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 that Eva must live in somewhat of a guilded cage and feel sorry for her”?

@chomalungma he sounds somewhat of an enigma. I’d steer clear and marry a nice soldier instead

Worried about being bombed on? Just move to a detached house in the country.

@dancinfeet

My next door neighbour (lets call her Ethel) has just had a baby, that she has named Karen. AIBU to think that these new fangled names make it sound like she is being pretentious- why couldn't she name the child something sensible like Brenda or Betty?

This reminds me of a conversation someone I know had in the early 50s:

Lady to young mother: "ooh what's his name?"

Young mother: "Matthew"

Lady: "How lovely, my daughter's called her new baby Barry! (spat with disgust)

@LaMarschallin

I was a bit worried in the corner shop today. A few of us were having a bit of a chinwag (as you do, while you're queuing for so long) and started larking about, wondering what it would have been like if we'd had the BBC Home Service during the Great Plague. You know - making jokes to keep our spirits up in a difficult time.

Then someone comes in and tells us the Great Plague was No Laughing Matter and we'd be better off making jokes about grapes or something (not sure I heard that bit properly).

Well! Cast a bit of dampener on the chat, I can tell you!

But now I think about it, could it have been one of those Fifth Columnists waging a secret war on the Great British Sense of Humour to lower our morale?

@LaMarschallin

AIBU to use sugar water as a setting lotion for my hair?

It holds the pincurls a treat but does tend to attract wasps.

(as related by my mother about a friend of hers)

Just received a letter from my DH who is fighting with the American Forces...His letter was quite newsy. The troops had captured a young German soldier called Hans who they all came to enjoy having around...they taught him how to speak English and how to drive so he could chauffeur the officers about. Turns out young Hans was very observant as he worked out that the trains that brought generous food supplies for the soldiers were empty when they left the camp after the delivery the next day. One morning when roll was called for the prisoners, Hans was nowhere to be found!!! It seems that Hans had escaped by cutting a hole in the flooring of the train car, stuffing in as much food as he could and away he went before daylight when the train pulled out. Hans was very proud of himself except that he had not thought about how he would manage to go to the loo whilst still on the train.....don't know how long it took to get to Bonn, but when the train stopped there one night Hans jumped out of the train car and ran all the way home. The only thing that young Hans regretted was that he had left lots of food behind on the train because when he arrived home he realized people were starving because no food could get through to them.
Hans says the Allied troops were very kind to him and he wishes he had stayed at the prison where he could feast on chocolate, meats and vegetables.
true story told to me by my lovely friend Hans, in 1988

These are hilarious and heartwarming all at once 💐

I don’t think you can compare the two, there was the black market so those who could afford it got extra.

Crime skyrocketed during the blitz the blitz spirit was propaganda

Gravy powder works better than tea for your legs.

THIS

I can't believe you pathetic virtue-signallers are being so harsh about Hitler and hoping he dies just because he happens to have views that are different from yours."

"I really like Hitler, yes he's made some mistakes but he's a honest bloke and you know what he stands for."

"The Holocaust is clearly a hoax, here's some YouTube videos to prove it."

"Those six million Jews were executed LEGALLY on the orders of the German government. Can't believe you're suggesting people disobey the government!"

"We don't know what those six million Jews did to be sentenced to death, lots of rumours about them hoarding money and eating babies. I'm not saying whether the Nazis were right or wrong to kill them, just that all the facts aren't in."

I can't fathom why my in-laws won't hand over their ration books to me so I can feed their Grandchilden. Their other Grandchilden can be fed by their mothers' families - and I know those with men in the Services get treated better - it's different for me. My parents should not feel they have to step-in afterall, I was "given away"!!!

Anyway, I know how hard my parents are finding it just feeding the in-house Labradors let alone the Hounds! The cheek of the Butcher! Bones are for stock, not for [inappropriately named Dogs]. Power goes to the head of the lower classes very quickly. As for the tenants moaning about raised rents - don't they know there's a War on?

I'm SURE my in-laws are stockpiling (and may tell the authorities). I accidentally fell into their larder, injured myself and had to go through the shelves in order to find some leverage to get myself out. I found a tin of pineapple plus some blown tins of SPAM from the Great War. God knows what I would have discovered had I not been rescued. I had to tell my MIL off because I couldn't find any baskets or net shopping bags. Doesn't she know there's a war on? Luckily, I managed to grab a "Pinny" (alas, not one with two pockets) so was able to save the pineapple.

My two BIL are overseas so why hoard stuff for them? They're probably having a whale of a time in Singapore / North Africa; haven't heard about whereabouts for a while.*

My DH has a very important job with a Bank and was declared unfit for active service due to flat feet (signed off by my darling DF 😉).

BTW. I just think PIL's are being selfish - they're in London by the river and bound to be bombed out soon so why not plan ahead?

I know this sounds as IBU but surely they would want to ensure their Grandchilden are well fed? They're in their fifties so shouldn't need so much food anyway.

My darling boy was so upset when I couldn't give him an egg to undertake an experiment (from an old textbook) - which would would have involved him launching it from an upstairs window - that he tried to utilise next door's kitten. We did manage to avoid any unpleasantness - they didn't seemed to be assured that my Darling Boy had a sure fire plan up his sleeve to deliver kitten safely to the ground. Needless to say, my DS was so upset he couldn't clarify his plan.

Don't the neighbours know there's a war on? More to the point, there wouldn't have been an issue if my PIL's let me have their ration books hence egg, in the first place.

Luckily, we're still getting concentrated, tinned Orange Juice as part of the baby's vitamin C rations so able to still have a civilised Gin of an evening!

obviously don't have their ration books - army looks after them (we should be so lucky) but I KNOW they're saving sugar AND flour to bake a cake in the unlikely event they return - I won't be lending an egg or compensating them for the previously willingly handed over / donated eggs, dried egg, sugar, butter, lard, meat etc. I've had to beg off them for real* occasions - like my birthday).

Also, I offered to look after MIL jewellery and was rebuffed when I said no point in storing in DH Bank's Safety Deposit Box; obviously my DD would want to play with bits and pieces including the Tiara and I know I lost that emerald ring which ended up in a Pawn shop coincidentally the same time when I had an unfortunate casinobill to pay but at least FIL was able to buy back!

Don't people understand there's a war on?
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