So I was thinking the other day about shit that got banned at school when I was there.
Wrestling.
WWF was pretty much at it's peak here in the UK when I was at school, naturally, kids loved playing at wrestling and emulating their heroes such as The Undertaker and our very own Hulkster. For some reason, parents complained when their kids came home crying because they got power slammed into the concrete by one of the bigger boys. The teachers took action and it got banned like a Sharpie wielding tomgirl from Walmart.
British Bulldogs.
A playground game that went by various names, but "British Bulldogs" seems to be the most common.
It was played in a designated area, maybe about the dimensions of a basketball court, with one person being chosen as "it" The rest of the group would line up at one side of the area, and their only goal was to run to the other side. Whomever was "it" simply had to catch one or more of them, and they would then join his team, the game would then repeat with everybody now running back to the other end, with an expanded group of opposing players trying to catch more people.
It sounds simple enough, but with kids being kids, and having no sense of restraint, the game could get shockingly violent. The highlight would often be when the two teams became equal in size and the scenario that would play out resembled something like Theoden's riders of Rohan charging the Mamukil in The Return of the King.
Obviously, injuries were common, so whenever a game in progress was spotted by a teacher the foot came down. Banned!
So what stuff got banned when you guys were young, be it at school, in your home, or even at a government level?
Wrestling.
WWF was pretty much at it's peak here in the UK when I was at school, naturally, kids loved playing at wrestling and emulating their heroes such as The Undertaker and our very own Hulkster. For some reason, parents complained when their kids came home crying because they got power slammed into the concrete by one of the bigger boys. The teachers took action and it got banned like a Sharpie wielding tomgirl from Walmart.
British Bulldogs.
A playground game that went by various names, but "British Bulldogs" seems to be the most common.
It was played in a designated area, maybe about the dimensions of a basketball court, with one person being chosen as "it" The rest of the group would line up at one side of the area, and their only goal was to run to the other side. Whomever was "it" simply had to catch one or more of them, and they would then join his team, the game would then repeat with everybody now running back to the other end, with an expanded group of opposing players trying to catch more people.
It sounds simple enough, but with kids being kids, and having no sense of restraint, the game could get shockingly violent. The highlight would often be when the two teams became equal in size and the scenario that would play out resembled something like Theoden's riders of Rohan charging the Mamukil in The Return of the King.
Obviously, injuries were common, so whenever a game in progress was spotted by a teacher the foot came down. Banned!
So what stuff got banned when you guys were young, be it at school, in your home, or even at a government level?
