MORE weird words your schools have banned lately

[@thediscodevil0949]

How do you compliment a chair? Lol.

[@Matt_Rose]

Nice legs

[@platinumm4730]

@@Matt_Rose nice colour you got there

[@arcipola1196]

@@Matt_Rose nice, thick, back ya got

[@ccedev]

​@@platinumm4730 "Sure would be a shame if something happened to it"

[@justsomeboredkid]

Beautiful design

[@mrducky2550]

In my elementary school, the fifth graders really loved Sasquatch, so much so they started saying “stay squatchy” all the time. The teachers didn’t know what this meant and promptly banned the phrase, but later that year at fifth grade graduation nearly every kid ended their speech with “stay squatchy” because what were the teachers gonna do, it was the last day of school

[@Myuxi-i8x]

keep kongy

[@j.calvert3361]

In my country schools don't ban words. Why is that so common in the USA?

[@zhanucong4614]

​@@j.calvert3361 they don't have freedom of speech

[@sillylittleowlguy2392]

@@j.calvert3361 Pearl-clutching witches seem to be the most common teacher type here in the states, especially in the bible belt.

[@nyuloubunny]

@@j.calvert3361 Who says this person went to school in the US? the comment doesn't specify where they are from. I grew up in the US however and don't recall any words being banned- I think it depends more on the specific school or teachers.

[@wolfcat120]

A teacher banning the word "can't" for the sake of encouragement is some of the funniest shit I have ever heard. I'm just imagining this rule being put in place before quickly being revoked because all conversations fell into shambles.

[@halfgecko3202]

Due to circumstances, I am unable to can

[@n.e.g4865]

everyone will start to imitate Scotty from Star Trek. " I cannae do it Captain."

[@theunderstatement6842]

​@mizukilvrguess that's why they're an art teacher and not an english teacher

[@ihaveyoutube9312]

On my sports team, if anyone says can’t we have to run laps. It definitely makes talking at practice a challenge lol

[@djarbeebo6023]

"help i cant breathe" we dont use that demeaning language around here, boy...

[@gabby_5820]

I love how banning words has basically zero effect and is essentially useless

[@JDT-Loadsamoney]

It does have an effect. It makes people want to say it.

[@TemporanFact]

@@JDT-Loadsamoney Precisely.

[@p.fiteen]

​@@JDT-Loadsamoney if it was banned, there was people wanting to say it. I think that's what he meant

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Imagine calling a kid's parents to explain that they were being suspended because they refused to stop saying "bet." That parent would lose their effing mind. So yeah, ultimately as long as a little detention doesn't bother you, not much of a motivation to stop

[@CleverRaccoonDogSAH]

Me too

[@Charlie_x01]

One time my cousin’s teacher banned the words ‘crap’ and ‘eww’. One time when they were playing basketball in school, the ball hit him straight in face and he yelled “CRAP!” When blood poured out of his mouth and nose, one of his classmates said “Eww!” Ended up with double homework for a month, but the classmate got off scot-free because she was the teacher’s daughter. Thankfully, I was able to help my cousin reign HELL on that teacher (and my aunt who was PISSED because they didn’t even help him or ask if he was okay), and the teacher got fired. And their daughter had to move to a new school, which was great because she was the meanest kid my cousin and the school have ever seen. My family threw a huge celebration for that. :D

[@BluestormShre]

Karma is great.

[@LarryTheTugaGamer1511]

Yeah, fuck those two. This story got me kinda angry in the first part because I also had the teacher's kid in my class.

[@USA-IRS]

Me personally I wouldn't let that slide

[@Торнадоплюспетарда]

My personality, would not let that slide.

[@BluestormShre]

@@Торнадоплюспетарда Personally, I wouldn't let that slide.

[@terratorment2940]

There was a new story about a deaf child who's name was Hunter. He was not allowed to sign his own name because that was considered "violence." The sign language gesture for Hunter looks like finger guns and all references to gun violence is banned. They tried to ask his mom to change his name.

[@ebinshumate3132]

That is so stupid

[@syrathdouglas1244]

Wtf

[@the2401]

reminds me of that guy who's playstation account got banned because of his username even though he sent pictures of his passport or some other ID to prove it was his real name

[@svrvphimprod]

The last sentence makes it so much worse.

[@plasmacotton]

Now that's just cruel.

[@Preppy_Glisten]

My teacher once banned the phrase “weird flex but okay“ Everyone started saying “Preposterous boast, but alas...“ It was the funniest month before she unbanned it

[@HissyfitStudios]

Preposterous boast, but alas, I am not an Englishman.

[@roflBeck]

Me, myself personally, would not let that slide.

[@rozieredz]

You could always go with the OSP option: "UNORTHODOX DISPLAY OF HUBRIS, BUT VERY WELL"

[@Preppy_Glisten]

@@rozieredz this is beautiful

[@sOWAcREAM2763]

Reading this was the only time I ever imagined something in the animation style used for Brawl Of The Objects

[@50LRXX]

something I would like other than furbies being demonic is more texts from grandparents

[@Matt_Rose]

There is an above reasonable chance you'll be getting something similar to this within the next 25 days 💪

[@Xeorboom]

​@@Matt_Rose thanks for putting me in this video

[@Banana_Fusion]

​@@Xeorboomoh congratulations! 🥳

[@coingamerthysecond]

​@@Matt_Rose Please do more drunk Google searches! I know that already has a part 2 but those 2 vids are among my favorites you've ever made

[@Xeorboom]

@@Banana_Fusion I know, I'm such a small youtuber I'm amazed that I got here!!! ...but of all videos I could be in I am very happy that I am in the 'CEPHALOPLOD CONUNDRUM' video

[@Fleckaroo]

My school banned the phrase ‘We will rock you’, because the entire school would randomly start stomping, clapping and singing it during lunch.

[@Piplup257]

ITS A GOOD SONG D:

[@KnitsHooksandNeedle]

Very good song and dangit thats how it works. Heck my middle school did that for basketball games.

[@Piplup257]

@@KnitsHooksandNeedle i know the whole song by heart. Im just that crazy

[@urann6561]

I'm not from USA/UK and I'm actually surprised that some schools can just "ban" words they don't like.

[@CErra310]

The USA is a failed state

[@canoistercat]

same. if schools in my country did this there would be SOOO many words banned. in my school, during assembly the teachers just say that they dont want to hear anyone say a specific word again. that obviously never works though. honestly im kinda curious as to how this whole "banning words: thing works, like what kind of punishment do students get for saying it?

[@devinnix9071]

​ @canoistercat Usually detention or smth like that, it's akin to cursing in front of a teacher

[@zzainab764]

@@devinnix9071 why the censor?

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

pretty wild right. im not from USA either but had no idea schools could ban things without having the gouvernment do it. crazy how they can have that much power. while they are not private company's.

[@askrial_]

my french teacher banned the word “bro” and would send any kid who said it to detention because apparently it was “gang related” so obviously, me and my friends rebelled and started saying things like “broccoli” “bronchitis” and other words like that. it was hilarious just hearing a kid say “wassup my bronchitis” in the hall

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

Ha!

[@ssupermarlo]

what's up my bronchium

[@askrial_]

@@ssupermarlo yoooo my bromine!

[@antenakic3656]

Bro means brother like wtf.

[@frenchconstantine2299]

What's up my brownie!?

[@kaischreurs2488]

what I'm getting from this video is that banning words in school is a good way to get kids to expand their vocabulary.

[@joaquinlezcano2372]

Either that or they already got more vocabulary than the school itself.

