So, who else had their school ban these?

brandnew70x7 · 1 year

my school did. the punishment was just a slap on the wrist.

litebright · 1 year

must be showing my age now. anything that was banned in schools at the time were guns and drugs. nothing was ever banned.

Otherjack · 1 year

Why would a school ban these? I broke every one of them, with a constant slapping on my wrist.

rarisgod · 1 year

I don't even know what that is. But they look like they should be banned. Bad influence, makes you do drugs and take part in prostitution, no doubt. For sure. Yup. Mhm.

Seriously though, if those had made it to my school, they would have been banned. For any stupid reason they could come up with.

jeffandersen · 1 year

So you were the one that had them banned! I knew it!

monoaction · 1 year

which ban? early 90's ban or mid 00's ban?

whatever_fuck_it · 1 year

my school banned them. more interestingly though, a friend of mine in like fourth grade was propositioned to lick another friend of mine's pussy 20 times for a bunch of slap-bracelets. he accepted but never got the slap bracelets. :(

gloveraran · 1 year

Yup. Also banned: Teddy Ruxpin, after a kid brought one in for show and tell with nearly-dead batteries, and it started SPEAKING LIKE THE DEVIL INCARNATE.

So many children were scarred that day.

ShiftyLookingTeen · 1 year

nope, but i remember when r/pics banned things that should belong in r/dae.

"who else..." is just as bad.

YouveBeenOneUpped · 1 year

Yep. Same here. Some idiot's wrist got cut when the metal tore through the cover.

slop-pail · 1 year

Can someone explain me what are these things? :(

StainlSteelRat · 1 year

I'm a little old for this, but I do have a related story:

They banned Mr Zog's Sex Wax (a scented surfboard wax) in my school because kids were eating it. They even had to announce this ban over the PA system, indicating the health hazards of eating something that contained petroleum products.

Crash_BendyCock · 1 year

Our school told us that they make you gay :(

omginorite · 1 year

Put a gold one over your forehead - instant Geordi LaForge visor.

enchantrem · 1 year

I remember the first time this was banned in my middle school in like '95... It was a pretty obscure middle school... you've probably never heard of it.

katastrof · 1 year

my school banned them because teachers were getting annoyed with them. I've been seeing them in the form of beer koozies lately.

hatnscarf · 1 year

Along with pogs, yoyos, gogos, Tazo's and pokemon cards. Too many fist fights broke out I guess.

greg913 · 1 year

My school banned every type of trading card

wowheylookdotcom · 1 year

They're back, my wife received a pink watch, neoprene rubberized material, with the straps made from these slap wrists.

timtastic_magic · 1 year

Yeah I remember them getting banned when I was in elementary school. However they have paved the way for these ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rk0fI01Azo ) which makes up for everything.

shelldog · 1 year

I wish I had mine readily available for a picture, but I got a koozie that had 2 of these bad boys inside of it so you could slap it on your beer can and be on your way to drunken merriness.

cylonhunter · 1 year

My High School, back in 2003, banned black wrist-bands because of the "political" or "anti-war" connotations they carry from Vietnam. Of course none of us were nearly old enough to make this correlation until it was pointed out to us, and subsequently banned. Many students wore them during the Walk-out the next week. We are still at war though, so I guess it didn't work...

LSDemon · 1 year

A kid sliced his wrist pretty bad using one of those. The school then banned those, pogs, and stickers.

So random.

terrortoad · 1 year

WOW SLAP BRACELETS...that takes me back. These were OK for like a week and then some jackass had the bright idea to slap it on to someone's wrist after jumping off the jungle gym and slapping their wrist as hard as they could. Nobody got hurt, but when kids start crying adults bring down the HAMMER.

chestercheese · 1 year

This was banned from where I was

mtaylor2k3 · 1 year

I slapped one of these on my erect penis once. It hurt like hell. I have no idea what I was thinking.

profnutbutter · 1 year

I had a slap-bracelet with a slide-on digital watch attachment. Showing it off to a friend, I went to slap it on... long story short, I made time fly... and a classmate blind for a day.

iCEEMAN · 1 year

one of me favourite things that you can do with Slap Bracelet, is cut them open. Take out the steel thing that curls up when bent, take scissors and cut at both ends of the steel thing so thy are sharp. And then slap someone whit it :)

Shadax · 1 year

We had the powdered candy in a tube banned from mine. Raven's Revenge or something?

