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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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Lilactimes · 03/06/2026 15:27

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?

Is that you Ivanka?

FastnetLundyRockall · 03/06/2026 15:27

He became such a far right abusive troll he got banned from Twitter / X, which given the general appalling sewage scum environment on Twitter is saying something

Ashamedmuch · 03/06/2026 15:21

Added a photo of a pig to my contact details so when I rang him, a picture of a pig came up, not only on his phone, but also on the screen in the car. So if I rang him while the children were with him, they would see the pig picture attached to my name 😔

Devilsmommy · 03/06/2026 15:17

ChasingRainbow5 · 03/06/2026 14:37

Hahahah yeah it doesn’t really reflect well on me either, does it 😂

We've all been there🤣 mine was worse than yours if imagine so think how that makes me look😂

Touchwood2654 · 03/06/2026 15:15

SpidersAreShitheads · 03/06/2026 14:40

I was on relatively friendly terms with my ex, so when his DM got diagnosed with cancer I was happy to provide support over messages. (We’d been on-off for several years but I’d never met her).

One day he said he was taking his DM to the hospital for cancer treatment and would be there a while. He asked if I’d come and meet him there and give him a blow job to “cheer him up” while he was waiting.

Strangely, I refused. He thought I was most unreasonable. I also severed contact with him. Fucking ick, ick, ick.

Just been slightly sick in my mouth. 🤮

honeylulu · 03/06/2026 15:13

This one is a friend's ex. Total narc, shagged another woman because he felt he wasn't getting enough attention. When his wife decided to forgive him he said no thanks I'd rather get divorced as it had given him a taste of living like a single man. 3 kids who he then barely saw because he was off clubbing, travelling and dating. Hid money during the divorce and crowed about it to mutual friends. This was all ok though as he "deserved to be happy".

He then wrote a book on "mindfulness". I read some extracts (for free on the internet, had no intention of buying it). It was the biggest load of self indulgent wank I've ever read. He also claimed his ex wife was the narcissist and emotionally abusive - she's one of my best friends and nothing is further from the truth. Strangely the book totally omitted his own behaviour detailed in first para above.

Manchegomango · 03/06/2026 15:11

A month after I dumped him, changed his ever-blank whatsapp profile pic to a photo of him aged 30.
Hes 46.

trythisforsize · 03/06/2026 15:09

Full on argue for a 5 whole minutes at a festival breakfast kiosk whilst 50 people queued behind us - trying to convince the server to give him bacon instead of egg in the £5 egg roll special (the bacon roll was £6.50)

What. a. knob.

Unddddd · 03/06/2026 15:09

He was thinking about joining a band - literally thinking about it - that wasn’t even a real band, just an idea in his friend’s head.

Anyway. This didn’t stop him from looking me dead in the eye and saying, “are you going to be able to deal with it when lots of girls are in love with me because I’m the lead singer of the band?”

No prizes for guessing what became of the band 🤣

SwatTheTwit · 03/06/2026 15:08

My ex’s entire existence, presumably from birth til death.

I wish I was joking but even with a foot inside his coffin he was still being a dick. Unbelievable.

DavidStopActingLikeADisgruntledPelican · 03/06/2026 15:08

Sooo many… one of my favourites was emailing me to let me know he’d jacked in his job (so would no longer be paying child support) so he could devote all his time to mining crypto. I got a succession of increasingly erratic emails from him bragging about how much money he was going to make, how rich he was going to be and how he didn’t feel it was “fair” to involve CMS in the future (once the money started to roll in) due to the percentage of income they take. And to avoid paying tax. Obviously, he didn’t want to share the wealth with the tax man either.
I resisted all the angry comebacks I really wanted to send him and just said that I would continue to go through CMS, and that it was a shame he didn’t want to share his future high income with our children. And left all his other emails unanswered.

BTW, he’s still got no job, made no money from crypto (or if he has he’s definitely not rich) maybe HMRC caught up with him after I rang CMS about it all and they passed on his details and he’s living with his elderly parents despite pushing 50.

BillieWiper · 03/06/2026 15:07

honeylulu · 03/06/2026 14:34

The ex I'm thinking of was a musician and convinced he was destined to be a famous rock star. Not an awful person but a real manchild. Everything was about his "work" (music, he never got paid for it as far as I'm aware). He was astonished when I left him for a proper grown up.

We stayed indirectly in touch as we had uni friends in common.

He married a nice woman. When they were expecting their first child his parents (who had eventually become concerned about his manchild tendencies) thought he ought to learn to drive so he could take his wife to hospital etc. They gave him money for a course of driving lessons. He spent it on singing lessons to hone his rock star voice.

