We had them come into the school and all, and a week later, banned. Why? Not because Nigel almost hung himself. Not because they were being used as weapons. Because the vice principal was a cúnt, and couldn't manage to nail Walking the Dog. It may have been the other 2 though.

The vending machines. They lasted less than a year. From putting thumb tacks into the dispensing tray, so that when you picked your drink, and it fell, it would immediately spray everywhere, to jamming the coin slots with paper, glue, whatever. Don't think the school could keep them right for a week.

That's all that I can think of at the moment, no doubt there was more.

At primary school we had this colonnade with benches along it. We used to play a game called squash. The aim was to squeeze as many people as possible on the bench. It got banned when people started fainting.... Wimps ;-)

Laxatives and going to the post office were both banned while I was in secondary school.

The laxatives because some unknown soldier managed to get into the staff room and lace the burco . He was actually caught with his parents agreeing to enroll him in a new school the following year.

The "post office " ban was because some headbanger ran into it one afternoon with his school tie wrapped round his head shouting "this is a stick up".

Man , everyone felt sorry for him.. everyone had a go of him Gardai , local priest , his parents.

Office beers on the last Friday of the month. Cans of beer would appear about 3pm, there'd be awards for stuff then back to work for another few hours slightly buzzed. I moved abroad in the mid-noughties when I came back a few years later it had gone the way of smoking in the office. If you hadn't seen it you wouldn't believe it was ever allowed.

zerks wrote:

In secondary school they wouldn't allow us have a soccer team "as it was a foreign sport",within a fortnight they had a school rugby team (vice principal played the game)

My husbands school was the same! Place had 6 or 7 Gaa fields but no room for soccer as it was a foreign game.

We also had one of those Berlin Wall style white lines in CBS Primary in Limerick which separated the 2nd-4th class students from the 5th and 6th class students.

WWF Wrestling was all the craze back in the early 90's there. We used to have wrestling fights in the yard until I gave my classmate an Undertaker style tombstone piledriver in the yard. He got a concussion and I got a horrendous bollicking from the headmaster. There was no more wrestling after that

Wheelchairs. Unless you actually needed it. There was a room in our school for the wheelchair users, and a little closet full of 6/7 wheelchairs. You'd go in on break and grab a wheelchair and bash into each other and do races etc. There obviously wasn't enough wheelchairs to go around so some people would borrow more from people who actually needed them, and just leave them on the floor. In fairness they all thought it was hilarious.

Oh God does anyone remember those 'funny message' post it notes? They sold them in the gadget shop in dundrum I think. Anyway, during night study we put some on teachers desks. They said things like 'i think I left my underwear in your car last night or I know you're cheating on your wife... Jesus