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If mumsnet was a diagram (lighthearted)

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BobbyGentry · 06/01/2019 14:56

Sooooo... in my ‘if Mumsnet was a diagram’ (taking only a few minutes to draw and even less time to think about.)

There’d be a parking war between Morison’s, Ocado & Sainsbury’s delivery vans on LTB Street.

There’d be a quiet, warm and inviting 24hrs bookshop, 24hrs Costa Coffee for a lively chat and a really elaborate wedding shop.

The radical exclusionary feminists, across the road at number 10, wouldn’t be willing to share the toilet with EricA yet again so they’d all be kicking off.

A prep school for children aged 3 + (put you name down at birth or attend the local comp with better results.)

How about you?

Lots I’ve probably forgotten but first things that sprang to mind.

((((Hope to make you smile))))

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BobbyGentry · 07/01/2019 06:57

UPDATED diagram

Sooooo... in my ‘if Mumsnet was a diagram’ (taking only around 26 minutes, this time, to draw and incorporate all the wonderful mumsnet ideas.)

There’d be a parking war between Morrisons, Ocado & Sainsbury’s delivery vans on LTB Street.

There’d be a quiet, warm and inviting 24hrs bookshop, 24hrs Costa Coffee for a lively chat and a really elaborate wedding shop.

The rad exclusionary feminists, across the road at number 10, wouldn’t be willing to share the toilet with EricA yet again so they’d all be kicking off.

A prep school for children aged 3 + (put you name down at birth or attend the local comp with better results.)

@GobblersKnob P&C spaces are located road the corner on the Sponsoredthreadroad round the corner but were full so that’s why the delivery vans got into such a scuffle. ✔

@LuckyLou7 The suitably middle-class named Charlotte, Isabella, Sebastian and Rufus all made the netball tryouts; their nannies seemed really pleased, at the local prep school ✔

@treaclesoda Excessive Cleaning Dressed Up As Normal Hygiene Street ✔

@WatcherOfTheNight an old fashioned telephone box that only dials direct to 111 or 101 √

@treaclesoda Also you need a street with a huge wall. On one side of the wall are all the children who are 17 years and 364 days old. They are Still Children and must be supervised at all times and never asked to take responsibility. On the other side of the wall is everyone who is 18 and over. They should be living independently and if you so much as throw a couple of pairs of jeans in the washing machine for them or make them a cup of tea, you are enabling them into being life long layabouts.✔

@GobblersKnob There should be an A&E with an equal amount of people being shoved in against their will, as people being soundly beaten for daring to waste NHS time. Also, a shop selling extraordinarily expensive handbags, with boycotting protesters outside. And a Boden. ✔

@endofthelinefinally & @NorksAreMessy There would be a lovely community centre full of comfy sofas covered with woolly hugs. There would be tea and coffee and lemon drizzle cake. ✔

@LuckyLou7 the Shit Hot Lawyer and his office advertising 30 minutes free advice ✔

@BreakfastAtSquiffanys At the far end of the street is a little stream with a bridge over it.The Trolls live under this bridge.I assume there's more dropped kerbs than raised ones? ✔

@Corneliusmurphy Got to be one house where they leave the Christmas decs up all year. Ooh and another where someone is frothing because I wrote decs instead of decorations... @LuckyLou7Got to be one house where they leave the Christmas decs up all yearand the lights are flashing blue ones, to add insult to injury. ✔

@NorksAreMessy A shop selling loo brushes ✔

@Thingywhatsit The woman that owns the wedding shop is one who used sex lube and a fish slice ✔

@LadyMonicaBaddingham penguin bollards outside A&E to stop road rammers ✔

@treaclesoda A bright future ahead of you in urban planning

@CottonTailRabbit The bakery has a problem with cake punching ✔

@SheWoreBlueVelvet There’s definitely a massive University that everyone is required to attend. They will shag future famous people and learn the value of critical thing and free speech.Interestingly it will be right next to “ Leavers Getto” the rough bit. With it’s albeit smaller than reported number of uneducated racist and just plain stupid tenants. @treaclesoda I sincerely hope that's Russell Group university. Or at the very least a red brick university. ✔