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?!!

BlueMum16 · 03/06/2026 15:06

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.

Pmsl

AsimpleOstrich · 03/06/2026 15:06

He had a certain 'designer' shirt he would always wear on a night out, he really thought he was God's gift whilst wearing it.
He was wearing said shirt one night when he came across a parked up Ferrari, obviously he just had to have someone take a photo of him leaning against it whilst looking extremely smug.
He's used that photo as his profile photo on social media and numerous dating sites.
Reality is he's a broke and jobless waste of space who lives with his mother.

Boreded · 03/06/2026 15:05

MotherofTerriers · 03/06/2026 15:03

Hid the anal lube he kept for his secret girlfriend in our kids Harry Potter trivia game box.

That is grim

honeylulu · 03/06/2026 15:05

ThatCyanCat · 03/06/2026 14:50

I suppose at least he'll be good at singing lullabies?

Funny story: I have a friend who is the loveliest person ever but by her own admission cannot carry a tune in a bucket; tone deaf and just a really awful singing voice. She once tried to sing a lullaby to her baby and he took the dummy out of his mouth and put it in hers 🤣

Wanky ex... many years ago, but I had an old boyfriend who, after we split up, tried to hit on two of my friends at the same party without realising they were both lesbians and they ended up getting off with each other instead.

As far as I know they are still married but just had the one child. A baby and a manchild must have been quite enough work for the poor woman!

Haha love the story about baby putting his dummy in the mum's mouth to stop her singing! What a fab little communicator, bit blunt though!

YourOnMute · 03/06/2026 15:05
  • Was doing a course and "was under tremendous pressure". I had a family wedding but he couldn't possibly allow me to go by myself, so he took out his laptop at the wedding meal and reception to study.
  • Pretended to have lung cancer.
Boreded · 03/06/2026 15:04

Not mine, but my friend’s told family court that she was a cutter and was ‘covered in scars’ - she had to strip at the doctors to prove it was untrue.

apparently she also starves herself, has hidden 50k (she has nothing because of his financial abuse) and takes drugs 🫣 not a single one of which is true…she is just a normal mum like most of the rest of us.

MotherofTerriers · 03/06/2026 15:03

Hid the anal lube he kept for his secret girlfriend in our kids Harry Potter trivia game box.

thepariscrimefiles · 03/06/2026 15:03

My ex-husband had an affair and left. We reconciled (or so I thought) but one day I phoned him at work (this was pre-mobile phones) and was told by one of his colleagues that he was on annual leave for a week! He'd left for work dressed in his suit! That was the end for me. We had three children under 10 and he used a week of his annual leave to spend with the OW rather than his own kids.

Isometimeswonder · 03/06/2026 14:59

After not hearing from him for months he sent me a picture of his new baby .... I can't have children.

Spidey66 · 03/06/2026 14:54

Made a huge fuss on the bus because of a bee. Shouting and screaming and waving his arms round. I was mortified and he was dumped. He said if I was stung I’d respond in the same way-I suggested I’d never been stung because I didn’t respond in that way. Knobhead.

(And no he wasn’t allergic).

Whyherewego · 03/06/2026 14:53

Blocked me on WhatsApp because I was being holier than thou apparently. This of course meant I couldn't tell him anything about the kids that required immediate attention. Which meant amongst other things that he missed out on a few important events. Haha

ThatCyanCat · 03/06/2026 14:50

honeylulu · 03/06/2026 14:34

The ex I'm thinking of was a musician and convinced he was destined to be a famous rock star. Not an awful person but a real manchild. Everything was about his "work" (music, he never got paid for it as far as I'm aware). He was astonished when I left him for a proper grown up.

We stayed indirectly in touch as we had uni friends in common.

He married a nice woman. When they were expecting their first child his parents (who had eventually become concerned about his manchild tendencies) thought he ought to learn to drive so he could take his wife to hospital etc. They gave him money for a course of driving lessons. He spent it on singing lessons to hone his rock star voice.

I suppose at least he'll be good at singing lullabies?

Funny story: I have a friend who is the loveliest person ever but by her own admission cannot carry a tune in a bucket; tone deaf and just a really awful singing voice. She once tried to sing a lullaby to her baby and he took the dummy out of his mouth and put it in hers 🤣

Wanky ex... many years ago, but I had an old boyfriend who, after we split up, tried to hit on two of my friends at the same party without realising they were both lesbians and they ended up getting off with each other instead.

Chucklecheeks01 · 03/06/2026 14:48

When he left the family home (to move straight in with OW) he took the kids X box as 'he paid for it'.

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