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[birdy]

I wonder if I can ask a question that hopefully doesn’t derail?

What movie were you forbidden to watch?
Did you watch it anyway?
How did it affect you?

Forbidden? I don't think my parents were present enough to forbid movies from me lol. I did have to beg and beg and beg to watch Scream when it came out, but they eventually caved lol.

I thought it was scary but it didn't effect me . I've always been pretty desensitized to horror movies.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

Derail away! I’m happy to have someone else pose a question. No worries!

I wasn’t allowed to watch Gremlins. My mom didn’t want me to see the blender scene. Also I wasn’t allowed to watch the Flintstones. Too violent. Also the show Moonlighting with Bruce Willis. She thought he was an ass.

I wasn’t dying to see any of these. I think I wanted to because it forbidden fruit and all, but of course I watched them and I can’t say she was really wrong about any of it. Maybe a little extreme. It’s just strange what really bothered her.

ETA- I saw Conan the barbarian though! That wasn’t too violent. But the flintstones was.

I was definitely not allowed to watch Gremlins and we saw how that turned out

Similar to what you said, I don’t think I really even wanted to watch them. They were just forbidden and my cousin who was 9 months younger had seen them. That seemed like a really important point at the time.

I was also not allowed to watch Married With Children, Roseanne, or day time talk shows. All of which seem like sound decisions in hindsight.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

I was definitely not allowed to watch Gremlins and we saw how that turned out

Similar to what you said, I don’t think I really even wanted to watch them. They were just forbidden and my cousin who was 9 months younger had seen them. That seemed like a really important point at the time.

I was also not allowed to watch Married With Children, Roseanne, or day time talk shows. All of which seem like sound decisions in hindsight.

Oh yeah Married with Children was a big No No in my house too. Oh and that mini series V. Couldn’t watch that.

We could watch M.A.S.H. That one episode with the chicken on the bus f’ed me up.

 

[Endless_Night]

I don't have any personal shark experiences to share. But I did recently watch an informational video about them, from which I can share the following safety tips:

- You're safe while Baby, Mommy, Daddy and Grandma introduce themselves.

- When they decide to go hunt, you need to run away

- Hiding ensures safety at last.

Are you . . . .

Singing Baby Shark?

Enjoy the earworm, folks.

( @Endless_Night - earworms are not in fact giant Mongolian death worms which attempt to invade your ear canal).

*pfft*

Everyone knows Mongolian death worms spit corrosive saliva rather than burrow into ear canals.

 

[FistfulOfMyHair]

Hi all,
I just wanted to share my love of snorkeling after reading through everyones posts. My most amazing and memorable experience was in St. Kitts, right off the beach where we were staying. I absolutely love the unique aural experience of snorkeling it feels like I’m exploring an alien planet. It’s so calm and relaxing.
On this trip, there were families of sea turtles just off the beach, eating seagrass every day. The baby sea turtles were amazing to see! It was all I wanted to do.
I also enjoyed diving down 10’-12’ and exploring the ocean floor at times. It was a fun challenge and would love to get better at the diving aspect.
I also remember not being able to convince my friend to put sunscreen on one spot of my back I couldn’t reach. He was being homophobic or just overly macho and of course, that spot got pretty badly burned .
I don’t get to good snorkeling locations often, but if I did, it’s all I’d want to do, at least until I learn how to scuba!

 

[hotwords229_A]

I was definitely not allowed to watch Gremlins and we saw how that turned out

Similar to what you said, I don’t think I really even wanted to watch them. They were just forbidden and my cousin who was 9 months younger had seen them. That seemed like a really important point at the time.

I was also not allowed to watch Married With Children, Roseanne, or day time talk shows. All of which seem like sound decisions in hindsight.

Oh yeah Married with Children was a big No No in my house too. Oh and that mini series V. Couldn’t watch that.

We could watch M.A.S.H. That one episode with the chicken on the bus f’ed me up.

It’s funny because I wouldn’t have said my parents were super laid back—we had some pretty definitive rules, but movies/tv shows weren’t one of them.

Although I wasn’t “allowed” to watch stuff unsupervised, I did, they knew I did, and they looked the other way. In their defense, my mom was totally against anything gory, violent, sexual, etc. and my dad was cool with anything. So I guess they split the difference?

I remember watching the original (unrated) Dawn of the Dead and American Werewolf in London as a family when I was single digits old. Neither of which is really a family film!

The funniest part of all was I had to look away during the sex scene, but I could watch any level of violence and gore. My mom spent the whole time saying “they shouldn’t be seeing this” and my dad would respond “Nah, it’s good for them , it’s fun”.

They were both right.

 

[SimonSex]

Is this because of the movie Jaws? I know you’re a horror movie fan. Is it more than that?

