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.
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.
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
When I was in year 2, my teacher banned the word “said” from my class as she wanted us to be more creative. She meant both in our writing and in our ACTUAL words.
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
Oh my gosh, I get it now. Schools banning words for no good reason is how we end up with children saying even stupider words. We probably ended up with Rizz because kids weren't allowed to say Cool, Goofy Aah because they banned Goofy Ass (I kinda get that one tho cuz that's an actual swear word to some people), etc.
We were told to not wear hoods outside anymore even if it was raining because of “gang” activities. There weren’t even any gangs at that school and it did the opposite effect, after the assembly everyone was wearing a hood.
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
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
@@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.
My elementary school banned me from saying my damn name, HOW THE HECK WAS I SUPPOSED TO SOCIALIZE WITH THE FACT THAT I HAD TO BE REFERRED TO BY MY MIDDLE NAME?!
in 4th grade alot of the girls were so annoying about one direction that they had to announce on the intercom that band shirts and one direction songs were banned 😭 one girl got lunch detention for wearing a 1d shirt also in middle school, the vice principal was one of those christians who horribly misunderstand the bible and use god's name to protect themselves, she thought halloween was the devil's birthday so we weren't allowed to talk about it or wear halloween costumes to school, i remember she straight up called the police on my friend walking by her house to go trick or treating... to not even her house
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
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
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.
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?
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.
I’m so glad none of my teachers/schools were ever stupid enough to think this would work. Children are chaos gremlins, you cannot control them like this. The most they tried was a school assembly about dress code that had all the usual things and also specifically no skulls/skull imagery, for some reason. I have to assume the rest of a skeleton is completely fine??
My first grade teacher didn’t allow the class to say stupid, she genuinely treated it as a swear. And I don’t just mean calling a person stupid wasn’t allowed, you weren’t allowed to use the word for anything. When a book she was reading to the class said the word stupid she would replace it with “silly”.
Imagine she was reading some philosopher's book meant to be taken seriously and then she replaces every instance of stupid with silly. That would by hysterical
yeah, my 8th grade teacher said the n word every time it appeared in books with her full chest; the difference between elementary school teachers and middle school teachers is wild
@@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
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.
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
My social studies teacher banned the word “skibidi” because we would just add skibidi to things she said. “SKIBIDI MEXICO!!!” “Skibidi Maple Syrup” and “Skibidi air pollution” were some of my personal favorites.
@@cristiancastro5853 The little kids these days. But every young generation will repeat the latest trendy phrases/things to the point of it being irritating.
i dont see why people think they're superior to terms like skibidi toilet. it just goes to show the unchanging generational biases of terms. it's like generational gatekeeping
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.
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.
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.
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.
In my history class, we were learning about gilgamesh and Nebuchadnezzar. This was recent, so my whole class started saying “gigamesh” and “Nebuchadnezzar” (They pronounced the middle part as “Chad” instead of how it’s normally pronounced) and our teacher said that if anyone used those names on assignments, midterms, or finals, he would fail us immediately and call our parents and explain what had happened.
One time I heard someone say "Wetting cheese smells like farts" so it got me just chanting "WETTING CHEESE SMELLS LIKE FARTS! WETTING CHEESE SMELLS LIKE FARTS! WETTING CHEESE SMELLS LIKE FARTS!" which led to the word "wetting" getting banned. 💀💀💀
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. 😂
my school banned asking questions that include "what if" because everyone wouldn't stop asking completely unrelated questions. we resorted to asking "what would occur in the circumstance where..."
Reminds me of my middle school art class, I liked the teacher for the most part but I remember her being really strict on us not drawing anything "gang related". I was asked to change a germanic typeface I had used because she thought it was "gang related" but the worst example was when my friend drew a black dude with an afro in a leisure suit and she said it was "gang related". Everyone at our table (including my black friend) laughed it off at the time but good lord!
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
In 5th grade, my teacher banned the words "stuff", "things", and "huge" in order to expand our vocabulary. My elementary school smartass ratted out everyone who said those words, even when we weren't even in the classroom, to the point where one kid kept on saying "stuff the turkey" as a loophole who antagonize me And I wondered why some people didn't like me
4:27 As a passionate fan of correct English, including Archaic English, I have to correct this. "Thinkest thou not before thou speakest?" Or, "Dost thou thinkest before thou speakest?" When the verb is second person (present singular), it ends in -est ( thou speakest), -st (thou shouldst) or -t (thou shalt). When the verb is third person, however, it ends with -eth (he/she speaketh) or just -th (doth). The Archaic form of "you" is "thou" (where art thou) or "thee," which means (to) you (I search for thee). The word for "your (singular)" is thy (take unto thee Mary thy wife). "Yours" becomes "thine (This fight be not thine), unless a noun begins with a vowel (thine apple), similar to "an," and so too "mine (mine apple). "You (plural)" is "ye (hear, ye!/when ye have found him, bring me word again)."
Recently, our music teacher sent a kid to the office for mewing and when we asked what's wrong with mewing she said it was inappropriate and we asked what the hand gesture for mewing was and SHE STARTED MEWING 💀
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.
We weren’t allowed to say recess in third grade. The reasoning? They thought us talking about recess would get us excited for recess, therefore distracting us from schoolwork. This led to many recess plans including the words ‘Reese’s pieces’, ‘playtime’, and other creative workarounds.
when I was in junior high, Kendamas were _super_ popular. I guess the teachers saw us having fun and were like "none of that, thanks" and banned them. but obv we still talked about them a lot, so the word 'kendama' was banned too but the bullying was fine I guess
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"
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.
