What's the most wanky thing you have ever done?!

Some people really are accent sponges though!

That’s me. I was a holiday rep a looong time ago. I lived with a Scottish guy and a northern girl and when I came home after 6 months (I’m from the south) my accent was quite bizarre 😂

I’ve got friends who moved to New Zealand about 8 years ago. Their kids have kiwi accents despite being older when they moved there.

"When I was a pre-teen I started to draw little hearts or circles above my i’s instead of a dot thinking this made me look really cool, I have managed to train myself out of the hearts but cannot seem to break the circles."*
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I did this too billyismybilly I went even further down the path of wankery, I decided to change the spelling of my name from ending in y to ending in ie so that I could use my circle dot even more often -13 year old me also thought it looked more exotic- until one of my teachers loudly asked me in class whether I was changing my name spelling officially because if so, I'd need to get my parents to do it at the school office.
I went back to the y.

*DouzePoints8

I used to share an office with (this is going to sound wanky or the start of 70s joke) with a mexican, a Syrian, a Malasian and a Brazilian.

On Fridays we brought in 'breakfast' and the Mexican guy brought in the most amazing Guacamole, we we all pronounced as he did.

It's stuck with me, so now I sound wanky and like I'm talking about a fairground game.

Someone I know has a phone accent, very much different from normal speaking voice, much posher. It makes me laugh!

Getting out of a cab in Glasgow city centre (on night out with DH) got approached for money by a very drunk beggar. Out of my mouth came “My husband will attend to you” 😱 Even the beggar looked shocked!!
Where on Earth those words spoken in ‘Margo, Good Life’ accent came from, I’ll never know!!!

I@lardylegs123 I once goosed a chap at the Chichester Open Air Chalk Museum .

It was a mistake & I can explain how it happened

A long time ago.

When my DD was about 3 her favourite food was Mango, every Monday she had swimming lessons and I used to bribe her that if she was good she could have Mango on the way home. This one time she was been really naughty and I rather loudly said 'if you don't behave you can't have any Mango' everyone around me looked at me like I was a right twat and performance parenting . She still loves Mango but chocolate works as a better bribe now

I wore a beret that made me look completely ridiculous.

Back in my uni days I was unaccustomed to sleazebags on the street. One approached me and told me he was a scout for a modelling agency. He gave me a business card and took my number. I believed every word and went back to my shared house to brag to my friends. I thought they were being jealous when they cast doubt on my big break.

Then the bloke rang while I was out and started asking my housemate if she would pose topless for him. I hope to god none of my housemates remember it. I'm so embarrassed for myself!

I do love my J though. Copied from a superb teacher and I still love it wanky though it may be

When my DS was about 6-7m old I went to a new mums and baby group and actually heard myself use the phrase ‘he is very advanced’

I heard it come out. I heard the wankiness. I saw one mum roll her eyes at my wankiness…. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.

I never went back to said mums and baby group….

Absolute classic

When talking to someone who stutters, I start to stutter too. Revert to normal soon after, have no idea how far into the conversation I start. Have had one person say oh I didn't realise you stutter, you hide it so well .

I used to go clubbing all of the time back in the late 90s and smoked. I used to put my cigarettes in one of those holders thinking I looked sophisticated when in reality I looked more like Bet Lynch.......cringe!

[quote Musmerian]@troobleflooble - I think you mean effect change. (Pedantic but true.)[/quote]
I have a feeling that this definitely isn’t one of the most wanky things that you’ve said 😅

[quote FelicityBeedle]@Cocolapew
Is your dad Sheila Bloom?[/quote]
Bitchface

Ok so just remembered another wanky incident.

Sending an email to my husband's PA (if that's not wanky enough, nobody knows we have one) thanking him for ordering hampers, giving my food requests for a wanky corporate hospitality thing, telling him to cancel my husband's diary so I can go on wanky skiing trip with my friends, asking him to share all our wanky Christmas chocolates with the staff, and to make sure my husband's credit card staysbehind the bar for the Christmas do etc. Only I sent it to another person of the same name, a very down to earth CEO who I was helping out. Oh the shame shame shame.

The email I got back was pure sarcasm. Neither of us have mentioned it since. I'm cringing just thinking about this.

It was real moment of self awareness when I read that email back to myself.

@Cocolapew
Is your dad Sheila Bloom?

@Itgetsthehoseagain I've found my people! Yass of course, come round for an artisan G&T. Bring your own botanicals hun.

@PacifyLulu @Iamaperiwinkle I agree - I’m afraid ‘roof, goose, will and hugs’ sounds incredibly pretentious!

Not me but my Dad. He bought a Mercedes and always referred to it as The Mercedes or The Merc, never the car.
We were out with my DDs and my brothers kids and they all liked being driven around by my dad because they had a singalong in the car. They were getting in while he stood getting more irate at them . Watch the doors of The Mercedes, mind you don't scratch The Mercedes type of thing.
The next day he ripped the entire side of The Mercedes after driving into a skip he didn't see
Thankfully he went back to a Toyota after that.

I moved when I was quite young and went to a private school. I did the upwards convergence thing and sounded posh.

A few people corrected my northern vowel sounds and I started using southern vowels and saying things like barrrth (bath) but dropped that after a while. It was just too pretentious.

I remember having a conversation with a school friend about how difficult it was when the cleaner went on holiday.

We have a downstairs bedroom that is just full of books on shelves
We call it ‘the library’

@Purplecatshopaholic I was listening to them today!