[@Majora404err01r]

@@joaquinlezcano2372 bro you just roasted the school system lol

[@ohno3736]

​@@joaquinlezcano2372 I shit you not, my school set up this reading program to improve students' vocabulary except they never once used the term 'vocabulary', instead they talked about improving your 'word box' or some shit Edit: I believe they actually used the term 'word bank', could still be misremembering though

[@mazzy_ivy]

Yeah tho- nowhere else would you hear *cephalopod conundrums*

[@jimmy_1936]

my friend got banned from saying “jumpscare” in history class

[@yeeteducation]

My high-school teacher banned the names of the schools other students went to when they were younger because she didn’t want people to “get stuck in the past”.

[@AvenRox]

My school also banned "ginger" because this was when the "gingers don't have souls" thing was in full swing, and I was sent to detention when I told a teacher *not* to call my hair color "strawberry blonde" because I do actually have ginger hair and she told me to dye it a different color. To be clear, I technically didn't get detention for correcting her and saying ginger, I got detention for saying "fuck no" at the hair dye thing.

[@meowpoint1403]

Were you allowed to say "redhead"?

[@dromie5059]

Did you actually say, "fuck no"?

[@oldaccquit]

@@dromie5059 I’d have said worse

[@funnyusername8635]

Fuck yeah to that fuck no! Dye your hair? Get all the way the fuck outta here! Some teachers are delusional about the amount of power they have over students' lives and bodies.

[@FatYoshi619]

Wait your teacher told you to dye your hair different? Just for having ginger colored hair? 💀

[@equivalentconcept1403]

The two things I learned from this is that language is so malleable and creative that banning words and phrases is literally impossible and that children are apparently keen to break stupid rules.

[@dmarsub]

This is just not a thing i am from, is this a U.S thing? When did this start? I thought they fetishize freedom?

[@samixalam_]

To quote a lyric from "Baggy Trousers" by Madness... "All I learnt at school Was how to bend, not break the rules"

[@antonliakhovitch8306]

Yeah, until I saw this I had no idea that banned words in school were a thing. It makes no sense to me whatsoever. Isn't it better to try and work on what the student is *trying* to say, rather than the words they're actually using? I don't see how banning "shut up" can make someone a better person.

[@p0p.5]

@@antonliakhovitch8306 yeah believe it

[@Tranqwhirl]

Kids have always been keen to break stupid rules. Everyone wants to break stupid rules. It's fun.

[@Min0s_Prim3]

my teacher banned the word "Matt" as they thought it had something to do with gangs. i literally had to get my friends to call me math so I could know who wanted me, without getting told off 💀💀💀

[@0liviaa_heartss]

No f*cking way that school is so dumb...

[@ZrUltra]

i just beat Mathematics in wii sports

[@ZannyLR]

Did they ban rose too? 😂

[@ClinchfieldRailfan921]

the kids that are named Matt are SO cooked

[@El_Rey_De_Los_Payasos27]

I had the word "giggle" banned in my class because a teacher insisted it was a racial slur. She also banned hand sanitizer and the Hobbit. Not the words, the items.

[@idle_speculation]

Why would you ban hand sanitizer? And a classic work of literature? The oppression against conlangers is real…

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

99.9% of germs have entered the chat

[@bradleysmith9352]

@@idle_speculationShe probably bans vaccinated kids from entering the classroom

[@minifyesnumberonehater]

Short kids were banned?

[@goofy-ahh101.]

School Slander:

[@abuBrachiosaurus]

In elementary school they banned the word "Sacrifice" when we shoved kids off the play structure during groundies, to avoid this we simply chanted "SACK OF RICE"

[@bencenagy5459]

It's like roblox players saying "sewer slide" or "soup of side" instead of "suicide"

[@TillmanReilly]

the kids at my old school would also chant "SACK OF RICE" sometimes.

[@so_much_for_jj]

Bahahahhaha my first year in marching band we’d all chant “sack of rice” all the time, but just because it was funny, not because the real word was banned. I still do it every once in a while as an inside joke

[@Raek_2]

Coincidentally my choir also chanted SACK OF RICE but it was because I yelled it out by accident, also our cult was amazing because we had a Russian girl in our class chant and actual ritual song in Russian, our choir teacher was chill about it :D

[@christianmarcone4662]

So thar was this game called "sacrificed" in which thar are three sides one the monster that was in the slide two the sacrifice which was put in the slide and three the sacrificer So we pick the sacrificed and monster then the sacrificers pushed and the monster pulled in the slide untill they get in but it was stopped by a teacher when they found out

[@BrownFoxWarrior]

"School is a place to be creative and think outside the box...so long as you express your ideas with approved wording."

[@rockgirl6786]

And in approved ways about approved topics

[@PowerSpirit50]

Literally the first Don't hug me I'm scared.

[@humanbeing4995]

A box implies space within. Saying outside implies space without., sooo all that's keeping people from thinking in an infinite way is 6 walls of an illusion. Pretty interesting when you compare that across nearly 8 billion people.

[@devinnix9071]

​@humanbeing4995 Your hurting my brain with all these boxes and I hate geometry sooo

[@humanbeing4995]

@@devinnix9071 good. Boxes don't exist anywhere but the brain of a hairless species of bipedal ape anyways.

[@stirrcrazy2704]

I thought a lot of these sounded so ridiculous that they had to be made up, but then I remembered that in third grade my teacher banned the word "whatever", so in response during a skit writing assignment near the end of the year, I and several other rebellious youths put on a show where we said "whatever" as many times as we possibly could while still ensuring the overall story of our skit made sense. When she caught us rehearsing, she made us change it, so we decided if we couldn't have our artistic integrity we would intentionally tank the assignment and explained to the whole class that we were officially replacing the word "whatever" with the phrase "water bottle", then proceeded to conduct the skit in front of everyone, getting the term "water bottle" banned. Then, 8 years later when I was in high school during the pandemic, kids kept getting banned from our school's livestreamed assemblies for saying "pog" in the chat. When I asked the teachers acting as moderators why they were timing people out for reacting positively to things announced in an assembly for once in their lives, as opposed to the usual complete lack of enthusiasm we had for them, they told me that "pog has other meanings" and refused to elaborate. It took me until a year after I graduated to figure out what possible "other meaning" pog could have, and it's a stretch, but the only thing I can think of is that they thought it was a phonetic shortening of PAWG.

[@mammoneymelon]

in middle school the school banned the word "thot", which was fair, except that they announced it over the intercom and half the school (including teachers) assumed they said "thought". obviously we immediately started ignoring it but it was very funny to be a sheltered 11 year old trying to figure out what was wrong with thinking in the past tense

[@zacharyrollick6169]

"Begone thoughts!"

[@apotatoe111]

@@zacharyrollick6169 😂😂😂

[@calibricalypso]

​@@zacharyrollick6169 Me when I turn off a light at night and suddenly think about the perceived possibility of being murdered

[@pepepecaspicapapas4726]

Begone Thot!

[@chloskyskies4399]

@@calibricalypso nice one

[@Ren-jh3xb]

My class managed to get the words "there's no paper" banned back in middle school because we were clowning our school's comically irresponsible financial decision-making with it The backstory is that at some point our school came out and told us and our parents that it can't afford paper (printer nor toilet) so it would be appreciated if we brought any we had to spare. To which we were like "fair enough, the school is small, isolated and underfunded, it's not that surprising" except that wasn't even the case. We found out a few weeks after when some people burst into the classroom during class and started taking measurements of the wall, and when we asked the teacher what that was about, she told us it was cause the school was planning to get a smart board installed there. We all went silent for a bit until a kid finally piped up and asked "so you can't afford paper but you can afford smart boards?" and the teacher straight up told us yes and that they were given the choice between the two, and like the responsible adults they were, they chose the smart board. So we turned it into an inside joke within our class and even put the sentence on shirts and wore them at the end of the school year. It ended up drawing the other kids' attention (it was a bit funny since the plural of paper was misspelled, but it's hard to explain since it was a different language from english. I guess the closest english equivalent would be for example spelling it as gooses instead of geese), so we explained to them what it meant and how we found out, and by the next semester the entire school was passively aggressively clowning the teachers with that sentence. Which isn't a lot since there was about 100 students in total but clearly the teachers took it personally cause they ended up banning the words

[@nobodythere94]

this school of yours is going on a tight budget there- 💀

[@Leafseeker23]

Your school in Alberta?