Edit: Here's all I could find

thewormauger · 1 year

Those... and pogs. bitches

keiyakins · 1 year

These things are HIDEOUSLY annoying after more than a minute or so.

ZeeBigMac · 1 year

prismaticbeans · 1 year

They banned a lot of things at my school. No football, no food allowed outside on school property, no walking on the ice, no picking up snow for any reason, no tank tops, no shorts above the knee, no laser pointers, no hats, no scarves (this especially sucked because I started to develop alopecia areata, I would get in trouble for wearing a head scarf to cover it), no backpacks, no water bottles, no physical contact of any kind including handshakes, hugs, high fives, etc., no shoes with black soles, no rollerblades including outside, and so, so many more.

I hated school.

vietbond · 1 year

Here is a list of things banned from our school:

Slap Bracelets

Spinjas because it was considered gambling.

M.U.S.C.L.E.S.

Bart Simpson T-Shirts

Paper Guns

Clothespin Popsicle Stick Switchblades

Our school mascot, the Saint Bernard, because it had a jug around it's neck and could be construed as alcohol. They changed it to a cougar.

Anyways, our school sucked.

MrsBadExample · 1 year

I got all of mine taken away because I wouldn't stop playing with them. "Ok, pull out your books--"

SNAP

"and turn to page--"

SNAP

"206. If you'll look"

SNAP

"OK GIVE ME THAT THING"

PornBoredom · 1 year

I went to a baptist elementery school and they banned pokemon cards because we were 'worshiping false idols'. I shit you not

duinn · 1 year

I think r/DAE or r/CircleJerk would have been a more suitable reddit for this.

ElDouchoLoco · 1 year

I see nothing wrong with these, other than the fact that they are an affront to good taste.

Aethelstan · 1 year

Why would you have your school ban it? Was spoiling people's fun a hobby of yours?

butterfly_julia_50 · 1 year

Everyone.....they kinda hurt man.

goatboy1970 · 1 year

I was the reason they got banned. I took off the fabric and the metal inside cut the shit out of your arm. It was a dick move. My bad, guys.

BexterV · 1 year

I was recently over at my boyfriend's parents when I noticed his 8 year old brother was wearing one, they're back!

RiotGrrrl585 · 1 year

YOU CAN SLIT YOUR WRISTS OPEN AND DIE!!!!

SiouxsieHomemaker · 1 year

I actually knew the guy who got these banned and made them go away for a while. He almost lost an eye slapping one on his wrist and his parents sued the company. They won a nice settlement and slap wrists were no more :(

castsnoshadows · 1 year

yup, all cause one idiot kidscraped his retina playing with one, they pretty much got banned in every school.

shovah · 1 year

I think these are big in China.

drop0ut · 1 year

They were never banned while I was in school. The best one I had said NINJA NINJA NINJA on it. I so wish I still had it.

Matt872000 · 1 year

I got a slap bracelet at a concert a couple weeks ago and I've been nostalgia'ing everyone I see with it.

Averzion · 1 year

We were allowed those. But these were banned: <img src="http://i.imgur.com/QGhoO.jpg" alt="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" /> Kids went crazy over those things for some reason.

[deleted] · 1 year

I could never stand wearing them, but I always made sure to carry plenty around, purely to make that wonderfully pestering noise. XD

walom · 1 year

why would a school ban these?

Mojo_Nixon · 1 year

No, they didn't have to. After about a week, pretty much everyone in my class decided that they were fucking stupid. I don't think I've seen one since 1992

linds360 · 1 year

I was the first person in my school to have one and it was probably the peak of my existence.

The day they took them away along with my fame was crushing.

tldr; slap bracelet is responsible for the best and worst times of my life

Vcookie · 1 year

It's like a C-string for your wrist!

nowgetoffmylawn · 1 year

Not mine. That's because my school wasn't full of a bunch of pansies.

[deleted] · 1 year

My school was one of the reasons they banned them, two kids got are legally blind from getting smacked in the face.