@@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
In my 4th grade class, the teacher got some chick-fil-a and we all started saying "chicken minis" in a chibi voice in sync together for some reason. It was banned, and the kid who showed up late was very confused.
The entire class chanting something is horror movie material. Especially when you where responsible for letting that slide and it escalated to this point
What would be most fun, would be if someone collected all these, wrote down the words and which schools, and then sent it in to the government and some news station while demanding those words to be removed from the dictionary due to the education system wanting them banned. And then just wait for the fireworks. There’d be tv channels fighting over it, since the schools/teachers don’t acknowledge the words in the dictionary as being worthy of being used anymore.
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”
This is one of my all-time favourite Matt Rose videos. It’s just too funny seeing the stupid words schools have banned and how students worked around it. I wish I had a story to contribute, but I don’t remember if any school I went to banned any words.
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"
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.
@@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.
“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?
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
My teacher banned the word "diyabeetees" because it sounds familiar to "the condition when you eat too much sweets and too much sugar" Also, my teacher banned the phrase "Skibidi Toilet" because all my classmates say "Skibidi Toilet" Again, my classmates can't say "chicken nuggets" because all my classmates also say it. It's banned now.
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.
I know this doesn’t count as a story for this one but when I was in middle school, I was in accelerated math, and one kid pissed off all the teachers (especially the math teacher) so much that the kid was kicked out of accelerated learning. To this day, the kid has never won an argument.
My school not only had to ban tag throught the halls but also the phrase birds are not real in all verble written and email forms becouse entire clases would chant it then it changed to Elvis is alive
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"
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
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
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.
@@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.
My school banned “funny monkes” from being said. Kids were in full on society with judges kings and other crap and they would all chant funny monke during lunch since it’s what they called themselves. When the lunch ladies got annoyed and banned the name, the kids replaced it with something along the lines of hopping rabbits until that got banned too.
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 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.
In elementary school I had a teacher who just personally disliked the word “sucks.” She didn’t actually get anyone in trouble for saying it, she just politely asked us not to, and if you did say it in class other kids would tell you not to. I don’t think anyone was upset about it, but it did apparently lead to one kid telling their parents at a parent teacher conference that another student “couldn’t stop saying the s-word in class” and the teacher had to hastily explain what that meant.
My classmates were insanely overcompetitive; they would do literally ANYTHING to beat up their classmates in any exam or competition. Among the craziest was to start a school note mafia, but that's a story for another time. Anyway, because of this, they LOVED to call one another "psycho" because that's frankly what they were... and the school got the word "psycho" banned from my class because it was genuinely turning into bullying. (That's not the weird part yet.) The students got around this with "sociopath" and that was also banned. Here's the silly part now. My class, besides loving to absolutely slaughter each other, loves science, especially physics in particular. So when we "discovered" the electromagnetic spectrum, psycho/sociopath became "Your wavelength is way to short for your own good!" The school banned the words "wavelength" "gamma ray" and "X-ray" right after this became a running gag and nearly descended into total chaos. A student who wanted to tell her friend she was going to have braces fitted for her teeth and required a dental X-ray, nearly got herself pulled to the teachers' office ☢💀
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 ☠️
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.
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?
Back when squid game was popular my school banned everyone from talking about or playing it. So one time we played it and a teacher said "stop playing squid game" or something like that... and then my friend said that we were not playing squid game we were playing "christmas activities"💀 (it was around christmas time) and we got away with it.
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.
If ya come back to this…. Here’s mine!! One kid named Kagan got in trouble for repeatedly say “Giggity” and “Giggity Giggity Goo” so he was only allowed to say either ONCE A DAY…. For the REST FOR THE YEAR, he’d get 30 minutes of detention if he said either twice!
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
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
My school chorus had to sing a song, and the beginning, middle, and end it said "Na na na na na!" We were banned to say it and on opening day the school accidentally played the "na na na na na audio" 💀
There was this one kid in my old school and he hated the word “slay” due to overuse. I cling to words and phrases I find funny, slay being one of them. That poor bastard had to put up with it. Wasn’t really banned but we tried not to say it. I did get two things banned though: laser pointers at my kindergarten and parental lunch visits at my elementary school. Neither on purpose.
not a word but a teacher tried to ban drawing in school because of me. the reason being she thought my drawings were inappropriate for school. (i drew things like stick figures getting maimed) i ignored her and continued drawing and when she tried to punish me i said "you saying it doesnt make it a rule" until one day when she dragged me to the principal who finally told her to leave me alone because banning drawing is a violation of my rights lol.
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.
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.
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 💀
A teacher at my middle school banned the phrase “Are you serious right now?” And found it annoying. All the kids kept saying it because they hated the teacher.
Oh and back in 7th grade, a history teacher banned the country “Niger” to be said in his class because some kids would miss pronounce it as, well, you know.
If a school banned the word “big”, then I would say something like… Idk… Giant, Godzilla-sized, huge, humongous, hefty (in the meaning of big), oversized, towering (also in the meaning of big)… and all that stuff…
This reminds my teacher lecturing us about swear words. She started swearing to emphasise it. And our english teacher's phrase "YOU INCORRIGIBLE CREATURE!!!"
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
My school banned socks that aren’t black. You have white socks? GO HOME AND CHANHE THEM, you have dark blue socks? A little hard to notice but if they do, GO HOME AND CHANGE THEM 💀
One time someone in my class got sent home because they were wearing gloves. Plot twist: The gloves were actually bandages and they had severely injured their hands on something sharp the previous day.
