What would you ban?

[BlueEyesWhiteDragon]

The dog thread has got me pondering...

I'd ban smoking. Ideally full stop but would settle for at least anywhere outside of your own house. It smells. Its unhealthy not just for you but for people around you who don't choose to smoke. Causes thousands of deaths.

Also wasps. I want to be able to sit out in an evening and not be bugged by them. They can also sting me and have zero consequences. Described as voracious predators. I understand they pollinate stuff but surely we have Bees for that (and other things) why do we need angry Wasps too?

And prawn cocktail crisps. Just No.

When we live in a bluetatorship I will give out free milk and cookies but take away your stupid sounding crisps!

I would love to ban alcohol, I actually quite like an occasional glass of wine or G&T but don’t like feeling drunk and hate being around people who are drunk.

@BlueEyesWhiteDragon

I once played a game on DSs Ipad about being a dictator. He was really good at it. I was terrible and often deposed by my own generals. Not relevant but there you go.

Was it Tropico? I’m VERY good at that game. Read into that what you will

Fucking everything

@RoomOfRequirement

I’d ban the word ‘cookies’, unless you’re American, in which case it’s allowed. If you’re a Brit they’re biscuits.

But cookies are a specific type of biscuit!

I was going to you can't ban that sorry as I'm a Brit and I can't be banned in my own dictatorship. That's a terrible outcome! However I was referring to the specific Cookie biscuit so maybe we can compromise? All other biscuits are biscuits accept for Bourbons which are so delicious they need to be referred to by name.

Smoking, alcohol, packaging that can’t be recycled, littering, insects that bite, dogs off leads and swearing,

• Spitting in the street
• Hunting
• Bad grammar - with an honorary mention to people who write ‘would of’ and ‘was sat’
• Shops that sell Christmas cards before November

@Etulosba

I'd ban people from banning things.

Yep

Nits, I mean what actually IS their point apart from to piss you off?

@JackieTheFart Yes! That's the one. Hmm I am happy to offer you a place as my right hand if you promise not to depose me?

What I assume must be a Queen Wasp scared me witless this morning by crawling out of a piece of wood next to my fire. I assume she had hibernated in there and the warmth of the fire or the spring has awoken her. I was not appreciative to see her crawling across the wood though. I did relocate her far away at the end of the garden but it is this that has made me realise I am now going to be bugged by wasps later on

Yeah I'm on look out for young queen's emerging. I always get at least one who's hibernated. Luckily they're not aggressive when they're on their own with nothing to protect.

I hate wasp season as well, those fake nest from b&q are good for the garden though. Keeps them away.

Small bitey insects
MLMs
Wipes calling themselves flushable wipes
Most plastic packaging
Bus stops that are so close together you could walk between them in under 2 minutes.
Dodgy untraceable supply chains
Tax havens
TOWIE and similar shows
Twee phrases on social media
Children's clothing covered in stupid gender stereotypes
Gender stereotypes

Stupidity, I would ban that, seems to be so much of it now, adults with the minds of children, over sensitive, picky, stupid, nonsensical, unaware of the world around them except in terms of how it affects them. Pointless university graduates who studied the supine stem of Robertson's Marmalade or some other pointless thing, and spend their time telling you about it. Idiots on the roads, so many folk of both sexes who are are a danger to themselves and everyone else on the fucking road. Doctors receptionists who actually think think they are the medical professional, instead of the interference officers they really are. Civil enforcement pricks who were bullied at school et etc etc.

Alcohol and antisocial behaviour that goes with it.
Football - ditto above
Breeding when living solely on benefits.
Woke/Over PC people.

Hangovers. I like alcohol too much to ban it but I cannot cope with the inevitable hangover the next day.

Ice cream vans. There is one that parks outside my house at least 3 times a day in the summer with his stupid too loud tune. It’s so loud, when I’m on work calls with all the windows and doors shut people comment on it. I’d forgotten all about him until he started up again yesterday

Motor bikes

Misery lit

Vimto

Forward facing car seats

Text speak and emojis

The words 'pertaining to' and 'ascertain'.

Sequins on clothes

Online gambling.

Especially when you find out just how Denise Coates earned £469million last year.

Clothes moths
Chewing gum

Mosquitos

People who say "would of", "could of"

I'd ban sport on television and in the news. It was lovely in the first lockdown when it all went away.

I'd also ban dogs. Horrible, smelly, dangerous things with disgusting habits.

@Tartyflette

YABU. Wasps are fascinating insects and an incredibly necessary part of the ecosystem. Don't disturb them and they won't disturb you. If you flap around and try to shoo them away you're far more likely to get stung. If you have an allergy keep well away. They are predators on other insects, not us.

I agreed with your post until the sentence 'don't disturb them and they won't disturb you'. Oh, but they DO disturb me, all the bloody time. And the times I have been stung in the past were always when following the 'sit still' advice. I sat still and they got caught in my clothes or hair and stung me. If I flap them away, they leave. The sit still advice is nonsense . I agree it's best not to panic though.

Breeding when living solely on benefits

I know this a pretty lighthearted thread but can’t get past this - do you include disabled people and carers? Living on benefits could so easily happen to any of us out of the blue - redundancy, illness - should that entail abortion?

Bikes, and the arrogant idiots who ride them.

@N51BU

I would ban chavs

Put them all on a small island off the coast of Scotland

Are you my husband?

Those spacer things that stretch out people's earlobes. They always make me feel a bit faint when I see them