A follow up to this. picked by kxmk 2 years ago

An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban. picked by topofall 2 months ago

Thank GOD we have the school system to save us from certain hellfire and damnation. I think this kid should probably hang. As it was he got off WAY light - only a suspension and forced to resign his class Vice President office. Him and Elliot Spitzer can swap stories now. picked by moe 2 years ago

Patrick Abbazia attends his class bound in blue duct tape. He’s not doing it just to be weird - instead, he’s protesting a strange policy of the East Shore Middle School in Milford Connecticut: a "no-touching’ policy that bans physical contact between students!
"Going down the halls it is so cramped that it is hard not to touch anyone,"

UPDATE TO THIS STORY picked by bingo 8 months ago

Following the ban on followers of the Cult of Scientology from entering Britain in 1968, British representatives gathered together a dossier of evidence that showed that the qualifications Hubbard and others claimed to hold were faked and then highlighted an attempt by the cultists to suppress the information. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

LONDON — Odeon, the U.K.’s biggest exhib chain, will not show Sony’s new release “Rambo” at its theaters this weekend, citing undisclosed “commercial reasons.”

I got told it's because it's too Brutal?!?! picked by thenegativeone 2 years ago

Score one for Britain in its contest with the United States to create the stupidest fear-based society. The Watford Borough Council took the lead by banning parents from supervising their own kids in public playgrounds, “because they have not undergone criminal record checks.” picked by tigertony 4 weeks ago

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has banned the word for male birds from its website, drawing accusations of political correctness gone mad. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

in real estate ads. picked by suebe 9 months ago

Microsoft: 'We can confirm that Microsoft is not taking any action (such as banning Xbox Live accounts) against gamers who are playing Halo 3 before the official street date. Any rumours or speculation to the contrary are false.'

Follow-up: picked by punthe 2 years ago

Muslims in Malaysia have been barred from attending a concert by U.S. hip hop band the Black Eyed Peas sponsored by Guinness which is owned by the world's biggest spirits group Diageo. picked by Doggylives 3 months ago

On May 10th, 2007, this video was banned in Congress. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney. picked by TraumaMamma 4 months ago

An official at Jamaica High School barred school deans from calling 911 in an emergency - just weeks before 14-year-old Mariya Fatima suffered a stroke her family says could have been less devastating. picked by titojuante 2 years ago

Cartoonist Tom Scott has found his depiction of a super- mouse in Nazi uniform is too strong for German distributors of his drug education book. picked by ogri2003 2 years ago

Regular customers recalled seeing "obscene" covers of music CDs and "indecent" pictures in magazines blackened out, indicating that store was being monitored. picked by VooDooPeacock 3 years ago

Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. picked by suebe 7 months ago

Sigh...yet another giant leap backwards in the sex education debacle. India has the has most HIV patients, yet 40 percent of women there do not know what HIV is.

An interesting article, especially when you see my next post. picked by Moe 2 years ago

Award-winning "And Tango Makes Three," about two male penguins parenting an egg from a mixed-sex penguin couple, tops the list of most challenged books in 2006 by parents and administrators, due to the issues of homosexuality. picked by makri 3 years ago

This video is being touted as "banned" but I think people are blowing that term out of proportion in this case. Regardless, it is actually a rather interesting interview. Laura Bush's scheduled interview with RTE 2 days after was canceled shortly after this interview.

(http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1141416.htm) picked by muppet 2 years ago