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and now today's video cancel culture is the hottest thing in the world right now
we're cancelling stuff left and right if the internet is to be believed but it turns out
the world has a long history of taking things that are inoffensive and meaningless and then
banning them totally with little to no reason whatsoever
number 10. potatoes today the humble potato may be the most popular vegetable in the world it's
versatile and delicious and can compliment almost any food at any time what else is at home next
to a fast food burger or a high-end steak what goes well with breakfast or dinner what can you
fry bake mash boil or stick in a stew the potato is everything you need but it was not always so
once upon a time not only was the potato not lauded for its near universal deliciousness
it was straight up persecuted in 1748 the french waged all-out war on potatoes potatoes
were not food for humans at that time they were meant to be used as livestock feed and not only
that the french were under the impression that potatoes caused leprosy potatoes were not native
to europe the spanish had brought them back from the new world and people were skeptical to say the
least you can still see this today when people are confronted by new foods there's an entire industry
of youtube videos dealing with people eating stuff from other land so back in the day this mysterious
tuba that grew underground was scary and weird so they outlawed it for nearly 25 years until
french army officer antoine augustine parmentier convinced his people how great they were after
being held prisoner by the prussians who fed him potatoes and he didn't die or get leprosy
9. female belly buttons on tv in today's modern tv landscape we're spoiled for choice when it
comes to titillation thanks to hbo and other cable networks you can barely turn the channel without
something sexy jumping out at you but back in the tv dark ages some time before the late 1990s
television was a far different medium no one cursed violence was heavily implied and there
certainly wasn't nudity on most channels back in 1951 the national association of broadcasters was
hard at work protecting home audiences from corruption and moral turbitude to this end
they established guidelines for what could and could not be seen on television naturally the
seductive and beguiling female navel was on their list it was banished from the airwaves lest they
easily influence see it and become aroused or some such this rule against female belly buttons on tv
because male belly buttons are devoid of sinister powers stayed on the books for over 30 years
until 1983 there were a few moments in history when the belly button sneaked in notably with
horror or an episode of star trek in 1967 but the most part it wasn't until cher
kept showing off her midriff in the 1970s that the belly button was finally set free
8. harps if you watch or breed much epic fantasy you know that hearts have an important place in
the world of bards and traveling minstrels this wasn't just pulled out of thin air though harps
in real life have a long history of not just making music but influencing people and culture
this was especially true in the celtic world where a harpist was a true artist and a person afforded
great respect in the 1500s tensions between england and ireland were especially high the
english crown decided that irish heart players were a danger because of the potential power and
influence they wielded in fact queen elizabeth issued a decree that all harpers were to be
hanged and their instruments destroyed harpers were accused of being spies and were imprisoned
by 1650 oliver cromwell banned harps entirely the most gentle of all musical instruments the
one associated with angels and very located in the parties was now illegal existing hops
were destroyed and harpers were banned from even getting together in groups the tradition of irish
harp playing was almost entirely lost as a result 7. carp farming carp is one of the most common
everyday fish in the world the common carb is native to china and has been farmed for ages
very easy to raise they grow quickly and they're pretty good to eat it's everything you want in
a fish unless of course your name sounds kind of like the same word used for fish in your language
for generations the common cop was a staple of chinese cuisine and chinese fishing however things
changed during the tang dynasty from 618-906 the emperor lee banned the farming and consumption of
the comic con because the name of cop sounded something too similar to the emperor's family
name in chinese on the upside this band led to chinese fishermen focusing on other species of
fish this ended up greatly diversifying their agriculture and their cuisine as a result so
it all worked out in the end didn't it number six mate ask any australian who isn't australian
to talk like an australian and 99 times out of 100 they're going to say goodbye might and then
they're going to maybe reference shrimp on the barbie sadly this is what an entire nation has
been reduced to in the eyes of those abroad it's kind of ironic then that despite how inextricably
linked to australia the word might is that it was once shunned as the powers that be tried to ban it
from the land down under back in 2005 the aussie government felt that it was necessary to decree
that security guards at the parliament house were not permitted to call people mate apparently
someone else in the government had lodged a complaint the blowback was swift and severe as
australians on mass expressed their love of mate as it happens the word comes from germany and at
least one linguist believes it became popular thanks to drunks who couldn't quite remember
each other's names so they just called another mate australia has adopted it wholly and the ban
against using the word was swiftly reversed now just before we get into the rest of today's video
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and now back to today's video 5. sausage you can make a good case for sausage being one of the best
foods for mankind has ever created meat ground up with seasoning and encased in a tube so you
can get it in a bun genius but alas the classic german sausage was not always free to satisfy
the hunger of the masses but who would ever dare ban innocent and delicious sausages well
that would be the german war machine the german war effort was full steam ahead during world war
one and they were putting a lot of their eggs in a basket made of zeppelins they're not what you use
these days but about 100 years ago zeppelin was cutting edge technology unfortunately you
