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Growing up, were you parents strict on what you were allowed to watch?

Like for instance, my mom WOULD NOT let me watch the movie "Rising Sun", she also banned me to watch certain channels...
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth we only had three or four channels. The raciest thing on t.v. was "Laugh In."
hlpflwthat · M
@Crazywaterspring And I rolled on the floor howling every damn time 😂
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
I saw an infomercial for a set of "Laugh In" dvds. I was tempted to order it but I can't justify the $100 price.
hlpflwthat · M
@Crazywaterspring Oh god no. So much of that older stuff just doesn't work today like it did. Couple years ago I talked my daughters into watching 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' with me.

Still paying for that lol.
When I was really young, I was supposed to keep the TV on one channel, and one channel only. It has Lost in Space, Hogan's Heroes, all this stuff.

I was like four. But then I would always switch it and watch Walter Cronkite report about the Vietnam War. Which eventually fucked with me.

I was all jammed up about it, and I remember late at night bothering my mother and father about it. Am I going to die in the Vietnam War? Are you? Are the VC going to take over?

Then my mom knew I was changing channels and spanked me. But I kept turning to Cronkite anyway.
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
Then Cronkite went to Vietnam and saw the war himself. His reporting changed public opinion against that war.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
My parents let me watch anything I wanted - But applied random electric shocks for shows they objected to.

I eventually caught on and have been watching porn channels ever since.

The extra voltage helps my muscle tone.
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bowman81 · M
No not at all, but then there were only 3 public channels and nothing was very risqué on TV until Jack Paar on Late Night...
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@bowman81 its really interesting about generations...there was really nothing to censor a child back then...because there were literally only 3 channels.
bowman81 · M
@JarJarBoom Exactly, and they didn't even cuss, not before late night anyway. Most channels signed off the air at Midnight with a patriotic scene of fighter jets maneuvering in a grey sky with a flag in the background...(ONLY Black and White) while a guy recited the poem "High Flight"
"High Flight by John Magee

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god."
ImpeccablyImperfect · 51-55, F
Of course.
I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies...or any obviously inappropriate things...I feel we had such trash as Family Guy or most of the shows available nowadays, I wouldn't have been allowed to watch any tv at all haha

I'm the same with my own kids.
The first two are grown now, and they decide on their own, but the 10 year old's viewing habits are still up to my discretion....
....much to his chagrin haha
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@ImpeccablyImperfect Your my Lois Griffin hun!!
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Yep. For instance my mom was very hesitant on letting me watch adult themed movies. I really wanted to see Conan the Barbarian and I finally got to rent it when I was 10 or 11. When it came to the part where Conan meets the witch in the woods and they have sex my mom literally launched herself at the tv to stop it
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@SW-User haha...you are allowed Conan to literally kill off half an army..but that sex scene is gonna ruin you for life
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Pretty much. At that point in my life I honestly didn’t care less about the nudity. I wanted the action adventure lol
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I was not allowed to do anything 😔
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
We had two channels for the longest time, so there was not much to choose from and cable came long after I went to college. It was more of limiting time instead of not allowing me to watch things.
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@SageWanderer Howdy Doody could get explicit
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
@JarJarBoom Not to mention the goings on in the "Peanut gallery"!
TonyPajamas · 22-25
No lol my mom didn’t care at all. I watched what I wanted and never had a bed time or anything. I was raised with a lot of freedom.
Magenta · F
They were strict about most things.. Although we rarely watched tv. We created our own entertainment and played outside a lot.
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my mom wouldn't even let me watch the live action scooby doo movies. it was bullshit.
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@SW-User you better thank your mom, those movies are known to kill brain cells
SmartKat · 56-60, F
They thought I was too young for “The Exorcist” when that came out. Other than that - not really.
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We only had two channels so there really wasn't much to stop me seeing.
Thingschange4444 · 56-60, M
Strict until dad died when I was 15. Then I rebelled terribly.
Eyesofanangel · 46-50, M
My parents didn't care about what I did or what was done to me
No harry potter :(
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@TryingtoLava yea, my mom was so damn into Harry Potter...she was like "READ THIS BOOK!!!"
VolpeTredici · 31-35, M
They didn't really care
Zonuss · 41-45, M
Sometimes. Yeah.

 
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