Share with Google Home how the dad in your life thinks he knows everything (or actually does) - chance to win £300 NOW CLOSED

[PoppyMumsnet]

To help celebrate dads everywhere this Father’s Day, the team at Google would love to hear your tales of how your dad or your children's dad claims to know EVERYTHING, or at least thinks they do .

Please share your stories of all the amazing things your dad or your child’s dad knows (or things they claim to know how to do).

The team at Google say “Google Home is a hands-free smart speaker powered by the Google Assistant, and it may just save your dad or your child’s dad’s blushes this Father’s Day. Ask it questions. Get real-time answers for the whole family, including the latest on weather, traffic, sports, finance, local businesses and more. It's your own Google, always ready to help”.

Below is a video about Google Home:

Every MNer who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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My husband is the original 'google home'. For years, if I wanted to know something, I would just ask him. If he protested and asked me to look it up myself, I would always jokingly say that he is "my google". Who would actually think that now, he can be physically replaced with a google home? His general knowledge is very broad and he's an intellectual. Sometimes I wonder if there isn't anything he doesn't know. I just usually get my son to pester him if there's anything he wants to know 😃

WTF?

My Dad knows all sorts of useless facts and will often throw out the "I've been to the university of life" line. He did write questions for a local quiz league when we were kids so he was always coming out with obscure capital cities and historical facts!

My dad tells us he knows everything from his time in the navy/army/airforce, or as a spy/police officer/pilot. It's funny now, but there was a (very brief!) time as a child I believed him!

What he genuinely does - and does well - is research everything before he begins. It can be annoying - I'm more like my mum in that we just get started and deal with any mishaps as they happen - but he does, begrudgingly, have fewer mistakes and cock-ups than we do.

He's generally a good egg.

My dad knows everything, or so my dc think. Any homework ask grandad...he sometimes nips upstairs to think about it for a while and then comes down with a perfect answer. coincidence that the computer room is upstairs

My dad is a classic at thinking he knows everything, and sometimes says 'that's not technically right' before going into his 'technically right' answer. When we were kids he was known for making bits and bobs up when asked questions he didn't know the answers to....like mummification was done with egyptian toilet paper or that it's illegal to travel with the inside car light on because it confuses air traffic control! He also thinks he's could have been the greatest theatre actor/is a talented actor even though he's never done anything related to it!

My dad is my go-to guy for wildlife - I love nature but I am not as good at identifying trees and birds as he is and I will often call or text him when I see something and describe it and he will tell me what it is without even seeing it!

My dad, knew how to help others. He was known for having a solution for everyone's issues and would forget about his own personal problems to help others, but unfortunately and unexpectedly, he passed away in 2016, before his time, it felt like the world went into shock when he passed. People gave tributes to him from all over the country. It was honestly overwhelming. He was my hero. I would like to say that my husband is the father of my two boys. He is a fully qualified electrician, industrial, domestic and commercial. He knows almost everything about sharks, lions, tigers, he loves watching the discovery channel and watching anything that relates to wildlife. If you mention a program about a shark, he will probably tell you the whole story of the program and you are left looking in shock, I do wonder how he remembers everything that he sees. He has a memory like no one else I know and remembers things that people would normally not have a clue about. He is a great carer and passionate father. He has to look after me the children and the household. I take my hat off to him. He always puts others before himself. I would love to have this gadget for him. He did a BBQ in the unexpected rain, and pulled it off. Great person with an amazing capacity for knowledge.

My dad knows how to do magic, as a child he would always get skittles or m&ms for his birthday and he could always make them change colour by saying things like 'urple, slurple, murple, durple. Change this yellow into a purple' and it always worked. No idea how he did it.

DH will Google until he can find 'evidence' to back up whatever point he is determined to be right on. The DDs are too savvy for him now and expect a minimum of 3 different sources before giving in.
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Dad gave the advice of trying to repair the windowsill by cutting out the rotten section, buying and cutting to size and new piece, fix it on in some elaborate way, using filler and having to redecorate it to match the rest. he guessed it would be 2 days of work to sort it out.

