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AIBUs from/about fictional characters

186 replies

ProudAS · 11/03/2014 23:10

I'll start

AIBU to report neighbours to social services

Their 11YO DS appears to be morbidly obese and IMO is getting to look more and more like a pig. I think I saw a curly tail poking out of his trousers.

Their DNephew on the other hand appears malnourished. He's also 11 and has lived with them since he was a baby and his DPs died. I've heard rumours that they lock him in the cupboard under the stairs and make him sleep in there. FFS the house has 4 bedrooms and they only have 1 DC.

It's now getting more suspicious. DNephew hasn't been around for a while and apparently he's away at a school for incurably criminal boys. He's always seemed well behaved to me and I was unaware that such schools existed.

I don't want to poke my nose in but WWYD?

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drudgewithagrudge · 12/03/2014 15:20

bubblegoose

I find your attitude to women rather old fashioned even though you are an angel. I would have a word with your dodgy but more attractive brother about your wife's past. He may be able to throw some light on it.

You might just as well push of to Brazil. Don't worry about leaving your Dw I'm sure she'll turn up hanging around somewhere.

puntasticusername · 12/03/2014 15:26

AIBU to boff my hot brother because we're really bored?

Our parents can't be arsed looking after us so they've locked us in our grandparents' attic. We've read all the books. There is nothing else to do, but shag.

IAnotBU, am I?

BalloonSlayer · 12/03/2014 16:00

I am getting tired of my "D"H

We have DTwins who are quite a handful. DH just leaves it to me all the time. When I take them swimming he won't come with us and help me, he just sits in the coffee shop. And they had barely learned to swim and he was encouraging them to enter a competition! They had no chance of winning and could have been devastated - he just doesn't think.

When we went on holiday he reversed the car into a ditch. In the Supermarket he lost one of the twins, apparently she wandered off and he "didn't see her go." Hmm I left him once, took the DTwins, booked a taxi and ran away to my mothers on the train. But I went back.

He is crap at discipline too, all he ever says is "Steady on." And he has awful dress sense. Should I LTB?

YouTheCat · 12/03/2014 16:13

AIBU for locking children in the chokey when they irritate me? Tbh they do irritate me a lot and they are greedy little oiks.

Marylou62 · 12/03/2014 16:32

Am I stupid? Cant for the life of me think what Vlad and PeWe are talking about!! But just now our BIG FAT GINGER TOM came through the cat flap with a huge pair of leather boots on. And I swore he said something!!

DorisAllTheDay · 12/03/2014 17:13

Raging. Angry

I'm sixteen, it's the summer holidays and I'm being made to wear a sailor suit and spend the days marching around the gardens with my six younger brothers and sisters. It's so humiliating. And to crown it all, we're getting a new governess who is probably hardly older than me, but who'll think she has the right to tell me what to do. AIBU to think I don't need a governess? How can I make my father see that?

DorisAllTheDay · 12/03/2014 17:16

Dewe, tranquilizers are the answer. Make friends with her husband, I'm sure he won't mind slipping a nightly dose into her coffee. Or if he won't, I'm sure her brother-in-law will oblige.

vladthedisorganised · 12/03/2014 17:18

I must admit that DeWe has stumped me too!

Mine were:
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (chief thief)
Sherlock Holmes (Dr Watson)
Jack and Jill (Jill's mum, who isn't mentioned in the rhyme as far as I know)

"So later on Jill's mum called round
And asked about Jack's broken crown
'Poor child!' she cried, 'tis plain to see
He should have gone to A&E!"

Boaty · 12/03/2014 17:20

AIBU...I am considering letting my 3 DC go off camping with their cousin. They are DS1 12, DS2 11, DN 11 and DD10. They will be taking DNs dog for protection. DS1 is very responsible.
My DFriends think as they are away at school termtime I should actually spend the holidays with them but I think it is teaching them self reliance.

Dubjackeen · 12/03/2014 17:31

AIBU to never speak to my little sister again, she destroyed my manuscript for spite...

Marylou62 · 12/03/2014 17:55

Oh what fun! Just read them all out and made my family guess them. They got about 50% but still stumped PeWe! And now you Balloon. Love Flowers in Attic strand. Reminds me of this (cant take credit!) DHs wife and all his kids except one are murdered He is neurotic and eventually surviving DC runs away and is kidnapped. Dad then has an epic search where he meets a nice but dim woman with MH issues. Meanwhile, DC is trapped with some quite scary characters who turn out to be lovely. Happy ending, they find each other again, but mild peril throughout.

BalloonSlayer · 12/03/2014 18:16

OK Marylou I will also say about my DH that when I was being a birth partner for my friend and neighbour and left him looking after the DTwins he was the first to arrive at nursery that day! Ha! At least that made him realise how hard it is looking after the twins. I am a bit worried he will turn into his father and keep losing his glasses every five minutes.

lessthanBeau · 12/03/2014 18:27

My ds has hooked up with a very odd girl, he wants to take her to the prom, I am not sure about this as he already has a lovely gf, WIBU to tell him to concentrate on one girl at a time or just let him take this strange girl to the party? it is only one night after all...