I’m leery of sharks but I also count myself lucky because for years, each summer, my friends and I would go night swimming (most times sans swim suits) in the ocean off of the southern outer banks of the East Coast. For. Years. I can’t count the number of times I would float in the waves staring up at the moon and the stars. It was a ritual. We would talk and catch up with each other. It was wonderful.

Then over the last few years, there have been two or three shark .. I don’t want to say “attacks”, but bites that required a rescue or medical assistance right near where we’d swim. Right there! So, I figure that somehow the sharks were cutting me some slack. All those years and all that happened was i stepped on a fish or sharp shell or something. I was super lucky.

Does anyone here have that fear of the open water? I don’t know what that is called, but it’s a fear of the deep open ocean water or lakes.

Sharks may be one of the few things in life that I have a fear of, but anytime we are in nature and no longer at the top of the food chain, I believe the fear is warranted. When hiking in the Tetons, I have bear spray. When I am in the ocean, there is not a great deal that I can do to prevent a shark from taking a nibble. While it does not stop me from enjoying the swim, I am constantly aware of the possibility. Granted, the odds of getting bitten by a shark in the US are 1 in 11.5 million (according to SIRI ), but they ain’t zero.

 

[Mei5ter]

Are you . . . .

Singing Baby Shark?

Baby Shark, along with the other modern classic It's Raining Tacos, was played at high volumes by the authorities in West Palm Beach when they wanted to disperse crowds.

I can sing it, and I have done before. But, as Alice in Wonderland said of the rabbit hole, that costs extra.

 

[Endless_Night]

Baby Shark, along with the other modern classic It's Raining Tacos, was played at high volumes by the authorities in West Palm Beach when they wanted to disperse crowds.

I am not sure whether you've been dispersed by authorities in West Palm Beach or if I've lost the thread of this conversation.

If it is the Palm Beach thing, then my opinion of your demeanor is undergoing radical change.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

Oh yeah Married with Children was a big No No in my house too. Oh and that mini series V. Couldn’t watch that.

We could watch M.A.S.H. That one episode with the chicken on the bus f’ed me up.

We were allowed to watch M.A.S.H. as well! Although on that one, I think it’s not a terrible idea to introduce kids to a more personal look at war.

There were plenty of….”interesting” movies we were allowed to watch without any concern though. I’m convinced seeing Return to Oz, Labyrinth, and Never Ending Story numerous times in my formative years is responsible for a significant portion my current offbeat sense of humor and interests

 

[cheekygirl75]

We were allowed to watch M.A.S.H. as well! Although on that one, I think it’s not a terrible idea to introduce kids to a more personal look at war.

There were plenty of….”interesting” movies we were allowed to watch without any concern though. I’m convinced seeing Return to Oz, Labyrinth, and Never Ending Story numerous times in my formative years is responsible for a significant portion my current offbeat sense of humor and interests

Same on media being responsible for how I am. But my most memorable one was being read Poe’s the Mask of the Red Death when I was in single digits

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Same on media being responsible for how I am. But my most memorable one was being read Poe’s the Mask of the Red Death when I was in single digits

Oh if we are talking about what was read to us, that’s a whole other story (pun intended).

I was ready the scariest Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I remember Bluebeard especially scared me. I was also read Greek Myths.

But NOTHING scared me so much as learning about the various Fae, or fairies, and the stories that were told about specific ones. For example, the story of Jenny Greenteeth. Fuck me. I would have such nightmares about her when I was little.

Jenny Greenteeth was a bog fairy. And parents would tell the story of Jenny Greenteeth to their children back in the day so that their kids would not wander off and play near the swamps and streams where it was dangerous, either from critters or drownings or, bog fairies.

Here she is. Meep.

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh if we are talking about what was read to us, that’s a whole other story (pun intended).

Reading was my most instrumental early exposure.

I was a precocious reader. My parental figures were also readers and made no effort to curate my access to material. Meaning in lieu of age appropriate books I read theirs.

I distinctly remember reading Taylor Caldwell's Captain and the Kings and Heinlein's Time Enough For Love at nine and just kept going.

It defiantly had an impact on my world view.

Probably why I am so trusty and cheery.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Oh if we are talking about what was read to us, that’s a whole other story (pun intended).

I was ready the scariest Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I remember Bluebeard especially scared me. I was also read Greek Myths.

But NOTHING scared me so much as learning about the various Fae, or fairies, and the stories that were told about specific ones. For example, the story of Jenny Greenteeth. Fuck me. I would have such nightmares about her when I was little.

Jenny Greenteeth was a bog fairy. And parents would tell the story of Jenny Greenteeth to their children back in the day so that their kids would not wander off and play near the swamps and streams where it was dangerous, either from critters or drownings or, bog fairies.

