Things that got banned

[PC66]

Re: Things that got banned

Cigarette advertising on television was banned completely in Britain in the mid-1960's. (Although somewhat curiously, it did not affect cigars!)

Wasn't there also some new ban introduced a few years ago about not allowing cigarette billboard advertising close to schools?

[Sly]

Re: Things that got banned

Advertising cigarettes in the UK ended totally didn't it? I remember driving home the day they were banned and all the adverts were faux banned with censorship lines or fat ladies singing.

[the fox]

I remember Nerds sweets having glass in them. I had forgot about Nerds

You can still buy nerds, usually from dedicated sweet shops. theres a good one in soho, London, which does a variety of american and retro sweets. Actually I always believed they had been banned for some dodgy ingredient, but obviously not. I didn't know about the glass thing.

I miss creosote - the smell of childhood suburban summers.

[PC66]

Re: Things that got banned

Advertising cigarettes in the UK ended totally didn't it?

DId it? I must have missed that one! Never been a smoker myself.

[philipdalton]

Re: Things that got banned

Clackers!
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (banned airplay? - can't properly remember)

It was banned by the BBC for being too sexually explicit, but not by the commercial radio stations.

[Twocky61]

Re: Things that got banned

+The movie Shopping starring Jude Law & Sadie Frost about ram raiding

+ The movie Clockwork Orange

[philipdalton]

Re: Things that got banned

List of films which have been banned either in the cinema or on video:

Deep Throat
The Exorcist
Driller Killer
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Snuff (mistakenly thought by some to contain a real murder scene)
Animal Farm (Danish porno movie)

[Twocky61]

Re: Things that got banned

The Idiots a Danish movie

[philipdalton]

Re: Things that got banned

Considering how liberal things have gone nowadays a film must be pretty nasty stuff to get banned from the cinema, DVD or even television. One such example is a film on DVD called "The Bunny Game". It is available through mail order on the Internet but without a BBFC certificate. I haven't seen the film as I wouldn't have the guts to watch such fare so I don't know how someone would go on should they try to get it prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act.

[battyrat]

Re: Things that got banned

My music collection, My wife hated it..................then I banned the wife,

Now I have a wonderful selection of music.

[philipdalton]

Re: Things that got banned

Perhaps surprisingly one of the few 'video nasties' which are still banned by the BBFC today was made in 1969. Its name is "Love Camp 7". It is banned for similar reasons to "The Bunny Game"

[zabadak]

Re: Things that got banned

+ The movie Clockwork Orange

This wasn't exactly banned, per se - it was withdrawn by the director, Stanley Kubrick, as he thought it was too violent...