[@amogoose2971]

@@nobodythere94 its not a tight budget if they can afford a smart board

[@amogoose2971]

@@Leafseeker23 he said his school does not speak english, it's probably some country in europe

[@nobodythere94]

@@amogoose2971 ik, i was trying to be sarcastic. i probably have to work on it tho

[@zazabrown]

I live in South Africa, a nation with 12 official languages, and my school banned people from speaking any language other than English because "it is excluding the other students"

[@bluebaron6811]

They must've been like "oh yeah, those Dutch-speaking students must be teasing that little boy behind his back", when really they were probably talking about trees or some other dumb topic.

[@glebglub]

@@bluebaron6811 "tell your father to grow tenderstem brocolli, for some reason the English will pay top dollar for it"

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

That is like banning english in england.

[@ameliasteynberg5841]

@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit Nah it's more like banning Welsh, Cornish, Scots, etc. in the UK

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@ameliasteynberg5841 I would say that both are pretty similar. Banning english would mean banning the majority language and banning Welsh, Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, etc. would be more similar by meaning that you ban most languages spoken there.

[@E1saurgirl]

My second grade class banned the words “chicken nugget” because apparently some kids would come back from lunch screaming: “CHICKEN NUGGETTTTTTTTTTTT”

[@JuanRecomienda]

Banning the word "Knowledge" in a school is the most ironic thing in the world

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

What about an english teacher banning pronouns?

[@Mr_questionman]

​@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor Something much more fitting is a math teacher banning the word count

[@nathansos8480]

The demon headmaster.

[@question_mark67]

Schools actually make children dumber ON PURPOSE by forcing them to wake up early and to study all day and night, and also by feeding them synthetic garbage with a bunch of brain deleting chemicals. Schools just test your ability to remember stuff. Grades do NOT mean the amount of knowledge. Some random student might be smart while some of his classmates are dumb. Schools also just try to make children obey the teachers just like when they needed workers in the industrial revolution. That's why the school system thing is stuck in the 1800s. Watch some videos about school and the effects on people's brains.

[@iKnowaNoah]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor The state of florida?

[@luminlnk]

In 6th grade, our class got the words “big brain” banned because it was apparently insulting to other people who might not think they were smart. We just replaced it with “large cerebellum”

[@MishaG4mer]

LOL

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

Lmao that's the big that does balancing and stuff

[@DoctorMysterio15]

Beautiful.

[@soan06]

it's large cerebellum time

[@EmpressElectraa]

Did that word get banned too?

[@dakotaslife07]

When I was in primary school, they banned us doing the YMCA so we all banded together in the yard and did a FULL school YMCA. It was hilarious seeing teachers trying to break us apart. Edit: Thanks for all the likes! Glad I made ya'll laugh with something stupid from my days in primary. 😂

[@Evening_Star6]

Dear God if I could have one wish right now it'd be to go back in time and see that

[@dakotaslife07]

@@Evening_Star6 Haha, just a good couple hundred students going around a yard, yelling YMCA at the top of their lungs whilst doing the dance 😂

[@skag_gully]

Idk why the mental image of a whole school doing the YMCA is the funniest thing to me 😂

[@HunterZeGreat]

LAUGHING MY FUCKING ASS OFF. How do I switch bodies with you?

[@dakotaslife07]

@@HunterZeGreat Not exactly something you'd wanna do, haha 😅

[@phahlastname8321]

i cant get over how one of these was just a common first name. like imagine going to a new school and theres just a rule that forbids anyone from acknowledging you 💀

[@meydrgon]

I had 2 teachers ban the word banana because of the magic hallway bananas. My theatre teacher also banned "shut up" which resulted in the entire class occasionally yelling "SILENCE MORTALS!" He banned the word "hell", and a bunch of kids just kept saying Michigan instead.

[@froxdoggaming3385]

what magic hallway bananas??? what??????

[@otherbonnie]

The iconic magic hallway bananas.

[@pandawholikesSetItOff]

Is the Hell one a reference to the town of Hell, Michigan?

[@kaderen8461]

@@pandawholikesSetItOffi believe it is because michigan is hell

[@jo5hua0680]

@@kaderen8461 As someone who lives across the ocean from Michigan, has never been to Michigan, has no relation to anyone in Michigan and knows nobody in the place, and who has only been to Florida when visiting the States, I can confirm that Michigan is the visible definition of Hell.

[@Lemon-jn9bt]

The Dutch language was banned in my PE class. I called my opponents vuile wimpermijten one too many times; it got suspicious.

[@seyeongg]

dirty eyelash mites?☠

[@Lemon-jn9bt]

@@seyeongg They were.

[@notanemovampire]

geef me em clap papa

[@simonforsell99]

Kies mijn mooiste kant aub

[@Luvmii.]

ik ben mollie

[@franckcrdraws]

If "Squid Game" and "Octopus Activities" don't work, you can always go with "Splatoon Shenanigans"

[@Notapriest510]

There is also "Tentacle Trials"

[@therighttrousers343]

Nautilus Nonsense?

[@DarkShard5728]

Multicellular creatures under hundreds of feet of water action performance

[@buggy742]

@@therighttrousers343 that be something i wish

[@snakesbakecookies]

@@therighttrousers343 i think "Nautical Nonsense" would make more sense, alternatively you have "Calamari Contest"

[@ETV0_0]

One of my teachers somewhat banned "shut up" while we were also ALLOWED to swear tons, as long as it wasn't to the teacher.

[@JAPSERLMFAO]

My school tried to ban communism. Like the whole concept of communism. The kids brought the Problem to the school council saying that it was a violation of free speech and they did a school wide vote. My school now has a fairly sized community of middle school communists who regularly chant the Soviet Union anthem through the halls

[@comradewindowsill4253]

this whole situation is just bruh edit, now that I have recovered from the psychic damage this post did to me: you know how japanese people cringe when they meet a western weirdo who only knows japan from anime and doesn't care to learn anything about actual japan? yeah that's me when I meet people who have memorized that goddamned anthem phonetically

[@nintendofan_64]

Oh god. Are you one of them?

[@orangetreestudiosII]

That sounds quite fun, actually

[@thefantasylife]

the kids are alright

[@SIS3W3N]

Well done.

[@Cheeyze]

The last 30 seconds of this video is a cinematic masterpiece. Also, my school also banned “shut up”, so we all decided to go with “Silence Peasant”

[@creppersaurusrex2300]

Silence, Peasant

[@TV-ly3dp]

​@@creppersaurusrex2300 Silence, Peasant

[@dazaifeetpics]

@@TV-ly3dp Silence, peasant

[@Stoopid420]

Cease your speech, lower life form

[@vaclavherout3614]

@@TV-ly3dp Silence, Peasant

[@leannamation]

The pure intellectual prowess Matt has to make an entire cohesive sentence out of completely random words is astonishing

[@JKBisms]

And then the absolute power move of eating the fucking paper afterward

[@Iced___]

@@JKBisms it tastes good

[@LichenJuice]

"cohesive" is a strong word

[@paulinxm8201]

​@@LichenJuice Me personally? I would not let that slide.

