AIBU mumsnet 100 years ago

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What would women be writing on here 100 years ago? What would have been their AIBU?
"I spend all morning whitening the step and my fucker of a DH comes back from the mine and treads coal dust all over it. AIBU to stop doing it, what would the neighbours think of me"
Or
"I am fed up of doing the washing on a Monday especially when the weather is bad. AIBU to do it on a Wednesday instead"

This lovely gentleman I know showed me this special pig-skin cover he uses for his intimates. He told me there would be no accidents. He was wrong and has since gone back to his division at thr front. HELP! I'm now with child and my mother has thrown me out. Has anyone else heard of the skin and what did I do wrong?

My husband and I are sending our PFB son to Eton. My eldest daughter feels this is unfair that she and her two sisters stay home and work with a governess. She wants to attend Cheltenham, Riedean, or St. Swithin's We had planned to give her a year of typing and domestic science at sixteen to finish her. Now the other two are clamoring attend a little establishment run by three sister in the village. Father and I might give in; the walk is only two miles each way.

Brasty’s post got me thinking. Not 100 years ago, but 60 a friend of my Mum’s gave birth to a wee boy with Down’s Syndrome. She was thrilled with her wee boy and getting ready to take him home when the midwife swept in and tried to take him saying, “oh there’s no point taking it home dear, it’ll go in a home.” At which point Mum’s friend told the midwife to fuck right off, that she and her son would be going home with her husband and to get her head out of the Middle Ages!

She died a few years ago but she was so awesome, even in a time when the neighbours blanked her, painted her windows so they wouldn’t have to see “it” and she was patronised by everyone, she did right by her child with little or no support. Her son died recently, he never recovered from the loss of his Mum.

My kids have autism, and I struggle with the level of prejudice and ignorance they face daily which is nothing in comparison to what this Mum faced, for 40 years.

My DD says she wants to study and win a Nobel prize like that frog woman Curie.
What can I tell her to discourage her? It will be a waste of all those piano and sewing lessons. Who'll marry her? I want grandchildren. And how will she raise them if she has any?

It's another parking one I'm afraid. My neighbours left their pony and trap across our driveway and the coalman couldn't get round to leave the coal, so now the scullery maid is saying she can't build up the fires. WIBU to send her with a wheelbarrow to the depot five and a half miles away to get an emergency stock to see us through the night? She's crying that it's late and she's tired after starting work at 4am this morning, but I don't think we should be required to do without heat and hot water until tomorrow.

One has become a Guide Leader and AIBU in thinking that my girls can do anything that the Scouts can do, yet their parents think it ungainly!

My PIL will be coming to stay with us over Christmas. Which is all well and good, but FIL insists on me and dd, MiL and SiL leaving the room the second we finish dessert so he and dh and dh's brother can sit for hours smoking cigars and drinking port. That leaves me entertaining MIL and SIL for hours and MIL then insists that dd recites and plays the piano. Dd hates it and MIL tells her off for being shy if she cries.

AIBU to insist dd has scarlet fever the day they arrive, rush her off to some handy seaside fever cottage somewhere, batten down the hatches and hide there until Christmas is over?