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 not allow DD to watch ITV because I find it common?

(My mum thought a lot of things were common!)

What's wrong with tripe and onions for dinner?

liver and onions for dinner tripe is for the dogs! (both stink and i would never have them in my house gives me nightmares!)

AIBU to send my 9 year old daughter to her friend's church fancy dress party as a Bunny Girl?

Love liver and onions, yum!

AIBU to let my 6 year old daughter go on the bus by herself..?

( yep another one from my mum)

aibu to put 6 people in a three wheeler and drive up snakes pass for a camping trip?

aibu to get drunk fall asleep for a couple of hours then drive the family up to Blackpool to see the lights refuse to stop the car for the toilet so (me) ended up piddling in the dog bowl in the boot of the car and he braked my feet got a little wet

(And you didn't need a licence specifically for a radio - which hadn't been called a wireless,except by me grandad, for donkey's years).

AIBU to let my ten year stay up and watch Dynasty?

I was hooked....

Brilliant thread. I don't even know where to start with posting my own contribution...

AIBU to take my 12 year old for her first perm?

(Not me btw, my mum would have vetoed it, but when I was in 1st year at school there were so many perms it was like a contagious condition)

AIBU to cry every time Duran Duran play on Top of the Pops because I love them so much?

AIBU to want to sit on the non-smoking side in the cinema? My mum makes me sit on the smoking side so she can smoke her Silk Cut. And then tells me off for coughing.

WIBU to send DD9 to the newsagent with a note to buy me 20 Raffles?

AIBU to wonder where the hell Tooty Minties have disappeared to? Last time I went to the shop, they only had Tooty Frooties!

AIBU to smack all my three kids with a slipper because the guilty one won't own up?

Aibu to stick down this woodchip wallpaper really well ALL over the house?

Balls UANBU - why else did we have kids? Can they get me half once of baccy and a packet of rizla?

having pop delivered to the house

AIBU to give the dc a clip round the ear if they can't be quiet on a Sunday afternoon when DH is having a snooze on the sofa?

Poor bloke's knackered after having a few pints at the pub then polishing off the big roast dinner I had waiting for him.

Well My mum and me used to settle down for our weekly dose of Bouquet of Barbed Wire - not sure what year it was but bloody hell!!! I was quite young!

AIBU to think it's most unfair that my grandparents have colour TV and we don't!

OMG!! I was 11!!!

Tales of The Unexpected and Armchair Thriller we used to watch aged 10

AIBU to put my eight year old in the boot of my estate car so I can give my inlaws a lift to the party? I'll rig a rope handle for her to hang on to around corners...

AIBU to roast a chicken on sunday, serve cold chicken with chips on monday and make soup from the carcass for Tuesday?

Blimey might have only been 10 !!