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A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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Scarletohello · 20/07/2014 21:33

Just been reading the brilliant and nostalgic threads about all the things parents did then that would be massively judged now so thought it would be fun to start a 70s/80s AIBU

Want to join me..?

Here goes,

AIBU to not want to have the whole of the street come and watch a football match on our new black and white TV?

OP posts:
unlucky83 · 21/07/2014 21:14

Whoops - that was me!
and happened every weekend...depended if I could be bothered walking to my gran's or not after ballet ...

Debs75 · 21/07/2014 21:39

AIBU to expect my 14 year old and 9 year old to wear the same hand made red cord dress to the local disco? DD1 won't be embarrassed at al will she?

AIBU to let me 4 year old dd go off out for the day to a local farm with her great uncle. No she won't be strapped in, they have one of those Volvo's with the huge boot, room enough for 6 in there

Of course that is not unreasonable. We do this every weekend when we visit grans, stick the kids in the boot they will be fine, kids don't need seatbelts.

I also went to the shops for mums fags once in a while which was great when I started smoking and couldn't get served without the magic note

squizita · 21/07/2014 21:51

AIBU to forbid my child to learn any cookery from her grandmother or have certain 'girl toys' apparently randomly e.g. yes to Sindy no to Barbie after I went on an equal opps training at work because I think feminism is to make her 'a bit more like a boy'.

starsandunicorns · 21/07/2014 22:00

Aibu to be upset that dd 5 is scared of me now I have a perm

( ran behind sofa and wouldn't come out)

Aibu to force the dd to go upstairs early has I have a Tupperware party

gimcrack · 21/07/2014 22:01

Aibu to let a six year old watch The Thing on my new VHS? Thanks, Nan.

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 21/07/2014 22:01

AIBU to wean DS3 on a raw egg mixed to his national dried baby milk from 3 weeks? (this was exMil in the mid 60s.)

WIBU to keep his bottle in the airing cupboard overnight so it's nice and warm if he wakes in the night? (Also exMil) Shock

Meandbobbymcgee · 21/07/2014 22:03

Silvercatowner my neighbour used to cover her recliner in baco foil before sunbathing!

AIBU to wonder whether that boy George on totp is really a boy?

ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 21/07/2014 22:12

Is my DH BU when he praises Gary Glitter as 'great,' praises Jimmy Saville because 'he does loads for charity you know,' and loves Bruce Forsyth when he's nasty to contestants on The Generation Game?

Ohanarama · 21/07/2014 22:21

AIBU to think that kids don't really want a Speak and Spell or Major Morgan for Christmas? It's just pushy parents trying to create child geniuses.

itchychin · 21/07/2014 22:22

AIBU to let the grandchildren aged 8 immediately get out of bed when their parents have gone out on the lash stay up until they come home at midnight watching Hammer Horror films and eating Jacobs cream crackers?

AIBU to drive through France with DD standing up and sticking her head out of the sunroof?

AIBU to take DD to the pub? We try to encourage her into the smoky man filled bar where she can hide in a corner but for some reason she's not keen. She insists on staying in the car with a coke a packet of crisps and a book. I make sure DH only has a few pints before driving home.

Fram · 21/07/2014 22:39

AIBU to think that DH does not need one of those new 'car phones' in our cortina? He only uses it once a week on a Sunday to drive to his mother's Hmm
He says 'what if she needs to call us to check what time we're arriving for lunch?' but we're not allowed to turn up before the Archers has finished, in any case Hmm Hmm

bealos · 21/07/2014 22:53

Love this thread!

Bejams! Crispy pancakes! Black and white TV!

/reminisces/

commonorgarden · 21/07/2014 23:00

AIBU to leave the DCs in the car while I drink in the pub? (They have crisps).

AIBU to make the entire family leave the kitchen while the microwave is on in case of radiation escaping?

AIBU to think Grange Hill is excellent social education/commentary?

scottishmummy · 21/07/2014 23:09

Aibu to try get my leg over with that bloke I borrow coffee from

Purplewithred · 21/07/2014 23:18

AIBU to give up my job as a librarian - I was really happy till I discovered Smirnoff but now I just want to hang out in a barn with bed hair and saucy boots

MazzleDazzle · 21/07/2014 23:26

AIBU giving my DGC hot Coca-cola from a sippy cup as their bed-time drink?

(Yes, that's right: Coca-cola heated in a saucepan, served in a sippy cup! I was 8yo Shock.)

Also AIBU to go into ASDA to do a full week's shop and leave my 2 DC locked in the car? We might stop off at the coffee shop too. Well, they'd get terribly bored in the supermarket, I'm sure and they have their imagination to entertain them...I Spy, anyone?

MazzleDazzle · 21/07/2014 23:29

AIBU to not bother with a babysitter when I'm out at work? Well, it's only a part time job in the evenings and I'll be home by the back of 10. DC are 3 and 6 btw. They know how to use the telephone.

(My DM actually did this! She did used to call though, just to make sure we were ok Confused)

scottishmummy · 21/07/2014 23:32

Aibu leap in my Clio, to go on holiday,ogle men,and not tell papa
Papa he's so overbearing

Fram · 21/07/2014 23:39

AIBU to think that these home computers are a waste of money, time and electricity, and that they'll never catch on?

DH insists it's educational for the children, but it just looks like fuzzy little green dots to me Confused

TypicaLibra · 21/07/2014 23:50

AIBU to want to throw my ZX spectrum out of the window when I put the cassette in to load the game, listen to the ensuing tuneless racket it makes, then for the umpteenth time it doesn't load properly?

ElephantsNeverForgive · 21/07/2014 23:59

YANBU
Frogger on my Commodore 64 takes 7 minutes!

ElephantsNeverForgive · 21/07/2014 23:59

YANBU
Frogger on my Commodore 64 takes 7 minutes!

scottishmummy · 22/07/2014 00:01

Aibu,to think rebranding high street as merchant city will never catch on.who wants to live in bows

bunchoffives · 22/07/2014 00:03

AIBU to be blardy pissed off that I can remember and correct all of these AIBU because I'm old enough to bloody remember them?

kiwimumof2boys · 22/07/2014 00:05

AIBU to leave my DD (8) at home by herself when she's sick (My DM was a teacher and there was always a shortage of relievers apprently).
AIBU to be cross at my dad when he made fun of Bros, as a magazine article compared them to the Beatles (comparison being of screaming girl fans). Of course Bros will still be around in 20 years and making music, and be popular ! My dad doesn't know what he's talking about ! How dare he describe them as a flash in the pan.
AIBU to do the school run with six kids in a mini (smallest one crouched down, hidden, others sharing seatbelts). In fact this was often the case - not just school run. (At least we kinda wore seatbelts ? . . .)
AIBU to be cross with my mum cos she won't let me get a perm so I can look like Kylie Minogue?
AIBU to let my DC from age 5 walk to school via a farm with an open river, then cross a main road which was apparently the third busiest (and dangerous) in the country?
AIBU to give my DC a good whack with the wooden spoon if they act up (This backfired on my mum - we hid all the wooden spoons so next time DM threatened us with a smack she couldn't find any !)
AIBU in sitting and nicely listening to the (horrible nazi) school principal who said the reason DD is being bullied is that it's all her fault, she's too quiet and needs to be an extrovert, instead of insisting that he take action to stop bullying? (yes this was my parents and it still upsets me Sad that they didn't stick up for me). I admit I was cheered a little when I found out said principal apparently suffered a nervous breakdown soon after.

NB - Not wanting to offend anyone with my nervous breakdown comment - I have known people who have suffered from them.