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Old Nov 19th 2013, 10:05 am
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Default Re: What weren't you allowed?

Originally Posted by Meow
Sounds like he was just trying to be nice to you.
OK, no re-read but with the first part being a bit creepy like I'm a 5yr old...and the second part a bit creepy because it's a pervy old man talking to me like a mate.
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Old Nov 19th 2013, 10:15 am
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Originally Posted by Scamp
OK, no re-read but with the first part being a bit creepy like I'm a 5yr old...and the second part a bit creepy because it's a pervy old man talking to me like a mate.
Perhaps it was just a case of him trying too hard.

Did your Mum think so too?
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Old Nov 19th 2013, 10:18 am
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Originally Posted by Meow
Sounds like he was just trying to be nice to you.
Is that nice..... or 'nice'?
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Old Nov 19th 2013, 10:31 am
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Originally Posted by Yoohoo
Perhaps it was just a case of him trying too hard.

Did your Mum think so too?
Ah yeah, it was last straw territory for me. Didn't like him.

I was in that awkward age and he had never spent time around kids apart from littl'un's who he taught judo to or something weird.

Mum was nice enough to listen to me on that occasion, but life was always easier and happier when she was with someone so I was never too mean
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Originally Posted by Kix
But they're already 23 years old Saudi!
10 and 7

no way will they be living under my roof in their 30s
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Originally Posted by Scamp
I wasn't allowed girls to stay at my Dads, but when I was at college (16/17/18) Mum didn't really mind if they were a 'girlfriend'.

Dad relaxed his rules (well, my Stepmum's) only when you were living with your partner.
I took a one night stand home once - that was a bit awkward with Mr. Mills.

Then there was the time when my dad was away, I stayed at my girlfriend's and let my mate take his girlfriend back to mine. I would have got away with that except for the incredible amount of mess on the sheets and the fact that my moron mate hid them in the waldrobe.
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Originally Posted by Millhouse
I took a one night stand home once - that was a bit awkward with Mr. Mills.

Then there was the time when my dad was away, I stayed at my girlfriend's and let my mate take his girlfriend back to mine. I would have got away with that except for the incredible amount of mess on the sheets and the fact that my moron mate hid them in the waldrobe.
Hahahahahaha AMAZING.

I got busted having a small gathering (not a party but about 10 of us) at Mum's when she was away.

The ONLY reason she got suspicious and hammered the confession out of me was that one of the girls left a hairbrush in my bathroom. Mum saw it and ran rings around me until I caved in.

I got in more trouble for lying for half a day than for having people over.
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Originally Posted by Scamp
Hahahahahaha AMAZING.



I got in more trouble for lying for half a day than for having people over.
And so you should! Good on yer Mum for knowing what's what
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Originally Posted by Yoohoo
And so you should! Good on yer Mum for knowing what's what
I don't disagree....good thing to beat out of kids as young as possible.
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My, my. How the other half lives.

In my house there was a deep-seated and unsaid understanding between the parents and their offsprings.

A. Never ever ever ever ever under any circumstances ever talk/joke/comment about anything of a sexual nature.

B. Never bring anyone to stay the night (in your room) unless there's a wedding ring on the finger. Both Mrs. Ethos and the brother in law were relegated to the spare rooms till after the wedding.

I once took a girl home when the folks were conveniently away on the other side of the globe. It didn't feel right. Couldn't get over it. It felt like sacrilege.
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Originally Posted by Ethos83
My, my. How the other half lives.

In my house there was a deep-seated and unsaid understanding between the parents and their offsprings.

A. Never ever ever ever ever under any circumstances ever talk/joke/comment about anything of a sexual nature.

B. Never bring anyone to stay the night (in your room) unless there's a wedding ring on the finger. Both Mrs. Ethos and the brother in law were relegated to the spare rooms till after the wedding.

I once took a girl home when the folks were conveniently away on the other side of the globe. It didn't feel right. Couldn't get over it. It felt like sacrilege.
This is starting to sound like an episode of Downton Abbey.
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Old Nov 20th 2013, 7:40 am
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Naw.

My parents are just old fashioned by today's standards.

I was always gobsmacked by how casual other families could be. Could be I was lucky never to have to worry about divorced parents having partners over and seeing them at breakfast when you're only 14 or 15, which is admittedly an awkward age regarding these matters.

Originally Posted by NorthernLad
This is starting to sound like an episode of Downton Abbey.
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Old Nov 20th 2013, 7:44 am
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Originally Posted by Ethos83
My, my. How the other half lives.

In my house there was a deep-seated and unsaid understanding between the parents and their offsprings.

A. Never ever ever ever ever under any circumstances ever talk/joke/comment about anything of a sexual nature.

B. Never bring anyone to stay the night (in your room) unless there's a wedding ring on the finger. Both Mrs. Ethos and the brother in law were relegated to the spare rooms till after the wedding.

I once took a girl home when the folks were conveniently away on the other side of the globe. It didn't feel right. Couldn't get over it. It felt like sacrilege.
I think you must have been living in my house...
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Default Re: What weren't you allowed?

Originally Posted by Ethos83
My, my. How the other half lives.

In my house there was a deep-seated and unsaid understanding between the parents and their offsprings.

A. Never ever ever ever ever under any circumstances ever talk/joke/comment about anything of a sexual nature.


B. Never bring anyone to stay the night (in your room) unless there's a wedding ring on the finger. Both Mrs. Ethos and the brother in law were relegated to the spare rooms till after the wedding.

I once took a girl home when the folks were conveniently away on the other side of the globe. It didn't feel right. Couldn't get over it. It felt like sacrilege.
I still avoid anything sexual etc. It's just weird.

My parent's had s-e-x twice. Once for my sister, once for me. That's it. Then they split up.
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Originally Posted by Ethos83

B. Never bring anyone to stay the night (in your room) unless there's a wedding ring on the finger.
so a bit of wife swapping was OK?
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