Here she is. Meep.

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I love the illustrations in old books. They are terrifying!
Sometimes even when they aren’t supposed to be.

 

[birdy]

But NOTHING scared me so much as learning about the various Fae, or fairies, and the stories that were told about specific ones. For example, the story of Jenny Greenteeth. Fuck me. I would have such nightmares about her when I was little.

Jenny Greenteeth was a bog fairy. And parents would tell the story of Jenny Greenteeth to their children back in the day so that their kids would not wander off and play near the swamps and streams where it was dangerous, either from critters or drownings or, bog fairies.

I've been saying for awhile now that I wish I was a bog witch.

 

[Lmizzler]

Oh if we are talking about what was read to us, that’s a whole other story (pun intended).

I was ready the scariest Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I remember Bluebeard especially scared me. I was also read Greek Myths.

But NOTHING scared me so much as learning about the various Fae, or fairies, and the stories that were told about specific ones. For example, the story of Jenny Greenteeth. Fuck me. I would have such nightmares about her when I was little.

Jenny Greenteeth was a bog fairy. And parents would tell the story of Jenny Greenteeth to their children back in the day so that their kids would not wander off and play near the swamps and streams where it was dangerous, either from critters or drownings or, bog fairies.

Here she is. Meep.

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Not exactly a cute and adorable fairy is she? She more looks like she could be Gollum's girlfriend.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Not exactly a cute and adorable fairy is she? She more looks like she could be Gollum's girlfriend.

Nope. Not all fairies are pretty like @morelikeasong

 

[morelikeasong]

Nope. Not all fairies are pretty like @morelikeasong

Some days I resemble the bog fairy, too

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Some days I resemble the bog fairy, too

Never once. Not for a second.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Some days I resemble the bog fairy, too

Hmm I doubt that

Maybe some glamor bog or something. A beauty bog!

 

[Mei5ter]

Hmm I doubt that

Maybe some glamor bog or something. A beauty bog!

I'm sure there are exotic spa treatments along those lines? With mud pack facials, and unexpected uses for coffee and spirulina or something?

 

[Mei5ter]

Jenny Greenteeth was a bog fairy. And parents would tell the story of Jenny Greenteeth to their children back in the day so that their kids would not wander off and play near the swamps and streams where it was dangerous, either from critters or drownings or, bog fairies.

UK Litsters of a certain age may remember public information films intended to keep you safe through sheer terror. The best known was a masterpiece called Protect And Survive. In the event of a nuclear strike, it instructed us to hide under a table. Apparently, the sheer strength and craftsmanship of a MFI table could deflect even the blast of a 50 megaton bomb. If you didn't do this, we would die in the resulting inferno. Equally, if you did, we were told you'd die from starvation and radiation sickness. So there's that.

Anyway. There was another film in that series about the dangers of playing near water. It had kids happily playing in a tyre swing over a pond...while a hooded and cloaked Grim Reaper in black, complete with scythe, stalked menacingly nearby just as the kid fell off and fell in. It'll be on YouTube somewhere but...absolutely fucking terrifying. It looked exactly like a scene from all the horror films everyone was clutching their pearls about at the time.

Don't watch it. Stick with something nice and cozy like Stephen King.

 

[hotwords229_A]

It had kids happily playing in a tyre swing over a pond...while a hooded and cloaked Grim Reaper in black, complete with scythe, stalked menacingly nearby just as the kid fell off and fell in. It'll be on YouTube somewhere but...absolutely fucking terrifying. It looked exactly like a scene from all the horror films everyone was clutching their pearls about at the time.

I love stuff like this. The best part of being a kid is that, even though you might have been scared, you still mocked and faced your fear of bog fairies and river reapers. But the danger element still stuck in the back of your head, at least, potentially, keeping you safe(?).

 

[SmokingFap]

Derail away! I’m happy to have someone else pose a question. No worries!

I wasn’t allowed to watch Gremlins. My mom didn’t want me to see the blender scene.

My dad took me to see the original Alien when I was maybe 12 or 13. He warned me ahead of time that there were a couple scenes that he wouldn't let me see, and that I wasn't allowed to tell my mom (they were divorced by then). He covered my eyes during the chestburster scene. So I absolutely loved the movie, like he knew I would. But I didn't end up seeing that scene for years. Made me thankful that he covered my eyes back then.

Also I wasn’t allowed to watch the Flintstones. Too violent.

Too much Bam-Bam?

Also the show Moonlighting with Bruce Willis. She thought he was an ass.

Moonlighting is still one of my top five favorite shows ever, and Bruce is still my ultimate idol. I've always had his sense of humor. So I guess I'm an ass.

 

[hotwords229_A]

I wasn't allowed to tell my mom

This is classic dad stuff.