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??

Just come back from the pub where we watched football on the "BIG SCREEN TV" and I asked another bloke how his pregnant wife was. "Very big" apparently!
Then we talked football and work!!
That's what Dadsnet would be - a nod to the "emotional" side then back to the important stuff.

Actually DP might share the revelation he disclosed to me recently that "it's quite hard combining work and childcare, you know".

Also: "is she pregnant?"
and "what do you call your partner's...you know?"

There would be no threads asking 'Am I being unreasonable?'.

Under 'Books' there would be a special section for Haynes Manuals (actually, dh used to refer to the NCT book of how to change a nappy/bath a baby/be a new parent as 'The baby Haynes Manual').

Also no threads entitled 'Embarrassing problem, possibly TMI...'

Baby Haynes Manual exists!

Fab UD. (But dh invented the idea first... that was published in 2003, dd1 was born in 2000! Should've taken it to a publisher!)

There's be no threads entitled "Am I being unreasonable" but there would be ones entitled "Is SHE being unreasonable", which would go something like this:

DW has just been on the phone ranting and crying at me, just because I sent her an email telling her I was going out with the lads tonight (we go out every second Thursday). I'm sure she's being hormonal, again (oh, I should probably also mention that it's her 40th birthday today, and I didn't bother getting her a card or a present from me or the kids). Should I still go out tonight?

Dadsnet sounds fabarooney!!

But, maybe it wouldn't be as good as the piss-taking here says it would be......

you've forgotten the "Will my crutch look big in this?" thread...

and the "will someone please tell me where the [insert] is? I 've been looking off and on for the past two seconds and it's nowhere. Where do you keep yours?"

or
"My dp has beautiful legs and they are always immaculate hair-wise. I adore stroking them. Trouble is, she INSISTS on using my razor and blades to shave them! Should I make an issue of this, or will she think I am getting it all out of proportion? Discuss. ( well actually just give me unqualified support)" thread.

Bring it on.

Trouble with Men's Room is that it is over-populated with women.....................

or maybe 'crotch'.....but it depends how you look at it.........

I'd be very up for a Dadsnet side to Mumsnet.

I'm a new dad, planning to look after my ds when DW goes back to work.

I have found (most) people on Mumsnet very helpful, but a (more formal) chance to discuss the odd topic with other fathers would be very welcome.

I have a car that cost me 150 quid (actually WE have a car that cost DW £150) and i know nothing about football, but the morning of our 22 week scan was followed by an afternoon of building my first shed - now that was a big day in a chap's life.

I think we'd discuss everything, most likely what it's like when your life totally changes! Some of us would be working and need some support on how to adjust to the obvious strains that can place on you (both mums and dads) and some, like me, might be at home and on a hell of a learning curve.

My DW is the one that wants to alphabetize everything, and she insist socks should be paired up as they go on to the clotheshorse 'to save time', but I think the one thing that we all have in common on this site is a the support we need or can offer.

I'd welcome a Dadsnet side, and not just so we can answer the odd technical question about computers and compare buggy specs. (M&P Pliko P3 btw)

Well, there IS a dadsnet side....Men's Room!!

Other landmark experiences as Daddy...

meeting someone who you KNOW is FAR more important than you. Realising you will starve to keep her alive.

wishing to eat one of those little fat chunky legs - no previous canibalism-sign shown.

putting the bike rack on the back of the car and fixing a way to keep little bike on it.

Understanding that little ones only operate in two time measures..."now" and "not now".

could go on.....

Stop it Pregoness - at once - I'm pregnant and you're making me cry.

ok poppy.

but will being pregers interfere with your walking technique??

do have shoes for latin american dancing - first time I putthem on I fell over forwards!! need lots of practice, n'est-ce pas?

It would be crap. Loads of blokes logging on but no-one saying anything.

Every thread would start:

Alright?

Not bad, you?

Yeah, not bad.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

sounds good to me...sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.....

Unfortunately, on a website body language doesn't really come across...

if you look REALLY hard.......

Pregoness You're soooo intuitive - I guess that's why you can do computer bodylanguage (I'm not sure you'd be allowed on Dadsnet) being preggers absolutely interferes with my walking technique - but I'm making the most of a fabulous waddle and a "been too long on my horse" look.

Definitely, practise, practise, practise - Even Emma ended up in the bottom two coz she didn't practice. (now I know that the s is a verb and the c is a noun but never sure which is which .