Things that got banned

[jason h]

Re: Things that got banned

Tomato sauce sachets got banned at our school. We had these on sale for a time in the canteen at Middle School. Kids realized that you could take them out into the playground, tear off one corner and stamp on it on the floor. This would 'scatter-gun' red tomato ketchup all over people.

Shuriken throwing stars. It was about 1983/4 and the ninja craze was at it's hight. There was a martal arts shop in Leeds that me and my friends went to one Saturday and returned armed with a selection of dangerous shuriken stars. They were very popular and I enjoyed them myself. We used to throw them against the wooden cricket hut score-board over the road but never got up to any mischief with them. These were later banned under The Criminal Justice Act 1988 along with so-called Butterfly Knives.

[escorteclipse1990]

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Anyone remember when Nerds sweets got recalled for having glass in them? Infact there was a spate of things being contaminated with stuff at the time, but I can't remember what the other things were.

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

[escorteclipse1990]

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Duck and Dry hairdryers from the mid 80's they looked like a duck and kids thought they were toys. I have one

[philipdalton]

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The cane/slipper, although probably it's time to bring them back again.

[Richard1978]

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

I remember that scare, a few months earlier someone started putting stuff in baby food as part of a blackmail scam.

[onthebusesfan]

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Teletubbies toys getting banned from toy stores because it sounded like i gotta a gun and faggot faggot , Pogs Because many children would keep the pogs they won in games from other players, many school districts considered pogs a form of gambling. Pogs proved to be major distractions from classes and the source of various playground arguments. These elements eventually led to the banning of pogs from various schools across North America and many western European Countries such as Sweden, Iceland, Germany and the UK. Other bannings occurred across Australia.

[onthebusesfan]

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Hooch At the time, along with other alcopops, the drink received criticism for encouraging underage drinking by appealing to children due to its sweet taste and using cartoon-like advertising.In 1996 an advertising campaign for Hooch was criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for appealing to underage drinkers.In 1997 the drink was relaunched with an 'unambiguously adult look' and a reduced sugar content to tackle that criticism, while Co-Op Supermarkets, Iceland, J D Wetherspoon and Whitbread stopped selling alcopops.

[darren]

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i agree there.

well ok keep the cane banned but a slipper do no harm.
when did the cane get banned i was in school to 91 or so and it still was there.

The cane/slipper, although probably it's time to bring them back again.

[amethyst]

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Some chinese paints and crayons were taking of the shelves due to being so toxic.How things are easily brought into this country without being fully tested for safety.Imagine the cosequences if children chewed onto toxic crayons

[PC66]

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Another record the BBC wouldn't play:

Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling, 1972. "Too suggestive."

[Powdered toast man]

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Those slap bracelets that would wrap themselves around a wrist when 'slapped' on them. They consisted of a strip of cheap spring steel wrapped in a colourful fabric sleeve. If I remember, they were banned from most places after a schoolgirl cut her wrist badly after the steel split out of the fabric and sliced her veins open. Must have been early 90s'.

[Richard1978]

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Anyone remember those small plastic dummys that were popular in the early 1990s?

I remember a few schools banning them for being being a choking hazard & unhygienic.

[jason h]

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Bangers.
Wearing Illuminous Socks at School.
Evil Dead.

[darren]

Re: Things that got banned

still wrong to ban it though.

i think there was a madonna song that was banned.
it was called something like my love cant be hundred per cent sure of its name.

lets say it was naughty.

Another record the BBC wouldn't play:

Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling, 1972. "Too suggestive."

[victorbrunswick]

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Joe Camel
Used by R.J. Reynolds from 1988 to 1997 to advertise Camel cigarettes, Joe Camel was originally the creation of British illustrator Billy Coulton and had been used in Europe since the 1970s but in the late '80s and 1990s could be seen on American billboards as well as gracing ballcaps, T-shirts and other apparel. In 1997 RJR dropped the character from its advertising under pressure from campaigners who charged that Joe Camel had too much recognition and appeal to underage children and was encouraging them to smoke.

One of the last promotions featuring Joe Camel were prize coupons called "Camel Cash." Even though I don't smoke I bought a pack of Camels that included the coupon to preserve as a collector's item. Unfortunately the pack got destroyed by mice!