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

AIBU? DH has just placed a donkey cigarette holder in the living room, you pull it’s ears and it lifts it’s tail and a cigarette comes out it’s arse. I think it is tacky and needs to go in the shed, DH loves it and wants it in the living room.

Heavens, I realise I've actually been to a Pippa Dee party ... I can even remember what I bought! (In tango and turquoise nylon, as you ask.)

However, how much Sanatogen Tonic Wine is too much?
How do I get the lumps out of my Cadbury's Smash?
My husband works for a bank that doesn't allow its employees' wives to have jobs. Is this fair when I want to earn some pin-money? (Yes, this was a thing!)

Why are stocking-tights so expensive at 19s6d when stockings cost just half a crown?
My MIL thinks I'm common as muck because I don't wear a hat and gloves to put out the bins.
I'd love a Babycham! But AIBU to hide the empty bottles?
AIBU to rip out the original fireplace in the drawing room and slap Artex on every ceiling? DH hasn't lifted a finger since he carpeted the bathroom and put up Anaglypta throughout.
Should Margaret be allowed to marry Peter Townsend?

Should I use newspaper or Izal "toilet" paper to wipe my arse when I go to the toilet in my garden?

I've just eaten a whole box of Maltesers. Are they really the chocolates with the less fattening centre?

My neighbour Abigail has invited me to her party. Don't say it's an invitation because I know it's a summons. What should I wear? Is my Crimplene hostess gown smart enough?

Actually, if anyone is really interested in the Mumsnet of the past, there is a brilliant book called Can Any Mother Help Me? Can't remember who wrote it but it's the real-life history of a supportive mums' group conducted via snail-mail round robin letters.

I was STILL being told to wear skirts or dresses at work in the NINETIES!

Been watching NCIS recently - pre iPhone phones and McGee and Abby being very impressed with any computer/device that can handle more than 4-8 gb of memory! My PHONE has 32gb now!

Tech is moving on SO fast.

My SIL uses smash instead of mashed potato. AIBU to think she is lazy and a terrible cook? The answer would have been mainly yes.

These new carpet tiles are great, ruin one and you can just replace it...

And my kitchen Flotex carpet means no spills ever stain, they just float on the surface!

AIBU to look forward to my week in hospital after I give birth? I know I will have my baby but she will be being looked after in the nursery. I really need a break from my twins.

AIBU to look forward to my week in hospital after I give birth? Only a week? You are being short changed, I had 10 days. (true 1980)

My SIL uses smash instead of mashed potato. AIBU to think she is lazy and a terrible cook? The answer would have been mainly yes.

Your SiL is a modern woman who is benefiting from technological advances to bring some labour saving into her life, so she is free to do something else.

AiBU to use powdered ice-cream that you make yourself?
AiBU to want my grandma who uses a wheelchair to get one of those single driver blue mobility cars?
I wanted a furry bin cover for my bedroom but my said no. She also refuses to let me have a gonk! Who is BU?

@BikeRunSki I remember reading about the marketing of instant coffee. Research around its failure to take off was that the main issue was that most woman though buying instant coffee was a sign of a lazy woman. The marketing had to be carefully geared to overcome that idea.

@janemaster, my GM had “staff” before WW2 and was not a good cook, subsequently DM never learnt to coolZ the women in my family embraced instant coffee, Smash, Jus Rol, Vesta curries and every convenience food tech could throw at them.

(I am a self taught home cook, and cook the majority of our meals from scratch. Nothing fancy, but fresh).

Aibu in joining a Baby sitting Circle ?

It was 1944, @x2boys.

@BikeRunSki It sounds like you come from a very different class to me. Working class and lower middle class people saw these goods as being lazy. But then if MN is right they also keep their houses much cleaner.

Should I iron flared jeans with a crease, or flatten them sideways?

AIBU to think that MIL should have asked me before buying my four DCs all the same Christmas presents again? Last year it was chopper bikes, and this year it's space hoppers. Where does she think we can store them in our tiny flat?

Are Chefs Square-Shaped soups ok if you are on a diet? Should I just water them down a bit more?

How do I stop my vol-au-vents from getting soggy bottoms?

All those new-fangled things on Tomorrows World - they make them up, don't they? I mean, how can you possibly feed a sheet of paper into a machine and send it by telephone to somebody else???!!!

@x2boys

Am.I unreasonable to send mysmall.childto the shop with a note to buy a packet of my favourite cigarettes ? My mum never did this but dh, did.

We did this! And a bottle of rum for my grandma.

And my mum said (in the 50s) some of her friends took notes to the grocer saying "4 carrots" and my mum was always baffled that they needed it writing down as it wasn't much to remember. Turns out the grocer was also a back-street bookie for all the local housewives and the other side of the paper would have the name of the horses they wanted to bet on!

AIBU to think an avocado bathroom suite wont date?

Would I be right in thinking that Nimble, Slimcia etc have half the calories per slice because they are half the *fucking size?^

1950s - I've got top grades in all my O-levels and want to stay on for sixth form. My parents are really worried that grammar has given me ideas above my station and want me to get a little job before I get married.

60s This guy took me on a date to an Indian restaurant - so exotic! They wouldn't let me in because I was wearing a velvet jumpsuit. WIBU to go to the ladies and cut off the legs to turn it into a mini-dress? DP was embarrassed but that's just because they made him borrow a kipper tie.

My mum said she'd disown me if I ever went out with a Catholic. I've met this lovely guy but he's both a lapsed Catholic and American. I've got a great job offer in America. WIBU to move to America and get married and not mention him until 8 years later when we move back to England and I'm about to give birth?

70s The midwife told me my premature baby won't live through the night if I don't get her baptised. AIBU telling her to get stuffed?

They say my baby will be blind, deaf and be brain damaged. I'm sure she can see. AIBU not putting her into a Home and forgetting about her? (kid has perfect eyesight, some hearing, and went to Oxbridge)

The local schools won't take my child because she's pretty deaf and a bit wobbly. The council say I need to send her to boarding school two hours away. She's only four! I tried saying she could read and wouldn't be any trouble, but apparently they don't like that as parents always teach them 'wrong'! I didn't teach her! What do I do??

AIBU to want to be the Slimcea girl ?

Should we join the eu?