[@EarthButNotFlat]

I once tried eating paper with milk it was good

[@shadophaxx2401]

Our school banned the drink lucozade because they believed we shouldnt be drinking it, and they also banned people from saying it. Shortly thereafter, an entire underground market of lucozade began where some kid would come up and say "hey, wanna buy some juicy luco?"

[@brotastic8601]

My school banned the word “ “. Because they didn’t, it was a reasonable school, which apparently is a blessing in this day and age

[@mcvenne8935]

Same. Must be mostly an American thing, I guess.

[@MagicianStevey]

@@mcvenne8935 reasonable schools don’t exist

[@-..l]

TheyBannedTheEmptySpaceBetweenEverySentence?

[@Brotato333]

​@@mcvenne8935 I am American and I've never been to a school with banned words lmao

[@arandomcommenter412]

@@-..l Spacr scum

[@WireframeWizard]

A friend of mine once said, "Sometimes school staff are just GMod RP admins that grew up" and he couldn't be more correct about that statement.

[@sophiegrey9576]

Maybe 'grew up' isn't the right phrase. They just got older tbh

[@andrephilippe8928]

“Welcoming to the stage, Cephalopod Conundrums!” Good band name

[@unwoundsteak17]

my 5th grade english teacher banned the word "Stuff" because she thought it was childish and kept telling us that it would affect our grade if we used it in assignments in high school. I'm now about to finish my sophomore year in HS and have used it in at least one assignment in the last 5 years, with no negative affect on my grades

[@comradewindowsill4253]

I swear, the weird hangups some teachers have, honestly.

[@goggles8691]

I'm assuming that you mean in essays and other assignments, which isn't a weird hangup at all as one of the purposes of students writing essays is to be able to clearly and effectively communicate ideas. The word "stuff" is either blatantly detrimental, unnecessarily vague, or entirely pointless, so it's definitely a good habit to reduce how often you use it in these sorts of scenarios (in essays, etc). To demonstrate what I mean, I'll use "I'm assuming that you mean in essays and other assignments" as an example. "I'm assuming that you mean in that stuff" - this is horrible and I hope nobody would write this because you should be able to tell what's wrong with it "I'm assuming that you mean in essays and stuff" - this is completely fine in spontaneous conversation, but if you get to think through every word, you have no excuse for not using what "stuff" is. "I'm assuming that you mean in essays and other assignments and stuff" - here, "and stuff" does nothing because there's already a catch-all that is relevant to the topic. A much more justifiable example is something like "his stuff." Here, "stuff" is totally fine if the contents don't matter and if tone isn't a concern, but schools typically look for some kind of an academic tone (which is a different argument altogether). tldr: "Stuff" is a crutch that gets in the way of the specificity of language, therefore avoiding it in your writing is more often than not correct, so a teacher should try and work towards that. However, if the word "stuff" was also being policed outside of writing, that IS a strange and pointless hangup that accomplishes nothing. It's also excessive to actually drop a grade, especially if you're in 5th grade, but for all we know it was an empty threat. Also if you only used "stuff" in one instance in one assignment, the teacher probably straight up doesn't care enough to penalize it. Depending on how they grade they might've even wanted to do something about it but couldn't warrant dropping the grade from something so inconsequential. They might not have even realized you used it at all, honestly.

[@unwoundsteak17]

@@goggles8691 no, I mean she also banned us from saying it out loud at any point during class as well. And I’m not reading the entire essay you… wait a minute

[@goggles8691]

@@unwoundsteak17 oh ok it was the worst case, go ahead and make fun of that bullshit as much as you want then I'm all for it now (but all I'm saying is that clearly your teacher read my essay (and doesn't understand why informal language exists (unless it was in an "explain what stuff is" kinda way in which case I'm low-key back on her side)))

[@thorgidogofthunder]

imagine telling off a child for being childish

[@beesbeesbeesbeesbees]

My school completely banned any and all discussion of, or references to, "the internet" or "the news". Their argument was that, I shit you not, "School is for learning, not for discussion." I remember one day when we were in a computer science class and one of the humanities teachers walked in and then gave us all detention for two and a half hours after school because we were discussing the use of Twitter as a marketing tool... as part of the curriculum.

[@gappleofdiscord9752]

I think they forgot that the original academies in Greece were almost entirelyabout discussion.

[@scientistservant]

Holy fucking shit.

[@victoriahewitt9938]

I just can't 😮

[@pittagiiya]

"School is for learning, not for discussion" is one of the most american-public-school things I have ever heard and it hurts.

[@brokencreativity7266]

did the computer science teacher, not step in and go like "bruh I told them to talk about it"?????

[@toasterkidd7038]

In my language arts/creating writing class, our teacher had to ban the word “Ohio” because students started laughing every time it was brought up and she was scared it had some alternate sexual meaning 💀

[@blackcatpoe4716]

Teacher: Thought of college? Student: Ohio State Teacher: Come see me after school.

[@埊]

Only in Ohio :czaszka:

[@Vikt-vg8nz]

ah yes, "if it's funny, it must be sexual"

[@SamaraiBoi]

How is that meme still alive!?

[@marrio504]

​@persik123 it is not there just 1 person making Ohio videos and that's it(the only guy that did it good)

[@GenshinImpactEncyclopedia]

My math teacher banned the word “dippy graph” in my high school math class, because I wanted a funnier name for a parabola.

[@NuberCuber]

For some reason my computer science and engineering classes respectively were obsessed with saying "rat", and it got to the point where the teacher who tought both classes banned "rat", "mouse", "rodent", etc. We had to call computer mice "clicky clicky cursor movers" for the rest of the year and if we said one of the banned words the teacher threatened us with the wrath of a malevolent* Peppa Pig toy.

[@oxxo183]

erm, *what kind of toy was it?*

[@NuberCuber]

@@oxxo183 a little plastic peppa pig figurine that he kept captive in a bird cage on his wall

[@-DumpsterFire]

this is one of the funniest things I've seen all day

[@yum976]

Ah yes, the most powerful weapon in the universe: A small plastic Peppa Pig toy.

[@plantyt3246]

@@NuberCuber that’s incredibly based

[@Doveghost]

On the first day on seventh grade, my science teacher told us that we weren't allowed to say the word "suck" and didn't explain why, and she even spent ten minutes having us guess the word because she didn't want to say it herself. If I remember correctly, someone guessed "shit" but the teacher was fine with that

[@PouncyJunior]

😂

[@Vanta526]

“how would you like to sh*t my balls” 💀

[@jupiter--system]

> the words are banned because they're gang related > look inside > aave

[@littlelilly_]

our school banned the common phrase “you’re ugly” so the sentence “doust thou giveth chase when thy hurls the branch?” came to life a couple days later

[@zeeelefano595]

In my 4th grade class the word "Shrek" was banned as it was being used in the entirety of our short stories. To sum it all up, there were a lot of green men and swamps post-banning

[@Evanthefrostyanimations]

Not shrek!

[@cadefilms4072]

Nooo Shrek

[@tammid8423]

As an Apollo fan, don't worry, everyone SHROCK

[@ToastyStuff]

Your principal is definitely "Shrexist"

[@KOOPAS1234]

Isn't Shrek a fucking short story

[@lordexplosionmurder8978]

The way Matt stares into the camera while eating paper and drinking beer is both slightly adorable and unsettling

[@jcoolguy1548]

For some reason I thought you were gonna say "is full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen"

[@sq1tl]

@@jcoolguy1548 Not wrong either

[@TinaCurry123]

@@jcoolguy1548 That is just incredibly oddly specific, I love it.

