Strict ParentsI always thought my parents were quite strict, but I can't think of anything they actually banned me from doing, whereas a good friend was under no circumstances allowed to watch ITV because of the adverts.
This week's Time Out mentions some poor sod who was banned from sitting in the aisle seats at cinemas because, according to their mother, "drug dealers patrol the aisles, injecting people in the arm."
What were you banned from doing as a kid by loopy parents?
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chthonic, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 12:37)
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When I were a nipper . . .I wasn't allowed to watch either "The Paul Hogan Show" or "Kingswood Country". And why not? Was it the dumbing down effect? Was it the institutionalised racism? NO!
It was because of the word "bloody". And this from my baker father who once called one of his apprentices every foul name under the sun right in front of my tender 11-year-old ears.
Also, I remember begging to be allowed to stay up late (10.30pm - oooohh . . . ) to watch this new music video show called "Sevenrock", on the proviso that my mum watched it with me.
Five minutes into the show, my mum shrieked, went into a paroxysm of fury, turned off the teev and made me get rid of my record collection. Why, I hear you cry? Because they didn't want me growing up to be a sex pervert. And all because the first video off the rank was the long version of Duran Duran's "Girls On Film" . . .
Mind you, they completely failed on the pervert thing, as I am now 34 and will punch it into any willing female. Sorry, Mum!
(, Wed 14 Mar 2007, 5:41, Reply)
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