# Ultimate ruler of your own country - What do you ban? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2011, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641 "2011-01-23T09:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/101 "2011-08-16T04:34:50Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Weaboos. > > People attempting to reside or vacation in my nation will have to be cleared by agents who will interview them and conduct background checks. Those displaying more than an acceptable amount of Japanophilia will be arrested pending deportation. My secret police will have spies everywhere. Public service announcements will be broadcast on televisions, radios and via the internet at regular intervals, reminding people to constantly be on the lookout for the insidious weaboos attempting to infest our fair land. > > I’m conflicted on whether I’d run [del]Death[/del] Happy Camps for weaboos. On the one hand, I don’t want to be invaded. On the other, I’d like to think the rest of the world would be supportive given the nature of the threat I’m dealing with. Xenophobes Cults Jersey Shore Telemarketing Door to door sales of anything but cookies. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/102 "2011-08-16T12:42:12Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Child abuse. It would be the only offense for which the death penalty was allowed. Death by Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!! _does air guitar_ ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/103 "2011-08-16T12:51:25Z")
When (not if) I become the supreme ruler everyone will be free to do whatever they want and if they don’t I’ll force them. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/104 "2011-08-16T13:33:24Z")
I’ll ban inane zombie jokes. (looks at post) Damn. I just banned myself. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/105 "2011-08-16T13:51:17Z")
Politicians. The OP said it was a small country, we should be able to get it to run without speeches. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/106 "2011-08-16T13:53:43Z")
Silence! My country runs without words! Everything worth saying can be said by interpretive dance. ---
**Author:** ![downtown1441](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@downtown1441](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/downtown1441)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/107 "2011-08-16T14:08:49Z")
Driving slowly in the left lane. Actually, not actively passing other cars while in a lane to their left. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/108 "2011-08-16T14:35:20Z")
All motor vehicles in cities except for delivery trucks between 6am and 8am and buses. If that’s not in my power, then I’d make txting while driving a capital crime. Using the phone while driving isn’t 'alf as bad, as your eyes are still on the road, so a few dozen lashes and a 6 months in jail would be a fair punishment. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/109 "2011-08-16T14:56:47Z")
Cheerful morning people. If you’re happy at six a.m. you are a freak and should live somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/110 "2011-08-16T15:14:04Z")
I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned already: leafblowers. They are the root of all evil, and eliminating them would result in an immediate increase in civility throughout the rest of society. ---
**Author:** ![Wincerind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@Wincerind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wincerind)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/111 "2011-08-16T15:35:40Z")
Jazz Dogs Organised religion Fact-free politics (as supreme leader I would ban all politics, but you know what I mean) The notion that an opinion or a belief is as good as a fact Noisy motor vehicles, especially off-road Mime players and living statues (“learn the words!”) Soaps, especially the poorly lighted ones (99.99%) ---
**Author:** ![Wincerind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@Wincerind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wincerind)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/112 "2011-08-16T18:33:16Z")
I forgot: British pop music (I am willing to sacrifice the 5 % bearable) 12-18 year old boys, except in a barrel. At 18: the Heinlein trial Lawyers would be too easy I guess… ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/113 "2011-08-16T21:11:58Z")
Cheating in online games. I would develop an agency with a budget akin to NASA’s in 1965 dedicated to identifying people using aimbots. They will be rounded up and put in a camp built to resemble a Siberian radar station and hunted by my special forces for training purposes. Also, chicken hotdogs, they’re just gross. ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/114 "2011-08-16T22:11:18Z")
This sort of thing. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/115 "2011-08-17T01:36:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Silence! My country runs without words! Everything worth saying can be said by interpretive dance. This better not be the same thing as miming or you’re the one who will want to leave the country.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/116 "2011-08-17T01:49:43Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!! _does air guitar_ Ah! A Bill & Ted fan! Party on dudes! ---
**Author:** ![OneMissedPost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@OneMissedPost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneMissedPost)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/117 "2011-08-17T01:52:22Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Also, chicken hotdogs, they’re just gross. How can you not like chicken hotdogs? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/118 "2011-08-17T03:55:47Z")
people who can’t check their emotional reaction to something, be it political, scientific, religious, whatever, and think a minimum of three steps out in a logical manner ---
**Author:** ![Wotdazog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Wotdazog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wotdazog)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641/119 "2011-08-17T14:13:06Z")
I would ban the right of internet users to post threads limiting the expression of others frustration by having them imagine the luxury of a place under their absolute power but only being able _to ban one thing_. We, the tyrannical collective, need more 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-ruler-of-your-own-country-what-do-you-ban/568641.md?page=5)