AIBU to be in love with my adoptive brother?

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Sorry for the clickbait title - this is actually just a fun thread.

Take the plot of a book and turn it into a AIBU

I'll start.

AIBU to want to marry my adoptive brother that my dad found somewhere and instead of just doing it, acting like a total bitch to him and everyone else even after I'd died?

You have been reading fan ideas on Facebook about Lord of the Rings! 😁

I really hate my mum for having decided what name to give me by asking a bunch of strangers on Mumsnet to say which name was better between Fred and an unwieldy Biblical name that people often mis-spell, They told her to choose the unwieldy one and all my peer group laugh at it. Would I be unreasonable to run away from home and sign up to serve on a whaling ship?

Oh I’ve met her little sister; don’t worry, she’s more than capable of looking out for herself!

You do that Ishmael, I think you will quickly rise to great heights. Just try to keep a balance between hunting for whales and hunting for revenge……

Go for it. I’ve heard they do good coffee.

What is it? (Always looking for recommendations.)

The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. It's also a film.

Thanks. I’m an idiot - already read it but didn’t recognise it!

I'd give it a bit of time, you never know, the boss might have a total change of heart and decide to give you a full Christmas dinner.

Go for it. If your DD runs away and catches some near-fatal illness, the proprietor's sister will sing to her and make her better. In later life your DD will no doubt marry a doctor and have hordes of children and send her daughters to the same school.

Not an idiot at all! Been a great thread for reading inspiration though :D

I always thought the adult Jo was an unpleasant goody-goody.

Totally go for it. Despite crowding together in very cold conditions a whole bunch of girls who are only in the vicinity because they're a close family member of someone who has TB, and/or at risk of developing it themselves, magically no one at the CS (or the 'delicate girls' Annexe) ever actually gets TB, despite continually running away/falling into lakes etc. Presumably because that would make Dr Jem, Jack and the rest of the heroic team, look fallible, when what they should be doing is marrying CS old girls right left and centre.

She became absolutely dreadful. Disappointingly, no 'difficult' girl ever arrived at the Swiss CS said 'No, I don't want to go to tea with that swivel-eyed loon with the earphones, and I'm more into HP Lovecraft than school stories, thanks. And I'm fine with my hair and name just as they are.'

Quite! (And I was always uneasy that saying a prayer would apparently always result in the desired outcome.)

Clearly there were a lot of CS girls kneeling in their cubicles sending up 'Send me a doctor who will impregnate me annually and drug me in a lordly way if I'm ever mildly upset about something, like falling into a packing case!' prayers.

Talking of schools -

I have six daughters and two sons. My DH is in the navy and away a lot of the time, oldest son is also in the navy, oldest daughter gave up her place at Oxford to marry an academic. We live on a farm my DH inherited and which second DD runs. All the girls have been to the same boarding school, youngest DS is also in a boarding school. I am a SAHM but spend a lot of time riding, and of course we have staff to help with the house.

The problem is that money is getting a bit tight and it would really help to lose at least one batch of school fees. Third and fourth DDs are working for GCSEs and A levels, fifth and sixth DDs are twins. Youngest twin is an aspiring actor and a bit ditsy so probably needs to stay where she is, plus I don't think I could cope with the tantrums if I made her leave. Older twin is more sensible and would make less of a fuss about it, but it seems a bit mean to use that as an reason for picking her to be the one to leave. WIBU to go for older twin anyway as the least troublesome option?

Very mean. Let Nicola stay where she is with friends. She's always giving way to Lawrie for an easy life, so this time stand up for her.

So I live in a big house and every night my DH goes out the electricity plays up and I hear noises in the roof. Also I put things away and when I go to get them they have disappeared. My Dh thinks I need a doctor. AIbu to think Im going mad.

Well, if you hadn't mentioned electricity I would definitely think you were being gaslighted!

"Send me a doctor who will impregnate me annually"

I need to get new glasses!

I have a kid sister, who is, like SO annoying, she’s always telling lies but for some reason everyone thinks it’s cute. Like, for example, she does that thing where she pretends the cat is talking “oh Dinah says we didn’t give her any milk!” Plus I’m always having to babysit her, like, I’ve got better things to do than listen to her fairy tales?

I was reading, studying actually, I do have homework to do, and she fell asleep next to me and started snoring lol, I was like WTF and then threw some leaves at her. The brat then complains about me, but I was only like trying to shut up her snoring!

TBH she just thinks she’s so special, like we have an old family friend who comes to ‘play’ with us (what a creep, he’s got to be at least 50) and she’s always like sucking up to him and stuff. WIBU to push her in the river next time he takes us punting (not a euphemism) ?

I think that would be mean Alice, if I were you I would go off for a little walk to cool down, watch your step though , the rabbits round here dig huge holes and if you don’t look where you are going you might……. Alice? Alice, where are you? A………lice!

Sorry Mr D, I can’t find her, she was here a minute ago. A photograph? Of me! Oh yes please. How very exciting

I would move heaven and earth to fix this for my girl, how cn you say she's pretty apart from that 🙄 Be a parent.

In my RL persona I've always wondered about the Marlow finances, given that they had this financial crisis at the point when they had on a mere five children in boarding schools and it's not that long since they had seven. They must really have been very well off given that, at today's prices, fees for seven children would have come to around £80-100K a term.