SidiousX · 1 year

No, but my school banned Pokemon because pretty much every kid was addicted to it. It was like a damn drug operation or something, if you were caught with Pokemon "paraphernalia" you were immediately sent to the office.

thinwhiteduke · 1 year

My school. We also had a ban on Trapper Keepers.

ronfrommarketing · 1 year

Banned because they can allegedly slit one's wrist.

rumblez · 1 year

These shits hurt when I was a kid.

FreeMoustacheRide · 1 year

Hopefully not the only one but those things hurt after awhile.

JackDostoevsky · 1 year

I'm pretty sure it was a small minority of schools that banned them, but because it seemed like such a ridiculous thing to ban, the banings got a lot of attention.

dtelad11 · 1 year

How are these called and where can I buy them? I've been looking for one of these for ages.

PawNuzzle · 1 year

Ban? You'd think schools would support reflectors. o_0

AnAlias · 1 year

Our school handed out fluorescent ones so that we would be easily seen by traffic. For free. To all of us.

Liverotto · 1 year

what about a bigger version of this that works like a baton?

kittyboots · 1 year

Some places are selling some of these bad boys again; however, they now have plastic inside instead of metal. Now it's safer to be masochistic!

BellisBlueday · 1 year

Yes ! 20 years later the same local council sent me some reflective ones to promote bike safety :)

I spend a good 30 mintes practicing 'the slap' :D

livinglitch · 1 year

Wow we had those same slap bracelets on sale at work a few months ago. The kids bought them real fast

kuhawk5 · 1 year

Right before I clicked the link I thought "slap bracelets?"

Yes indeed. Schools hate fun.

Specnerd · 1 year

I just got one of these from an arcade over the weekend. Mine was leopard print.

Turning 22 in a few weeks.

beltaine · 1 year

What kind of schools did you guys go to? The only thing my school(s) banned were drugs, alcohol and any kind of weapon (that zero tolerance thing). Jeezus.

equimanthorn · 1 year

I'm pretty sure these were banned because kids kept getting lacerated by them.

naveregnide · 1 year

I'm wearing one right now. Relient K gave them out at concerts last year. I'm always slapping it on people.

Bedeone · 1 year

Our school was subsidised to buy those things with the whole "visibility in traffic" thing going.

Helmets, LED lights, fluorescent vests and these with fluorescent material on them were dumped on our playground by the truckloads.

Jareth86 · 1 year

I must be too young.

royrules22 · 1 year

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT I FINALLY FOUND IT!!

Back in 96/97 when I was still living in India this one kid from my school had these things and he would go around showing everyone. I wanted one but didn't know where to get it.

Fast forward to '98 and I'm now living in the US and I asked everyone (including randomly walking into Toys 'R Us, KB Toys, etc) and all my classmates and friends what these things were and where I could get them. No one knew. I thought (and still think) they were bullshitting me but I could never find it. I tried for nearly three years before I give up hope.

And finally 15 years later I find out it actually existed. But I still don't know what the hell this thing is called.

Chicoconut · 1 year

I had a Bart Simpson one where he was skateboarding and said "Cowabunga!" It was awesome

danayermom · 1 year

my school banned them...probably because they were afraid of their super-capabilites...you could spy on them with slap-bracelet binoculars, make slap-bracelet hearts for your lover(s)...or maybe just because we slapped the shit out of each other.

injulen · 1 year

My school banned these..... http://i.imgur.com/3fSCW.jpg

helix19 · 1 year

The best ones were the furry ones with animal faces.

imsamuel · 1 year

WHIPPER SNAPPERS!

flfolks · 1 year

No one. Your childhood was unique and not the result the mass production of culture through marketing.

trollbob · 1 year

No but they banned yo-yos and pokemon cards... :(

l33tb3rt · 1 year

We had them banned because multiple fights broke out over them. One fight was over someone stiffing the other person during a trade.

PeterHertz · 1 year

Mrs.Eddy still has mine that bitch. Beginning of fourth grade she took them from us (w/o any warning) and said we could have them back at the end of the year. Its been 20 years this june, never got them back. Fucking old cunt.

Pink_cigarette · 1 year

They told me you will die!! I was skeptical, though.

keeleyaurora · 1 year

My school banned yo-yos. Yes, I am a child of the 90's. Sigh.

Phippz · 1 year

These were a threat to society as we know it. You should thank the authorities for banning them

OrganicCat · 1 year

My school banned them because the cheap cloth wore through reasonably fast and caused umpteen number of sharp metal slicey incidents.

