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

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MarniLou · 28/05/2019 13:26

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! )

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CFAlert · 28/05/2019 15:19

When I was younger, if I ever forgot something, I thought by going back to the place where I last thought of it might make me remember it Grin

Sarcelle · 28/05/2019 15:39

I have been chucked off of swings in the park before. So unfair. They would decrease stress massively.

They had an art installation in Tate Modern not so long ago. Comprised of double swings scattered around. They were popular with adults. My DH and I took some shifting off of one, we loved it.

Also, went to New England a few years back and went for a walk in the woods. Found a swing dangling from a tree. I was in seventh heaven, in a beautiful place, nobody around, swinging away to my heart's content. I did keep an eye out for bears though.

BellMcEnd · 28/05/2019 15:50

I’d like some sort of hatch device fitted to my stomach so that I could eat whatever I want then open the hatch and take it out on some sort of neat little bag before it was digested so not all gross and disgusting.

YY to the dog poo spray.

I’d also like a sky remote type thing for my children so i could rewind them back to being small whenever I wanted lovely toddler cuddles plus a mute / pause button

tectonicplates · 28/05/2019 15:52

OP, you made me think of this Smile

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ReT3s0siI_Q

Angie169 · 28/05/2019 15:52

iklboo
I laughed way to much at that, thankyou .

I actually invented a new way of cleaning duvets.
Over the weekend I was shampooing my carpets and decided to chuck the duvets on the floor and do those as well then threw them on the line to dry off.
( tip hold it down by putting the corners of the duvet under the feet of your bed or sofa )

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 28/05/2019 15:57

Adult playpark or soft play would be brilliant. I used to manage a soft play. It was great with no kids in.

MrsPinkCup · 28/05/2019 16:07

A headlice hoover - I know there are special places that use them but why has no one invented a handheld head vacuum that sucks lice out that can be used in the home.

Justanothernamechange2 · 28/05/2019 16:08

Our local soft play does adult only nights,but i agree an adult outdoor playpark needs to happen - swings sound so de-stressing!

TyneTeas · 28/05/2019 16:13

A cautionary tale for those of you craving playparks Grin

www.boredpanda.com/funny-adults-stuck-children-playground/

SnugglySnerd · 28/05/2019 16:13

MrsPinkCup I've always wanted something like that but for pets so I could just hoover loose fur directly off the cat once a day instead of constantly having to vacuum all the carpets and furniture.

wannabebetter · 28/05/2019 16:23

Sounds a bit gross, but I'd invent some sort of mini vacuum cleaner that you could just attach at the start of your period and would 'clear you out' in 5 mins or so instead of having to put up with bleeding for days......

TheLastNigel · 28/05/2019 16:34

To the pp that said about self
Cleaning houses and vacuuming devices in skirting boards-I think that might actually already exist in some form or another...unless I dreamed it Smile

DirtyDennis · 28/05/2019 16:38

@TyneTeas What do you mean a "cautionary tale"? What you've linked to there tells me that if you play on children's swings you might, after having great fun swinging, get stuck and have several fine as fuck firemen manhandle you out of the swing. It's not a cautionary tale... it's a fucking dream come true Grin Grin

WhatHaveIFound · 28/05/2019 16:44

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?

Tesla make them here. I think a few other companies do to but it's not just a case of replacing a few tiles, it's better to do a full roof. I would LOVE to see this on all new build properties.

TyneTeas · 28/05/2019 16:45

@DirtyDennis Fair point! GrinGrinGrin

mamakoukla · 28/05/2019 16:45

Early morning nanny service so parents can sleep in for a couple of hours. Perfect for students, part time etc

Ch3rryTree · 28/05/2019 16:45

Instead of sleeping upside down, I'd like super fine threads attached inside my sagging jowls and cheeks. These would be internally threaded and attached to my earrings. Every now and then I'd give them a quarter turn, and just like that! a mini face lift

bibbitybobbityyhat · 28/05/2019 16:54

Washing machines that just have a temperature dial and two other buttons: long wash (2 hours) medium wash (1 hour) short wash (30 mins) and then fast spin, medium spin and gentle spin. Also, drums and bearings that can be replaced so the whole appliance isn't written off when the bearings go. Also that use enough water so that small holes don't appear in everything because the clothes aren't rubbing together.

Bravelurker · 28/05/2019 17:06

I live right next to some woods that has an amazing park and I have been known to drag my drunk Blush mates out for a swing , roundabout and seesaw when they are feeling particularly adventurous. They always start with the wtf are we doing and they end up laughing like idiots, taking loads of photos and saying why do never do this.

Bluetrews25 · 28/05/2019 17:20

I'd like a detachable uterus. Open the flap and pop it in when you want to carry a child. Open the flap and take it out on birthing day - no more 'pushing out a watermelon' and subsequent pelvic floor damage, and can be used by men. No more long, heavy, painful, unpredictable periods.

Bravelurker · 28/05/2019 17:21

We are far too sophisticated to ever place our arses in the baby swings. Hmm

GiveMyHeadPeaceffs · 28/05/2019 17:29

I took my ds to a great park at the weekend, it had been raining so it was deserted. Cue spending ages on the swing and the trampoline-in-the-ground-thing and...the zip line! God, I giggled until I nearly peed myself (close call actually) and swore that next time my dsis comes to visit we're going to go and play Grin

wanderings · 28/05/2019 17:51

To all those who love playground equipment, I love water slides: I feel like a kid again when I go down them, and often I'm the only adult queueing for them among real kids.

A possibly daft idea I keep having is that if I were involved in hosting a Harry Potter kids' party (which I have no intention of doing for the foreseeable future), would be this activity: Apparition lesson. One by one, the kids would be called into another room, shown a cushion at one end, and a hoop at the other, and told they are going to Apparate from the cushion to the hoop. To protect them from the danger of being splinched, they must be blindfolded. They would be spun round and led to the cushion, then told they have to jump off it, into the hoop. When you take off the blindfold, they find they really have Apparated from the cushion to the hoop!! (Here's the secret: while they're blindfolded, move the cushion to near the hoop, and talk to them to convince them you are leading them to where the cushion was originally. Before they're allowed to see, move the cushion back to where it was.) When I was little (long before HP had been written), someone did a similar thing to me, to convince me I could fly - at the time, it blew my mind!! I'd so love to do it for other children.

ICouldBeSomebodyYouKnow · 28/05/2019 18:51

Revoke A50.

(I'll get my coat)

baldycat · 28/05/2019 18:56

I want a teleporter like in Star Trek - but every house would have one and you would need a special code for where you would teleport to - so for e.g. I would type in my kids classroom codes and they would walk through 1 at a time then I would type my office code and step straight into it - you would set up codes for meetings and pay for special codes for hotels and holidays! No more travelling just one step and you are there !

I clearly have too much time on my hands to think about this Grin

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