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Am I missing something? Is this based on a tv plot?

Wtf?

Erm?

You're considering offering up your daughter to your gay best friend's lover when she turns 20 as he was very taken with her when she was born?
wtaf?

I'll be disappointed if this is from a tv programme. It has some potential as a good thread if real life!

Chill, people, it's a Bloomsbury Group pastiche.
(Sorry OP, but there are a lot of humourless bucketheads on here who will be running screaming for the monitors - a nd quite possibly SS - if it's not firmly pointed out that this is a joke.)

Yes inthebox in 1918!

It's all in the op

It's not real!!

I had thought I'd made it too obvious...

I rarely say this but r..t..f..t!

I think threads like this are for the humourless bucketheads.

The rest of us tend to gravitate towards...you know, actually funny threads

For those who really know nothing about the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf's sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, had two sons with her husband and then had a daughter by her gay best friend, Duncan Grant. Nobody told the daughter, Angelica until she was 18, that her father was Duncan Grant, not Clive Bell, although it was an open secret. She then married Duncan's close friend and ex-lover, David Garnett, who was 46 and had mentioned in a letter to a friend when she was born that he thought it would be a lovely idea to marry her when she was 20. Not surprisingly, this didn't turn out well.

What's the point of replying to a post if you haven't bothered to read the blasted thing. Op, YANBU

OP, did you hear the Radio 4 comedy drama 'Gloomsbury' recently, with Vera Sackcloth-Vest?

I only really stuck with it because I had a large room to redecorate and wanted something to listen to, but it was quite funny and it might suit you nicely.

(And yes, it was GLARINGLY obvious from your OP that this was not a present-day AIBU)

I adore Gloomsbury! Not too much inventing for Lynne Truss to do there....

Yes I got the Bloomsbury references, still wasn't funny.

What Worra said...

I wasn't really aiming at funny, to be honest - just open-mouthed astonishment at how times have changed.

I need to read this.

Ah bollocks I was just going to go and get my popcorn and settle in there

Goodness, what a literary desert must it be on MN these days for people to not get this immediately

Pass the smelling salts!

"Humourless bucketheads" aka "people who don't watch shit TV".

Please tell me I'm not the only person who hates these threads.

I'm not all that well informed on the Bloomsbury group tbh and much of that went over my head but I'd have thought that the fact that it says it's 1918 might have been an indication that this wasn't an actual real life AIBU