Anyone else? ...share your really daft ideas that you think could work...

[MarniLou]

So, laughing at myself really....( and obviously too much time on my hands...no actually divergence tactics...should be waxing the new floor!)

I often wonder why we don't sleep upside down...(hear me out???) because that would help my ever increasing saggy, wrinkled face to be smooth.

My thinking is that by sleeping upside down or (maybe more practically in a sloping bed, feet higher than head)' gravity would pull my face the other way for 8 hours a day, combatting the sagging. I know I have creases on my face from sleeping on my side, squashing lines into my cheeks, these wouldn't be there.

Anyone else, share your daft ideas. ( or explain mine...perhaps I have unwittingly invented a new bed! )

When I was a kid I thought "test tube babies" were babies that were grown in ever-increasing-sized test tubes and I thought it was a great idea.

I still do.

I think growing babies outside of women's bodies could have really positive impacts on the perception of women as "natural" nurturers, and it could support much fairer parental leave which has impacts on things like career progression and pay gap.

However, in the current era of ambiguity over what a "woman" is, I actually think pregnancy/capacity for pregnancy is a fundamental part of womanhood and should be defended/centred/celebrated. So my plans for baby-sized petri-dishes will have to be put on dry ice for now.

I think you might get a headache sleeping upside down. You could try a silk pillow case for the wrinkles tho

I like your bed idea but could you design one that rocks too? I don’t know why you can’t get rocking beds for adults. I’d find it lovely and soothing when I’m stressed or have period pains.

Why aren't there play parks for adults? I don't mean Go Ape or outdoor gyms, I mean normal see saws and spider web climbing frames and slides that are for our size and weight, that we're allowed to play on for free in public parks. I can't be the only one who wants a go.

@woodcutbirds I've thought that too. I also think isn't it odd that, as adults, we don't just go and knock on our friends' doors to go to the park for a game of rounders or penalties or whatever. Why not?!

Cutbirds

Me too!

I always wondered why we dont have baby cleaning machines. Like those glass washers you see in pubs. I'm thinking of something like a small, top loading washing machine. You turn it on, dangle the toddler waste deep in some sort of foam/jet/brush thingy, and hey presto! Thirty seconds later you have a clean child, ready for their new fresh nappy

Anybody else . . . No?

Moving on from the swings over the park I really want an adult sized rocking horse.

My idea would be some kind of invisible Teflon coating that is applied to teeth four times a year from a child that is chip proof and can only be dissolved by a special dental laser so that there is no tooth decay ever.

This isn't such a mad idea but cars should have wheels that swivel 90 degrees, to be able to drive sideways into and out of tight parking spaces. Why can't manufacturers do this?

woodcutbirds and DirtyDennis you sound like my kind of people! That would be fab to have adult playgrounds. I’d also love it if someone called for me to go out to play! (Will pm my address so you can come and get me for rounders!)

Dennis and Dancer I do have a friend who occasionally just turns up on my doorstep after months of not seeing each other and just says, 'Can you come out to play?' with a really cheeky grin on her face. I love it and almost never turn her down, even if it's inconvenient because I want to play as soon as she says it.

Soola they do have something a bit like that. My DC's dentist coated their molars with something when they were tiny and they never had fillings.

Every play park, amusement, trampoline, waterworld etc...

ALL should have adult only days/weekends/weeks.
...Even better - thinking on the fly here - maybe age 40+ days where it's not just pretty young things hogging all the best rides etc.

I would love to see nappy depositories all over the place. You can drop off your dirty reusable nappies and get new clean ones in return.

LOL at baby-cleaning machine Out

Underwater dogs for walking along canal towpaths.

Underwater dogs

Like scuba dogs? Why do they need to be underwater?

Nuke ‘em dog poo spray that instantly dissolves dog poo.

The Fun Centre in Caernarfon does soft play paty hire for adults. I think it used to be open as adult only on Saturday nights but I could be wrong.

Personally I like the idea of an automatic dog washer service. It would be rather Wallace and Gromit in design, with a big bath and rotating foamy brushes.

I've found my madness!

A break from the floor and a great laugh. LOVE, LOVE LOVE the baby washing machine, can you imagine!

Self cleaning houses would be good too, I'm thinking suction machines along the length of the skirting board that once on, suck all the dirt and dust out of the room.

Could we adapt this?

So why oh why don’t they just print more money?
Everything including the nhs needs money, just print more so that nurses wages can be increased, equipment can be bought, services don’t have to be cut.
We have a bloody factory making the stuff, just make more.

Underwater dogs

Scuba Doo?

Also, why don’t manufacturers make roof tiles with solar panels on them? So that every new house has to have them on the roof?
Why not?

I would like there to be a vaccine against sunburn. Everyone could have one quick jab at the start of summer and then not have to either about with horrible greasy suncream that ruins all their clothes.