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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Am I the only one wondering what the hell a lan is?Anyways, my parents are lovely souls, but when we were growing up my mum especially decided that most things in the modern world were probably really bad for you ("there's no real evidence for it, but it's SCIENTIFIC FACT" etc...) and banned us from doing all manner of weird and wonderful things. These included; watching TV (we didn't have one, but my gran lived just down the road so we just went and watched it there), eating meat (because of the pesticides etc, not the poor fluffy animals. This wasn't really an issue though, I didn't like meat much anyway), eating sweets (mmm lets have some lovely nuts and raisins. This one was more offensive) and drinking any milk, at all. This meant we had to have orange juice on our cereal. If any of the other things didn't make us weird kids, that one did.
Anyway, it all backfired, as now me and my syblings are all massively addicted to tv, meat, sweets, fags, booze etc etc in one way or another.
Best of all I now get to wake up every morning to a nice milky bowl of cereal. Joy!
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Damien's Hearse, Fri 9 Mar 2007, 7:43,
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