If Mumsnet existed in the 1970s, what would be posted about?

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Following on from the 1950s thread which has been the most lovely read as that was the decade my parents grew up im wondering if we could have a 1970s one? This is the decade my parents met and got married and I would love a insight to the way people were thinking.

For me we're going on holiday to the seaside AIBU to let the children ride in the foot well of the car?

Nothing because mums were busy living their lives instead of obsessing about mothering and every little thing about their children and lives. Few had tvs, you don’t go to the cinema that often and you took whatever books they had out of the library. Maybe a few posts in food, news and gardening eg how do you make Angel Delight more exciting, what are you doing to prepare for blackouts….

AtlasPine · Yesterday 21:08

My DH hates me to wear cheesecloth blouses because he says I look like a hippy. Maybe I want ro look like a hippy. I told him if he shaves off his Magnum PI moustache, I’ll ditch the cheesecloth.

Get one of these, you can have a cheesecloth and not look like a hippy!

friendlycat · Yesterday 23:53

A remote. What’s that? Black and white tv with buttons you press to change the three channels. Don’t forget they all finish at midnight as well.

My friend had two remotes, one for the telly and one for the Phillips 2000 video recorder! Both connected by cables, 1979.

AIBU? My DD1 (9yo) has asked me what a period is. I was very clever and wanged on for ages about it being ‘moments in history’. She told me Sarah at school’s mum has told her all about periods but she’s not allowed to talk to me about it even if I am her best friend because her mum says it is something mums have to explain to their daughters. I told her that Sarah’s mum pulls pints for men in a pub in the evening so we don’t listen to people like that.

Edit update: I’ve just found a copy of ‘are you there God? it’s me, Margaret?’ By an American called Judy Blume in DD1’s bedroom. I read it this afternoon whilst smoking 20 fags, ignoring the dog and putting off the housework for another week. I’m incensed that DD1 now knows what a period is and will not have the same shock of discovering what it is when it turns up like every woman before her in this family. I’ve telephoned the school and demanded that they interrogate all of the girls at school to find out how she got a copy of it. Sister Margaret Mary was very understanding about my point of view and said she will deal with it today.

Edit update: DD1 has come home crying because none of the girls are talking to her after her mum phoned the school to complain about the Judy Blume book. I told her that I didn’t call the school and that Sister Margaret Mary is a liar.

(sadly all of the above is also factually correct. Sarah was never my friend again 😔)

DH wants to buy a house for us in easy reach of london, where can we find a decent 4 bed semi for under 5k?

AIBU to park my child in her pram outside the village shop while I do my shopping?

I'm pregnant what should I do? The father is a nice boy from a good family that I met at church youth club. He's c of E. I'm Catholic and my dad will be very disappointed in me, I'm meant to be setting a good example to my little sister. I'm already 18, should I marry the nice boy and hope for the best. I really love babies. It means he'll have to forget about uni and get a job, maybe something with 'computers ' whatever they are.

Which slippers are best for smacking my naughty children's bottoms with? AIBU to try them in the shops before I buy them?

"Barry, come here a minute..."

Whack!

Mum, why did you do that...?

"Hold on, you'll see."

Whack!

Arghh! Waaah! Boo hoo hoo."

"Great, these are the slippers I want!"

My boyfriend got a perm to look more like Kevin Keegan but it’s given me the ick.

I went to meet him at the WMC after the match my shift working at Dolci’s and it was a sea of poodle perms .

Why can’t he try an look like that nice Emlyn Hughes instead?

I caught my DH ogling Legs & Co on Top of the Pops last Thursday night. Should I LTB?

Well, one thing we can state with confidence: the Tories are such dinosaurs they'll never elect a woman leader! Labour are bound to be the first party with a woman leader, and probably PM. I'd stake my house on it.

[fortunately teenage me back in the 70s didn't have a house to lose on this bet - who would ever have thought it was the dinosaurs who would have elected three female leaders and be in the running to have a fourth, and for that matter also have leaders from ethnic minorities, and meanwhile Labour has one white male after another]

[one very specifically tied to 1973 or thereabouts]

Anybody else feeling self-conscious about wearing one of these midi skirts? I'm so used to short skirts now that it's very strange having so much of my legs covered! Handy when your tights have a run in them, though ...

Try Nimble bread, it's full of airholes and not much else. I like the advert with the girl in a balloon!

Thank you totally sorted now

So what do we all think of Princess Anne's wedding gown?

Thank you totally sorted

What do you all think about Maggie Thatcher taking away the school milk? I think it's terrible, but dd is pleased and says all her class hate drinking it after it's been sitting in the classroom half the morning.

My DCs keep wearing their plimsolls without socks in the summer. AIBU that this is bad for their feet?

<gasp> You mean...a Jehovah's Witness?!

The t-shirts! 😂

I was a teenager in the 70’s and this thread is hilarious! Bringing back so many memories and so much of it is absolutely true!
My mother said I couldn’t use tampons before the wedding night…
Tights were “ common”
Actually my 1950’s housewife mother ( that thread was so true as well) said everything she didn’t like or approve of was “ common”

HIV & those god awful AIDS adverts designed to scare the living crap out of people
Couldn't remove sorry that was the 80's!

It means he'll have to forget about uni and get a job.

In the 70s you would either to to a Poly (polytechnic) or a University, no one called them "uni".

Blackpool had Kiss Me Quick hats with “I shot JR” instead. My uncle bought me one while my brother got the T-shirt.

My mother thought he’d lost his marbles when he greeted us at the airport