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What is the wankiest thing you’ve seen your ex do?

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Magpiesinthegarden · 03/06/2026 13:51

That made you think - what a knob! And that you are well rid of them!

lighthearted thread -

I’ll go first -

Recently my ex changed his profile picture to this wanky AI generated image of him in the middle with a halo and two angels either side… he actually gave himself a halo 🤣 What a knobhead! Like he was Jesus 😳(He was a massive narcissist. My ex. Not Jesus)

What are the wankiest things your ex has ever done?

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EmmaB1309 · 04/06/2026 17:55

When my ex and I were dating a long long time ago we spent time at a Scottish landmark and he always used to say that a photo of us there looking loved up was his favourite and reminded him of one of the best days of his life.
A few years later when he was seeing someone else, after treating me horribly, he shared a pic of him and his new girlfriend at the same landmark in the exact same spot in almost the exact same pose. I remember thinking you poor girl what have you let yourself in for?

Blades2 · 04/06/2026 17:54

My ex and children’s dad will sit in a hotel room and have the cleaners clean around him 🤢

AlternateLook · 04/06/2026 17:49

Lazydomestic · 04/06/2026 17:46

Surely not Jenny from the block 🤣🤣

I bet it was more likely to be Blunder Woman aka Bella Emberg...😆😂

MissRaspberryRipples · 04/06/2026 17:48

My ex finds shitty excuses to get out of our daughter going over to his when he can't be arsed to look after her. It ranges from his girlfriend is older(he's 35 she's almost 60) and his latest this week is that he can't have her cos I'm apparently taking her to the fair this weekend- I told him no I'm not cos I'm working this weekend

Lazydomestic · 04/06/2026 17:46

ThePlantPotter · 03/06/2026 14:21

When I broke up with him he tried to make me jealous by showing me a photo of his new girlfriend. It was a photo of Jennifer Lopez 😂.

Surely not Jenny from the block 🤣🤣

dinosaurjigsaw · 04/06/2026 17:45

ChasingRainbow5 · 03/06/2026 14:27

I made chilli for dinner. I gave him a bit more rice than I gave myself, as I’d always give him more carbs. He felt I’d short changed him on the chilli, despite there being loads more in the pot which he was welcome to have.

After a ridiculous argument in which I calmly pointed this out, he went over to the kitchen counter to - I thought - top up his portion.

No.

No no.

He got the scales out of a drawer and, in the most pointless act of passive aggression I’ve ever seen, silently WEIGHED HIS DINNER.

As the whole stupid farcical argument was about the chilli to rice ratio and not the overall amount in the bowl, I completely ignored him.

Years later one of my friends will occasionally sigh and say “he weighed his dinner” with a wry little smile.

This must win! 😬

Rachie1973 · 04/06/2026 17:45

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · 03/06/2026 15:55

My ex got an “only god can judge me” tattoo, posted it to Facebook and my dad tried to send it me with the message “lol what a fucking knob”. But because he’s older and tec illiterate he shared it, with the caption “lol what a fucking knob” and tagged me in it. Dad no longer tries to use Facebook 😭.

Your Dad is brilliant! I reckon he secretly knew what he was doing which makes it even more delicious

Newbie8918 · 04/06/2026 17:41

Used a redundancy payout to travel to Turkey for a hair transplant, new teeth and started getting Botox. He’s massively in debt, so I would have thought it would be better spent elsewhere. He then went on to travel around Asia to all of the places that you’d target as a sex tourist (think Pattaya etc). Thinking about him, makes my vagina shrivel.

AlternateLook · 04/06/2026 17:40

Sortingmyself · 04/06/2026 17:27

I know a man who did exactly this. Just before xmas time. I wonder if its the same man? All very horrible. I really felt for the woman because he'd very clearly blamed her for what he was going to do...

To me, that's Mother Nature 'thinning the herd' in a manner of speaking. No great loss if there's one less controlling arsehole in the world.

PyongyangKipperbang · 04/06/2026 17:36

Sortingmyself · 04/06/2026 17:27

I know a man who did exactly this. Just before xmas time. I wonder if its the same man? All very horrible. I really felt for the woman because he'd very clearly blamed her for what he was going to do...

I am trying to think when it was, it was at least 15 years ago if not longer.

Sortingmyself · 04/06/2026 17:27

PyongyangKipperbang · 04/06/2026 00:08

i used to have a friend who had a similar thing happen, except she was his GF and they didnt live together. She was freaked out by him so texted that she was done with his controlling behaviour and said he would kill himself and if he died it would be her fault. Usually his sister would call by his first thing, except she was ill so didnt. He left a voicemail with (ex) friend who had blocked him so didnt get it. He took an amount of paracetamol that would usually cause liver damage but not kill. He left his front door open so he could be found. Except he wasnt and because he had done this before (it was in his inquest) it was the final straw for his liver and he died. Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind.

She stopped speaking to me because I deleted FB which obviously meant I hated her, drama all round!

I know a man who did exactly this. Just before xmas time. I wonder if its the same man? All very horrible. I really felt for the woman because he'd very clearly blamed her for what he was going to do...

queenofthewild · 04/06/2026 17:27

ASimpleLampoon · 04/06/2026 14:57

Is it Welsh?

nope. French.

ohyesido · 04/06/2026 17:12

TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 04/06/2026 16:48

I worked with a bloke called Paul who called himself Paulo because he has a Greek grandmother. He was from the middle of Gloucester.