[@kadedoesanimation]

*PPFFFFHH*

[@arkydaarcticfox9497]

Me personally, I would not let that slide

[@Mar-uc7kk]

My english teacher banned the word "Cannibalism" because she made us do a 'you're trapped on an island with these 4 people, what would you have them do?' task and one of them was completely useless in his skillset so we all unanimously decided as a class that we'd just eat him.

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

That’s dumb

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

I meant the teacher not the students

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

I mean that's not a bad idea tbf. I once saw a paperwork where the teacher asked this kid if they'd rather be stuck on an island alone or with someone they hate; The kid answered with the latter so that they'd have something to eat. What makes this even funnier is that they got a good grade for it! Sometimes kids are in fact wiser in some scenarios....

[@SStupendous]

Objecting to cannibalizing your classmate is one thing, BANNING the word "Cannibalism" is completely stupid, but again it's an English teacher

[@bleedingmasque.6193]

Y'all cutthroat as fuck

[@forged9982]

the principal of my school banned the phrase 'no problem' because it apparently implies that there could have been a problem no one listened

[@_Norv]

The word “needle” was banned in 5th grade because apparently it was related to drugs in some way. We all called it the “sharp pointy stick”, so the teachers banned all words and phrases related to sharp sticks. I remember this one time where we were doing medieval Europe and one kid asked “What were the broadswords made of?”, and his parents were called. Never saw the bloke again. This got so bad that people actually called sharp pointy things the name of the kid who left(we’ll call him Bob). Just imagine hearing “What type of Bob’s were used during the crusades?”. And then the word Bob got banned, and all the kids named Bob were assigned numbers from the students. That’s when we decided to go to a new school. One of my friends contacted me and told me that the policy still existed.

[@SR_73]

What the hell is that🤣

[@trucker826]

It's not just a Broadsword, it's a Bobsword!

[@_Norv]

@@trucker826 Richard the Lionheart is quivering in his grave.

[@Pythoria]

I doubt this is true (just because that’s insane) but if it is then that school can likely be sued for reasons depending on the country or state/territory/province/etc inside a country you live in.

[@_Norv]

@@Pythoria your doubt is my reality.

[@Lp-AAA]

My school banned "soy sauce" because my friends and I created an organization called the Anti Soy Sauce Association (which was also banned) better known as ASSA (also banned), and soy sauce was an evil alter ego. Then there was a rival organization known as the SSIA (Soy Sauce Intelligence Agency) who worked undercover in hopes of undermining ASSA. They were also banned due to some widespread playground rivalries. Please note that this all happened in 4th grade, in which an entire class was split into the SSIA and ASSA.

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

That was brilliant they should’ve never banned that

[@Lp-AAA]

@@MoonlarkSpirits Right? I mean I may be a little biased considering the fact that I made both of them.... but I thought it was hilarious. I don't know how I managed to be on both sides, but I was.

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

​@@Lp-AAA Meanwhile my teacher allowed us to preach about dying and murder-

[@annetteschemer6876]

​@@Lp-AAA, both?? Like you've made a rival for your organization by yourself? Gawd, that's really hilarious 😂

[@CricetoFunni]

@@Lp-AAA bro was literally palpatine

[@TheTrueBrawler]

A couple of kids got the word "GIF" banned from one of my classes by having heated arguments during group work over how the word is supposed to be pronounced. The teacher said these arguments decreased productivity.

[@pilotbug6100]

Technically both Gif and Jif are correct Gif is apparently an acronym and the G is a hard G But the creators of it came out saying it was "Jif"

[@shadowflame3543]

@@pilotbug6100 it still just sounds wrong

[@ARG-ARandomGuy]

For the last fucking time it’s pronounced SCHIF

[@XViGames0]

its pronounced y i f

[@DJSlimeball]

guys guys *SHUT UP* it is LITERALLY _schiffovocofivf_

[@EASgirl25]

After the school banned both “squid game” and “octopus activities” they should’ve called it “tentacle tasks”

[@opieandme5775]

I remember at my elementary school they had banned the word “MoMo”, so kids wouldn’t look it up and scare themselves. Kids who did say it, were never seen again that school year.

[@Not_PossibIe]

I remember that coming up on an email from my primary school, tbh MoMo is everywhere these days 💀

[@realmustangboy6437]

They only Momo i know is a brand for car customization Probably something sexual in this case or something.

[@Charlotte-Charly]

Then that crappy birdgirl would eat you up. Eww.

[@AlcyoneusHimself]

WHERE DID THEY GO 💀💀 DID THE SCHOOL LIKE KILL THEM OR SOMETHING 💀

[@miwalxr]

at my elementary they banned the word “momo” too 💀💀💀💀💀

[@cobaltbluesky2276]

People coming up with more complex replacements of words that got banned is hysterical. Like “cephalopod conundrums” that is so funny 😭

[@rehpicllib4745]

I would’ve gone with calamari actions if I was at that school

[@Rev_Erser]

nice profile picture happy pride month

[@foolishness9020]

@@rehpicllib4745 Lobster doings is what i will say in that school

[@angel_ix6556]

if i were at that school i would say kraken occurrence

[@MrChristianDT]

Cuttlefish World Series.

[@ThreeStrikesOfVoid]

“South Africa” was banned in my trivia club because kids kept saying it when they didn’t know the answer to a question. We went to a tournament, and guess what the answer to the last question was?

[@yell0w-man]

“Oh, my fault teehee! Still keeping the word banned though, ofc! We are the best 😋“

[@chenterr103]

Canada?

[@JustAnInnocentLamb]

Ironic

[@slaimiaadem1634]

اسبانيا؟

[@koiyune]

A country in the S̲o̲u̲t̲h̲ Of A̲f̲r̲i̲c̲a̲

[@ezlofarcarver2124]

A friend had the word "socks" banned for bit back in their early school in Sydney. Teachers thought students were talking about fighting. That's why my friend from the AU I play online games with still calls them 'foot gloves'.

[@doomslayerobama]

Reminds me of that time my middle school banned the word Tim and other Tim deviations. Our principal's name was Tim. They only put the ban in place because they set up (THEY) an event on the last ten days of school where we had to say goodbye to Tim on the "10 Days of Tim" and I just kept on saying "Merry Tim-mas!" to everyone. Eventually we started ritual worship of the 10 Days of Tim which was when they put it in place. According to my friend, they have yet to unban it.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

lmfao the ten days of tim

[@ersetzbar.]

How did that work out for the students with the name tim? Were they expelled retroactively for daring to have a banned name?

[@MrChristianDT]

This is one of those ones where I have a sneaking suspicion that this had to have been a religious school.

[@funnyusername8635]

My friends and I almost got the name "Bob" banned in a similar fashion. We found out about the Church of the Subgenius and let's just say it greatly impacted us.

[@maneskingirlie]

The cult of the 10 days of Tim

[@birdie8006]

My middle school classmate Nathaniel was specifically disciplined after blurting "NEWSFLASH!" too many times, after practically any event occurred, and then "reporting" it. Our teacher, an easily annoyed old woman I'll call Mrs. C, had enough, and told him in front of the class, "Alright, Nate, if you say 'newsflash' one more time, I'm going to mark your card" (behavior card, 2 strikes in a day meant detention when you hit 7th and 8th grade). Of course, the legend replied, "NEWSFLASH! Mrs. C is going to mark my card!" We collectively lost it and I'm pretty sure I was near tears at my desk. I'm 25 and it's still hilarious to me.

[@RiannaPeterson]

Legend

[@TheShadowMaven]

Man is a legend. I wonder what he is doing now... Probably works as a news reporter based on his clear talent for reporting events.

