It's September 1940 - AIBU to ignore the blackout regulations?

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I can't really see what all the fuss is about. I'm very busy, and it's such a performance to put up the blackout blinds every night. I can't believe the Luftwaffe will really be able to spot our town just from my table lamp glinting through the gap in the curtains, but when I said that to my neighbour she went mad. AIBU?

it's ok it doesn't apply to me or you cos we're special or something, ignore your paranoid neighbour it's all over exaggerated

That's what I thought, @lubeybooby. We're tired of experts, aren't we? I heard rumours about rationing coming in - come on! My hubby needs his fillet steak, and by hook or by crook he's going to get it.

Also, WIBU to eat all my meals at the canteen and sell my meat coupons to my next-door neighbour?

oh, and my kids are bored in the country so I'm going to get them to come home every weekend

I think the whole “war” thing has been exaggerated tbh.

People did ignore them, and got shouted at by the ARP.

I actually intercepted the post man and got everyone's ration books! I've got such full cupboards so me and my family will be just fine!

Of course it’ll be alright. You live in a “naice” part of the country surely? It won’t affect you.

I'm not digging up my lovely lawn, for that Anderson shelter thingy.

cross-post - I'll sell you my meat coupons when the time comes, @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

We’re hardly in a wartime situation. We’re just facing food/provision shortages due to greed.

Sept 1940 - I think this is probably more like the build up to Dunkirk.

We had the "phoney war" over the last few months.

I knew tough times in the Great War and survived. No one is going to tell me what to do. This snowflake generation needs to get a grip.

You guys do know that there is no 'war' right?
It's just a global conspiracy to restrict our lives and control us.
Honestly. Do your own research.

I’d rather die as a freeborn citizen doing the things that freeborn citizens do, than cower like a dog in a kennel because the Government has ordered me to do so. I won’t do it.

@fishonabicycle - priceless!

www.readersdigest.co.uk/food-drink/recipes/retro-recipes-10-thrifty-wartime-dishes

Well I will be ok as I am off to my second home in Guernsey, I can't see anything wrong with my plan.

Hey everyone, I heard it from a totes legit source - my nans cousins dogs sisters hairdressers next door neighbour is a cleaner at Downing Street - they're gonna bring the army home to lock us down from next week. Won't even be allowed out to that Anderson shelter thing without a fine for £25, 8s & 4d; so no need to dig up your lawn, Jacki

Fgs this is nothing like the war. For a start your life isn’t likely at risk, you’re not going to be conscripted to fight for your country or have your kids sent abroad on a ship.

There are food shortages because of people’s selfishness.

Oh and this belongs in that topic intended for such hysteria.

My cousins friend told me there is no war, it’s all a plot to get us under the government’s control. I’m not falling for it, not me....

[I can't claim the credit for my last post - I copied and pasted it from Twitter, where a Conservative woman posted it last night - it's gone down like a lead balloon, as you might imagine ...]

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