There was an absolute arse of a man on Ex On The Beach who called himself Jacques when he was as French as Cornish pasty

ohyesido · 04/06/2026 17:10

nicking 3 bags of coppers worth £1 each that I was planning to take to the coin drop off. Light fingered wanker got a kick out of outwitting me, in his head

TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 04/06/2026 17:06

ThisBrickPombear · 03/06/2026 23:26

Argued to win custody of our cat through our divorce lawyers. Added a couple of grand ££ to the bill. He won (I decided it was not worth fighting over), then the next day he gave the cat to Battersea shelter.

I never thought anyone could be such a low life but there you have it…

Oooh yes, an ex I lived with. His exDW was going to have a third child with her new DH and wanted the cat gone so we agreed to have the cat as the kids theoretically loved her.

The kids lost interest in the cat and he said he didn't want her. I discovered some very unsavoury stuff about him and was leaving him. The kids said it would be a good idea if I took the cat but he said no and took her to the local RSPCA shelter the day after I left.

She was a funny little thing and had loads of special needs that only I pandered to. I hope whoever had her was kind to her.

He was a massive asshole in far worse ways though. He should be in jail in fact and yet he is quite popular in his home town. No-one knows what he is into though.

VexedofVirginiaWater · 04/06/2026 17:03

Ashamedmuch · 04/06/2026 09:06

It's not really lol material. Unless you are the "lady" he left me for.

No indeed, I saw that poster's "lol" comment and I was horrified - such a nasty degrading thing to do. I experienced something similar with my ex but not as bad because it was pre mobile phones.

He drew a very nasty naked caricature of me on the dry wipe memo shopping list in the kitchen. It was a very fat woman and he had labelled it with "wobble" several times with added wiggly lines for effect. Our sons were 8 and 10 at the time. He had me so tied up in knots I was even worried to erase it at first in case he was annoyed, until I caught myself on and wiped it off.

It must be 30 years ago now but I have never forgotten the nastiness of it. We didn't divorce until a few years later. Had he done it now I would have taken a photo and shown it to our parents (they didn't realise what he was like at that stage).

Loulou4022 · 04/06/2026 16:50

ElenOfTheWays · 04/06/2026 15:08

His intitals aren't TR are they?

Haha no. You know one too!!

TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 04/06/2026 16:48

RachelshouldhavegonetoParis · 04/06/2026 16:27

Changed his name to Antonio because he thought it made him sound ‘enigmatic’. He’s from Carmarthen with zero Spanish ancestry.

I worked with a bloke called Paul who called himself Paulo because he has a Greek grandmother. He was from the middle of Gloucester.

Concernedmumofboys · 04/06/2026 16:44

Suggested I come along to look after the children in the evenings when he goes to his home country for a holiday because he can't cope with them all together and doesn't have them all together in this country. Despite the fact I have a non mol and haven't been face to face with him in over 2 years.

FriendlyMedusa · 04/06/2026 16:39

Got in contact in 2026 (we dated in 2011) to ask if I'd like a threesome with him and a woman he'd recently dumped (who is 20 years my senior).

Shockingly, I wasn't interested.

noreallyImeanit · 04/06/2026 16:39

"as he said it he got up from where he was sitting at his computer chair to walk across the room. He was naked, and there was a white plastic bag stuck to his arse. Or more accurately, stuck up his arse crack."

God if you weren't already lesbian this would definitely turn you 😂

Blondiney · 04/06/2026 16:39

Ordered an "expresso".

noreallyImeanit · 04/06/2026 16:35

When my ex left he took the family car with him (which I'd paid for), even though he also had a works vehicle.

We lived very rurally - six miles from the nearest bus stop - and I had a toddler at the time.

sueelleker · 04/06/2026 16:31

Serenity45 · 04/06/2026 16:11

Ex from years ago telling his new girlfriend (literally started seeing her 2 weeks after I dumped him) that he had to come back to stay at our house as I wasn't coping with the dog / housework, very much painting himself as the poor put upon ex trying to be the bigger person when I had begged him for help. Cue her ranting about how lazy and incompetent I was etc etc.

Reader it wasn't 'our' house it was my house (in my sole name, paid for by me, we were never married he paid me rent and never built up a beneficial interest in the property). I was also 'coping' just fine with the dog (as I always had). I only know this because I let him in, supposedly so he could collect some of his stuff and he fell asleep on the sofa. I wouldn't usually stoop to snooping on someone's phone but he's been an abusive twat to me at times and knowledge is power and read the text exchange. Absolute prick

Did you tell her to come and fetch him?

MaryBennetsGlasses · 04/06/2026 16:31

CrikeyMajikey · 04/06/2026 01:31

At his house for Sunday lunch, table laid, all was cooking nicely. He calls me into the dining room where the table cloth was looking very disheveled, cutlery moved around and little teeth marks and chewed edges on the table mats. He then asked me if I had made the mess and chewed his table mats! He refused to beleive that I hadn’t and it was probably his dog. I didn’t stay for lunch. 30 years later and I still can’t belive I was accused of chewing table mats.

Omg. Peak Wankmuppetry

I cannot even begin to imagine how I would respond if someone accused me of chewing the table! 😆