[@dibble1331]

ngl that do sound annoying

[@birdie8006]

He continued being a legend for the two more years I knew him, his dad had cancer and the both of them got free tickets to the Superbowl @@TheShadowMaven

[@birdie8006]

NEWSFLASH! I looked him up now and he's a delivery driver at a pharmacy near my parents' home. Which is funny. he really stayed in the neighborhood. that's nice though. the pharmacy website says he works there and loves it there because of how they helped his dad when he was ill. 🥹@@TheShadowMaven

[@izzyfugelseth8616]

In my middle school, kids wouldn't stop randomly blurting "LeBron James" in the middle of bible class. My teacher got so sick of it that she went up to the main instigator of the conundrum and leaned her hand on his desk so they were eye-to-eye and told him in full seriousness, "Say that one more and you are going to be 'LeBron Jamesing' yourself out the door." The whole class erupted with laughter, and so she banned the name.

[@Average-gaga-fan]

☠️☠️☠️

[@ChaosEnthusiast]

HAHAHAHHAHA

[@BrokenDread]

What's next? Kobe?

[@aperson9561]

LMAOOOOOOO I LOST IT AT '"Say that one more time and you are going to be 'LeBron Jamesing' yourself out the door."'

[@JustTwoSpaces]

LeBron Jamesing 😂😂

[@dogski2822]

My elementary school art teacher banned the phrase “shut up”. Not that unusual, but he talked about it like it was some kind of racist slur, always referring to it as “the up shut”. Idk why

[@A57-0mona]

My school never banned words, but they did ban "unsactioned fun". Any "fun" had by students where a faculty member was not involved was banned. They posted 3 of the contracted security guards in the courtyard to enforce it. It lasted about a total of one semester before everyone wanted it removed. Turns out the reason it was instated was so that they could find people who did drugs. because somehow doing drugs and "unsactioned fun" are corelated.

[@seagorilla_2797]

That is literally dystopian

[@pittagiiya]

That... I feel like a dystopia writer would be mocked for putting that in their story because it sounds so unrealistic

[@ald0319]

Any body want to meet up for some "unsactioned fun"? 💀

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

That feels like the time the CCP had robot dogs yell "Control you soul's desire for freedom." at people.

[@Myuxi-i8x]

Literally 1489

[@stararzy]

i got the phrase “you beady eyed bottom feeder” banned at my old primary school because we weren’t allowed to swear so our insults got progressively more creative ☠️

[@finnybrooks8068]

Was your teacher Tamatoa?

[@GusThePrankster]

You beady eyed bottom feeder!

[@SirPogsalotCreates]

found the SHINY

[@what-hq1gl]

hopefully no one used bad word number 11

[@dax_is_back2905]

SKULL AND CROSSBONES EMOJI!!!

[@numberonesnarkfan]

in my primary school, they banned the word gay, before any of us were old enough to know what it actually meant. They were attempting to do the "don't use gay as an insult" thing, which obviously had the opposite effect as the boys would go around calling each other gay because they knew it as an insult.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

My school never did that, but i live in a very heavily cknservative area so everybody does that anyway. And they'd also completely refuse to listen when i tried to explain that they shouldn't do that because of how harmful it is to gay people, but their response was always "I know there's nothing wrong with being gay. I'm just making a joke that's not harming anybody". They do the same thing with racist stuff like just ranfomly going "ching chong bing bong" making fun of people who speak asisn languages.

[@AnEnderNon]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor as a chinese person, i would be fine with people going "ching chong bing bong" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@m.nic.5080]

I think this was common for people growing up in the 2000s. “Gay” was a bad word like “shit” and “fuck”. Being in a same sex relationship was fine, but saying that word was not. Weirdly they had the same opinion about the word “Jew”. The school was totally accepting of Jewish people but saying the word Jew would get you in trouble?

[@Rose78267]

So me yelling that IM GAY would get me in trouble!? Because if I went to that school I would be expelled before first period even ended.

[@yoseprahhh]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor thas literally my school 💀

[@aliensandstars13]

my 6th grade choir teacher banned the phrase "your mom"... it's been 2 years and it still haunts me. in my current class, the phrase "you know what that means, fish!" from the you, me gas station video.

[@hdudhejdi3894]

My school banned at insults. My class was French immersion, and therefore started calling people random stuff in French that /sounded/ like an insult. Which lead to them banning such words as snail, tree, broken, grapefruit, and species. Only in French though

[@Alex-fc8xn]

Pamplemousse 🫵🤬👊

[@funnyusername8635]

We had to be careful with the word pamplemousse. I remember flacons de maïse could get out of hand too.

[@埊]

Seau d'eau :zhandou:

[@genericname2747]

Escargot >:(

[@Moocow2003]

I remember a student in my class being called Der Bahnhof (Train Station) for literally no reason.

[@ikan492]

My 6th grade teacher tried banning the words "emo" and "me personally, I would not take that/let that slide". They also tried banning"racist" so kids said "racially motivated" instead. One girl was a contortionist and her nickname was "spineless". That got banned too because it was "insulting" even though the girl loved the nickname

[@monkeydoespride]

I fucking hate it when schools (or anyone for that matter) tries to be offended for someone

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

spineless is such a cool nickname wtf

[@lmfao6125]

if she likes the name why not just let her keep it instead of getting offended about a thing nobody at all finds offensive

[@Fools_Blade]

Damn me personally I wouldn't let that slide

[@Fools_Blade]

@@lmfao6125 idk man some teachers just hate anything that sounds too edgy even when it's not.

[@SaraS0125]

My social studies teacher banned the word "Phone" because kids kept saying "Why is your phone out?" so much that she told us that if we said the word, we would get points taken away. We started saying "Cellular device", "Wifi-needing box", rechargeable rectangularprism", and so many other words to replace the word "Phone"

[@chaoticghostwashere]

The amount of times I tried to say 'rechargeable rectangular prism' and failed is just baffling

[@SaraS0125]

@@chaoticghostwashere Some boy took his phone and called it 'The mini iPad with more!' Always made us laugh

[@Dr-Random]

You could but shouldn’t call it “cellphone” Technically, that’s not bad, because they banned “phone” not “cellphone”, so I’ve still got a clean record.

[@aliciam6145]

wait is your oikawa plushie in the toilet

[@SaraS0125]

@@aliciam6145 No

[@gamepapa1211]

As a teacher, I have to say these word bans is petty, asinine, and just plain counterproductive. The more you ban kids from trying to say a word, the more they want to do it. Just think of the whole ordeal with the F word.

[@disorgan1zedchaos]

in my school's d&d club we were banned from our characters doing certain things including: -killing a town and taking it over -digging up graves -yelling about spongebob -freezing people and then thawing them and then repeating it over and over -eating paper, glass, ice, or all of them at once (we tried to do all of these)

[@AK24WasTaken]

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[@amazinggrapes3045]

Sounds like dungeons and dragons as usual

[@watersc]

Why these rules so specific 💀

[@godmodeextreme]

My group pretty much started the French revolution once.

[@akitahowler3206]

We were banned from eating horses and any humanoid beings, trust me, I was the one eating them half the time, its only when everyone started to make hunting parties to kill and eat them, they got banned

[@MidnightDoom777]

I love how collective punishment is banned under the Geneva conventions, but teachers use it all the time

[@liblib620]

Imagine being collectively punished in school and in the back of the group you just hear someone yell out “This is against the Geneva Conventions!”

[@twddersharkmarine7774]

I for one support whoever is brave enough to say that

[@kartoonfanatic]

​@@liblib620 Teachers: How the hell do they know what that is? We haven't taught them that. Also teachers: What's a "the internet?"

