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What were you not allowed to do as a child because it 'wasn't nice'?

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B9exchange Tue 19-Nov-19 23:00:25

No eating in the street or on public transport. Not to go to school without a hat. On the other hand we were allowed to go out for the day and play in the local stream, completely unsupervised, from the age of 5!

sharon103 Tue 19-Nov-19 22:59:50

My mum and dad must have been pretty easy. No not allowed's that I can think of.

Suki70 Tue 19-Nov-19 22:56:46

chewbacca Oh my goodness, I had several pairs of red shoes when in my teens and twenties!
My mother wouldn't let me speak in the local Black Country dialect but the accent was all right.

kircubbin2000 Tue 19-Nov-19 22:54:06

Not allowed to play with certain people.Even at 17 my mother wouldn't let me go into a flat with a friend because of what she knew of her father. I was too late to get another flatshare and had a lonely bedsit instead.

MissAdventure Tue 19-Nov-19 22:50:09

Well, it wouldn't have mattered, because we weren't allowed to "cock our legs about" or roll on the floor, either, so nobody would have seen them.

NotSpaghetti Tue 19-Nov-19 22:49:41

I wasn’t allowed to wear jeans. I did buy some when I got a Saturday job but tried not to wear them near home as it always caused problems!

Chewbacca Tue 19-Nov-19 22:48:21

No navy blue knickers MissA? You should have let me know, I'd have given you some of mine. I was made to wear them for almost the whole of my childhood.

Auntieflo Tue 19-Nov-19 22:46:45

Allowed to watch TV, if we had been to the cinema, in the afternoon.

MissAdventure Tue 19-Nov-19 22:44:33

I wasn't allowed to wear long wellies, because they didn't look nice on my spindly legs.

Also, I wasn't allowed to wear navy blue knickers.

Chewbacca Tue 19-Nov-19 22:42:46

Not allowed to wear red shoes. Apparently, only "prossies" wear red shoes. angry

lemongrove Tue 19-Nov-19 22:33:12

MissA ?

lemongrove Tue 19-Nov-19 22:32:29

Eat in the street/ on public transport either in or out of school uniform
Pointing at anything ( buildings just as much as people...bizarrely)
Being too loud ( noisy conversation.....somebody might look!)
When in cafes/buses etc.
Eat every morsel on the plate/ scrape the plate ( a mouthful had to be left for Miss Manners.)

merlotgran Tue 19-Nov-19 22:31:37

Eat in the street.
Go to the cinema on a Sunday.

MissAdventure Tue 19-Nov-19 22:27:41

We were most definitely not allowed to say "Liar".
We only told fibs in our house.

morethan2 Tue 19-Nov-19 22:26:53

I wasn’t allowed to
have my ears pierced

MissAdventure Tue 19-Nov-19 22:26:40

I wasn't allowed to meet anyone if it was near a certain pub (as a teen) because that wasn't nice, even though it was at a crossroads, right in the middle of all 4 roads.

GagaJo Tue 19-Nov-19 22:26:11

Whisper. Lunacy I know, but my mum had a real thing about it.

Luckygirl Tue 19-Nov-19 22:23:50

Drop my 'aitches - the maternal wrath would descend.

Listen to 78 of Jake Thackeray!

Eat in the street - especially if in school uniform.

MissAdventure Tue 19-Nov-19 22:20:54

I've just been looking at a Monty Python sketch, and it reminded me that I was not allowed to watch it when I was young because my mum thought it wasn't nice.

(My dad loved it!)