I Thought it Was Just Me...

[blahflowers]

When you were little kiddies, did your parents stop you watching ITV because it was 'common'?

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[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Yup. I had to watch Number 73 sneakily and thought I was terribly daring.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Number 73! Probably one of the best things Sandi Toksvig ever did!

[ludy]

They didn't stop us watching ITV but they only bought the Radio Times with the BBC listings and not the TV times with the ITV ones. Also we were only alloowed to watch a rationed amount of telly in total

[almagill.livejournal.com]

My grandparents also did the Radio Times thing (but it used to have the ITV listings in tiny print, iirc).

Only time TV was censored in our house was when glam rock arrived and my dad banned us from watching Top of the Pops because it was full of long haired weirdoes in womens clothes and make-up....

[olulabelle.livejournal.com]

No but I chose to watch BBC over ITV. I just wasn't a Tiswas kind of girl. Which is odd because Mixmage's Dad invented Tiswas and was big in Central telly, so that's all they ever watched. I think he might even have been on Tiswas once. Woo yay.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

'Big in Central Telly', now they were a great band...

[daria2.livejournal.com]

Yes! Well, not prevent as such, or even by saying anything, but there was a definite disapproval. Hmm, I suppose when young we didn't operate the telly ourselves (no such thing as remote controls either). Anyway we always watched BBC, and only ever had the Radio Times, and watching ITV certainly had a flavour of guilt about it. I always watched it at my grandma's, not just kid's tv, but all the Saturday evening light entertainment, Dusty Bin et al.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, the TV of youth, where deciding whether you wanted to keep watching something rubbish had to be counterbalanced against getting up and walking over to the telly to change channel. Our first telly was a black and white thing with a dial rather than actual channels, so you got to know which range on the dial was BBC2, which was ITV etc.

[mistressmousey.livejournal.com]

Nope, but then, my parents also encouraged me to play Pong. :)

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

You don't count, American!

[mistressmousey.livejournal.com]

I do so! Look:

1, 2, 5... no, wait. I've got it.

1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11... hrm, that doesn't look right either.

1, e, pi...

Okay, maybe you've got a point.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Promise me you won't homeschool Alistair.

[mistressmousey.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I thought my "prime numbers only" counting was sort of clever. But then, I'm married to the guy that refused to bid on anything at the Fiddler's Green auction unless it was a power of 2.

[allistairagator.livejournal.com]

TEN TO THE TENTH!!

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

42!!! 23!!exclamationmark!

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

So, what was the 1, 2, 5 sequence then?

I must admit I'm not far beyond the 'some', 'many', 'lots' stage myself...

[mistressmousey.livejournal.com]

/em blinks in astonishment.

"One, two, FIVE!"
"Three, sir."
"THREE!"

Holy Grail reference.

and you... a Brit!

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Oh play fair! If you'd given me the 3 I probably would have got it then...

[mistressmousey.livejournal.com]

/em is teh evils. >:D