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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ITVMy mother actually told me we couldn't get ITV on our television: she didn't want me to watch adverts or ghastly common programmes like Tiswas etc, hoping for a more Blue Peter-y kind of son (I appreciate that this is somewhat meaningless to overseas readers, sorry folks).
I actually started primary school believing this and indeed passed this 'fact' on to my fellow pupils, and was roundly mocked for it (it also left me unable to engage in playground banter on the merits of, say, the Incredible Hulk, thus making me a social leper - thanks, mother!).
Still, on the plus side I can make an Action Man death slide out of bog rolls and washing up liquid bottles, so not all bad news, then.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 13:24,
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