Silly things you weren't allowed to watch/read/have as a kid?

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A single, specific fantasy book in my dad's vast collection cause it had cussing and toilet humour (read it sneakily and it sucked).
Incredibly, a whole book consisting mostly of jokes with swearwords was not off-limits, but I regret reading it cause author took a detour to explain what "sadism" meant and described some stuff from DeSade's novels, which child me was traumatised by.

Some movies mom decided were not ok, which was arbitrary (Predator not ok, Hellraiser ok) and there were also few times where she told me to stop watching when she saw something she did not like (entire The Devil's Advocate was fine, but the chick undressing meant no more movie).

Also, people whose parents banned Spongebob and some other stuff cause it makes you dumb - they were right.
 
Wahgonga said:
There was no swearing when my Mom was around.

Hard to do since my Dad was a Marine and didn't hold back in her absence. To go from F-bomb nigger joke days with Dad, to polite supper with Mom, could be a challenge.
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I had the opposite experience. My dad is the one that's extremely anti-swearing. My mom has the mouth of a sailor. My dad wouldn't even let me listen to, watch, or play anything with swearing(which included damn and hell) until I was 15. He thought it'd lower my vocabulary.

My mom didn't care and let me do mostly whatever within reason. My dad was at work 80% of the time, so his rules only applied 20% of the time.
Preacher ✝ said:
How is that enforceable? Were they watching you play the entire time?
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Honor system. My dad was the only reason for the rule. Just don't bury bones when he's around, which was easy because he worked all the time. I was a good kid for the most part. That's why I was allowed to have game consoles, a TV, and a computer in my room.
 
My mom would not allow me to have a pet snake or tarantulas. She's scared of snakes and used to be terrified of spiders. Funny thing is snakes would have been the perfect pet for me as a kid. She was cool with my weird worm phase where I carried my plastic tote full of worms around like they were emotional support worms, at least.
 
Jacknife said:
Nah SpongeBob is the OG

My mom luckily forbade me to watch DragonballZ, Naruto, Pokemon and all the other Anime slop
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Well SpongeBob is a retarded show, I agree with her there but it was also Kino. I can sort of understand her point but at the same time I loved SB as a kid and I turned out fine (mostly)

I don't think I was forbidden from watching anime, it was just something that I was never interested in. Having seen what anime interest does to people and knowing the person I was in my impressionable years maybe it was for the best.
 
Star Classic said:
Well SpongeBob is a retarded show, I agree with her there but it was also Kino. I can sort of understand her point but at the same time I loved SB as a kid and I turned out fine (mostly)

I don't think I was forbidden from watching anime, it was just something that I was never interested in. Having seen what anime interest does to people and knowing the person I was in my impressionable years maybe it was for the best.
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Nah Spongebob is great although I am only talki9ng about the first three seasons and not the abomination that it turned into later.
 
I wasn't allowed to watch the Simpsons until I was like 12, but my mom let her dad take me to all the Lord of the Rings films as they came out starting when I was 6. I also couldn't have gta or cod when all my friends did because it was killing "people", violence was fine as long as I was killing demons or orcs though.

In hindsight I've come to think my mom was probably right.
 
Super Malario said:
Looking at all the other kiwis who also couldn't watch the Simpsons made me realize how fucking decrepit we must sound like when that silly show was considered such a raunchy mature thing.
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Child me only saw 1 episode and decided to not watch any more cause it was Apu cheating episode and I found it gross. I only started watching it as a teen.
 
el bandito loco said:
On the subject of the thread I wonder what the ratio of highly sheltered to media compared to just allowed free reign with it is to weirdos in general. I feel like it's a total toss up how you turn out based on that. If I have children I'll probably allow them basically whatever like I was but the way media is today with more out there fag shit I'll probably actually sit with them while they watch/play whatever more than my parents were. depends on the kid though too because if I end up having a kid who can't handle certain things because it freaks them out really bad or they're idiots and try to copy shit then I'll have to actually curate what the fuck they're looking at.
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The challenge is that today's media, and the advertisements that go with it, is insidious. Back in my day I was brainwashed to nag my folks for shitty tie-in toys and Lunchables. Today I have my work cut out for me just to protect my children's brain development from overstimulation and dopamine saturation, porn, and globohomo. Globohomo is the easy one because when they do see it, they get bored immediately. The rest is difficult. YouTube kids makes it hard to block all of the videos where kids play with toys and good luck finding anything longer than 4 minutes let alone a good quality documentary. Good luck keeping your kids away from feral children given full access to the worst of the internet on their phones.
Ten years from now I can imagine my kids posting on a thread much like this one talking about how their crazy mom only let them watch DVDs rather than have full access to streaming services.
 
Bloo said:
I think “The Gump” freaked me out the most. The existential horror of that thing suddenly coming to life out of nowhere. I couldn’t explain why it bothered me so much but it did. It is a well made movie, I’m amazed it exists at all.
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I actually watched it last night after you brought it up in this thread. The puppetry and effects in the movie are amazing.
Lady Bizness said:
The challenge is that today's media, and the advertisements that go with it, is insidious. Back in my day I was brainwashed to nag my folks for shitty tie-in toys and Lunchables. Today I have my work cut out for me just to protect my children's brain development from overstimulation and dopamine saturation, porn, and globohomo. Globohomo is the easy one because when they do see it, they get bored immediately. The rest is difficult. YouTube kids makes it hard to block all of the videos where kids play with toys and good luck finding anything longer than 4 minutes let alone a good quality documentary. Good luck keeping your kids away from feral children given full access to the worst of the internet on their phones.
Ten years from now I can imagine my kids posting on a thread much like this one talking about how their crazy mom only let them watch DVDs rather than have full access to streaming services.
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Yeah, honestly the state of things like that today is why I don't want children. I used to but these days I just think it would really be too much trouble to raise them up properly in today's world. Being one of those kids that had pretty much full access to the internet whenever I used it and could watch whatever I wanted, ironically I think the internet is a more dangerous place now even though back then you could google literally the most fucked up thing you could think of and it would just be the first result. I also think the media of today is more fucked up in various ways. People that manage to keep what their kids consume under control without making them ostracized total freaks by sheltering from everything today are real heroes but God damn does that seem more difficult now than any other time.
 
el bandito loco said:
People that manage to keep what their kids consume under control without making them ostracized total freaks by sheltering from everything today are real heroes but God damn does that seem more difficult now than any other time.
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It really is tough. Friends with teenagers have caused their children to lose their whole friend group just by banning their phone for a month. We're talking totally normie kids, not some spergs that were going to get dropped because they're weird. Other families make it impossible when they let their kids have free reign of phones and let their kids text yours at all hours. Miss that, and you miss your whole social life if you're a kid today.
Still love being a parent. That's classic and built into the core of my mammalian being. It's always tough though.
 
I had to beg my mom to buy me Grand Theft Auto, as she thought it would turn me into a hardened car jacker. I turned out fine, although I do jump on tortoises whenever I see them.
 
i was never interested in sports very much as a kid which had an overall negative impact on my life at the time because guess what, exercise is healthy.
but the few fucking times i told my parents i really wanted to do stuff like skateboarding or snowboarding, they shut me down. shit i even had a flimsy toy "skateboard" that wouldve actually worked (was big enough, had wheels) but my mom never let me leave the house with it. one time i was doing something stupid with it, i think lying on it belly down and riding around the house like a plank, and i crashed into a table. didnt do any damage just had a small bruise on my face. after this my parents took the skateboard and THREW IT AWAY without saying a word. absolutely fucking unreal, im still mad about it today
 
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