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A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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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:
phlebasconsidered · 05/11/2014 18:50

And of course, it's really not unreasonable at all to have invented the Findu Crispy Pancake Toasted cheese breville sandwich. Yes. Really.You just need to fry the crispy pancake in lard a bit first, before placing it onto the sliced white which has been liberally slathered in margerine. Actually, I could eat one now.

bodhranbae · 05/11/2014 18:55

WIBU to regularly feed the DCs white bread and dripping as a snack. (Dripping kept in larder not in fridge.)

WIBU to give DCs their first taste of tobacco aged 4 because it "might put them off".

WIBU to give DCs a glass of lager with their tea because French people (height of sophistication) give their children wine. Confused

springlamb · 05/11/2014 18:58

AIBU to give my 6 week old Jersey milk instead of formula?
I have 5 children and a husband who only gives me a couple of quid from his wages each week to feed all of us and pay the electric meter and coal man. There is always enough money for the pub of course, and we all suffer when he comes home.
I am working two cleaning jobs and trying to care for her 4 older sisters, two of which are teenagers and need support and guidance.
I just cannot afford the proper baby milk.
Incidentally, I had a dream last night that my baby was now middle aged with children of her own. She enjoys good health and has no allergies. And she said to me in the dream 'mum, whatever you do you're doing your best for us'.

patronisingbitchinthewardrobe · 05/11/2014 19:04

Posts 1 and 2 made me so angry I can't read any more. Television wasn't new in the seventies or eighties - colour television was. I only knew one family, in the sixties, that didn't have a television.

tunaandcheesesandwich · 05/11/2014 19:07

AIBU for me and my friend to chain smoke in the car on a long journey. I will let my DCs open the window a little bit so they can press their noses to the gap and get a bit of fresh air.

FastWindow · 05/11/2014 19:08

Aibu not to love the black stonewashed double denim outfit my mum scrimped to get for me, thereby making me the worst dressed 12 year old in the whole world?

Muskey · 05/11/2014 19:18

Aibu to think that David hasselhoffs car is better looking than he is

jellyandbeans · 05/11/2014 19:37

Morning, sorry! Mike Batt has a lot to answer to. The books, however, were a favourite of mine..

Mrsjayy · 05/11/2014 19:47

Aibu to think my pink and blue eyeshadow does not look ridiculous like my mum says

Turquoisetamborine · 05/11/2014 19:53

AIBU to laugh and enjoy the peace when my 7yr old daughter toddles off to visit the single man in his 50s up the street who has told her he has a goat in his garden that needs milking?

Luckily he did just have a goat that we would all take turns trying to milk.

MrsAtticus · 05/11/2014 19:54

AIBU unreasonable to dress my granddaughter as 'an evil Arab' by sticking her in a long nightie with a tea towel on her head, for a fancy dress party. It must have been good as she won the best outfit it must have sown a seed though as ironically she later married an Arab who dresses like that

jellyandbeans · 05/11/2014 20:13

To wonder if its ok to let DH and teenage sons watch 'miss world ' on tv? ..Someone on the bbc messageboards said it should be brought back! ( could be on Sky still?)

..to like that odd woman on TOTP singing Whuthering Heights? I wonder if she will be a one hit wonder..?

RocknRollNerd · 05/11/2014 20:31

AIBU to leave my DD (8) at home by herself when she's sick (My DM was a teacher and there was always a shortage of relievers apprently).

This! I did a search as I know from my best mate (also child of two teachers) that I was definitely not the only one. Grin

Also a couple of years earlier 'AIBU to take DD (6) into school with me today, she's really not well but I can't leave her at home and we've got some chairs in the staff room that she can sleep on while I'm teaching. Theres a blanket we use as a backdrop for the nativity she can use as a cover and if she feels a bit better there are lots of books in the library she can read'.

Takver · 05/11/2014 21:00

One of my pupils keeps having allergy attacks in class and her face swells up dreadfully. AIBU to tell her to walk home and sit down quietly - her mum will be at work, but she's a sensible child, she's nearly 10, and I'm sure she's fine on her own. She does sometimes have trouble breathing, but there's bound to be a neighbour in if she needs help . . .

werewolfinladderedtights · 05/11/2014 21:38

AIBU to put a drop of whiskey in my dds bedtime bottle of milk.
Or to give her a sugar sandwich mid morning while I get on with organising my Pippa Dee party this evening.
And ribena in a bottle through the day...

And not be upset at her having her baby teeth removed when they were rotten with decay.

CallMeExhausted · 05/11/2014 22:49

AIBU to send my 4yo to the shops with a scrawled note and a bit of money as I don't feel like going to buy my own fags? She only has to cross one street and I told her she can buy a sweetie with the change...

Yep - actually happened Hmm

CallMeExhausted · 05/11/2014 22:52

AIBU to dress my daughter in a blonde wig, high heeled shoes and one of my "special" dresses with balloons in the bodice and send her to fancy dress day as "Chesty Morgan"?

Yeah, my mother wasn't a one hit wonder...

Emstheword · 05/11/2014 23:10

AIBU to send DD6 dressed as a gypsy...complete with swarthy face thanks to Coty face tan....to the 1977 silver jubilee street party? Or to think we were quite cosmopolitan with our boxed Vesta curries with rice on a Saturday night? Or for thinking a good hiding in a busy shopping centre was just the done thing?

FurryDogMother · 05/11/2014 23:58

AIBU to use this new 'cooking oil' stuff instead of the usual dripping or lard? Is it OK to serve Vesta Paella at a dinner party or will my friends think I'm stealth boasting about having actually been to Majorca? Should I buy a freezer or carry on using the fridge's freezing compartment? Is North Sea gas safe?

skinoncustard · 06/11/2014 01:25

AIBU to get married in a Laura Ashley cotton nightdress. True! It was starched to within an inch of its life. Bridesmaid's one was dyed, but shrunk! No money - so needs must.

LiviaEmpressoftheUniverse · 08/11/2014 09:41

CallMeExhausted that happened to me, too. From two years old, so around 1960. The first time, I told my mum I was too small. She said "You know where the shop is, don't you? Watch out for the road."

LiviaEmpressoftheUniverse · 08/11/2014 09:42

and by the time I was ten I had to light her cigarettes for her in the car (and draw on them to make sure they were properly lit) so she could smoke whilst driving without having to light up herself.

WooWooDog · 08/11/2014 09:48

AIBU to think that Jimmy Savile is a bit creepy?

MERLYPUSSEDOFF · 08/11/2014 10:13

To send my 7 yr old DD to buy my fags?

longjane · 08/11/2014 12:44

To tell my 50 year old uncles that is fine for them to sit in back of van ( they are moving) in armchairs with the dog on one uncles lap and the cat on the other. The fish will be fine in their glass bowl.

Never saw the fish again.

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