If AIBU has been around during the blitz

[briebuiltthiscity]

(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”.

Can I ask how often everybody washes their blackout curtains?

Never! The blacker the better, surely?

Aibu not to take up smoking. I’ve just turned 14 and was a bundle of nerves. My mother took me to the doctor, because I have to join the land army soon. The doctor offered me a cigarette to calm my nerves but I’ve always hated them. He then told me off for “being a little girl” and “don’t I want to look like a movie star?”.

I really can’t get on with it. I know it’s supposed to be good for my chest but it makes me cough and feel awfully sick. I can’t even stand the ashtray smell.

@SallySeven I always suggested my dad take people round and charge them a quid each

@dentydown just stay with it... honestly those cigarettes will calm those nerves in time.

@MitziK love the Pevenseys reference!

How about another one based in reality?

AIBU to bring my children back from evacuation?

No bombs have landed, I miss them and I don't see what business we have interfering with Germany's doings. My friend says it's all a Communist plot to steal our children and put us to work and DH doesn't like the idea of what I could be getting up to without them to look after at night, especially as I'm out at work around men all the time.

My sister says I'm being daft and bombing could start at any time, especially as we live near an important rail line and they're safer staying where they are, rather than bringing them back home. But they've been gone months without anything happening at all and DH wants me to go and get them next weekend, so they're home for Little Jack's birthday on 6th September and I want to cuddle Baby Patricia again before she forgets who I am.

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?!

YABVVVVU. First of all, it's none of your damn business what the NDN is doing.
Secondly, how much are you eating? I could make one sausage feed my family for a week. Maybe if you didn't eat so much you'd also be able to save for a bit of a roast on a Sunday which would then be sufficient for 2 weeks.
If everyone goes on like you, there'll be a serious obesity problem in this country in 30 or 40 years time.
You should be ashamed of yourself.

What happened @MitziK?

WTAF I just took the kiddies to our local beach to build sandcastles and was turned away by a soldier. They have ruined the beach with barbed wire and hideous concrete pillboxes.

I am as patriotic as the next person but this boils my piss. We haven’t even had a holiday due to petrol rationing and now they are destroying innocent childhoods with their scaremongering.

Anyone else think this talk of invasion is overhyped?

Also, there are no domestic servants available. They’ve all gone to work in the factories or joined up. How can I manage without a maid or a cook or a gardener? Madness.

Tea 😂😂

This thread is

Would you fucking believe it, no sooner have we finished quarantining for measles than little Reginald has got whooping cough. And don’t talk to me about chicken pox, been there done that. I did send Reginald to a mumps party though, because it’s good for boys to get that over with.

Luckily there are no polio outbreaks near us at the moment, because my health anxiety is through the fucking roof.

And WTF is a 'snoek' and what is it doing in a tin? It tastes like engine oil mixed with fish paste.

I dont get it. Is this meant to be funny.

Yes Geron it's a light hearted thread with supposedly first world problems people might have posted about during the blitz if MN was around.

It's a slippery slope this. The blitz - war generally, WWII especially - isn't funny. I'm not sure a terrible event that killed millions is a good subject for humour. It's not much different to saying "what if they'd had AIBU in Auschwitz."

(I admit I'm the first person to roll their eyes when some idiot proclaims "rape jokes are never funny" - so maybe I'm a hypocrite.)

Yes, war is funny, if you come from a country that has a tradition of using humour as a coping mechanism.

Rape jokes on the other hand are awful: because whereas WWII is behind us, rape is an everyday occurrence still in our society.

In short YABVU to complain about this but think rape jokes are fair game.

@contrymary
The war is not the butt of the joke here.

My nana and grampa would have found this funny. Have none of you whiners ever tapped into the rich seam of British WW2 comedy before? Not seen Dad's Army? Allo Allo? If that's too lowbrow for you, academics haven't ignored this- socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/keep-smiling-through-british-humour-and-the-second-world-war/

If people of the AIBU frame of mind were around during WW2 we'd lost.

...we'd have lost.

WW2 isn't behind us. My mother never knew her father. She has never recovered.

If you don't like the thread there are loads more to read. Don't try to police other people's sense of humour. Some of the greatest comedy came out of the war from people who actually experienced it so not everyone sees things the same way.

@contrmary

It's a slippery slope this. The blitz - war generally, WWII especially - isn't funny. I'm not sure a terrible event that killed millions is a good subject for humour. It's not much different to saying "what if they'd had AIBU in Auschwitz."

(I admit I'm the first person to roll their eyes when some idiot proclaims "rape jokes are never funny" - so maybe I'm a hypocrite.)

Yeah I think that probably does make you a hypocrite.