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What was forbidden when you were a child?

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Mirage · 15/03/2007 23:26

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.

OP posts:
UnquietDad · 16/03/2007 10:43

Kenny Everett's TV show for being "not very nice"!

Enid · 16/03/2007 10:44

possibly mrs b!

enver wanted barbie thats for sure

grannycrackers · 16/03/2007 10:45

enid blyton was banned in my school, but not sure why. also the school would not allow us to eat outside and we were not allowed to be seen at the bus station
also parents would not allow us to tell anyone our house was rented

MrsBadger · 16/03/2007 10:47

oh yes
eating in school uniform was a major crime

mind you it was only a few years before that not wearing your hat with school outdoor uniform was a suspendable offence, and not so long before that that gloves were compulsory...

Enid · 16/03/2007 10:47

my mum wrote a letter to Herts CC complaining about the library's policy of not stocking Enid blyton

pollyanna · 16/03/2007 10:48

itv (apart from Tiswas)
eating in the street
any shoes other than startright
speaking with an accent or using bad grammar
charlie's angels, Dallas and anything after about 8 o clock at night on the telly
a soda stream - I desperately wanted one!
A chopper bike - likewise
One of those Girl's world heads
White bread, meat (when my mum went veggie), sweets apart from 10p on a Sunday,

hotandbothered · 16/03/2007 10:50

Ditto Mirage, shoppingbagsundertheeyes and filthymindedvixen.
All these years I thought it was just me...
Barbie no, Sindy yes
The A-Team (probably cos it was on ITV?)
Mr Frosty
Girls World
Fashionable clothes
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foxinsocks · 16/03/2007 10:52

not much was banned for us either (I don't think)

but we hardly ever had people around to play or went to play at other people's houses

foxinsocks · 16/03/2007 10:54

ooh I love Kenny Everett's show. Unquietdad, you were deprived!

foxinsocks · 16/03/2007 10:54

loved

Marina · 16/03/2007 10:57

Enid, was it in green biro? I am sure it gave the staff a good chuckle over their morning tea
We love being told what to stock by punters, especially what not to stock!

Enid · 16/03/2007 11:02

no she wanted them to stock it

Marina · 16/03/2007 11:10

I missed that. What did they say? It was apparently very common to refuse to stock her in the 60s/70s.
Our local library always stocked her stuff and parental sniffiness made the school (MT and St Clare's) stories enjoyable out of all proportion to their literary merit .
I used to taunt my dad with Jackie magazine and watch steam emerge from his Luddite ears

Enid · 16/03/2007 11:36

JACKIE! that WAS banned!

I bought a huge pile of them for 10p from a school fete - about 50.

I remember my mum was pissed off! I think I was only about 9.

God I LOVED them

PestoMonster · 16/03/2007 11:39

I wasn't allowed to watch ITV.

or

eat bananas after 6.00pm!!

mawbroon · 16/03/2007 11:49

Sorry, haven't read whole thread, but we were not allowed the following:

-TV (and they still don't have one)
-Sweets of any description
-To cut our hair short or have a fringe (except my brother)
-Shoes with buckles as they might catch on the carpet and pull threads out
-Plasticine or playdough (might get trodden into carpet)
-We weren't just allowed "out". It had to be somewhere specific like Brownies with a definite time for coming home.
-A bike until age 13

then when we were older, the list continued and we weren't allowed:
-ears pierced
-make up
-tight jeans
-to stay home whilst parents went on holiday (this meant we had to go to the most godforsaken places in a caravan with parents until age 18)

Oh that's enough, there was plenty more, believe you me!!

kipperthedog · 16/03/2007 11:54

Haven't read all posts, but wasn't allowed to watch Eastenders - made up for it in later life tho!!

israel · 16/03/2007 12:10

couldn't have 'pop'...fizzy drinks
bubble gum
eat outside...or with fingers
watch ITV

pepperrabbit · 16/03/2007 12:17

Aha yes, milk bottles on the table, if my mum comes round I still dig out a jug!

Holding mugs by not using the handle used to drive my dad mad.

PestoMonster · 16/03/2007 12:45

Pepperrabbit, we weren't even allowed mugs in our house. We had to use proper cups and saucers

BikeBug · 16/03/2007 13:00

Chopper bikes, skateboards (oh, how I wanted a skateboard...) and wedge heeled shoes also banned, and threatened with sneeky scissors in the dead of night if I ever tried to grow an '80's 'rat tail' of hair like my best friend's...

Furball · 16/03/2007 13:04

my ears pierced - still haven't got them done and I'm 40!

Never allowed to have a proper 'purdy' haircut only ever had one without the layers, which to anyone else apart from my mum is a pageboy.

Housemum · 16/03/2007 13:05

Apparently if you had orange juice and milk in the same meal you would be sick. My family are batty. Should have seen the look on mum's face on first day of cafeteria-style school dinners when I proudly said I'd bought a yoghurt and a carton of orange juice!

Eating in the street

Watching "Angels" (why?)

Anything risky eg going above 2 rungs on a climbing frame (that's why my DD goes to Scouts and delights in telling grandma about abseiling/caving/climbing)

To have plastic jelly shoes (apparently they were "common" - mum's biggest fear!)

Housemum · 16/03/2007 13:06

Bikebug - mum did cut off my rats-tail!

giraffeski · 16/03/2007 13:07

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