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As a kid, what sort of things did your parents out

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Poolmaster

Poolmaster Report 22 Apr 2005 10:24

i wasnt allowed to watch not the 9 oclock news, or the young ones. and for some strange reason i wasnt allowed to go out and play until 10 minutes after tea, 'to let my food settle!' whats that all about?! lol!

Bev

Bev Report 22 Apr 2005 09:51

We were not allowed to eat chewing gum! not quite sure why i will have to ask my mum!! Bev

Margaret

Margaret Report 22 Apr 2005 09:44

Not much when I was small, apart from always letting them know where I was going, who with, and when will I be back. But the big rule when I got older was dont go out with squaddies. Dad being sargent major ect, ect, ect. Lol. What the eye dosnt see......hehehehe.

Scrummy

Scrummy Report 22 Apr 2005 09:41

I was not allowed on the pin ball machines in the penny arcades - the sins of gambling.

Jane

Jane Report 22 Apr 2005 09:40

I wasn't allowed to go out with wet hair - think it was thought I'd catch a cold, flu or worse!

The Bag

The Bag Report 22 Apr 2005 09:40

We had two ice cream vans that toured the area. 'Tonibell' was one and the other a 'Walls' van. Small children, as they do, want icecreams so it was ''Mum.....can we have an ice-cream'' Reply ''When the Walls van comes...'' And we got one when he came, so it wasn't a cost thing - maybe she thought 'Tonibell' were less wholesome or something! Jess

Mary

Mary Report 22 Apr 2005 09:39

lol em i still have to watch that now

Mary

Mary Report 22 Apr 2005 09:35

it is probably better to ask what they did not outlaw lol

Andy

Andy Report 22 Apr 2005 09:34

...that seem laughable now? I'm sure there were loads of daft little things that possibly made sense at the time, although the only one I can think of right now was that I wasn't allowed to watch 'Grange Hill' for some time. I think it was thought that by watching Grange Hill it might have turned me into a truancy playing juvenile delinquent with aspirations of petty crime and casual drug taking. So that was forbidden lol. Any one got any others?