needed cow intestines to make a world war one era zeppelin the same intestines that had previously
been used to make sausage at the height of the war effort germany and its allies were using upwards
of 250 000 cows to make bladders to hold hydrogen and keep those zeppelins afloat that meant germany
and its allies were temporarily banned from producing sausage germany ended up making around
140 uplands during the war today that sounds a bit silly because how practical and useful could a
blimp really be but they were remarkably effective at the time and incredibly hard to combat it was
years before a proper defense against zeppelins was mounted and they were able to be shot down
before trapper keepers if you are of a certain age when you were in high school if you didn't
have a trapper keeper there was a good chance that someone sitting next to you in class had one
obviously not my age i have no idea what this is these were the cool three-ring binders that were
arguably the only binder in the world they had a name it's a trapper keeper it keeps well papers
but it did it reliably well trapper keepers date all the way back to 1978 they were designed to
look cool and colorful there were pockets and storage places inside and you could snap it
shut to hold your stuff secure amazing technology me to the company that makes trapper keepers
sells a hundred million dollars a year of them that's impressive but teachers still banned them
by the early 2000s schools were putting out lists of items that students would need for their school
year and things that were not allowed at all trapper keepers topped the banned list forbidden
from numerous classrooms for a myriad of reasons rumor had it that a lot of teachers couldn't stand
the sound of the velcro snap with kids opening and closing them all day others said they were
just too big and too clumsy to be practical in a classroom setting students were encouraged to buy
less organized binders because ironically all that organization made kids unorganized it was
too hard to find what they were looking for number three trench coats trench coats date back to the
first world war these long coats were designed for officers as an alternative to heavier coats than
at the time they could keep them dry and warm and let's be honest they look pretty cool they gained
popularity over the years as a fashionable and masculine design popularized in a lot of movies
and favored by soldiers cops and gangsters on film not to mention neo fast forward several
decades and the matrix made them even cooler well there we go with about a century of history how
could this clothing item get banned the columbine school shooting became one of the most polarizing
events in modern history in many people's minds this set off the continuing nightmarish trend
of school shootings the shooters committed their crime both wearing long duster style trench coats
for some reason this became a focal point for many school administrators around the country
they banned trench coats out of hand because that was a visual representation of the crimes and it
seemed to some people like a reasonable response some schools literally banned the color black
because the shooters wore black that's going too far isn't it though the ban began after the 1999
shooting but continued for decades there was a santa fe shooting in 2018 in which the shooter
also wore a trench coat the ban on the coats was still on the books across many school districts at
the time it's not a national ban by any means and it goes from district district presumably this ban
still exists in many school districts where the coats are simply listed as unacceptable outerwear
number 2. pinball pinball has fallen by the wayside in modern years sadly because it's
awesome archives in general are few and far between these years thanks in no small part
to the fact that home gaming systems are able to offer a superior gaming experience when compared
to most arcade machines so if you can find an article it's mostly dedicated to retro gaming
and that probably includes one or two pinball machines what we think of as modern pinball
machines date back to around the 1930s they were staples of not just arcades but bars and bowling
alleys and more they seemed like a good bit of old-fashioned fun these days but there was a long
period of time when they were the scourge of new york city starting in the 1940s new york chicago
los angeles banned pinball machines for being pits of moral depravity that's thanks to the fact that
they were considered a kind of gambling when they were introduced and well nobody wants that
so you might be wondering well simon how is a pinball machine gambling because when they were
first developed they had no flippers that meant that the player had to move and shake the machine
to move the ball and to the government that was a game of luck and therefore a game of gambling
amazingly enough the ban was on the books for around 30 years the machines were smashed by the
police and literally tossed in the river as part of what was alleged to be a crackdown on the mafia
of all things the ban only ended in 1976 when one intrepid pinball player managed to convincingly
demonstrate that pinball was a game of skill 1. gamers there's been a long weird history of people
talking down the world of gamers video games have been blamed for all manner of violent or criminal
behaviors not to mention laziness and well bunch of other stuff that they obviously don't cause
professional gaming is a huge industry and the gay market itself is worth billions but people
in general still talk about it like it's kids in their parents basements doing it exclusively
so it's all a bit weird isn't it when it comes to gaming it's usually games themselves that receive
people's ire but gamers themselves have been banned from things as well for no
other reason than their gamers gran turismo games were banned from driving actual race cars
because they were too good at it starting in 2008 nissan's gt academy was enlisting gran
turismo gamers to race actual cars in real life and they were good at it really good too good
in 2013 british gt championship a race that has existed since 1993 banned gran turismo players
from racing this stemmed from the previous year's pro-am race when the amateur who was a consummate
gran turismo player proved himself to be as good as the pros thanks to his gaming experience
because the game made amateur races so good they were banned because it was considered an unfair
advantage over others which is absolutely absurd so i really hope you found this video interesting
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