If Mumsnet existed in the 1950s, what would be posted about?

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I was just wondering this....

My mother is refusing to go to our new doctor, who is a charming woman.

Mother doesn't trust women doctors. She says they're "above themselves" and ought to be at home, cooking their husbands' meals, not messing around in the new NHS.

‘What does everyone think of Christian Dior’s ‘New Look’ and what kind of hats should we be investing in for spring?’

How can we prepare for the scientifically-agreed consensus that we're headed into an imminent Ice Age? How many layers will be required? We'd all best get knitting ...

AIBU to think the new girl working in DH's office is a CF? Against his advice his boss hired her to do a job that's only been done by men up to now. She has all the right bits of paper apparently, but she's a girl! How can a girl go out to building sites and tell all the tradies what to do? What if she has her time of the month and gets all moody? Anyway, what really takes the biscuit is that she thinks she should be paid the same as the men on the same grade as she is! How utterly ridiculous. She's 24 and she's not married yet (not much chance of any red-blooded man looking at her either, he'd be too worried about who would wear the trousers at home!). She only has herself to support but the men have families, or they're saving up to get married. She must be a bit touched.

‘My DH has excitedly been talking about an advertisement in the paper he’s seen…to take your whole family to live in Australia for ten quid! He’s absolutely smitten with the idea, and keeps talking about a wonderful opportunity it will be for all of us…we have a DS (10) a DD (6) and a LO of just two. AIBU to want to stay in Croydon? We have a lovely semi detached council house with a garden. He keeps going on about sun, beaches, a huge detached bungalow with land…and he’s been promised work in construction. I’m not convinced’

failingwife My husband desperately wants a son after 6 girls, any tips on how I can get pregnant with a son?

It is almost freezing outside but my husband will not let me put an extra blanket over our baby boy while he has his afternoon nap out in the back yard, as he says it will turn him into a sissy.
Is he being unreasonable?

Baby names - what do you think of Sheila if it's a girl, or Brian for a boy?

I have a feeling that the man at No. 11 in my street (would rather not say, too outing) is possibly having an affair with a woman from the even numbers. Apparently she lost her husband ‘during the war’ but to my knowledge nobody ever met him.
She has two older teenage boys who are hoodlums (apparently they listen to someone called Elvis Presley) and herself works as a barmaid at the local pub. Now, I should not judge but my MIL calls her the fallen woman. Apparently, she wears lipstick to go to the doctors, which in my mind is highly inappropriate.
The man involved has a lovely wife, who keeps an equally lovely home. She regularly dips her net curtains, her home is spotless, and when her own DH was doing National Service, she kept her hand on her ha’penny.
Now I have seen her husband enter and exit the barmaid’s jigger when I go out to the dustbin. And I may or may not have overhead them when I got to use my privy. There is a lot of laughter and good cheer involved which doesn’t go on in a marriage, as you may well know.
I am not a gossip, or indeed one to judge, I am old school from the East End. My husband is a waste of space, to be honest. I hope one day I can see him off and run my own pub. But that’s a pipe dream, as it would be as a respected landlady, not hired help.
I often say to my neighbour on this terrace street we live on do you know they should have a television show about a street like this. She said give over, next thing they will have one about Cockneys like us.
Anyway, should I tell my very respectable neighbour that her husband has being paying visits to the fallen woman? By the way, she wears terribly big tarty earrings and a leopard print coat.
Not that I would judge her.
*for the purposes of creativity I have been a bit creative with timelines!

Oh both so modern I love both.

My nanna asked my grandad how the baby will come out and he said 'the same way it went in' 🤣

How often should I have a perm?

My 15 year old daughter has now left school and is working full time in one of the local mills.
She is being incredibly sulky about handing her wage over to me each week even though I give her some pocket money out of it.

i think she is being unreasonable - how can I make her see that it's perfectly fair that she does this, and that she also continues to help me with basic household tasks like cooking and cleaning so that her father and brothers come home to a nice home and can relax after their day's work?

And for going to all nighters .

I am getting married soon and I know there is something that happens between a man and a woman on their wedding night that means they can have a baby, but I don't know what it is. Can you please explain?

This was a genuine question from my mother who got married in the 1950s. As there was no Mumsnet she went to see her GP to ask him.

My friend works at the hospital and says one of the doctors is going around saying smoking is bad for you.

Surely this can't be true - my doctor has told me to smoke to keep me calm, and dad smoked 40 a day and lived to the ripe old age of 72.

What do you think?

I was born in the 50s ..
You're all making feel old.
My Mum made me walk to school in 6 foot of snow.
Is she being cruel?
My sister always has longer playing with the skipping rope than me... is this fair?
My oldest sister is 14 and has had to leave school and get a job.
Is this top young?
My Granny has just bought a TV.. we are all going to watch the Queens coronation.
My Grandad as come home so mucky from working down the pit.
Luckily my Granny and Grandad have been given a new council house with it's own bathroom..
We are waiting for one.. until then my sisters and myself bath every Sunday in the tin bath .
Is it fair we have to wait another six weeks?

I was born in the 50s too, and my sisters were born in the 40s.

Well I never. I've just seen her over the road, the one with peroxide hair whose no better than she ought to be, go to the grocers in slacks. Can you imagine? People will be going to the shops in their pyjamas next.

I think this is rubbish. My GP smokes while he is examining me.

Mine did, in the 1970s!

He also examined my breasts every single time I went to him........

It wasn't till some years later that I realised he was a perve.

Mine did, in the early 90s! The practice nurse told me after he'd left that he smoked through the asthma clinic.

@catlesslady "My DD is taking A levels and says she doesn't want to get married and have children. She's obviously very clever and wants something she refers to as a 'career'. Can anyone with a similarly unruly DD advise whether she should be a secretary or a primary school teacher whilst she waits to find the right man?"

You need to aim higher for your DD, dear. You must encourage a bright girl like her to become a nurse - then she'll have a chance to meet a nice young doctor and settle down with him.

Making clothes!

Bravo! 😂😂😂👏👏👏