A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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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?

Raffle @ 19.36 Wow!!!

AIBU to go to school wheezing and stinking of fags because my Dad smoked all evening?

AIBU to feed my newborn bottles made up with carnation and boiling water? AIBU to introduce solids to said-same infant, on the advice of the midwife when she is 10 days old?

My mum did this with my sister in 1970. No wonder she had kidney problems.

With me - born five years later - she delayed weaning until the 'correct' time. I was given solids at 8 weeks!

AIBU to take the kids to the Lake District in a Robin Reliant with all our camping stuff packed to within three inches of the ceiling, and the kids lying flat between the stuff and the car ceiling?

(My parents didn't think that was at all odd).

AIBU to think a Vesta Meal is the height of sophistication?

AIBU to be suspicious about the colour of that prawn cocktail?

AIBU to be a bit cross when I found out that me DM, who has very generously offered to look after my DC 6 and 4 for the summer holidays for free, is actually leaving them with their 10 year old cousin babysitting for hours. I know she needs to go shopping, and they all sit happily watch Grange Hill, and it's safe than her sending them to the park, but still...
Also is my sister being unreasonable sending her 3 plus and of their cousins with the same 10 year old to the shops (10 minute walk) every Saturday to buy sweets, even though her two eldest try to murder each other every two minutes? It's fine though no one has been injured yet.

WIBU? To take my sixth form general studies group to the cinema in London to see Chariots of Fire? We went on a Saturday, no permission slips, and when the minibus wouldn't start we piled into my car, 8 students, two girls shared the passenger seat wearing the same seat belt to be safe, for squashed in the back, and two boys sat in the boot, I rolled the cover back. They did duck down when we went past a police car.

AIBU to rub brandy on the baby's gums when she's teething? My DM says it works a treat.

AIBU to let DD1 suck the wine cork like a dummy? It keeps her quiet and there's barely any risk of choking.

Following on from LauraMipsum

AIBU to give my 15 year old DD a miniature bottle with some brandy in it to take to school to "settle her stomach"

(Context: my Mum hardly ever drank and considered brandy to be for medicinal purposes)

I have been called a radical feminist for this, but I believe that if you slap a woman you shouldn't do it with a clenched fist, it's better to do it with an open hand. AIBU?

AIBU to read by new Christmas present torch under the covers after bedtime? And a couple of years later listen to Lux 381 on the tranny very quietly?

AIBU to knit my grandkids matching jumpers with goliwogs on them? And would Dd (their mum) BU to take a photo for the album of them proudly posing in them?

Yes, those grandkids were us! The photo has now been "lost" in an act of Stalinist historical revisionism by Dsis.

When my DD5 smashes her head open by falling onto rocks when we're staying in rural Wales, AIBU not to take her to hospital, because it's about an hour away, and we'd have to wait in a queue? She'll be fine if we just wash out the blood and put her to bed (on a towel, so she doesn't spoil the sheets with blood.)

(Obviously I survived, though I still have a little bald patch. I was wearing a brown smock (very '70s) and I remember the blood in the sink as I stood on a chair with my hair under the tap.)

AIBU to want to marry Shakin' Stevens? To be incensed that the girl across the road from me is called Julie and says "woh woh Julie" is Shakey singing to her!

To want to play my single "there's no one quite like grandma" over and over on Christmas Day at my nana's! It's 1980 and I'm the only granddaughter and the youngest at age 5, and I DEMAND we play it over and over and not let my cousins play the stupid cool for cats song or Adam and the ants!! Jeezo family it's st. Winifred's school choir for heavens sake!!!

AIBU to hate my sister's hand me down chipper? I want a chopper or a grifter with gears, all the other kids have got them.

Also AIBU hating wearing my sister's hand me down clothes? She is 9 years older than me and everyone laughs at my brown poncho.

Some of you are in the wrong decade (posts one and two) "Wireless" more 1950s! We did have transistor radios and colour TV!

However AIBU to think the police should have come out-my husband has broken my cheek-bone but they say it's a domestic?

AIBU to hate the office I work in being full of smoke when I am asthmatic-my manager says its my own problem.
Also AIBU to object to being dragged on to the blokes knees as I pass their desks and being called "miserable Alice" because I don't laugh?

AIBU to force my 16 year-old DD to have a perm-I hate her hair,its so lank and straight.

Ooh! and AIBU to love my brown and orange curtains and hessian wallpaper!

Aibu To really, really want a stylophone, endorsed by Rolf Harris, for Christmas?

Aibu To get fed up constantly dialling the same number over, and over again every Saturday, to try to do a swap on Swap Shop, and never getting through once? Or Aibu to not watch Tiswas is the first place?

Aibu to wear my deely boppers everywhere? They are very sparkly.

My chip pan is on fire. The kids are playing outside in the street. WIBU to bring them back in (leaving the burning chip pan unattended) to demonstrate to them how to put it out? It is a good teaching moment after all.

Dd is hyperactive and difficult. WIBU to send her to play at her friends house? His mum and dad are heavy cannabis smokers and she always comes back so calm.

AIBU to make my children matching outfits out of 'cloth kits'?

My wife's popped to the shop and left me in charge of our DD.

Some brat from up the street has thrown a brick at her head and cut it open. AIBU to clean it with some neat Dettol and cotton wool and send her back out to play.?

Would I then be U to stride up the street and tan the little brat's backside?

(The sight of my dad striding up the street with a look of pure fury on his face is one I will never forget. Little boy's backside was first tanned by my dad and then his own! No lasting damage was sustained to my head!)

Oh I forgot...

I sometimes babysit for my DGD. AIBU to give her coffee and cheddars for supper? It's proper filter coffee like we have in my home country not that instant muck.

And my Grandma wondered why I wouldn't sleep... I miss her. x

So many memories.
Cloth kits- they smelt funny too and were made of weird stiff material and looked awful.
I was dressed as a gypsy too once for my one and only birthday party. I think they blacked out a tooth for comic effect.
Horrible orange breadcrumbs on grilled fish.
Orange wallpaper with a raised sun design.
Formica.
Party lines on the telephone so you could hear other people's conversations.
Paxo stuffing ugh
Coming home from university and being told to wear an outfit of my mothers as they had been invited to dinner and jeans were unacceptably casual ( 1984 unbelievably)

But I would still never watch telly before 6pm and would never consider not making a roast chicken last four days, including stock from bones....

AIBU to get rid of these 1970s dated decor features? We can paint over those polystyrene ceiling tiles in a nice Apricot White silk emulsion and do Barley White on that wood effect cladding up the stairs.

I think woodchip wallpaper would look good too. Covers up all the uneven and crumbling walls and if the mould shows through you just repaint it. It will last for years.

Finally, what do you think if I paint all the woodwork, radiator and pipes in the kitchen in pillar box red gloss? It would go with the red handles on the units, red kettle, toaster, tea towel, washing up bowl.......

Also AIBU hating wearing my sister's hand me down clothes? She is 9 years older than me and everyone laughs at my brown poncho.

YANBU at all. I am still traumatised by being made to wear hand-me-down flares to a school trip, when everyone else was in drainpipes. (Apart from that, it was a great trip, down to the Nothe in Weymouth, doing lots of rock-pooling.)