A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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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?

AIBU to leta 14 yr old who put an ad in the local shop window babysit for the dcs while DH and I go to the pictures?

And yet we all survived to tell the tale......

AIBU to use the Chalet Watch listening service when we next go to Butlins and then 'forget' to tell them where we'll be?

AIBU to let my 10yo take my 3yo and my 8yo swimming every Friday night? She's always back by 8pm.

AIBU to take the 'sorry, I'm already rented ' sticker off another video case and stick it to the front of The Dark Crystal so that we don't have to rent it again when I next go to the video shop with the kids!?

Watched Babylon 5 The Movie on VHS this weekend. AIBU to complain that the video shop doesn't have the first four films?

Presto have stopped selling the blue flavour Kia-Ora, AIBU to buy the DC some Um Bongo instead?

It's a wet and stormy December 24th, and I need to wrap the DC's presents so they keep believing in Santa! My mates say I'm far too soft and should send them out to play come rain or shine.

So they don't see I'm doing their presents in our tiny flat, AIBU to lock them in their bedroom, or to tell them that Santa will only come if they spend half an hour blindfolded instead of watching TV? I can't do it after they've gone to bed, because then DH and I are going out drinking!!

s113 just get your DH to tell them he heard a noise in the night and, presuming it was a burglar, he shot the intruder "and, I'm sorry kids, it was actually Santa. And he's dead". They'll be so relieved on Christmas morning to find out it was just a joke, they won't care if the gifts are wrapped or not. HTH :)

AIBU to make my DC and their four friends sit in the Austin Maxi wearing shorts, even though I forgot to put the towel over the vinyl seats in the baking heat and they are now as hot as the sun?

At least the DC sitting in the footwheels will be ok.

AIBU to just give my 8yr old 0.10p a week pocket money?

I think that this: https://m.facebook.com/?_Rd here just about sums it up!

gas! phone won't do links! can someone convert that please?

Can I have some Opal Fruits please?

Is my mum being unreasonable in insisting that this home made gypsy skirt with matching head scalf is the hight of sophistication

AIBU in making my 14yo DD wear my sister's (her auntie's) cast-off bras? They give her a kind of pointy-and saggy-at-the-same-time look, but I say to her every time she shows the slightest interest in her appearance, 'who do you think's looking at you?'
It's great not having to fork out for that extra expense, means I can plan my outfits for nights out with the girls without worrying about budgeting for two teenage DDs.
They don't mind staying in.

Aibu to give my 5year old daughter a teaspoon of whiskey for her toothache?
Ai(the doctor)bu in saying that a nine year old is too old for whooping cough? She is clearly a hypochondriac and her parents are just pandering to her. I mean I've never seen her have an attack.

AIBU, My stepdaughter is getting married next month and dd who is 6 is a flower girl. SD asked me to grow her hair so they can style it nice. I worked full time and it was the holidays and on Friday when I met my mother who had dd all week for me, has CUT her hair short AGAIN!!!

(oh I remember the ructions this caused when it happened. My gran thought that having long hair lost you braincells!!!)

AIBU to give all my DCs from babies upwards brandy in warm water for an upset stomach?
And whisky on their gums for teething?
I'm sure it won't lead to DD2 hating Brandy & Whisky as an adult - with just the smell of brandy making her feel like being sick?

AIBU to put my 8 year old daughter in a dark, and quite frankly scary, cupboard under the stairs when there's a thunderstorm? I always put the metal saucepans in there with her as I'm very nervous that they may get struck by lightening through the kitchen and then through the cupboards. I will be sitting on my bedroom floor upstairs.

AIBU to be upset that I have been generally ostracized by the extended family by not being invited to family gatherings like parties, weddings,and the like since I locked out and left my new husband for beating me up?

Aibu to not take the job at the bank as they will pay me less than a male colleague doing the same job?

Aren't you being unreasonable not to let us wear trousers to the office as there's no heating due to the 3 day week?

Aren't you being unreasonable to expect me to sign a paper saying I won't get pregnant (as a married woman) so I can have a mortgage in my own name?

When my 3 DGS (aged 11, 9 and 7) stay with us during the summer holidays, AIBU to give them several half-pint glasses of the nutritious apple juice made by that nice Mr Bulmer to refresh them after they've run around in the sun? (My DH and his cousins..!)

AIBU to team white leather-look peep toe stilettos with a full knee length skirt, plastic beads,earrings and big hair...............

What dark age do you suppose the 70's and 80's were? Even we had a colour TV in the 70's! In our shoe box on the M1. I think you will find the whole street came in to watch the coronation in 1954, even in the sixties we watched England win the World Cup, in black and white admittedly! But it was just our nuclear family. Mum Dad and 3 kids. You wait till your kids laugh at your smartfone in 2035! lol xxx

we knew about sun damage too! Yes even in the 70's!!! My baby had suncream on in the early 80's! You smug lot!!! lol lol lol just you wait 25 years and you'll see how cool you are!

I was a child in the 70s and it was always a real big deal if one of your friend's parents got a colour TV.

AIBU to leave my DDs 7 and 5 in the back of the car with a "midnight feast" parked outside a stranger's house all evening while we go to a dinner party because we are too tight to find a babysitter ?

Titabeth, we got our colour TV in 1970 and watched the first colour programmes that were broadcast on BBC2 only in 1971. Programmes slowly changed over to colour during the early seventies. We had the first colour TV in our street and neighbours really did come to our house to watch the FA cup final in colour in 1972.

My dad worked for the BBC (hence very early colour set) and was a cameraman at the coronation in 1953. (not 1954) His camera was on the Albert Memorial. (Claim to fame )

titabeth I was born in 1970 and we didn't have a colour TV until about 1985 when we won one in a raffle - no video until 1989 either!

we had a massive Redifusion black and white