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A 1970s/80s AIBU?

448 replies

Scarletohello · 20/07/2014 21:33

Just been reading the brilliant and nostalgic threads about all the things parents did then that would be massively judged now so thought it would be fun to start a 70s/80s AIBU

Want to join me..?

Here goes,

AIBU to not want to have the whole of the street come and watch a football match on our new black and white TV?

OP posts:
EllenJanesthickerknickers · 22/07/2014 20:10

Sorry, the Wellington Arch, not the Albert Memorial. Mum just corrected me.

mermaidstale · 22/07/2014 21:12

AIBU to feed my baby when he cries, rather than 4 hourly by the clock as I had to in hospital? We were in for 10 days of course (first baby) and the babies were all in a nursery where daddies could see through a window but not touch. I had to breastfeed behind a screen because it was so offensive.

LarrytheCucumber · 22/07/2014 21:33

AIBU to leave my 14 year old to look after my 10 year old for a weekend (Friday to Sunday). The 14 year old can practise her cooking skills.

bearfrills · 22/07/2014 21:35

DD is 8wo and the HV has told me to start giving her a quarter Rusk on an evening to help her sleep. AIBU to give her a chocolate button as her pudding? I hold it for her until it melts in her mouth, she seems to love it.

LauraChant · 22/07/2014 21:49

Titabeth, I was born in 1975 and remember watching Bagpuss on a black and white TV because I remember being surprised at the bit when it turns from sepia to colour when we first got a colour one. Perhaps it depended on your income? We were quite poor.

Also we did not use suncream as a matter of course. Didn't seem to need it in the UK. Instead we had big hats. Huge huge sun hats.

Wickeddevil · 22/07/2014 21:49

Loved the one about who shot JR (about a million posts ago), but WIBU to think a whole series dream sequence is the worst idea ever?

AIBU to send DD to school in an orange flared trouser suit? Thanks Mum oh the shame

bearfrills · 22/07/2014 21:56

I was born in 1981 and didn't wear suncream for the first time until 1992 when went on our first holiday abroad.

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 22/07/2014 22:03

AIBU to send DGD (8) to the bookies. If I write the bet down they know me well enough to take it.

AIBU to send DD (8) to the village shop with money and a note to buy my B&H?

TooOldForGlitter · 22/07/2014 22:24

This thread is great Grin

This would be my Dads AIBU...

AIBU to nail some planks of wood over the wheel arches in the back of my Bedford van so the kids can sit on them when we go out for a daytrip? God we had fun chucking ourselves all over the back of that windowless van on the way to Blackpool Grin

FeministStar · 23/07/2014 07:13

Aibu to send my teenage daughter to her school wearing my old clothes now that they don't have school uniform?

oldgrandmama · 23/07/2014 07:27

WIBU to give my kids a real treat for pudding every Sunday lunch - Miracle Whip, butterscotch flavour. Mmmmm - I believe you can still buy it. And when my son was a few months old, WIBU to take the clinic doctor's advice and feed him mashed potatoes (lots of butter and nice and salty), and Bisto gravy, as he seemed 'ready for solids'? (And did I really once wear VERY SHORT, arse-hanging-out black satin hot-pants, as I pushed two small kids in a double pushchair all the way along the A4 from Maidenhead to Slough, to a serenade of passing cars hooting their horns at me?)

x2boys · 23/07/2014 07:28

I remember my mum and dad getting our first colour TV which they rented of course it was before I started school so about 1977\78 and I was watching crackerjack on the black and white TV and when the man came with our colour TV the person who presented it ,it was before stu Francis can't think of his name was wearing a/yellow T-shirt ,we got our first VCR in about 1989 one of the last of my friends I know because neighbours/was/all the rage when I was a teenager and for some reason they only showed it at lunch time and early morning ,s for a longtime those of my friends who had videos had it videoed for them and I could only watch it during the school holidays !

bearfrills · 23/07/2014 07:35

We had a rented TV too, there was a meter and you put 50p in it for eight hours of TV. We had a meter under the stairs too for the gas and electric. I remember when the man used to come to empty them (a different man for each). He'd take his share and then give DM the remaining 50p pieces. She used to give us one each to take to the shop. When the meters ran out there was always an argument between us kids about whose turn it was to feed it :)

bearfrills · 23/07/2014 07:36

Our video player was a top loading one.

x2boys · 23/07/2014 07:40

When my mum and dad got their first VCR in 1989 it was a slimline Sharpe one because my uncle worked for Sharpe they replaced it about twenty years later we were posh !!

tinkywinkyshandbag · 23/07/2014 08:00

AIBU to buy my dd a pink see through coat from C and A that she begged for, and then laugh when the big girls at school tell her shes wearing a rubber johnny coat? (my mum did this)

tinkywinkyshandbag · 23/07/2014 08:04

AIBU to lick my baby's dummy and then dip in sugar? And a baby bottle full of sweet tea cant harm them, can it?

17leftfeet · 23/07/2014 08:24

AIBU to leave the twins in the silver cross outside the shop while I stand inside talking for an hour nip in for a few bits?

Also...

AIBU to throw away all these bloody novelty rubbers?
There are about 300, all in different bags -fruit, cars, faces, sweets etc -but dd never actually uses them so I'm sure she won't miss them!

sashh · 23/07/2014 08:27

titabeth

We got a colour TV in the early 70s - the first on the street. All the kids came in to see it being set up - that used to happen, a man would come round to tune the TV in.

But it was Saturday morning so he had to wait for a colour programme to come on (Tom and Jerry) to get the colour right.

Where I lived this was a big event.

AndyWarholsOrange · 23/07/2014 08:40

AIBU to coat my DC's fried fish in orange radio-active bread crumbs? Also , I am having a dinner party tonight. Will my guests think I'm being pretentiously modern if I serve melon balls as a starter?
I remember many happy journeys with me, my 2 siblings and 2 cousins stuffed in the boot of the Marina state. My DPs (after serious consideration) did stop short of strapping one of us on the roof rack.

gordyslovesheep · 23/07/2014 08:41

Ainu to empty half a pack of frosties in the outside bin and pretend they have been eatin. It's my turn for the toy and I am impatient

gordyslovesheep · 23/07/2014 08:42

Aibu to kill the auto correct on this new phone

AndyWarholsOrange · 23/07/2014 08:42

Estate, not state (although it was in a bit of a state).

bearfrills · 23/07/2014 08:46

I remember moving house aged 6 and again aged 24, happily travelling the back or the removal van with all the furniture.

bearfrills · 23/07/2014 08:46

14, not 24