# Schools ban "I Love Boobies" bracelets
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 3, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478 "2010-09-03T13:00:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/1 "2010-09-03T13:00:03Z")
High school kids who felt left out when Silly Bandz were banned in elementary schools can get the same feeling about the Breast Cancer awareness bracelets that schools find too sexually suggestive:
[http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/schools-ban-boobies-bracelets/?hpt=Sbin](http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/schools-ban-boobies-bracelets/?hpt=Sbin)
Were I on the school board, I’d probably feel the same way. But it’s amusing nonetheless.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/2 "2010-09-03T13:58:04Z")
This is ludicrous. There’s nothing offensive about it at all. There’s no picture of boobies on it. You can say “boobies” on the radio and TV. You can even write it on a calculator.
And besides, who _doesn’t_ love boobies?
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/3 "2010-09-03T14:43:02Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
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> This is ludicrous. There’s nothing offensive about it at all. There’s no picture of boobies on it. You can say “boobies” on the radio and TV. You can even write it on a calculator.
Hmm… who wants the handle 5319009? Or do we have someone with that userid already?
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/4 "2010-09-03T14:46:38Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#):
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> Hmm… who wants the handle 5319009? Or do we have someone with that userid already?
It would seem there was once a [5318008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), but he only ever posted twice.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/5 "2010-09-03T14:54:31Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
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> > [@Scuba\_Ben](#):
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> > Hmm… who wants the handle 5319009? Or do we have someone with that userid already?
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> It would seem there was once a [5318008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), but he only ever posted twice.
And neither of those posts were about boobies.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/6 "2010-09-03T15:07:11Z")
Out of curiosity, I searched for **5318008** , and find that Apple has been doing similar censoring in its apps:
> [@](#):
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> For generations, bored math students have had a giggle at the upside down expense of “5318008” and now it appears that same humor has offended the gatekeepers of Apple’s app store.
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> Perphaps out of fear of turning into the next Google Voice in Apple’s eyes, the people behind the PCalc scientific calculator for the iPhone installed a profanity filter on the latest verion of the app that blocks out anything even mildly offensive.
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> Now instead of getting a smut word when you type “5318008″ and flip your iPhone upside down, you will get a great big “Censored!” message bold enough to make even George Orwell shudder in his grave.
[http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/5318008-is-Too-Dirty-for-the-iPhone-63149437.html](http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/5318008-is-Too-Dirty-for-the-iPhone-63149437.html)
> [@](#):
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> And besides, who doesn’t love boobies?
Evidently, a lot of people.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/7 "2010-09-03T15:45:47Z")
[I love Boobies too!](http://nnhsbergbio.pbworks.com/f/Blue-footed_booby_1.jpg)
[And gannets](http://www.seabird.org/assets/gallery/birds/gannet4.jpg).
[Completely safe for work]
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### Author:  [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/8 "2010-09-03T15:53:49Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> [And gannets](http://www.seabird.org/assets/gallery/birds/gannet4.jpg).
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> [Completely safe for work]
I should imagine! It’s a standard British bird.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/9 "2010-09-03T15:56:21Z")
what happens when someone comes up with a cleaver slogan about cervical cancer awareness?
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/10 "2010-09-03T15:58:30Z")
Yes, we know all about your British “birds.”
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/11 "2010-09-03T16:22:17Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> [And gannets](http://www.seabird.org/assets/gallery/birds/gannet4.jpg).
> [@StusBlues](#):
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> I should imagine! It’s a standard British bird.
Well, I don’t like the gannets. They-- they wet their nests.
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### Author:  [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/12 "2010-09-03T18:10:41Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#):
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> > [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> > [And gannets](http://www.seabird.org/assets/gallery/birds/gannet4.jpg).
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> > [@StusBlues](#):
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> > I should imagine! It’s a standard British bird.
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> Well, I don’t like the gannets. They-- they wet their nests.
I can’t buy that! It’s torn!
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/13 "2010-09-03T18:38:41Z")
> [@johnpost](#):
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> what happens when someone comes up with a cleaver slogan about cervical cancer awareness?
Some twat will try to ban it.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/14 "2010-09-03T18:39:13Z")
> [@johnpost](#):
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> what happens when someone comes up with a **cleaver** slogan about cervical cancer awareness?
“When in doubt, chop it out.”
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/15 "2010-09-03T19:52:49Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> [I love Boobies too!](http://nnhsbergbio.pbworks.com/f/Blue-footed_booby_1.jpg)
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> [And gannets](http://www.seabird.org/assets/gallery/birds/gannet4.jpg).
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> [Completely safe for work]
What, no love for tits?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/16 "2010-09-03T20:11:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Out of curiosity, I searched for **5318008** , and find that Apple has been doing similar censoring in its apps:
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> > [@](#):
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> > For generations, bored math students have had a giggle at the upside down expense of “5318008” and now it appears that same humor has offended the gatekeepers of Apple’s app store.
> >
> > Perphaps out of fear of turning into the next Google Voice in Apple’s eyes, the people behind the PCalc scientific calculator for the iPhone installed a profanity filter on the latest verion of the app that blocks out anything even mildly offensive.
> >
> > Now instead of getting a smut word when you type “5318008″ and flip your iPhone upside down, you will get a great big “Censored!” message bold enough to make even George Orwell shudder in his grave.
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> [“5318008” is Too Dirty for the iPhone – NBC Bay Area](http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/5318008-is-Too-Dirty-for-the-iPhone-63149437.html)
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> > [@](#):
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> > And besides, who doesn’t love boobies?
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> Evidently, a lot of people.
Back in the early days of the internet, we had to deal with getting pixelated porn that was hard to find. Now kids these days can get it easily, but they still have to stand on their heads if they want to read “boobies” on their iPhones.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/17 "2010-09-03T23:53:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Out of curiosity, I searched for **5318008** , and find that Apple has been doing similar censoring in its apps:
Has anyone verified that this is true? Because if it is, that’s really sad.
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### Author:  [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/18 "2010-09-04T00:36:08Z")
> [@OpalCat](#):
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> > [@CalMeacham](#):
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> > Out of curiosity, I searched for **5318008** , and find that Apple has been doing similar censoring in its apps:
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> Has anyone verified that this is true? Because if it is, that’s really sad.
According to the article that was linked, it was in a scientific calculator app available from the app store, not from Apple itself, iirc. The stock calculator on the iPhone just has commas and a font for the letters that doesn’t lend itself well to word making.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/19 "2010-09-04T00:39:50Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> > [@johnpost](#):
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> > what happens when someone comes up with a cleaver slogan about cervical cancer awareness?
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> Some twat will try to ban it.
You win the thread. 🙂
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-ban-i-love-boobies-bracelets/552478/20 "2010-09-04T03:56:58Z")
> [@](#):
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> Has anyone verified that this is true? Because if it is, that’s really sad.
It’s not sad – it’s pretty clearly a marketing ploy. They knew people would do this, and with the sensor it was easy to tell if it’s upside-down, so it was a cute app to write. Then the company itself spread the word, and got lots of free publicity in news reports.
It’s just another clever way to use boobs to sell a product.
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