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 to want to be the Slimcea girl?

YABU

With Nimble you got a free balloon

Anyone remember Pippa Dee parties???

Probably much the same as now, nothing really changes, we just have evolution.

Should we join the eu?

What is the EU? We could join the EEC though.

AIBU to wear trousers to work in a customer-facing environment even though last time I did my male manager told me not to wear them again?

A fellow female teacher, about 1973, came to work in trousers and was told, in the staff room, by the Headmaster she couldn't teach in trousers, so she started to remove them. After that, no-one ever said anything else and we all wore trousers if we wished.
I was interviewed for a job in 1988 and apparently the Headmistress said to another person on the panel, Well, we can't have the one in trousers! Luckily, I wore a skirt so I get the job.

My manager said if we turn up to work in trousers we'll have to take them off. (1977)

The Pill! Hurrah! And my gp knows I'm not married, how can I get it? Will he tell my mum if I ask?

Should I tell DH-to-be that I had a baby I gave up for adoption?

AIBBU to think they shouldn't have changed the school leaving age? DS15 is not academic and was looking forward to starting earning, and the school has no clue about classes for him and his friends.

Where should I buy my going away outfit for after the wedding?

Worried about the Wedding Night

Should I wear white for the wedding? DM says I can't because of my past, but if I don't everyone will know.

AIBU to be excited about the end of rationing?

DH won't stop obsessing over the war

AIBU to think we're headed for a new ice age?

AIBU to be annoyed we're still in a prefab?

AIBU to think tinned fruit is better than fresh?

Hand hold please, DS has TB and is being sent away to a sanatorium for months.

AIBU to think leaving your baby in a pram outside the shop isn't a good idea? Everyone I know says I am.

AIBU to think you don't see red squirrels as often these days?

AIBU to be upset about Dr Beeching's railway cuts?

AIBU to think typing is a skill which will mean DD will never be out of work?

AIBU to think cassettes are better than old vinyl records?

AIBU to think you should have a bonfire for your rubbish?

AIBU to think Bill and Ben are a bit weird?

All the women's magazines had their Agony Aunts. Most people would write in with problems such as:
Should I let my boyfriend do more than kiss? Will he respect me if we go all the way? Should I get married? Help, I think I'm pregnant.
I told my boyfriend I'm pregnant and he's dumped me/I told my Dad I'm pregnant and he's kicked me out. The answer would be that the baby would have to be adopted.

My school had a a ROSLA block which stood for raising of the school leaving age schools must have had to build them to accommodate kids staying on until 16 I thought it was just an acronym invented by my school ,but dh,school different town also had a ROSLA block.

House for sale in Notting Hill. Should I invest in such a rundown area and is £20k too much to spend on a 4 bedroom house?

Yes you should.

This was actually my mum's best friend in the 1950s but they paid a lot less than £20k for it. It was this one:

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-7622607/amp/Pastel-pink-Notting-Hill-home-Denbigh-Terrace-listed-2-25m.html

AIBU, my husband forced me to make love the other night when he knew I wasn't feeling well. I talked to my sister about it and she said it's just something we have to put up with. It really hurt and I have bruises on my wrists, AIBU?

Some interfering busybody told me I shouldn't be sending my 9 year old to the shop for my fags. AIBU in just carrying on?

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

Where would we be reading this forum.

Would it be an ongoing discussion published in the newspaper, on a tv programme where people wrote or called in.

People forget how the only information available was either on the news, in a newspaper or from a library.

AIBU was discussed with friends and family who usually lived within a few mile radius.

Even if you were being perfectly reasonable you could be made out to be totally unreasonable because the only other people who you would discuss the subject with could have their own agenda.

AIBU to think theres nothing wrong with dressing my 6 year old DD up as one of those sexy rollerskating Martini waitresses off the adverts on telly for Halloween?

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.

@janemaster my grandmother did, she grew up in South America and had “people” but I don’t think she would have done in the UK. The Second World War put paid to most of the family men and all of the money and the girls of her generation ended up with no practical skills We’ve been pretty socially downwardly mobile ever since, but somewhere along the line I learnt to cook.
I get what you mean about convenience foods appearing lazy. My MiL (working class) cooks from scratch every night, even if it’s just her and FiL, all for appearance. But she does use instant coffee!

I'd have had a great one in the 1990s.

AIBU? My boyfriend and I have both got fulltime jobs paying £6000 a year and his parents have said he is getting £2700 for his birthday because some shares have matured and they have just had their endowment pay out.

I've seen a brand new block of flats being built in a nice area where I can catch the bus into work. The one bed flats overlooking a medieval church and pond are for sale at £18,000. I think it would be a great idea to buy one, especially as I've just found out I'm 15 weeks pregnant (I was still having periods so I didn't have any idea and the doctors have said it's too late to do anything about it), so we could buy it before I go on Maternity Leave and still be able to pay the mortgage on one salary until I go back to work.

BF has told me that he's not going to move out unless it's for either a house as good as the one his parents own - a four bedroom detached twenty minutes away - and as my mother doesn't want anything to do with me, I either have to move into his bedroom, complete with Whacky Races wallpaper or go down the council and tell them I want a house.

I was planning to talk to him again tonight, but he's just turned up in a knackered Mondeo that needs the head gasket replacing, four tyres, a new exhaust and says it's cost him three grand. And he's ordered a £750 telescope that he says is my birthday present to him.

AIBU to take a day off work and go down the council to say I need somewhere to live?

I was talking about working class and middle class culture in Britain in the 50s, 60's and even into the 70's a bit. I am sure people from other countries had different feelings around convenience food. Both my mum and my MIL cook/cooked mainly from scratch. Any convenience food was only to be used when things were totally hectic. But if you had the time, it was thought of as lazy to use prosucts like smash. My own mother used smash when camping, but would never have used it at any other time.

The idea of what is lazy is very cultural. Whether that is about how far you should walk before using transport, or child rearing or housework.

Is Metrocal a good weight loss solution? It says to have two a day and a sensible meal, but I bet I'll do better if I have three a day and skip the meal. There won't be any health risks at all.....

Is a knee length pencil skirt tarty?

Is the sponge reliable?

Should the abortion act be passed?

Should homosexuality be de criminalised?

AIBU to let dc watch television?

Is divorce immoral?

How do I use hoop sanitary towels?

AIBU to throw out my blankets and buy a duvet instead?

Do we really need an inside loo?

Is a 28 inch waist fat?

AIBU to send my 4 year old to walk to school alone?

I have a bad cough. DH says to quit smoking. I don’t want to AIBU?

AIBU to buy dcs more than 2 pairs of shoes?

Do I really need rouge?

80s.

The new weight loss sensation Ayds has disappeared off the shelves.

Does anyone know where I can find these sweet, little, chewy cubes?

Yup, marketing Ayds, just as AIDS started hitting the headlines was a masterstroke of timing.

I remember a girl in school trying Ayds

If I remember correctly you were supposed to have 2 cubes as a replacement meal each day.

Girl nibbled through 2 weeks supply doing her homework

How is everyone getting on with the Scarsdale Diet?

Where would we be reading this forum?

Ceefax

We would be reading this in the problem pages of Woman's Weekly, Woman's Realm, Petticoat (bit racy) or Jackie (teens).