What I would ban? and what would you ban?

Stupid nicknames that are everywhere online - sheeple, gammon, TERF, snowflake, boomer... Just lazy thinking by people who can't be bothered to produce a rational argument.

I would ban fireworks they are not enviromently friendly at all.
I would also ban halloween/cycling on pavements/parking on pavements to the degree that a pushchair can`t get passed/cold callers/electric scooters are an accident in the making just like mobility scooter are.(husband knocked over by one).
And smoking especially in door ways where you need toget passed.

I couldn't agree more M0nica. This thread has really kept me amused! Wanting to ban people who speak on their mobile phones in public places? Well if that actually were banned there would be little point in owning a mobile phone.

Another wants to ban all things American - so that'll be American movies films, cola, McDonalds, KFC, Kellogs cornflakes (among many other breakfast cereals), Oreos, Google, Facebook, Disney, iPhones and iPads, e-readers. Not to mention George Clooney and Brad Pitt . And this list is just off the top of my head.

And as for banning littering - erm,,, it already is banned. The Environment Protection Act made it illegal thirty years ago

Oh dear, is it too annoying if I say fireworks as well?

I just want to get it out and be able to let off steam to kind listeners! I absolutely hate them! They are getting louder each year and going on for longer. My poor dogs are petrified, the wildlife must be too. What kind of people take pleasure in making such loud explosions it sounds as though a bomb has gone off? They make my stomach jump.

Thanks for listening to me.

Smoking whilst driving. How is this still legal? Any non recyclable plastic. I’m so fed up with reading ‘not yet recyclable’ on so much packing. Then make it recyclable! My sister lived in France for a while and she was amazed at the number of people who take their dogs outside to see the fireworks on Bastille day. She said that all the ones she saw were totally unperturbed.

All Battery Farming.All shooting and killing of birds and animals for entertainment.

So many of these things are already banned/illegal:

Bicycles and electric scooters on pavements
Cars parked on pavements
Excessively noisy exhausts
Littering (as already noted by Bathsheba)
Porn involving animals

Some things, like alcohol, are fine, as long as used moderately. Drunk and disorderly is already a crime.

It seems that banning things does not really achieve very much. Until there are enough officials (perhaps but, not necessarily police) to monitor and take action, these offences will continue to happen and annoy.

I agree thus far with all the things suggested and would add noisy, heavy bass music played in cars with open windows, particularly when next to me at traffic lights.

Greygirl I heard on a radio interview that electric and ‘high bred’ cars (I like that description) will soon have sound built into them to alert other road users.

I try to live and let live but I would ban selfishness as this is the root of many of the grievances listed above.

Years ago there was firework night. Just one night a year. I would like to see it banned on any other night for the sake of animals who are terrified of the noise.

Naga Munchetty

Cars overtaking cyclists and not giving them enough room and going to fast

I like Naga. She just doesn't live in the real world at times-----a problem of many. Not her fault I suspect.

Fireworks & Chinese lanterns. Both cause so much damage.

Different chargers. Not horses or serving dishes. I have a charger for my phone,iPad,kindle,dyson vac, car hand vac,Bosch hand vac, window washer, foot thingie, Dh's phone , Epilator ,hand blender, and then there are the chargers for defunct phones .

What's wrong with Naga Munchetty?

TwiceAsNice Why would you give a child a extremely hot piece of metal to hold. Instead you could go to a camping shop and buy snap sticks, all the fun without the hot metal.

Naga munchetty is full of herself.
Then there's ripped jeans and young men with topknot hairstyles. I want to cut them off

has to be fireworks.Public bonfires are being cancelled this year,but I suppose people will be buying them to use at home.They are loud,bonfire night goes on for weeks,they are unfair to nervous pets,and to nervous people.A lot of us are suffering anxiety now,we can do without loud bangs every night for weeks.They are dangerous too.

Re. Fireworks and petrified dogs - these drops work. Really. They do.

Agree with AGA most of our grievances have selfishness of others at their root.

Patsytaylor the jeans or the hair?

well done coastiepostie you make a lot of very good points.

re fireworks - I understand that the wild fires in Oregon recently were as bad as they were - in part - because some idiots decided to have a firework party involving hundreds of people at the driest time of the year. Thousands homeless as a result.

I would ban all similarly self centred people to open prisons for three months! where they would have to undergo forty hours of community service per week to help those who have suffered the consequences of their (proven!) thoughtless actions.

By the way, closer to home, a neighbour who couldn't be bothered to book a slot at the tip recently illegally burned tons of plastic rubbish in her garden. Twelve foot high flames and carcinogenic black smoke - only three foot away from another neighbour's recently filled oil tank.

Luckily we all survived ( in the short term anyway)to tell the tale.

Priti Patel

Chapeau

Priti Patel

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Hunting of any animals, cruel and barbaric doesn’t even begin to cover it.

narrowboatnan

Re. Fireworks and petrified dogs - these drops work. Really. They do.

I have just looked into these drops - I should hope that they do work because they cost over £23!!