[@reddeath5791]

I have a funny story relating to this So at my old high school, my sister’s class was supposed to write what they wanted to be when they grew up on a bulletin board. Somebody wrote “I want to be a milf when I grow up” and put it on the bulletin board. Instead of quietly dealing with this, the PE teachers made a big song and dance about it resulting in my mom having to explain to my sister what a milf was. The PE teacher had everybody in the class, boys and girls, do “carpets” which is where you take a towel, put your hands on it while it’s on the ground, and just run across the gym. All because one stupid girl wants to be a milf. Safe to say that my mom was pissed that my sister was being punished for something she didn’t do. The PE teachers’ excuse still makes me laugh. They said that it was “collective responsibility”. My mom immediately called them out on their bullshit and said that it was collective punishment

[@Cringemoment4045]

Real and true

[@FrancescoRosiYTP]

June's gonna be epic, please do a sequel of the text replacement pranks

[@obiwankenobi-]

Yessss

[@Spongyboi897]

And that grandma texts one!

[@tetoterritory]

Hey, can you bring me some testicles for that?

[@ballsnator]

YES

[@thepumpkin3203]

I second this.

[@C0NFUS3D_L0L]

In 3rd grade my teacher yelled at me for saying the word "sock."

[@pip__]

we were banned from making comics, but then a kid made a 'piece of paper with words on it that tell a story'. apparently that was allowed.

[@thelearningmethod]

😂😂😂

[@WuhHuh]

assuming there’s no images, it *technically* doesn’t fit the common definition of a comic

[@plumjet09]

“This isn’t a bank robbery, this is just an exchange of money for me not holding hostages or killing somebody.”

[@minifyesnumberonehater]

I mean, it’s a book right? Schools sure looove books.

[@detectiveslime2891]

Mr. Krupp

[@heartstruckcupid4839]

My school banned the song "Row row row your boat" because kids kept singing a version about killing their teacher. Why did they sing this? She banned the phrases "I forgive you" and "it's okay" in response to apologies, the word "suck" and mentioning you were in the gifted program. I think she also tried to ban the word "vampire". I also remember a kid got in trouble for saying "dang" because it was to vulgar and we needed to say "darn" instead. In 4th grade i got in trouble for saying duh. We couldn't mention guns, make finger guns, or make any depiction of guns, including a L-shaped piece of construction paper. We found that out the hard way after we got in trouble for including that in a presentation about the right to bear arms. What did they expect us to do? They didn't explain.

[@TokuWaffle]

.... Do you mean they assigned a presentation that had to be about the right to bear arms?

[@Doruven]

I gotta know, how tf are you supposed to respond to apologies?? "I accept your apology"???

[@aiiiia9971]

That's just tyrannical

[@YunDaWorld1218]

Pov: teacher when dang:😱🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@janslavik5284]

It's times like these when I realise how incredibly lucky I was, being born outside of the US.

[@meatbug5439]

7:21 when I was in middle school, the word "racist" was banned. It was specifically banned because one of the common substitute teachers was accused of being racist, and the school didn't want to address the issue so they just banned us from talking about it lmfao

[@BarelyAHuman]

This is like, the total opposite way to solve a problem.

[@nescafeblend43]

my hate for schools grows ever stronger each day

[@Silliest.goober87]

the fact im not surprised about this shows how shitty schools are now

[@greencappeddoge]

America?

[@Breadsticksman]

The south approve of their teachings

[@tracyjane596]

8:09 a little choke 💀💀

[@GodzillaMinusOneHimself]

*8:10

[@Dr.Chopperr]

@@GodzillaMinusOneHimselfbruh it’s ONE SECOND off, I don’t think it needed to be corrected 💀

[@GodzillaMinusOneHimself]

@@Dr.Chopperr Eh. (Not Canadian way.)

[@emilyofjane]

My art teacher had three very reasonable rules in her classroom: 1. No blood in the art room 2. No cinnamon (because she was allergic) And 3. No “that’s what she said” jokes.

[@Perellux]

that’s actually pretty fair

[@MeepChangeling]

That's how you get "that's what he said" jokes.

[@pyrofromteamfortress2]

Once we weren't allowed to say the name Abigail. Let me elaborate. So once, I had the really dumb idea to brainwash all my friends into thinking my name is Abigail. But then, because of that, a rule was enforced "no mention of Abigail" and I had to go back to being called Pyro. But it didn't work because a few people were still affected by my brainwashing. Eventually though, everyone caught on and started calling me Pyro again. One day, an actual Abigail joined, that looked very similar to me. And they couldn't drop the Abigail rule, so they put me in a new class. What do you think?

[@desaug]

@@pyrofromteamfortress2 they shoulda put her in a new class (sorta changed onipion)

[@pyrofromteamfortress2]

@@desaug why?

[@mungulor]

Our school banned that trick where it looks like you're pulling your thumb off (you know, the one that grandads do). They banned it because we had a teacher who lost her thumb in a car crash so they literally replaced it with her fucking big toe. Anyway, they specifically banned that thumb trick because they thought people would do it to take the piss out of her... despite the fact nobody had even thought about doing it.

[@RanRayu]

i had something like this happen too. one monday morning the principal came into our class to tell how our teacher's mom had suddenly passed away in the weekend, and told us not to make any jokes about mothers dying. and the entire class was stunned, none of us had any intention of doing that because we already knew that was a horrible thing to do.

[@glebglub]

life-hack: wear sandals and do it with your toe instead to get a free holiday

[@stefanjelincic4677]

My primary school banned the word “surrounded” because when one boy was sitting next to two girls, everyone would say he was “surrounded by girls” (and vice versa). I don’t know if teachers thought it was a sex thing, but… it was weird.

[@polarivyfairy]

Im italian so my school banned the river "mincio" because some kids used it as a replacement for m!nchia, and italian swear word. When we ACTUALLY had to talk about the river, it would get called "the river that *classmate name* likes to say"

[@delonperera7849]

lol thats wild (btw I am Italian too!)

[@limitqa]

at my school, our social studies teacher banned the word “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” because people kept flexing they could say it (including me 😎) and it got annoying

[@josephc.9520]

He could feel his lungs filling with the ash spewing from his volcanic emotions

[@weegee-hehehe]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis evriholder microscopic silico volcano coniosis microscopic silico volcano coniosis microscopic volcano coniosis wow girl voice typing is shit

[@KrazyCouch2]

My school banned the word "💀" because Matt Rose would always put extra emphasis on it 💀💀💀

[@ursidae97]

SKOLAMOCHI

[@snakesbakecookies]

SKULLLLEMOCHEEEEEEESSEE

[@objectful1975]

SKUHHHULLL EMOJII

[@y.allmight]

SKAAA HUUUUULLL EMOJEEE

[@onerva.]

SKULLAMOJEYYYY

[@shlingusdingus4174]

I remember my 2nd grade class banned the word "hate", and proceeded to explain what it meant. It was a decent idea because she wanted us to all get along and for there to be a "no hate environment", only problem was that she terrible when it came to controlling any kind of bullying going on and I was a prime target. Now that I think of it, all of my bullys who would go on to torment me for the next several years of my life going into highschool were in that damn class. So my rebellious ass decided to say, in front of the whole class while we were sitting down "I HATE YOU" to this little gremlin shit called "Gavin" and the class audibly gasped. No one had said this before, but I meant it. I hated Gavin. And the teacher asked me why I said it. It's been so long that I can't remember what I said but I probably got in trouble.

[@wingdingfontbro]

That just makes it more impactful

[@pineapple_of_doom4646]

Legend

[@WarTie]

Fuck Gavin. Dont care what he did, fuck em

[@KitsuneFyora]

Least she taught you _when_ to say you hate someone. Might have gotten in trouble, but now you know for sure you hate Gavin

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

Every bully victim will always be punished for being the victim because the teachers will always have a soft spot for pieces of shit like gavin,its a mistery why ALL teachers are in love with bullies and protect them

[@GarlicBread07]

5:51 Polypus Entertainment *polypus is another word for octopus*

[@-_0..Lanii..-_0]

It translates to octopus

[@andronaut-f5x]

calamari chaos?

