What was forbidden when you were a child?

[Mirage]

We were not allowed,
Barbie (American!)
Clackers (dangerous)
The Price is Right (vulgar & greedy)
Benny Hill (just vulgar)
In general,ITV was frowned upon.
Platform heels (ruin your feet)
To play in the street on a Sunday,(as people want some peace & quiet).
There are probably loads more,but I can't think of any straight off.

Tiswas, bubblegum (it's made from horses hooves dontya know).

oh yes tiswas! I remember when I was older illegally watching OTT (the 'grownup version) on sat night?) and feeling really dissappointed in a kind of ''is that all it is. It's not that good.'' kind of way

ITV (not totally, but dad ostentatiously firing up the radiogram with some loud Shostakovich in the next room made it next to impossible to watch)
Barbie
Wedges
Nail varnish and play make-up

Fizzy drinks.

We were permitted to have some if there were any leftover from one of my mother's endless parties.

There rarely was , it was back in the 70s when people were into mixed drinks.

I felt so deprived.

Duh, and coke/Pepsi as well

I remember thinking that fizzy drink Tab was the height of sophistication. Yuka! Full of saccarine.

I yearned for Cresta - "It's frothy man" when I finally got hold of some (on a Sunday School outing heheheh) it tasted like drain cleaner.

the object of my affection was always cream soda or root beer - gag!

even now, my mother will only drink fizzy drinks as a mixer for spirits, and as she's mostly a whisky drinker she probably only tastes fizzy drink once a year or so.

she was forever telling us they make you bloat.

i think she was right, though.

Cream Soda (well the UK version) was absolutely bizarre stuff

It tastes rank everywhere, Marina. When we lived in S. America they had all these exotic fizzy drink flavours that had tantalising appeal to us as children. Almost all forbidden.

My dad would try to compensate, 'How about some guava nectar?' Gross! NO.

Ice lollies - too acid. And blowing bubbles down a straw into school milk.

"chewing gum (coz if you swallowed it, your insides would get all stuck together )"

SparklyGothKat - that's just daft. Everyone knows its wraps itself round your heart and squeezes it to death.

itv
chewing gm
agazines

eating int eh street
eatnig between meals

stealing
hitting
missing piano practice!

more itv bannings hehe, my dad worked for them so we could hardly ban it!

i don't think anything was banned. though my dad freaked when i put on black lipstick for a laff

itv was for thick peopel
s till is really

I wasn't allowed to dress as a Bay City Rollers fan and sew tartan on my trousers and have a tartan scarf on my wrist . I had to wait until I was 35 and went to a 70's fancy dress party.

oh enid blyton and Disney
(mother huge snob about such things)

ITV
....and yet it was fine for me to watch all of I Claudius on my own unsupervised.

no itv wasn't for thick people

er ye sit was
adn still ius

they made some great dramas in the 70s and 80s

granted

my fav ghost hunter show is on ITV!