How would Dadsnet be different?

[UnquietDad]

This is a serious question, and not one inviting cheap shots.

There would be more discussion of football and rugby (fair enough) and probably golf (yaaaaaaaaaawn).

There would be a Cars section. Like them or not (and I don't especially) more men are into them than women.

I imagine there would be less bitchery, and not as many all-encompassing comments like "all women are stupid."

There woukd be a dedicated Music section for discussing our ALPHABETICALLY-arranged (is there any other way?) CD collections.

Any more??

You mean it's all women here? I never noticed!

Who's got the biggest and best tools?

There would be a fishing section, no doubt

'what's in your tool box'

as apposed to whats in your handbag?

I think there was some kind of Dads website set up a while back & there was never any chat at all!!!!!!!!!!

I think you are absolutely correct in the less bitchery theory. It always astounds me at how quickly woman will turn on each other. Not just on MN but IRL as well. Whereas men have used the old boys' network for years to help each other out. If there ever is a DadsNet, I would certainly like to be a lurker!

I think the discussion about whether affairs are always the wife's fault would have been a lot shorter...

Science fiction section surely UD?

I don't think a dadsnet would be at all popular. I think men (although not all)would prefer to chat on a very clear single subject message board. Wishy washy wooly subjects holding little appeal. I've looked at this sort of predominantly male thing, and they most certainly do get bizarrely bitchy.

But hell, I'm a woman.

I actyally am on a (sort-of) sci-fi related forum and it has huge amounts of traffic - and it's about 70% male. Not sure there are many dads, though... they all seem too young or too gay.

I think they would probably try to outdo each other on who had the worst journey home.

There would probably be a lot of "who works the hardest" competitiveness, of which nightmare driving stories would be a part, yes.

I'm always being collared by older relatives and told the best way to get from, say, Nottingham to Exeter (although I don't have the slightest desire to listen).

Still - can't be any duller than endless debates about which shade of Boden cardigan is in this season and who's doing what to whom in "Heat".

thinking of starting it UD?

i think dadsnetters would

let each other know when they farted.

polls;
does boob size matter
real or fake - which do you prefer?

whos got further on the computer games

exchange 'cheat' tips for computer games

who earns the most - where nobody admits to earning under £500,000!

women are unreasonable - 10000000 threads on everything from she makes me take out a binbag to she doesnt specify which section of the drawer my unidentifyable piece of plastic crap which is more vital than life itself is in, when I open the drawer and go "whereabouts? i cant SEEEEEEEEE it"

my kids better than your kid - sporting prowess, won a fight, got his mates bird.......!!

meetups would be big night down a pub where theyve got the footie on sky and nobody would talk at all.

Just buy Nuts. Is there a nutsnet?

I think it would be quite fun if we put our important things at the bottom of every post like this (apologies to avforums)

Sanyo Z3 projector, Samsung HD DVD 850 dvd player,Panasonic th37pa20 plasma, yamaha rxv440 receiver, Kef 2005.2 speakers, Kef Q6c centre, Rel Quake Sub, One for all Kameleon Remote.

lol mtpw.

Do you feel a need for that kind of site UQD? I remember your thread from the other day - you felt that men were getting a rough deal on MN.

I'm not sure about a male site being less bitchy, though. My male friends can be just as bitchy as my female friends (and no, they're not all gay).

I remember going to a Loaded party once: the bitchiness from the writers there took my breath away.

Would women be allowed to participate? Wouldn't mind having a discussion about cars & gadgets!

Lobby Mumsnet Central for a Cars & Gagdgets forum, blondilocks!

I have seen other dad sites and fora get set up and fall by the wayside just because not enough people were joining in or being interesting enough. universaldads.com, for example, which now seems to be a defunct link, and the FQ Forum which isn't quite dead on its feet but doesn't seem very lively.

The only ones doing good traffic seem to be F4J and the single dad sites!

So yes, I may have to start one of my own.

Message withdrawn

You stay right here unquietdad! We like ya!

Besides LOST is back tonight!

Mind you it would be good to have a random car or gadget thread on mumsnet that is open to men & women. Perhaps we should just start a thread on it?!

The which celeb would you do thread reminds me of the time at uni where my housemates (3 guys & 1 other girl & me) were disagreeing on the FHM top 100 sexy women - I was the only one that thought Fergie from the Black Eyed peas deserved to be higher up & nobody agreed with the person who was no 1, so it is possible to have a discussion like that with women without them getting bitchy (& so long as your OH didn't know who u were on the board it shouldn't cause too many problems!)

Thanks Marslady!
And yes it is - BUT I DON'T HAVE SKYYYYYY!! waaaa!!
Hoping for recordings from a colleague of dw's.

if it's like my dh and his mates they would just grunt at each other at regular intervals