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

Standard T&Cs apply

[sausageroller]

Gosh this isn't sexist at all.

Not at all.

[Pipstarz41]

My dad is a total know it all about lots of things! But particularly about house removal and selling as that's what he does.

So I've recently put my house up for sale and he wanted to boss the estate agents and keeps giving me advice on selling, which solicitors to use, talking about surveys etc!

[CountessYgritte]

My childrens' father knows how I really feel. I don't of course because I'm just a wife. I'm not in touch with my emotions but he knows what my mental health and emotional state really is.

Which is helpful.

He also knows how I should feel about my body. Which is disgusted because I have put on weight since starting anti-depressants. He is just been honest telling me all this stuff he knows. He knows that I am wrong to accept the weight loss and should feel really ashamed of it.

He is also great at telling me I am fat. Just in case I have forgotten. And that if I wasn't fat I wouldn't need anti depressants. Nothing to do with family life, oh no.

It is great having someone who knows all this stuff and correct my silly ideas.

This isn't quite the spirit of this thread, is it?

[CountessYgritte]

Accepting weight gain. Not loss.

Silly me!

[CountessYgritte]

Hang on. Does this google thingy only give you advice and answers when you ask for them? Is there any setting for unsolicited advice? Random criticism of my knowledge or feelings?

Sounds a bit shit.

[CountessYgritte]

I've killed the thread, haven't I?
Sorry

[TellMeItsNotTrue]

To be fair, he does know a lot the problem is that even if he doesnt he insists he does! The Internet makes it a lot easier to prove him wrong, but he will argue that its the Internet that's wrong

I wish the Internet could tell us who is right about things that have happened to the family though, there are few times that the family just won't agree on what actually happened and dad just insists we are all wrong and there is no way of proving what actually happened so it's really frustrating!!

[UpOnDown]

He thinks he's the technology expert...

[missSonic]

My Dad was a Deputy Head Teacher of a Junior School and used to make up so many things to tell the kids. Every kid at school believed that a Snodgrass was a man who put his head in a lion's mouth. Some of the class were invited onto TISWAS in the 1980s and even told Chris Tarrant that was what they'd learnt at school!

[Cambam2010]

My dad thinks he knows everything because he gets his information from the ever reliable main stream media

He is difficult to engage in conversation in attempts to change his mind on things.

[ImADingleDangleScarecrow]

My DC's Dad does know everything. As do I. Though it's thanks to Google :)

[WinkyisbackontheButterBeer]

My dad would be the first to say that he does not know everything. He is full of superfluous and random knowledge though. Despite leaving school with no qualifications at 14 he is an avid reader and instilled a love of books in us.
He is fabulous on a pub quiz team! Love my dad to bits.

[NauticalDisaster]

My father is very 'mansplainy' and has even had a go at explaining radical feminism vs liberal feminism to me

[mdanie89]

My Dad thought he came up with the term 'Mary Jane shoes'... I remember he was so chuffed with the phrase and I told him that that's what my shoes were actually called. He was so confused... I still smile at that memory because it was completely nonsensical.

He also was terrible at spelling. He was filling in a school admissions form for my sixth form and he misspelled something basic--I can't remember what now. We got into the funniest discussion and I kept insisting they wouldn't let me into this posh sixth form if my Dad couldn't even spell. He was flabbergasted when we looked it up in the dictionary and I proved him right!

[shewhomustbeEbayed]

My DH does know lots of things but is absolutely hopeless with DIY although he denies it ( in the past he drove around for ages with a rope holding the passenger door shut on his car when he tried to fix it by hitting it with a hammer. At present the TV is balanced on one table on top of another in the spare room, visitors fear it will topple on them in the night ) my DD and I try and steer him away from any projects.

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

My Dad thinks he knows everything about everything- gardening, DIY, sport, finances, the Coronation Street story line (though he never watches it apparently...) He likes to think he's an expert on every subject but he isn't of course. I have to bite my tongue sometimes, it's really not worth an argument!!!

[coveringkitty]

He claims to know everything because he does a lot of research on google! He sometimes says to me don't forget I am like a walking google 😂

[elQuintoConyo]

Horrible horrible idea for a thread to win a dull piece of tech.

for CountessYgritte

[GruffaloPants]

My Dad used to entertain us with great stories melding fantasy and his take on history.
Problem is I thought they were all true and used to go into school and tell the teachers that Robin Hood was my great grandad etc.

[purplepandas]

Bloody directions. Is so sure he knows the way but we go around in circles and people are getting fractious. Annoying agrees that I can use my sat nav despite refusing earlier. Things are improving but there is a long way to go!

[BitOutOfPractice]

I remember my sister doing o level Economics in the 80s. She just did not get it at all and her teacher was too scary to approach. I remember my lovely dad, educated only at the university of life, patiently spending hours and hours explaining economic theory to her. Goodness only knows where he learned it all but he was so knowledgeable. My sister passed and attributes it all to our dad.

I miss him so much. He passed away in 1997 aged only 62 and a kinder, cleverer, lovelier dad there never was.

[Mumtotwo22]

My dad is an insufferable know it all. He said to me children shouldn't have sweets or treats as the E numbers and colourings are likely to kill them. When I was a child, he used to put my packet of smarties in to a sieve and wash the colours off. I was left with disgusting, white, slimey smarties to eat. How vile !!! 😂

[SistersOfPercy]

My lovely Dad is sadly no longer with me, I was Daddy's girl throughout my life.
As a child I noticed Dad had a deep hollow in his leg near his ankle, being a curious child I asked him many times how he'd got it and he'd tap his nose. One day when I was about 6 I asked again and he told me all about how he'd been shot in the war. I was enthralled with the tale and told all my school friends.
Only when i was about 12 did I do the maths and work out he was actually about 9 in the war!

Eventually he confessed he'd had a pedal car as a child, let the pedal hit his leg constantly as he played and had contracted TB in the wound, leaving him in hospital for a good chunk of his childhood.

I miss my Dad every day. He was my hero, even if he didn't really fight a war.

[Byrdie]

Hmmm... one that springs to mind is saying he'll be fine to cook the kids their dinner (i.e warm up pizza in the oven) but nearly blew the house up as he had no idea how the gas oven worked.

[HermanCakeDestroyer]

A couple of years ago my husband was stood outside our house in the snow and ice. The children and I followed him out. I started walking along the pavement really slowly and carefully as the ground was so slippery. He said 'oh you don't want to walk like that! Just loosen up and walk normally like me'. With that his legs' moved and his body didn't and he fell flat on his back!! Luckily he recovered quickly but we still laugh about it today