They decided it was a health hazard what with all the blood. Yes, this is high school children we're talking about, and yes, they are dumb enough to play with sharp metal things on their wrists.

threwahway · 1 year

Only pokemon cards and marbles... Assholes.

thesciz · 1 year

My school banned pogs(they saw it as gambling), devil sticks(potential weapons), yo-yos(potential weapons), Crazy Bonez(gambling), and other assorted grade-school level infatuations. Goddamn Catholics.

Mister_Snrub · 1 year

I remember them being banned. All the kids assumed that it was because they were just some fabric wrapped around a thin piece of sharp metal, but in hindsight, they were probably just a distraction.

By the way they're back. Boy won't today's kids be shocked to see the schools are one step ahead of them!

irishtank · 1 year

I still were from I've had since 1991, get strangers all the time asking me where I got them... Do they still make them?

Mcflyguy · 1 year

I had a ninja turtle one.

JimmerUK · 1 year

I used one of these as the wrist strap for my Pop Swatch back in the day.

PeanutNore · 1 year

What is this, 1992?

MrBensvik · 1 year

They were never banned where I'm from. Quite the opposite actually, they gave us ones fitted with reflectors as a traffic safety measure.

bad_neighbor · 1 year

Oh, man. I knew what you were referencing before I even clicked on the link. :|

GodOfAtheism · 1 year

My school had a ban on red and white laces, since apparently it was a white supremacist thing. I didn't know until I heard of the ban, so thanks for teaching me about racism!

Tooblekane · 1 year

My school didn't ban them, but I wish they did. That sound was only slightly more annoying than the young boys playing with and bragging about their magnetic earrings.

AbbieX · 1 year

My school banned...blue jeans??? White jeans, red jeans, green jeans, black jeans, tan jeans, all OK...blue jeans..nope! We were still paying for the sins of Brando and James Dean..

BenCelotil · 1 year

In hindsight, I'm surprised they never banned Sunny Boy ice blocks when I was in primary school - not because of there being anything inherently wrong with them, just because they were so fucking messy to eat.

A block of flavoured ice in the shape of a 4-sided die - forget the technical name of the shape - wrapped in a foil-lined shell - no stick or anything to hold on to, you just tore a corner off and went at it.

These look like they might not have changed at all, so let this post be a warning to parents, don't give your kid a Sunny Boy before anything involving clean clothes.

PrinceAuryn · 1 year

The rumor I read/heard was that the different colors meant things. For example, if you had a pink one or something, that meant you were down with giving hand jobs.

Anyone else hear that rumor?

mikeydonuts · 1 year

Pogoballs. Of all things Pogoballs [http://www.anothertown.com/nucleus/media/1/20061120-pogoball2.jpg] were banned in my elementary school. Made no sense. I suppose it was a liability issue? But then our recess equipment was a from the 70's and brutally dangerous. We had a swingset that must have been 15 feet high.

momzill · 1 year

I've got a question. What are they or more importantly, what do they represent?

[deleted] · 1 year

My boyfriend just got a mug wrap warmer/cooler from his company that has two of them inside. He is so happy simple things can amuse me for hours. I like to slap it on my wrist.

_Freedom_ · 1 year

My school did, but seriously everything was banned, pogs, yo-yos, paper airplanes, gum, being near puddles, certain colors of clothes (gangs...in the richest area of town, where there have been no gang problems) picking up anything off the ground, including things you dropped, pokemon cards, playing cards, gameboys, and basically anything that could be deemed fun.

Elementary school was a lesson in the fact that sometimes authority tries to make no sense.

Vipren · 1 year

Yeah for some reason they thought kids at our school would be using them to slash each others wrists but still issued those compasses that could kill a horse

[deleted] · 1 year

I don't understand why bracelets are banned. Do they represent gangs? I'm in my fifties so I don't recall anything being banned in school. Not even racism.

Broccoli14 · 1 year

I remember a kid stole one of these from me in elementary school. It still hurts.

MontgomeryB · 1 year

Yeah, I believed the whole "a kid slashed his wrist when he slammed one that had worn away the covering"

Honky_magoo · 1 year

Mine did too... bastard fucks. If I were a teacher back then I'd probably have killed a child over this.

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