@CottonTailRabbit There’s an underground preppers bunker filled with canned goods and UHT milk.✔

@LuckyLou7 The Rad Fem, the builder has done a massive shit but not sure the poo troll knows yet.✔

@TSSDNCOP A pond with a row of ducks.✔

@MrsMoastyToasty bins get put out every second Wednesday. There a CF NDN who polices bins/parking/boundary disputes.✔

@GobblersKnob The childminder with the massive dog lives at number 12. ✔

@Patroclus Have I ever experienced this>No--> It cant have happened.✔

@NoTeaNoShadeNoPinkLemonade ocado and morrisons are the same van in different wrapping, meaning they're in on it together lol ✔

@GobblersKnob The delivery vans are stuck because all the drivers need a poo and no mnetter will let them sully their pristine loo.✔

@LuckyLou7 There’s a sofa in someone's front garden with a CF sitting on it smoking weed and drinking Tennant's Extra. The phone box to log it with 101 is down the street so not logged yet. ✔

@steppemum well, I read the title asIf mn was a diaphragm, which says it all really! There’s a well dodge diaphragm street which should be avoided at night at all costs. ✔

@Smurfybubbles There’s a corner for all the naughty MIL's ✔

@JanuarySnowdrops There’s Zoflora shop? ✔

@CriticalConditionThere are plenty of hedges for people to have sex in. ✔

@NorksAreMessy A big EXIT gate for flouncers...with seating and spotlighting so that we can all applaud them as they go ✔

@waywardfruit There’s a HR department, scaffolding and a large tree that needs to be cut down and have a TPO put on it at the same time.And a branch ofGreggsLush.✔

@knockknockknock a spa for everyone to have a spa day when they're having a shit time in life as it cures everything.✔

*@CottonTailRabbit*The butchers sells those magical chickens that feed a family of 4 for a week.✔

@DeathyMcDeathStarFace There has a be a second school, slightly further away, where the only subject taught is grammar pedantry for 12 hours a day.✔

@DeathyMcDeathStarFace Asda delivers regularly to diaphragm alley ✔

reeeeallly need to work now thank you for making me smile!

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SagelyNodding · 07/01/2019 07:01

Amazing work!
Can you put an old Korean lady in someone's garden?

MaisyPops · 07/01/2019 07:11

There would be a couple more schools.
One where perfectly resonable people send their children and if there are issues then home and school talk politely and reasonably. Teachers get on and teach. Students learn. Everyone respects each other and it's a lovely place.
There would also be a smaller school where all rules are optional because 'I don't like blind obedience' and parents are always fuming because students only ever get isolation and exclusion for 'just asking a single question' lesson disruption on a regular basis, only wearing leggings and trainers' even though the uniform says both arent uniform items. This school can have a line of phone boxes outside, one to the local authority and one to Ofsted for those moments where a student was given a detention for being disruptive and a parent thinks this is human rights abuse. One to the local paper for the start of term sad face stories about how the draconian school was wrong to point out that these neon yellow trainers and pink hair weren't in the uniform.

treaclesoda · 07/01/2019 07:16

OP that is fabulous Smile

Redglitter · 07/01/2019 07:28

There would be a police station for all the things that need logged and loads of officers to deal with people looking at others the wrong way and all the other awful things MNers want to report.

notthegreatestdancer · 07/01/2019 07:34

No Greggs ?

You need a flower shopThanksThanksThanks

Also a children's play area with a 6ft electric fence and gun turrets to stop those pesky dog walkers taking their fur babies to reek havoc and maul small children.

Njordsgrrrl · 07/01/2019 07:40

Will everyone's cats be indoor ones, or merrily shitting in the wrong gardens? If the latter, there needs to be a super soaker shop which would also be handy for parties.

It all sounds wonderful. I'd like to have a double-fronted Georgian house with kitchen stairs on ODFOD Drive please. And a goat.

snozzlemaid · 07/01/2019 07:58

A bank to cash the cheque?

snozzlemaid · 07/01/2019 08:06

*cancel not cash

GroggyLegs · 07/01/2019 08:54

I think you need a petrol station with exploding cars.
One of the cars could be an Audi with a personalised numberplate, surrounded by MNers with pitchforks.

