To not have bunting up?

[Magicra84]

Neighbour a few doors down has put up some plastic bunting in hers and and her next door neighbour's garden. I don't mind it at all but when she came to me and asked if I wanted some up and I turned it down she took great offence and questioned why. I told her the truth I don't want it in my garden because my garden is the one place that looks nice and plastic bunting will make it look untidy for me. I just don't want it to be honest.

Well, she said I was a spoil sport and had a go at me for not being a part of the community and she had also noticed I don't clap on Thursdays. I just tilted my head confused and told her I was going to leave her to enjoy the rest of the day. She flounced off and slammed my gate. Aibu to think she's a cf?

Sounds like a weirdo. Imagine her cats-bum face on Poppy Day.

I don't do anything that local busybodies demand that I do.

Especially clapping on Thursdays.

I have a shit tonne of bunting up, balloons, and 2 banners.
But YADNBU.
Noone should bully others like that.

I'd have strung her up with her fucking bunting.

We've had bunting up for weeks - just hearts the kids decorated and made when bored a few weeks ago and nothing to do with VE Day. Neighbours complained it was up in our window. Neighbours complained the kids had a rainbow in their window.

Neighbours now have bunting out the backside.

We don't clap either - I've given up with the arses around here.

It is odd to think that men and women died so she could be offended at your lack of plastic bunting
TBH I don't blame you - it's cheap and tacky and someone has to take the shitty stuff down at some point and shove it into landfill.

...and VE day was not the end of WW2, so for some weird reason we're "celebrating" the wrong day.

We’re still in lockdown aren’t we? Why is she knocking on your door uninvited for such a silly and unnecessary reason? You handled it well. Is she celebrating VE Day to commemorate the end of WW2 or just to virtue signal and feel superior to her neighbours?

Well I'm pleased I don't live near some of you!
We've got the bunting up and so has most of the village. It's lovely.
My 5 year old is really interested in ww2, especially since he found out his great grandad fought in it. He's asked if he can wear his medals tomorrow 😍

This thread has made me want to start frantically making some bunting.

"I'd have strung her up with her fucking bunting".

🙄

I am an EU citizen and naturalised Brit and I thought oh why not, it’s a friendly thing, we’ll take part, show our faces on the street. And then I just saw a post on a local Facebook group by someone with an abundance of Union jacks and asking people to celebrate ‘our victory in Europe’. That put me right off!!

asking people to celebrate ‘our victory in Europe’. That put me right off!!

VE does stand for victory in Europe to be fair.

Maybe you should put some bunting up after all...

Had a email from next door Neighbour, which dropped the fact she'd noticed we'd not been out clapping... we've had issues with her over the years, I've chosen to ignore this latest thing. Virtue signaling is not me.

Near me it's England flags all over houses, because England won the war hmm

^^
Now I’ve heard it all!

I might put up some pirate bunting, as that’s what I have in the house. I’m in favour of celebrating peace, but I don’t like the way some people have gone about this. Both the prescribed nature of their celebrations, and the fact they seem to be co-opting it for right wing, divisive agendas when it should be the opposite.

Near me it's England flags all over houses, because England won the war
@HeyBlaby odds are that they happened to have them in the house anyway after whatever the last football tournament was. By your logic though, they shouldn't put up Union Flags either because that doesn't recognise the contribution made by the US, ANZACs, Canadians, Free French, Free Polish, other parts of the Empire etc... I'll leave off the USSR as they were quite happy to cooperate to start with.

Alsohuman, maybe I need to be born British to understand this. I am happy to celebrate the anniversary of the end of the second world war and the victory over fascism. But to call it ‘our victory in Europe’ framed by a sea of union jacks just sounds nationalistic to me!

Ours are lazy fuckers who never took the England flags down from the last World Cup to be fair.

Totally agree about union flags but it’s been VE Day for 75 years. Is it the “our” that upsets you? If so, I get that.

I have bunting. My grandfather's aunts and uncles all died in concentration camps.

We have been leafletted by neighbours today, urging us to enjoy “a bit of celebration in these times”. My FIL died this week. We are happy for anyone who wants to hang bunting etc. to do what they like, but wish they would just do it without publicising and cajoling. We don’t need this forced jollity just now

We have a Royal Ensign flag on the flagpole as a villager is a ninety something commodore and has our respect. We won’t be doing the whole fandango but the children down the road may make bunting and I’ll drop a cream tea off to a few elderly neighbours. We might get the flypast depending on the route over the Downs.

@mimbleandlittlemy your Mother sounds brilliant!! Wish her happy birthday