If AIBU existed in the 50's, 60's, 70's

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What imaginary topics would we be discussing?

Bit of fun

@Itsonlymeeee that's no problem transporting the children that way; make sure the windows are kept tight shut and you're both smoking as well!

@spongejack that's exactly how they did it! 😂 😂 😂

@Itsonlymeeee I know! The only good thing that came from that is that I absolutely hated smoking, due to that type of thing!

I remember families doing long journeys to go on holiday and boasting about how easy it was because they made up beds for the kids who slept the whole way.
But YABU to go to a service station and get a cup of tea. Just make up a nice flask and sit in the car in the service station and drink that instead. Much cheaper.

feefsie
That's absolutely spot on.
My DM drank barley wine all through her pregnancy with me because she thought it sounded healthy seriously !!!!!

AIBU to smoke 10 a day while pregnant? My friends tell me it'll help keep the baby small= easier birth but the new lady GP at the surgery has told me that I should stop completely! She is English ( we're in Ireland) so that might be why she's so bossy/thinks she knows it all/thinks she is better than the rest of us.
She's also muttering on about breastfeeding when baby is born! Have already told her there's no way THATs happening.
She then asked me if I drank much, I hardly do. - racist cow, thinking all Irish people drink loads - so I put her straight on that one.

Can hardly understand what she's saying half the time anyway, she's from "surry' wherever that is and sounds like the fecking Queen Mother.

AIBU to boil my new tights in a saucepan with ground coffee beans in the hopes they would turn fluorescent green? It's the 1950s.

I did. They did. I was there

Is it acceptable to use tea bags to tan my legs ?

AIBU for sneaking home from school and secretly reading my mums SHE Magazine - and the Dr David Devlin sex problem pages before my mum gets home?

Help, my DH is obsessed with amateur electronics and wants to invest our money in some crank hippy company from California that sells “home computers”.

AIBU to be embarrassed that my parents don't have a fondue set?

@GeistohneGrenzen Seriously, did you do this? I'd love to know how, having mentally outgrown a box of dreary tan tights and wishing they were hi-vis green!

WHO shot JR

I'm due to leave school soon and I want to further my education. My mother told me that education is wasted on girls as they just go off and get married and have babies, so I need to get a woman's job, such as in a shop.

I wear stockings, but my neighbour showed me an amazing item called tights. They look just like my stockings but without the faff.
My husband says they look like a bloody one way system and is worried that he won't be able to have his conjugal rights if I don't take them off at bedtime.

My neighbour has just taken delivery of an automatic washing machine. AIBU to be green with envy?

Bath night- which is reasonable.
Drinking up time in pubs only being ten minutes.
Summer holiday landladies rules.

@RossPoldarkFan

AIBU to be annoyed that the cheapest flat we can find is £10k but the building society will only lend us £5k and the interest rate is 12% and rising.

And you have to wait three months to get the loan as they have already allocated all their mortgage budget until then. And no, you can't go to another building society as you can only be considered for a mortgage from a society that you have been saving with for over a year.

90s
Just heard on the news that the bank rate has gone up to 15%. Good job we locked in a fixed mortgage rate of just 8.99% for 10 years. AIBU to think that we are very financially astute and this will save us a fortune.
2 years later we cancelled the fixed rate, paid the penalty and paid nowhere near 8% for the rest of the mortgage term.

50s
AIBU to not let my children use the public paddling pool in the park? I have heard that you can catch polio from swimming pools, and I am worried that the new vaccine might not be safe.

AIBU to leave my kids, 1 and 5, alone til 4am on a Saturday night while we go to a party at the neighbours? We do it most weekends, so does everyone else, but the dads take it in turns to go round the houses every few hours to listen for crying so it's fine.
My DS ( childless, works in social services, bit of a busy body) thinks we shouldn't.
She also says when it's our turn to host we should clean up the mess BEFORE we go to bed! At 4am! Cos it's not nice for the kids to come down to full ashtrays and half drunk beers and glasses of Vodka and coke and remains of food everywhere. I told her they don't mind, they can get up and watch cartoons all morning and eat as many biscuits as they like cos we don't get up til about noon.
Judgy cow. It's 1978 not the bloody 1950s!

My nine year old is going to a fancy dress party and we’ve had a brilliant idea for a simple but sophisticated costume: a bunny girl from the Playboy club. She knows all about them because her dad’s a member. Should I be worried that she’ll be making her friends jealous as they turn up in their sad clown outfits yet again?

@DontTellThemYourNamePike

Findus crispy pancakes - oven or grill? Not sure if these sneaked into the tail end of the seventies. Do I need a hostess trolley? Home made vol au vents - AIBU to use Campbell's condensed soup?

Much earlier, OH loved them in the early 70s, Findus pancakes that is. Campbells soup could be used in all sorts of ways, other than as soup, it was a decent base for stuffed olives, OH's go to when he was doing dinner. I used to serve guests cream of chicken with tiny sliced mushroom in, a teaspoon of paprika and a glug of white wine. A bit of something green and a swirl of cream, voila!

@Lincslady53

50s AIBU to not let my children use the public paddling pool in the park? I have heard that you can catch polio from swimming pools, and I am worried that the new vaccine might not be safe.

1950s, what shall I do with all the shells my children bring home, the military sort, not from the beach?

@squeaver

AIBU to say no to yet another invitation to a Tupperware party?

I want to have more children but my GP says 31 is too old to have any more and wants to put me on the pill (my mum's experience in 1971).

AIBU to give my kids half a valium each on Christmas Eve (my experience in the 70s).

I read that as saying 31 is enough children!

@Rosehip10

How many bottles of blue nunn should I get for my suburban party?

And how big a bowl do I need for the car keys?