If AIBU has been around during the blitz

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(Lighthearted)
If Aibu has been around what would have been posted? Would we really see the “blitz spirit” or more “ndn seems to have more rations than me - Aibu to report them”.

Aibu to think keyworkers should get extra rations ?

AIBU for feeling sorry for Hitler? Everyone’s so mean about him, when I’m sure it’s a case of MH issues, poor man. He needs help, not everybody saying horrible things.

AIBU tol think if Germany has invaded a country the local people should just get over it and move on? All this stuff about the Resistance- it must be so inconvenient to keep finding the railway lines and bridges brown up.

Sitting in the damp underground station each night has given me piles! Aibu to tell my family that I want to stay at home and take my chances there?
( I don't think so.. )
Those gas masks also
give me the rage!

Would it BU to ask my next door neighbour to take her picture of the interior of the Sistine Chapel down for the duration?

Three bloody times last week I had the nippers bundled into the Anderson shelter and was going back for the anti-macassers (they're heirlooms, you know) only to discover it was just her catching sight of the Michael Angelo and coming over all sensitive.

AIBU to object to the midwives calling my PFB Molotov? I’m sure he doesn’t look a bit like the Russian Foreign Minister.
(Happened to my mother when my eldest brother was born in Dublin in 1944. Has always been seen as being very funny by the family.)

AIBU to think Hitler shouldn't have annexed the Sudetenland and someone should really step in and stop him?

MN: YABVU and judgmental, he could have SEN.

"Aibu to tell you what I've heard about some terrible camps in the East? We need to do something!"

"YABVU to scaremonger and spread rumours and crazy conspiracy theories. Who would ever do such a thing! It's all made up!"

(which of course, it sadly wasn't made up - though many at the time did believe the rumours to be concocted stories, for how could you get so many to conspire in something so monstrous? But they did)

My darling boy has been conscripted! We have spent a fortune getting him into Oxford, it seems such a waste to cut short his education. I am heartbroken. He has been sent somewhere far away for basic training, and rumour has it he won't be allowed home for Christmas

AIBU to let the evacuees play out all day? I always give them bread and marg and they’re back before blackout?

Aibu to think jean next door is a slattern? So what if the air raids been on all night, no excuse for s dirty front step!

Aibu to think rationing is unfair? Ok NDN has 7 people living there, but theyre able to save for a bit of a roast each sunday wheras ive got to make do with pigging sausages?!

Aibu to think the RAF is quite a nice career for ds and encourage him? Better thsn crawling theough mud or leaping in the sea and surely airplanes are relatively safe?

Aibu to thrust crying baby at dh when he gets home off fire duty? Ive been listening to the caterwauling all evening, now its his go

I think dm is ridiculous. Sge reckons when dh is on leave from the army i should wait on him mornkng and nigjt. I should make sure the children are silent, he always has a beer or a cup of tea, his meals are delicious and he gets rest. Aibu to think stuff that? He csn hsve a nice dinner his first night back, then he csn help settle the baby and take the older ones to school while i nurse the newborn?

Aibu to not want mum here after ive given birth? Shell fiss, i just know she will. Shell make me eat fish and keep the fire on in mid july, and refuse to let me get up even for a wee! Id rsther it was me and dh

My 20 year old daughter wants to join the WAAF but I want her to work in the factory in our town so that she can live at home with me. I've heard all about those RAF chaps and I worry for her reputation.

“AIBU to fed up with this war? We spend every night in a damp, cold Anderson shelter, we’ve never got enough food (except that dreadful National loaf), and we’re all utterly miserable”

“YABVVVVU! Don’t you know people are DYING? There’s a war on in case you missed it, all of this is trying to SAVE LIVES. How can you be so selfish to be unhappy - just be grateful you’re not dead”

I can't wear a gas mask (because it'll be a bit hot and uncomfortable, and I'd rather not)

non-british here. What's an Anderson shelter?

Sorry everyone, my age is showing. Simply forgot to Google. :) and I'm not even that old...

Bomb shelter you could half bury in your back garden. When the air raid siren went off you'd decamp down there.

'AIBU' ?

I've found out my next door neighbour has been offering to collect rations and shopping for another blind and disabled neighbour........lovely except she's been taking away the best bits for herself and leaving them with scraps.

Aibu in thinking this is a twat move ??

(( This actually happened. It was one of my Nana's tales from the war. Her and a few others stepped in and made sure the guy was fed properly eventually ))

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Sorry everyone, my age is showing. Simply forgot to Google. :) and I'm not even that old...

I would accuse you of being an enemy spy, but I would get deleted for spy hunting.

😉

As an aside - my parents still habe an Anderson shelter (not theirs - came wit the house) at the bottom of the garden.

AIBU to think that my two primary aged girls can decide for themselves what to do if they're on the way to school when the siren sounds, i.e whether to find shelter by running home or running on to school, when bombs are about to fall on our area? We live near the shipyards and factories on the Clyde if that's relevant. Obviously I'm at home obsessively cleaning the house while they make their own way to school.

(This would have been my Granny's AIBU. My mum has told me about it around a thousand times.)

My kids' primary school head would have loved a visit to a local Anderson shelter!

Obsessive cleaning could have had its own section tbh.

Can I ask how often everybody washes their blackout curtains?

AIBU to think my 'D'H has behaved despicably by getting one of his drinking buddies who happens to be a doctor to give him a medical certificate saying he's unfit for military or other war service? He's only 30 something and he's never had any major health problems that I've known about. Obviously it would be tough for us if he did have to go off into the forces or a munitions factory, as we have two school aged children and I haven't worked outside the home since we got married, but I feel so ashamed that everyone else's husband is off and mine is still here carrying on with his non-essential job and subecting the children and me to his abuse when he rolls in blind drunk every night.

This is my other Granny's AIBU, sadly. A few years after the war she LTB, taking the children with her. He never paid a penny piece in maintenance and divorced her for desertion. I'm ashamed to share DNA with him. Fortunately my Dad turned out very well in spite of this awful role model in his early life.