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Ever wish you could uninvent something (lighthearted)

121 replies

Outnotdown · 01/11/2017 14:53

Lego! I'm sick of it! Prising it out of my toddler's mouth, mopping up the tears when my 5 year old's impossibly long car falls apart. Breaking up the fights when one child wrecks the other's creation. Standing barefooted on a microscopically tiny yet painfully sharp bit that got left behind.

And I can't make ANYTHING with them. And they're EVERYWHERE AngryAngry

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MrsTerryPratchett · 01/11/2017 14:54

Not so 'lighthearted' (sorry) but the AK47. It's the bane of the majority world.

Morphene · 01/11/2017 14:58

scented sanitary products because fuck off with telling women their perfectly normal bodies are disgusting.

thecolonelbumminganugget · 01/11/2017 14:59

All forms of messaging services apart from one. I dont care which one but I'm sick to death of having, texts, messenger, WhatsApp etc all pinging away, let's have a world referendum where we pick one and destroy all the others

GreenTulips · 01/11/2017 15:00

washjng up

juddyrockingcloggs · 01/11/2017 15:01

*Morphine
*
Yes yes and another yes.

I suffered terrible itching for months and months on the days I was having a period and couldn’t understand for the life of me why. It was always fucking ultra and their perfumes for no reason stench of chemicals. Horrendous.

roconnell · 01/11/2017 15:05

The printer. What a prick.
Every time I approach it I feel dread because I know it's going to fuck up.
So many ways in which it can go wrong. I'm sure it thinks them up as I'm on the approach. 'Oh I wont bother to connect to the laptop today even though I usually do!' Or 'Oh I don't recognise the paper type!' Or 'Oh I've run out of ink!' And my personal favourite 'I've run out of magenta ink so I can't be bothered to print a BLACK AND WHITE document.'

[and breathe]

StorminaBcup · 01/11/2017 15:05

I like lego OP but with an 18mth old and a 4 yr Old I have to agree with you. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve confiscated it.

While I’m here can I also throw in a light sabre that was purchased from Blackpool at the weekend. I didn’t realise until we got in the car that it also played the crazy frog song Angry

LocoMoco · 01/11/2017 15:07

fucking play doh

GreenTulips · 01/11/2017 15:08

fucking play doh

I raise you moon sand

SecretSmellies · 01/11/2017 15:12

what I hate about scented sanitary wear is that the smell is so cloying and so obvious. So you can smell who among your office mates has their period.

Thank God for the implant I say.

YoloSwaggins · 01/11/2017 15:49

Fucking Facebook

whoareyoukidding · 01/11/2017 15:50

mobile phones. It was nice before mobiles.

TammyswansonTwo · 01/11/2017 15:52

Crisps. And coke. Because without them I'd be about 40% thinner.

GeillisTheWitch · 01/11/2017 15:52

HD brows. Don't understand the attraction, why do people want to look like they have two black caterpillars on their head?

AndWhat · 01/11/2017 15:56

YouTube
My 4yo is obsessed with stupid videos of adults dressed as superheroes doing stupid things!!! Angry

Outnotdown · 01/11/2017 15:58

roconnell Grin
Don't know if I want to live without crisps and coke (sorry) but yes to everything else, especially chemical sanitary scent yuk.

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abbsisspartacus · 01/11/2017 15:59

Television "teenagers" showing kids how to act badly and get away with it

TSSDNCOP · 01/11/2017 16:00

Dan TDM

TammyswansonTwo · 01/11/2017 16:04

I don't want to live without them either, but if they'd never been invented I wouldn't know any better ;)

DeleteOrDecay · 01/11/2017 16:06

The sex industry, all of it. From prostitution to porn, to stripping right on through to sex chat lines. The world would be so much better without this objectification and commodification of women’s bodies

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 01/11/2017 16:07

But then I wouldnt have a username! !Wink

mine is a very specific Melissa and Doug wooden walker with "fun" shaoes inside clear tubes thst rattle as its pushed

its SO fucking LOUD...I feel a burst of rage every time the baby leans towards it

CigarsofthePharoahs · 01/11/2017 16:17

Definitely agree with playdoh!
Leaded petrol. I know it's mostly phased out now, but the damage has been done.
Felt tip pens. They dry out, the tips get damaged very easily and you have to spend ££ on proper washable ones or my whole lounge would be murky shades of green and purple by now.

morningtoncrescent62 · 01/11/2017 16:27

Email

piglover · 01/11/2017 16:30

Twitter. Then I wouldn't have to see news of what the idiot president of the USA has been (t)wittering on about.

Bluelonerose · 01/11/2017 16:44

Nerf guns Angry
I've sick of finding bits of them all over the house and Drs PUT THE BULLETS AWAY the cat decided to eat them then throw them back up Angry ALWAYS on the bastards carpet too Angry