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 12/03/2014 18:29

Aibu? My adopted father is great, he always treated me like his own(I suspect I am) his wife is a cold bitch though and is barely civil. Recently his boss and family have been visiting. Bosses wife is a bit to close to her brother iykwim and I suspect she has designs on the family business. They are pushing my far too young foster sister into a power match with her pfb brat and now want foster father and sisters to move! I'm being packed off to a remote outpost, no women, no family, no future. My little foster brother has had a mysterious accident and I'm worried about my family.

dunmopin · 12/03/2014 18:36

My fiance has been away on an extended trip to Eastern Europe - it was supposed to be a work trip to see a client, he's just been made a partner in his firm. But he was missing for weeks and now I find out that the "client" introduced him to two very glamorous women. DP swears nothing happened but... should I LTB?

lessthanBeau · 12/03/2014 18:41

whatfuckery whats that one?

BalloonSlayer · 12/03/2014 18:44

Am I being mean if I say "I told you so" to my DH about his precious spoilt brat of a daughter.

She was always preening in my mirror, saying she is better looking than me, and constantly slagging me off to all and sundry, saying I don't want her around. Of course her Dad won't have believe any of it, to him she is whiter-than-white!

But now I have the last laugh as she has run away from home and is now living with not one, but seven blokes! Apparently she is "cooking and cleaning" for them. Yeah right!

But I guess I am wasting my time telling him. She will always be his little princess!

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 12/03/2014 18:57

Jon snow, GOT.

DocMcStuffinsBigBookOfOuches · 12/03/2014 20:10

Many years ago I had a piece of jewellery made especially for me. Shortly after, I was violently attacked and it was stolen from me. Just recently I discovered that this item is in the possession of a wee chap who lives hundreds of miles away from me - it's definitely the same item as it has some unique markings which prove it is mine.

WIBU to expect him to return this item to me? I'm only asking because I've also heard that he is planning on destroying it!

LizzieVereker · 12/03/2014 20:25

Burren which book is yours, please? I want to read it!

Here's mine:
IABU to want the best for my DDs? There are 5 of them, and I just want to see them settled. I do love them, but none of them are perfect ( apart from the eldest) and it's difficult finding a suitable partner for them all. DD2 has just rejected a proposal from a perfectly nice Vicar, DD4 really worries me, she only has eyes for a dodgy military type, and DD5 accompanies all this drama with her bloody awful singing.

What's worse, DH won't support me, actively encourages DD2 to reject my help, and won't cone out of his study. I think he's gas lighting me, by making out I'm a control freak, when all I'm trying to do is help my DDs and prevent us fom losing our home!

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 12/03/2014 20:45

Aibu to worry I rushed into marriage too soon?

Tbh there is a big age gap and DH swept me off my feet. We met abroad, he was a widower. So as not to drip feed I'll say now he is a lot better off than I first realised but I promise I'm not a gold-digger! I suppose it could be construed as a red flag that we hooked up so fast. Oh and we now live near the coast miles from anywhere so I do feel a bit isolated. Neither of us is blessed with much family but SIL's bark seems worse than her bite. DH is always telling me to get stuck into life round here - I don't want to seem ungrateful but it can get a bit lonely.

I feel rather intimidated by my predecessor, silly isn't it. There was a boating accident and she drowned. I thought DH might benefit from counselling but he rubbished that idea. I was lacking in confidence anyway but there's the added complication of the staff. It's like having a MIL materialising to tell you how to get things done. There's loyalty and all that but this woman gives me the creeps.

Please be kind I'm a bag of nerves over the situation.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 12/03/2014 21:20

AIBU to be worried about my neighbour J's DD? She's out at all hours, her BF is a much older man, and she recently ran away from home. I'm not happy about her choice of friends either; I'm sure that guitarist sheds on the furniture, and the Jewish girl is just strange.

Anyway, I'm going to a homecoming party for poor J's ungrateful child tonight; hope there's no trouble.

MonstersBalls · 12/03/2014 21:42

I am getting increasingly annoyed by people staring in my window on their way to visit my neighbours. It doesn't help that my house is the first they pass but no matter what I do they stare at me until I'm forced to shout at them to go away.

My neighbours are even accusing me of anger issues!

WIBU to throw a jug of water over the next person who stares in?

Jossysgiants · 12/03/2014 21:55

I am getting really fed up with Dh's lack of ambition. I am a Sahm and I know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me- but I still want to be involved in Dh's career. DH is a pretty successful Thane, but I'd really like him to be going for a promotion by now. Would I be unreasonable to have a little chat with him and encourage him to go for a better job ? His boss Duncan is coming to stay this weekend so need advice asap!

ShadowFall · 12/03/2014 22:08

I'm getting on a bit now, and have decided that it's time for me to retire.

I've got lots of land, and have decided that it'll be simplest to divide it up among my 3 DD's now, to save them squabbling over it when I die.

I think that I'll give the most land to the DD who loves me most - and I'm planning a family meeting so that all 3 DD's will get a final chance to tell me how much they love me before I decide how big each one's share is.

AIBU?