BobbyGentry · 07/01/2019 12:15

@SagelyNodding were you thinking traditional old lovely Korean woman with her ceramic pot of delicious fermenting kimchi or fashionably discerning modern old Korean woman in someone’s garden trying to find a mobile reception on her latest Samsung handset? missed the thread

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BobbyGentry · 07/01/2019 12:41

@MaisyPops maybe there could be dedicated line in the phonebox to the LEA, Ofsted, human rights organisations & kick ass, suited and booted lawyers? Maybe sponsored by one of those,’have you experienced an accident recently which wasn’t your fault?’ companies.

@Redglitter A dedicated throwing shade police station sounds amazing 😊

@notthegreatestdancer flower shops, indoor cats and I think the 6ft electric fence could be handily incorporated into the school’s isolation unit? 🤓

@Njordsgirrl perhaps notthegreatestdancer‘s gun turret could be multifunctional for spraying both cats and dogs? Day/Night soaker affair? Both Georgian housing & goats (miniature) sound ideal 😉

@snozzlemaid a bank which only cashes cancels cheques sounds both perfect and handy to😬

@GroggyLegs pitchfork wielding MNers watching rows of burning Audis sounds quite kitsch and will have an apt place in the town.

What will the postcode be? MN8 something something something

Thank you ladies your fabulous the MN diagram ideas, they’re greatly appreciated, made me smile a lot.

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BobbyGentry · 07/01/2019 12:43

too

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tryinganewname · 07/01/2019 12:46

I love the feminist toilet situation Grin

brizzledrizzle · 07/01/2019 12:48

You forgot the zoflora research station.

YesitsJacqueline · 07/01/2019 12:48

Where is the pub ? Is it next to the spa? It would be handy for all the husbands/ partners that have been out all night, so that the mums can hand the babies over and have a spa day .

snozzlemaid · 07/01/2019 12:59

Don't forget the restaurant that can serve 50 customers out of one roast chicken.

YesitsJacqueline · 07/01/2019 14:25

We need 2 restaurants, one where children are allowed to run around or play on ipads and another where they are banned

MrsTommyBanks · 07/01/2019 16:16

Loving your work Grin

Bluetrews25 · 07/01/2019 16:37

So similar to what I was thinking when I woke up!
Mine was more in the line of Janet and Roy saving the parking spot outside their house with a penis beaker full of cutted up pear, pom-bears and naice ham. It's situated very close to the River of Poo.
Is there a mumsnet bingo hall and a shop selling all those discontinued must-haves (especially chocolate bars no longer in production). The shop must be open 24/7. But the staff must have fair pay and adequate breaks.
Was there a judgy pants shop, or has it closed down? And been replaced by Aldi?

MaisyPops · 07/01/2019 16:44

YesitsJacqueline
Love it! Can we have three cafes on a similar theme.
One where normal people go and are considerate to others, people interact with their kids and friends and manage to have fun, have educational chats, have a lovely time etc.
One for those who think 'kids being kids' excuses them treating costa as a play area whilst telling anyone objecting they should go to a library (next door) if they want total silence.
One for performance parents where the menu is in 3 different languages and you get a free babycinno if your under 7 can guess the obscure viola concerto mood music. There'll be a display where you can write your child's name and the holiday destination of choice with a suitably educational anecdote to prove how wonderful you are.

MorningsEleven · 07/01/2019 16:44

Is there an enormous chicken crossing the road?

YouCanCallMeJodieWho · 07/01/2019 16:53

love it OP!

TheRealJoseph · 07/01/2019 17:46

You've forgotton the add a cul-de-sac named strangly enough "CF Drivers Lane".

C8H10N4O2 · 07/01/2019 18:10

In the interests of a rounded education FlickKnife Comprehensive should be near to the prep schools, positively forcing all right thinking high earners to start with the prep.

Lots of shaggy dogs with long tales.

A bus stop or two?
Possibly with a discussion corner on the merits of pushchairs in the disabled space.

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