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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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TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 04/06/2026 13:51

NoCarCantGoFar · 03/06/2026 21:37

Not me, thankfully, but a girl I knew - her ex husband advertised himself on dating sites as being an animal lover and in his ‘dream job’ working with animals…
He was a slaughter man in the local abattoir!😱

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! 😵

JunesDunes · 04/06/2026 13:45

DidIJustHearWhatIThinkYouSaid · 04/06/2026 13:36

He also (different DS) ‘forgot’ that he was supposed to collect DS for a few days in half term week. DS was 15 at the time and I remember him just sitting on his suitcase in the hall waiting. DS didn’t want me to call but eventually I did and Ex came the next day. I got over him leaving me years ago but I’ll never forgive him and I hate him for the way he’s treated the children.

😪 I dont understand how soneone can do that to children.

MossMystery · 04/06/2026 13:42

I'm another one who could write a book, but the one that jumps out as "wankiest" was him finding an excuse to be topless every time I had to go round to collect something. He was never the type to be topless around the house when we were together, but not for some reason he now rarely wore a top

I guess I was supposed to swoon and kick myself after realising what i was missing out on. Instead I'm impressed with myself for keeping a straight face while he stood there trying (badly) to act all casual about it!

Givemeausernamepls · 04/06/2026 13:39

Got a fuck of massive family tattoo the week after he walked out (he left suddenly without any prior discussion, and has never really said why!)

DidIJustHearWhatIThinkYouSaid · 04/06/2026 13:36

JunesDunes · 04/06/2026 13:25

That made me really sad.

He also (different DS) ‘forgot’ that he was supposed to collect DS for a few days in half term week. DS was 15 at the time and I remember him just sitting on his suitcase in the hall waiting. DS didn’t want me to call but eventually I did and Ex came the next day. I got over him leaving me years ago but I’ll never forgive him and I hate him for the way he’s treated the children.

ForWiseRoseCat · 04/06/2026 13:32

I once caught him trying to get money out of a piggy bank (the ones you have to smash), he was shaking it upside down then trying to get tweezers to catch the notes.

It was my sodding piggy bank. He could have asked me if I could lend him some money but he'd rather steal it from my piggy bank.

Or the time he told my flatmate that he helped me get my flat. Only she had come to see it with me, and was currently my housemate so knew I was buying it and he had nothing to do with it.

He once told the same flatmate that "if we have sex it just happens". We had been separated for 3 years, living in different towns for 2 years and i wouldn't go there if he was the last man on earth and I wasn't that desperate.

Men are such entitled twats sometimes.

TaysideTeuchter · 04/06/2026 13:25

Kevinbaconsrealwife · 03/06/2026 16:46

Or found his Phorever people 😂

Proper bangin’ choons by the way 🎧

JunesDunes · 04/06/2026 13:25

DidIJustHearWhatIThinkYouSaid · 04/06/2026 13:17

My Ex collected our DS from his very first day of a ‘Saturday job’ to go to Ex’s house for the weekend. DS had been paid in cash. Ex asked to borrow the cash for petrol money. Didn’t pay it back. I reimbursed DS as soon as he got home and told me.

That made me really sad.

JunesDunes · 04/06/2026 13:24

He goes round doing those all you can eat challenges and then insists on going into the kitchen and compliments the chef if he loses. I dont even understand.

He shouts "lads! lads! Lads! Uuuurrrrghhh!" on nights out. At least I can hear him coming.

He has some sort of job with paramedics. He isn't medically trained in any way. Not sure what he does but he chooses to wear scrubs when he goes to the pub after work (probably to do the all you can eat challenges). I'm surprised he's allowed to and I just hope no one ever asks him to help someone.

(The scrubs are orange if anyone can tell me what he does? Despite myself I'm curious).

DidIJustHearWhatIThinkYouSaid · 04/06/2026 13:17

My Ex collected our DS from his very first day of a ‘Saturday job’ to go to Ex’s house for the weekend. DS had been paid in cash. Ex asked to borrow the cash for petrol money. Didn’t pay it back. I reimbursed DS as soon as he got home and told me.

TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 04/06/2026 13:17

ThatCyanCat · 03/06/2026 19:35

a suit so tight every seam was screaming for its life, with a top hat and skull tipped cane, covered in eyeliner, referring to himself as master.

I have just burst out laughing and scared the dog.

Me too @Over40Overdating I snarfed coffee at the eyeliner. Fucks sake!