[@PeriodicTableB_GD]

Aquatic Fauna Tournament *aquatic fauna is a word for sea creature, specifically things like whales, fish, and octopi

[@yapology-maddyxs-version]

i cant remember if i commented this on the other video but my teachers banned us from calling each other "stupid" or "dumb" because they thought it was damaging to our self-esteem. we replaced the words with "silly" so then we all started asking each other "are you SILLY" and calling each other "silly billies" and the teachers gave up.

[@ewanb1086]

'silly billy' gives me so much ptsd

[@randomfurry7721]

You know what we need? A compilation of Matt just pronouncing gibberish

[@Void_TheDemon]

I agree

[@Ammiad]

YES

[@adhyayanchoudha1055]

Amazing we need it

[@IceFox09]

So just normal videos

[@BR3AK.66]

Imma make one cause why not!!

[@sinfulpuritan3430]

My high school tried to ban the name "Hendrickson" because that was the last name of a perverted math teacher they fired after DECADES of people complaining about him, and they didn't want anybody to complain about how long it took for him to be fired and the fact that he was fired for insulting a student's blonde hair and not for harassing girls in his class. The problem was, a kid related to him (and as such had the same last name. I think it was his grandson or grand nephew) started going to the school, since it was a very small town and basically everyone went to the same high school. They couldn't just tell him to not sign his last name, so they lifted the ban on writing the name Hendrickson. The next day, the girl's bathroom was absolutely desecrated with people writing threats against the teacher. Even the grandson began absolutely eviscerating him by writing a whole ten page list of the girls he harassed. It wasn't long until the name was banned, again, and they told him to use "[first name] Hend." on his papers.

[@strogonoffcore]

hell yeah I like this Hend kid

[@gyinagal]

That sounds like a 1st amendment case tbh.

[@gachatana9656]

I would have taken out the r.. Hendickson. It's not the same last name anymore.😂

[@LilcatSwoleBunny]

hole E shit that is wahiiildd

[@davidarnold2456]

Damnatio memoriae but for pervy teachers not bad roman emperors

[@Shellyiscoming4you]

2:57 How do you say "snitch" so many times in a sentence, but it still makes sense?

[@Shellyiscoming4you]

I LAUGHED SO HARD AT 4:12 END

[@ferntheinkling]

I was homeschooled but my parents banned the word “teenager” when I was a kid. They wanted us to call them “young adults.” Apparently they viewed “teenager” as a harmful stereotype 💀

[@poison-LICKTHEPOISON]

What 💀

[@asroczka]

Bro “teenager” is not a stereotype 💀💀💀

[@ferntheinkling]

@@asroczka the word itself isn’t no but there are stereotypes about it teenagers just like there are about any age group. I think my parents were trying to avoid some kind of teenage rebellion phase or something but just banning the term isn’t gonna do crap 💀 tbh it didn’t even last very long, thank god my parents have become better parents since then cause yikes

[@MistLikesSoybean]

They want real life to become the sims 4-

[@liafrota4312]

Then what did they call young adults? "Slightly older adults"?

[@silencehollow4545]

My elementary school music teacher banned the phrases "shut up" (she called it the "s word"), "I don't like _____", and I can't do _____" because they were "negative". She also banned the word "glockenspiel" because some kids were using it instead of the word "gun", as in, "I have a *glockenspiel* at home, yeah it can fire __ rounds per minute" or whatever. It was very difficult when our Veteran's Day thing came around and some of us were playing glockenspiels. We started calling them "glocks" which is arguably worse. She was a little weird.

[@flarelukethecomedian3251]

That teacher seems to be oversensitive.

[@SStupendous]

@@flarelukethecomedian3251 Yeah it just happens that subjective subjects such as English, and arguably Music, spawn the emotionally sensitive, waffling BS teachers

[@danese1636]

Elementary and Middleschool teachers are either divine or downright psychotic. There is absolutely no middle ground.

[@ExDixionconderoga]

I would say the real s word for the former and then watch the look

[@CricetoFunni]

"arguably worse" No, DEFINITELY worse. You really don't want a group of kids proudly proclaiming that they "have a glock".

[@audreyanderson6616]

Wasn't banned at my school, but when "ligma" jokes were really popular our Bible teacher heard other kids making jokes about it and went around the room asking what ligma was with full sincerity. I was worried that if I laughed he would ask me next and I would get in trouble somehow even though I didn't make any jokes. So eventually one kid explained it by just saying that the joke was that it sounded like "lick my" and the teacher let it go, which was super surprising because he was a huge jerk most of the time.

[@BillyBennington]

I remember in primary school we were banned from using the words maths and English and instead had to call them numeracy and literacy which then got themselves banned and we were then told to use maths and English again

[@TheGreatThicc]

I loved my highschool because they didn't ban phrases but encouraged us to come up with new ones, even if they were horrible punny cracks at the staff. The principal for my first 2 years there had the surname "Jalema" so for whatever reason we all started saying shit like "when life gives you lemons you make Jalema-nade" or replacing the word dilemma with his name.

[@Average-gaga-fan]

In primary school my Year 3 teacher never let us use the word 'Nice' to describe things. She hated it.

[@theunderstatement6842]

one time our year 5 teacher threatened us with 5 minutes of lost golden time for every time we used the word "said" to describe someone saying something in a creative writing task we were set. we had to use more descriptive words. i blame primary school for entire year 11 populations using way too many big words in their english language GCSEs without really knowing what they mean and losing marks for sounding silly.

[@fish-champ]

That’s not nice

[@fish-champ]

@@theunderstatement6842 Should’ve proclaimed “dictated” instead

[@WisheeYtheGDguy]

N I C E I S A N O T H I N G W O R D

[@Goober_gobbler]

Did we have the same teacher, mine did the exact same thing 😭

[@vixprior9733]

A long term substitute teacher once banned a phrase that my friends and I made up. My friend Adi had taken a sentence along the lines of "where can we hide the bodies" or something dark like that and put it through google translate 100 times. We ended up with a bunch of words from other languages that we couldn't pronounce properly, but we thought it was hilarious. The teacher banned it, saying it "could be considered demonic." No matter how much we tried to explain to this lady that it was just "where can we hide the bodies" in google translate, she still told us we weren't allowed to say it anymore. I have a very large number of stories about this particular substitute. None of them are positive

[@nostalgcis]

why do people see everything as demonic like bro. its not like by watching a movie i am constantly trying to summon satan for the rest of my life.

[@hellod7961]

Word that you do not know = demonic

[@hg7h103-g]

@@nostalgcis I love summoning satan. I mean uhh

[@dio8636]

Ngl, "where can we put the bodies" does sound kinda demonic, regardless of the language you say it in

[@I_E_O_T_C]

@@dio8636 oh look, it’s the substitute

[@R4INB0W_GUTZ]

my 2nd grade teacher banned the “me too” sign language motion, she thought it was a gang sign or something. she got one student (whos was the teachers pet) in trouble for it.

[@kcio3erene307]

ableism at its finest

[@decentpotatoes]

Love how any slang term that originates from the African American community is automatically “gang related.”

[@Totallynotredtail]

Yeah I noticed that

[@B_by_Motleyorc]

yeah thats uhhhh not a good look

[@SamanthamusPrimeV28050]

They racist. Right?

[@decentpotatoes]

@@SamanthamusPrimeV28050 Yeah, pretty much.

[@SamanthamusPrimeV28050]

@@decentpotatoes understood.