Thankfully my husband decided not to listen and just replaced the whole windowsill in half a day at a fraction of the cost of dad's estimate.

Hate to say it but dad's aren't always right (but mum's are ;-)

DH thinks he knows all about the brain, he did an MSc years ago and he goes on and on and on about anything remotely scientific which we discuss. He always has to be right, however I tend to stop listening as it's pretty boring, unfortunately I can't say 'ok DH, stop' so I definitely prefer google home to answer my questions.

My lovely dad died four years ago. He did think he knew everything, from religion to general knowledge his views and answers were more correct than anyone else's, in his opinion! Annoyingly his memory was excellent so he did have a great run of trivial pursuit wins that nearly ended in family blows (I inherited his competitive nature!).

My dad thought he knew everything and to be fair he knew a lot about fixing things, he was a great mechanic and could turn his hands to most things but he made us laugh when he tried to join in with conversations about sport.
Sadly he's no longer with us, but I still smile thinking about all the things he said about football. He knew nothing but tried to join in with me and my brothers and later with my DSs. Bless him

My children's dad is a total bargain hunter and seems to know the price of every item in the supermarket - and what can be bought cheaper at the pound shop. Handy when he buys the bargains but frustrating when he comments on my shop 'You could have got that cheaper at x'!

My dad really does know everything, but as a very intelligent man he assumes that everyone else wants to know everything too. So if you ask him a simple question you had better be prepared for a 20 minute answer

My dad would often admit that he didn't know everything and to ask my mother! But he had his own 'specialist subjects' - science and maths.

My DC's dad thinks he's a bit of an expert on politics. He's not but never mind! At least he's happy...

My FIL thinks he knows it all, and certainly more than me. He isn't very happy that of all the family I'm the one that can fix his PC when he messes it up.

My dad was always fabulous on practical things - he could build a house, milk a goat, do butchery, grow fruit and veg, run a market garden, sort out delivering twin lambs, shoot - all sorts of things. These days his body and mind have let him down, but he still makes sure I'm reminded on correct care of my chickens

My lovely dear old Dad knows how to do just about everything, or so he claims...here are my favourite 3 brilliantly genuine examples of what he knows:

1)He knows how to operate a washing machine (you put in the clothes leave it for an hour and then peg out each item carefully on the washing line, at no point questioning why the machine made no noise and none of the clothes are wet ).
2) He knows that forgetting swimming costumes on our first holiday abroad is not a problem (he also knows that the man he is bartering with will clearly offer us swimming costumes at a reduced rate rather than charge us lots of money, because we are clearly not desperate to buy them and he is obviously not the only seller of swimming costumes nearby ...turns out he was and it cost us the equivalent of roughly £25 per costume.)
3) He knows how to cook a frozen pizza (you put it in the oven and turn the oven on, at no point touching the temperature dial, that remains on 0. When you come to eat the pizza you completely ignore the fact it is still frozen and cold, you simply eat it regardless as it has been in for 20min and the box said it only needed 15 ).

It is a good job he knows how to: listen if you have a problem, tell amazing stories and give the best hugs .

I once had a long argument discussion with Dad that the Greek dessert was NOT named after the Crimean battle. It's Baklava, not Balaclava.

We also had a lengthy debate that dying my hair mahogany would not make me a Goth. It's ebony that's the black colour, mahogany is reddish brown.

My dad is a secondary school teacher and really does think he is the fountain of all knowledge. An example of this: he decided to make a YouTube video on how to hang a set of door blinds. Complete with him stood in his tie and glasses (my dad is 48 BTW, I am 26) doing his best teacher style commentary.

He was so proud of his 25 views which I'm sure existed because me and my siblings couldn't stop watching it in morbid fascination.

DH is always trying to out-fact anyone who is talking about any aspect of History (no matter if it's social, political or military or English/British, European/American) - he reckons he knows everything. It's become a major source of embarrassment to our tween and teen and to me