Bloodorangekangaroo · 04/06/2026 13:17

Took photos of the kids off my social media and put them on his claiming he took The photos and participated in that day out. His bio gives the impression he’s a doting hands on father. He chooses to go see his kids every 4 months for an hour at most. The birthday posts and seasonal posts. He could actually collect his children whenever he wanted! He doesn’t need to do any of the pretend social media parenting. I no longer post anything nore do I have social media any more.

Gettingbysomehow · 04/06/2026 13:06

After my divorce my ex husband walked up and down the road my parents house was on with his new girlfriend to show all of us he had a new woman.
He didn't have my address hence my parents house.
She dumped him a month later, a mutual facebook friend told me.

Devilsmommy · 04/06/2026 13:03

RubberyChicken · 04/06/2026 12:48

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Devilsmommy · 04/06/2026 13:01

@HelenaWaiting you're an absolute angel. That poor baby being left like that. Thank god you took him in. Who chooses a holiday over their baby FFS. I'm so glad you were in his life 😊

RubberyChicken · 04/06/2026 12:48

FeministThrowingAPrincessParty · 03/06/2026 15:41

Wow, I think you win! But that comment to your son 🤢

Reminds me of this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rDXPmB3bI7Q

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rDXPmB3bI7Q

Fimofriend · 04/06/2026 12:47

Gresley · 04/06/2026 12:30

Invited me to watch him singing and playing harmonica in a band. When we got there, it took him ages to get up with them and when he did, he stood with his back to the audience and didn't sing or play a note. Spent the rest of the evening off his face on drugs.

In all fairness it would seem that he was already high before he went on the stage.

NoSuchBass · 04/06/2026 12:45

Pay his 14YO niece more than his full time adult staff because he wanted to suck up to his sister

Katiesaidthat · 04/06/2026 12:45

ItsNotMeEither · 03/06/2026 16:23

I'm sorry you came across such an asshole!

There is more than one. My ex uncle did exactly that to my aunt. He didn´t want to have kids, she did. So when she divorced him for being a serial adulterer, when she arrived at court, he shoved a photograph of his new baby girl (with one of his OW) in her face and said: "This is something I have that you will never have" (she was 43 by then). I was 18 back then (1992) and have never forgotten it. Then he was supposedly surprised when he spoke to me years later and i walked straight past him and another of his other women (was with her since six months after getting married) and ignored him.
Karma got him, the baby grew up, did not get on with dad, went no contact and married and moved to Australia. Good for her.

12234m · 04/06/2026 12:44

HelenaWaiting · 04/06/2026 09:22

Left me to bring up to kids alone for another woman he swore he wasn't having an affair with. Six months later, she gave birth. Fast forward two years he dropped the kids off after an access visit and also handed over his two year old saying "Watch the baby for half an hour will you? I have an errand to run".

Four hours later I found out that he and new missus had gone on holiday to Mauritius for three weeks. I still have "the baby". He's 22 now and adorable.

What? Bloody hell.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/06/2026 12:37

BillieWiper · 03/06/2026 15:07

Haha. He sounds familiar. I had a couple guys like that. 'im a musician'...erm not if you don't get paid you're not. And the only thing you know how to play is oasis songs?!!

In fairness, @BillieWiper, a musician is someone who plays or sings. These wankers aren’t professional musicians.

frozendaisy · 04/06/2026 12:33

categoriesofarse · 04/06/2026 12:05

He wanted us to spend Christmas Day together for the dc’s sake. He pulled out on 23/12 because his mistress whom he denied existed invited him to hers. She cooked him dinner on 24/12 then dumped him the same evening, so he spent Christmas alone - with food poisoning from her out of date prawns 😂

Oh this is just beautiful

AlternateLook · 04/06/2026 12:32

I bumped into an ex of mine in a club years ago, and I have to say I was impressed with her lush, rolling blonde hair. She looked amazing, to be fair to her. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was a hairpiece, and I watched her pull it off outside and stuff it in her bag. So she had a short bob after all...😆

Gresley · 04/06/2026 12:30

Invited me to watch him singing and playing harmonica in a band. When we got there, it took him ages to get up with them and when he did, he stood with his back to the audience and didn't sing or play a note. Spent the rest of the evening off his face on drugs.

thepariscrimefiles · 04/06/2026 12:27

HelenaWaiting · 04/06/2026 09:22

Left me to bring up to kids alone for another woman he swore he wasn't having an affair with. Six months later, she gave birth. Fast forward two years he dropped the kids off after an access visit and also handed over his two year old saying "Watch the baby for half an hour will you? I have an errand to run".

Four hours later I found out that he and new missus had gone on holiday to Mauritius for three weeks. I still have "the baby". He's 22 now and adorable.

OMG!!! Did they just not bother to ever pick up the baby? You must be a living saint.

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