How do you compliment a chair? Lol.

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

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

Love to see schools use "gang related" as an excuse to be racist 🙄

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?!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Ahh, yes, my favorite word related to gang violence, “peace”

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.

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

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

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..."

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.

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

You can tell that the teachers who just up and ban words have never stopped to just ask their students what the word meant.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

My school banned the phrase “erm, actually”

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.

my school banned "skill issue" because some kid really hated it, so we started saying "ability contingency"

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

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. For instance if your crayons kept breaking you couldn’t say “Stupid crayons”. When a book she was reading to the class said the word stupid she would replace it with “silly”.

The entire class chanting something is horror movie material. Especially when you where responsible for letting that slide and it escalated to this point

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

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”

My 6th grade social studies banned the word “calcium.” No one knows why.

My science teachers banned the words “skibidi” and “sigma” because people kept yelling the words out randomly during class.

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.

I remember once a teacher banned the phrase "oh my god" because apparently it was "disrespectful to god," it wasn't even a religious school. 💀

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 6th grade teachers banned "shut up" so everyone would just say "Shut down" instead

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

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.

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

The word “Bing” got banned because the teacher thought that it was an alternative word for vape 💀

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.

My school banned ‘Cocomelon’ AND ‘Baby Shark’ because the teachers thought it was cringe.

dice could also be called: 6 sided coin flip

The word “tasty” was banned when we used it, many many many times then we changed it to the name “Phil” and “Paul” which eventually got banned

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 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

In my friends school, she managed to get the word "monkey" banned.

My teacher tried banning the word “cool” but it ended up with the whole class screaming “COOL COOL COOL”

The fact that AAVE words are banned bc of “gang relation” excuses really shows what kinds schools these are…

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.

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. 💀💀💀

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

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

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”

6:17 the peter griffin laugh HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

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.

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

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"

One of my teachers banned the word “Ohio” because we kept saying it

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!

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.

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

My old school banned the Word "Cockroach" because our english class had them everywhere, so we called them "Roach", got that banned, so then at the end of the year we went to "Beetles" Which also got banned, so we called them insects 💀

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 ☠️

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 talking about pepper spray because someone sprayed it on while on a bus once

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 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

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.

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 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.

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

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" 💀

When I was in in Prep, the phrase ‘Chicken Stir Fry’ was banned in my class because we wouldn’t stop saying it….i have no clue why

“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?

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.

in primary school playing "huggy wuggy chasey" was banned bc a girl jumped of the slide and broke her ankle, which 7 year old got this girl so scared that she jumped on the metal slide????😭😭

I had to watch the most serious and strict teacher give an assembly saying that we now cannot say the words "Your mum"

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"

I would never laugh at something like “cephalopod conundrums” until Matt voiced it

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.

i've got some for you: -bald dharman -bulldog -(also) squid games -rainbow friends -wednesday -shut up -shush your mush -shut your gob -basically any form of "shut up"

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 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

This just proves that banning things easily backfires

This truly is one of the videos of all time.

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.

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"

Whilst I can only encourage the banning of words if this means that students get more creative, I personally don't understand how adressing the symptom of bad behaviour is supposed to prevent the issue of said bad behavior occuring. But I guess that would be a case of 'the best sailors are on the shore' or so that horribly translated dutch phrase goes. Guess I need more context on why schools just randomly ban parts of communication.

We got ‘Caillou’ banned permanently from my elementary school art class

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.

got the word "blue" banned after every single correct answer on the math kahoot ended up blue and everyone's pattern recognition kicked in. we also spent the entire class period listening to her have a full blown mental breakdown yelling rant at us about "how little respect we have for her" and "how ashamed we should be for mocking her" and "how ungrateful we are" instead of doing the math lesson.

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.

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…

"Octopus activities" sounds more like a japanese show than a Korean one