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?

KohlaParasaurus · Today 13:47

My three year old got into the baby's layette box and drank half a bottle of Dinneford's

They only took the booze out in the 90s!

AIBU but I think a weird-looking band from
Sweden (of all places!) is going to win Eurovision?

Am I right to turn Top of the Pops off when those new bands who wear clothes with holes and safety pins and can't play or sing come on. Our Sharon loves them , but they swear and the singing is just shouting. And so disrespectful to Her Majesty.
I much prefer those nice American bands where they all wear the same colour suit and have lovely harmonies, and do the same dance moves

My copy of Look In magazine hasn’t arrived, and they have sold out at Smiths. Any suggestions of what I should read instead?

My cousin is pregnant and says she has been offered an 'ultrasound scan' which apparently is a new thing they are trialling at her maternity hospital. She's been told she might even be able to see the sex of her baby before it's born! AIBU to think this all sounds a bit dangerous and she should refuse it?

I’m divorcing my unfaithful husband and have been told I cannot get a mortgage as a single woman employed for 30% less wages than my male colleagues doing the same job in the civil service. 😞

Abortion had only recently been decriminalised. Marital rape was not considered a crime until well into the 1990s. It's like the sexual revolution and the hippie movement; yes changes all over the UK were happening, nevertheless, many people still held very conservative views, particularly amongst the working or lower middle classes. A world of difference between a Guardian reading, Isle of Wight festival attending 20 something from Hampstead with a degree from Oxbridge or Goldsmiths college versus a 50 year old from Sunderland who left school at 14 and attends the methodist chapel twice a week. I realise I am making a massive generalisation here (I'm a lower middle class Christian myself, both parents voted Tory their whole lives, used to be in the young conservatives during the 70s). The point I'm making is not everybody was woke. Sexism and racism were rife.

I had two bags of weighted sweets from Woolworths on my usual shopping day, but I was only charged for one. Should I go back and pay for the Turkish delight cubes, or just forget about it?

They are teaching my children a new short division method at school, can someone explain the working out to me please?

The doctor at my college will write a prescription but he charges 10s 6d for a prescription. (~1970)

You could try one of the Brook clinics. My mum's a nurse and just done a family planning course with them. She sugested them and they fitted me with a copper 7 iud a few months before my marriage. I'm sure they would have prescribed the pill but I only want a couple of children. I'm a bit wary of potentially taking an untested drug for decades. (1973).

Can anyone help me? My dd desperately wants a treehouse for Christmas. We've looked everywhere but they're all out of stock.

Because they had burned them! 😁

I was at a party the other night - and at the end everyone put their car keys into a big bowl. I hadn't any idea what was going on but rather than be the odd one out I thought I'd better follow suit. Anyway, I went to the toilet - but when I came back everyone else had gone! And the bowl was empty! Well, apart from my cycle clips. What was that all about?

DC have heard about carving pumpkins for this thing from USA called Halloween. I've a never seen a real Pumpkin and even the new big supermarkets Safeway and Kwik Save don't have them
Has anyone ever tried to make one from a turnip or swede like this?

(photo from Facebook)

This! You won't regret it!

It never stops does it? Once they have their golly they will be mithering for space hoppers and chopper bikes.

DD2(the problem child) has erupted, after drop at school looking like bridgette bardot i popt to hairdressers. my previous natural wave very light blonde hair haas been transformed -i now have a very tight curl afro perm(they are all the rage,look at this-its an afro comb!!) my lovely neighbour pickt up my girls from school and ds2 has been standing on doorstep having yet another major tantrum. shes 4 but school says shes to go)tears,screaming wailing snot tripping her. She seems fairly terrified and is convinced i am NOT her "real mother" ..Uncle george(next door)has got home from work and as per has scooped her up to tell him all about it, shes hyperventlating and can be heard gasping for breath-there is no disciplining this child. i am furious-her dad will be home soon and her hystrionics are putting a dampner on my new look.
update -as ever,father gives into the little madam. hes got her sat on his knee driving the car up the hill to her uncle johns...the girls(dunno how many was cousins/always about 6+ in every room,will calm her down...im taking one to have hers done tomo.

You don't wish to know. Trust me. Just be aware when you go to someone's home, especially if they are in the suburbs. If they have pampas grass in the garden, run, run, run. Like the wind!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find that Jimmy Savile quite creepy?

Yes, I remember the kerfuffle about alcohol in gripe water, and also the withdrawal of aspirin formulations for children which I think also happened in the 1990s.

Who else is just settling down with a cup of tea to watch little Tracy Austin play Chris Evert?

It's not just you, I don't like him either. He shouldn't be allowed on television looking like an unwashed scruff. He should take some lessons from Rolf Harris, who always looks tidy and who seems to be a genuinely nice man as well as a good artist and singer.

Lovely watching the Jubilee procession. I wonder whether Prince Charles will ever settle down with some nice aristocrat?

Oooh, very nice though Milk Tray is the way to go. Bags me the Lime Barrel!

Yes exactly. It’s easy to read somewhere that there was a sexual revolution, but for 90% of people, that was not the case in the seventies.

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