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  • 06-08-2010 01:02AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭


    Have you ever owned anything that was banned or illegal to own or view in this country?

    (NOT Drugs though, there's been enough threads about them at this stage).


    Growing up, there was always a few movies being passed around that were banned at the time (or so we were told).

    Some I remember that I seen:

    Clockwork Orange, Life of Brian, Meaning Of Life, Spit On Your Grave, Night Child, Deep Throat.

    As for Books, my cousin bought me a copy of Madonna's Sex in Belfast when it was banned here but I could get Playboy at the back of Funderland on O'Connell St for years :)

    Remember also having to get music from the UK by mail order as it was illeagl to sell the unedited versions here.

    Stuff like 2 Live Crew and Bodycount which Virgin and HMV would tell us they were unable to sell unedited.

    A mate (your honour) also had a two Traci Lords movies called, 'What Gets Me Hot' and 'Those Young Girls' - she looked at least 21 in them which suited me as I liked older women .. back then :p

    So how' about you, what have you owned or viewed that was banned?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Were the "Childs Play" movies banned for a few years (after the Bulger case in the UK) or was that a myth ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 The Grammar Police!


    Pepper Spray and Poteen....but not at the same time!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    Pepper Spray and Poteen....but not at the same time!

    but you're in the police so it's ok..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    If Manhunt on PS2 was ever banned then that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    I was given painkillers that were subsequently banned for causing liver failure a few years ago.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭HereNorThere


    Pepper Spray and Poteen....but not at the same time!

    What's Poteen?

    Boy, I'm learning alot today! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    weed something really nice about walking past a cop with an ounce of weed on your person :D and them to look at you like any other person :pac:

    Id like to thank visualisation tip from The movie Blow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    What's Poteen?

    Boy, I'm learning alot today! :D

    It's actually Poitín , a drink brewed from spuds that will blow your head off. Spent 3 days drunk on it in a former life :o

    I think ^^^^


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    replica gun?

    are bongs illegal now? or is it just the selling of them (is that law actually in place?)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    used as an anastethic for calves say if you were operating or whatever.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    A grenade!.. Seriously!.. We exploded it in some fields in Ballymun :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    A grenade!.. Seriously!.. We exploded it in some fields in Ballymun :D

    there's still some scumbags left tho :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    weed something really nice about walking past a cop with an ounce of weed on your person :D and them to look at you like any other person :pac:

    Id like to thank visualisation tip from The movie Blow

    I thought of Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs, I wouldn't fancy playing out that scene as much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    An origional copy of "they never came home" by Christy Moore.

    http://www.triskelle.eu/lyrics/theynevercamehome.php?index=080.010.080.010


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    weed something really nice about walking past a cop with an ounce of weed on your person :D and them to look at you like any other person :pac:

    Id like to thank visualisation tip from The movie Blow

    *Try sitting in a car with half a kilo of coke in the glovebox while the local Garda hangs in the window discussing the result of the local hurling game while you are coming up on an acid tab. :eek:


    * Might not be true


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Kasabian wrote: »
    *Try sitting in a car with half a kilo of coke in the glovebox while the local Garda hangs in the window discussing the result of the local hurling game while you are coming up on an acid tab. :eek:


    * Might not be true

    when you say a kilo of coke are you sure it was'nt like a third of a kilo of coke with 2 1/3rds some other white powder :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    A grenade!.. Seriously!.. We exploded it in some fields in Ballymun :D

    *Calls guards...looks at Avatar....calls ERU*

    A few things, but not gonna say them here, still have a few lying around! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    when you say a kilo of coke are you sure it was'nt like a third of a kilo of coke with 2 1/3rds some other white powder :)

    *It could have been sugar for all I knew :pac:

    Edit , I meant Can of Coke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Mine's pretty lame, on coming home after working in the states where I had a tooth pulled, I brought back with me a bottle of seriously strong prescription painkillers. They were unreal, and even better when mixed with alcohol. I can't for the life of me remember what they were called though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Have you ever owned anything that was banned or illegal to own or view in this country?

    (NOT Drugs though, there's been enough threads about them at this stage).

    Growing up, there was always a few movies being passed around that were banned at the time (or so we were told).

    Some I remember that I seen:

    Clockwork Orange, Life of Brian, Meaning Of Life, Spit On Your Grave, Night Child, Deep Throat.

    As for Books, my cousin bought me a copy of Madonna's Sex in Belfast when it was banned here but I could get Playboy at the back of Funderland on O'Connell St for years :)

    Remember also having to get music from the UK by mail order as it was illeagl to sell the unedited versions here.

    Stuff like 2 Live Crew and Bodycount which Virgin and HMV would tell us they were unable to sell unedited.

    A mate (your honour) also had a two Traci Lords movies called, 'What Gets Me Hot' and 'Those Young Girls' - she looked at least 21 in them which suited me as I liked older women .. back then :p

    So how' about you, what have you owned or viewed that was banned?

    NO guard, i swear ,nothing.gtfo pete.why would you want ppl to incriminate themselves on a public forum?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Mine's pretty lame, on coming home after working in the states where I had a tooth pulled, I brought back with me a bottle of seriously strong prescription painkillers. They were unreal, and even better when mixed with alcohol. I can't for the life of me remember what they were called though.

    Thought you were gonna say you got stopped and had to explain they were for your sick goat and you had to get a russian to explain your story to the officials!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    My friend’s older brother had a taser.

    I remember myself the younger brother and another lad where messing about with it and a moth landed on the other lads finger. We decided it would be a great idea to try taser it to death. Of course the voltage ran straight down my mates hand and he collapsed on the floor in bits.

    Funny as fuck it was. Couldn’t stop laughing. He was fine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    Kasabian wrote: »
    *Try sitting in a car with half a kilo of coke in the glovebox while the local Garda hangs in the window discussing the result of the local hurling game while you are coming up on an acid tab. :eek:


    * Might not be true

    *try getting strip searched with 50 yolks down your balls and getting away with it ;)

    *this is true


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    After reading post no 23 and 24 i rest my case:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    I have two ninja stars that I bought in Poland a couple of years ago (no problem bringing them home on the plane). I also have an old samurai sword I bought in Balina, Mayo, 6 years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I have two ninja stars that I bought in Poland a couple of years ago

    Wanna see my brown star?.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    I know a person that was banned for being the most stupid and irrelevant self absorbed so called Journalist that ever graced the ink of a Irish newspaper.
    See here: http://www.bebo.com/c/photos/view?MemberId=12145583&PhotoAlbumId=5318392211&PhotoId=5318445874#photoId=5318402153


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    Doc wrote: »
    My friend’s older brother had a taser.

    Is his name Mici?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Is his name Mici?

    No


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Diddler82


    I know a person that was banned for being the most stupid and irrelevant self absorbed so called Journalist that ever graced the ink of a Irish newspaper.
    See here: http://www.bebo.com/c/photos/view?MemberId=12145583&PhotoAlbumId=5318392211&PhotoId=5318445874#photoId=5318402153

    can you care to explain what he did wrong. Forgive me ignorance in advance!


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