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She sold her lightbulbs so she didn't accidentally turn them on . Sold her sons shoes also and lived two winters without being able to put her heating on. Meanwhile maintained a good relationship with the father of her child and her well off landlord parents who lived nearby and presumably did nothing

But the last thing she sold was her professional photography equipment (because that's more important than heating or light), and she chose to sell it for 10% of what it was worth after holding on for it for so long. But a few years later when she was selling her own prints for £18 she was able to heal the hole in her heart from selling the photography stuff.

I could go on and on about jack
 
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I remember when Jack Monroe was first in tbe public eye and I knew instantly she was full of shit (as I'm sure anyone who has lived in actual poverty in any form can tell) and was amazed that the public bought her bullshit, particularly as she lacks any ability to actually cook. The idea that someone would give up a £30k+ plus job (that her dad got her) to have a baby with someone she was allegedly on good terms with but who wasn't contributing anything financially or in terms of childcare, to live on a tenner a week, despite having wealthy parents. Pull the other one petal.

She's a textbook personality disorder.
 
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we do hence 212 threads since 2020
 
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Not only should MPs have to declare their financial interests, but those of the generations above them on both sides (husband and wife or wife and wife etc).

Jack’s dad inherited a rental property and the money from the sale of a LOT of others from her big time landlord grandad. This is all public domain info that costs £1.50 processing fees to access, the properties would have been sold in 2012 or later when he passed so it would be very easy for anyone with the time to estimate how much cash those properties generated so how much each child of the grandad would have received, it’s easily in excess of a million just by the sheer volume of properties involved. Why no one has done this very basic level of interrogation is beyond me. Edwina Curry did back in the day in fairness.

Especially with intergenerational wealth / inheritance meaning more to someone’s financial standing than their own income, it’s madness this isn’t declared.
 
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Just discovered AIBU thread.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I IS DEAD
Oh the dramas they have! ‘Should I not be as kind and generous as usual and not give my foreign cleaner her annual box of chocolates as my Christmas gift/bonus this year seeing as though she left two minutes early for her shift in June?’
 
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Oh the dramas they have! ‘Should I not be as kind and generous as usual and not give my foreign cleaner her annual box of chocolates as my Christmas gift/bonus this year seeing as though she left two minutes early for her shift in June?’
Surely no one gives their cleaner a Christmas gift, they're all thieves so they've had plenty of 'gifts' anyway. And the few who aren't thieves are thick or *gag* working class, so why bother getting them a gift.
 
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Oh the dramas they have! ‘Should I not be as kind and generous as usual and not give my foreign cleaner her annual box of chocolates as my Christmas gift/bonus this year seeing as though she left two minutes early for her shift in June?’
Hahahaha! Yes

"I can't send my children to private school as well as afford a detached house with acres of land and be a SAHM who holidays in southern France 8 times a year and keep both the range rover and audi, but I also don't think I should give up my horses, I want hubby to work 9 days a week but also be home for our evening routine...AIBU?"

No mama! You got this

Fucking hell, how did the world become so fucking.. stupid?!?
 
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There’s someone having a fit that the postman woke her up at 7am with a delivery. She’s not had her 8 hours sleep
 
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I was reading a thread the other day about a mum who was perturbed that her husband wanted to bugger off to an overseas wedding for 4-5 days, leaving her with a (not yet born) two weekold baby and a three year old. AND she was having a c section AND it wasn’t a close friend.

I just knew that the thread would soon descend into a Four Yorkshireman style competitive misfortune thread. I wasn’t disappointed. Plenty of terse comments along the lines of “well what makes you think you won’t manage?” and “single parents have no choice!” but the best ones were like “I had to look after seven kids under five while my husband worked away Monday-Friday and I had no other family or friends within a 1500mile radius to lend a hand so suck it up you fucking wimp”.

Thankfully, there were some voices of sanity who said “Somehow I don’t think your husband would like it if you disappeared on a non-essential jolly abroad, leaving him with a newborn, a three year old, and recent major abdominal surgery”.

The shit women are expected to put up with, honestly…
 
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There was a thread the other day where the OP was annoyed at people wearing their work lanyards in the supermarket
 
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I quite enjoyed the show us your engagement ring thread where the OP put hers on and it was basically Kate and Middleton massive engagement ring
 
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Ooh, I haven’t had a nose there in a while. I’m off to see what first world problems are being discussed
 
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There was a thread the other day where the OP was annoyed at people wearing their work lanyards in the supermarket

Saw that but couldn't bring myself to read it.
Anyway, why do those fucks go supermarkets, waitrose delivers, surely
 
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There was a thread the other day where the OP was annoyed at people wearing their work lanyards in the supermarket
That one made me laugh as I am one of those women who forgets to take it off when I nip into the shops after work
 
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Aahh, the famous "penis beaker"

Honestly, people are bonkers that post on aibu

There’s someone having a fit that the postman woke her up at 7am with a delivery. She’s not had her 8 hours sleep
That one was hilarious. She genuinely cant comprehend that people get up before that time.

Husband gets up at 745 to start work at 9, child 1 gets up at 745 to leave for school at 840 and child 2 gets up for school run at 820. She didn't say why time she gets up but was utterly shocked that people had a moan at her for driving 5 minutes to school and then spend 15 minutes looking for a parking space rather than a 20 minute walk each way
 
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I am off the train by 7.00 and if my train hasn’t been late I am on the bus
 
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There’s a thread on there atm about someone who doesn’t want the childminder to give her 14 month old any sugary treats. Which is fine. But then goes onto say her kid was happy eating raspberries while all the adults stood around eating the kids birthday cake. Poor little bugger didn’t even get any of her own cake! Why buy one in the first place?! Obviously everyone’s rushing on to outdo the OP with tales of how their kid has never touched sugar in any form and now only eats raw horse meat and grass as a teenager out of choice.
 
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