What wanky things do you actually quite like?

[Somebodystired]

I often see threads about popular things people don't like, and since it sometimes seems a bit trendy to NOT like popular things I wondered what slightly wanky things you DO like?

This thought popped into my head whilst eating duck pate on one of the three "artisan breads" I picked up from the bakery this morning. My DH always takes the piss out of my love for a posh bread but I care not a jot

Oysters and radio4

Actually the more I think about this the wankier I realise I am...

• When I was single I had a dating coach
• I now have a healthy lifestyle coach
• I sometimes have counselling just to 'work things through'
• I like reading books about things like geo-politics as well as other less wanky things

I may need to dial down the wankiness (sp?)

Crop tops. They are back fashion (apparently), everybody seems to hate them.

I have flat, toned abdomen. I like them.

I have a wanky colour co-ordinated Christmas tree and table settings.

(No children were traumatised in the making of this Christmas wankery - it is a family joke. . .)

Oh god I’m a wanker although my family have been telling me this for years.
I have numerous salts in an array of flavours
I am a wine wanker and me and DH spend hours discussing wine making, regions and climates.
Avocado on toast is a normal breakfast here as are Turkish eggs with artisan harissa spice mix.
We go to a minimum of two Michelin star restaurants a year and spend an obscene amount.
I order my candles and room scents from a little boutique in Thailand.
There are things I don’t give a shit about though - cars, TVs, tech...

Good red wine. 🌹 Terribly wanky 😇

I love single estate dark chocolate. Was bought a pressy for my last birthday which has me sent a box of 4 bars each month of different rare chocolate with tasting notes. Really wanky but I look forward to a couple of squares and trying to taste the flavour tones picked out in the tasting notes. I am also the only person I know who loves Bob Dylan. A box cd set was out earlier in the year of his tours in 1975. 10 discs of 5 full concerts, all with similar set lists, but all slightly different. Could listen to it all day, nibbling my choccy, picking out the variencies.

Really small flat whites that cost £3 from artisan coffee shops.

I only smoke Marlborough Gold formerly known as Lights

Less tongue in cheek wankery: I will only drink Champagne not Prosecco (headaches); I wear only cashmere knitwear (Sensitive skin) and I have an obscenely large collection of Jo Malone scent and candles.

Wanking

My Kindle cover is handmade in buttery soft Spanish leather and embossed in gilt with a quote from my favourite poem.

On Christmas Eve I like to listen to Gregorian chants while I'm wrapping presents, and I always wrap with brown paper and stupidly expensive ribbon which I buy from an online brocante shop.

DD has been raised in such a wankery environment that she earnestly believes she can only possibly sleep well on a goose down pillow. And she's very partial to pricey underwear from the French brand Lejaby.

I love anything to do with the theatre and will watch any old wanky play if it's in London.

I hardboiled quails eggs to take to a festival.

I only use paint that has a wanky name and some sort of wanky story with it about where it was first used and who invented it. Not Farrow and Ball, no. More wanky than that! I also tell people about the wanky paint story in what I think is an amusing ironic tone. Just plain old wanky basically.

We grind our own coffee beans, tastes way better than instant, oat milk, avocado on anything, CBD oil

I have to confess - I live in a wanky area surrounded by hyper wanky shops and restaurants (a few good pubs though). I do a wanky job. I do wanky things. Bloody hell ! Somehow I do not think I am a wanker.

My DH is totally in to everything wanky.

Loose leaf tea in a proper pot. Artisan coffee. He only wears natural fibres. Cooks everything from scratch, even fucking pasta. Expensive wine. Craft beers. Only listens to Classic FM. Has an enormous coffee maker and would never drink instant. Doesn't watch anything except documentaries. Only concerts we've been to in the last five years have been classical.

He's exhausting. But I'm pretty wanky too, so it's ok.

Wanking?

The only thing that concerns us is how wanky our children sound when they're in public asking why other people think it's ok to eat processed white bread or don't bring their wanky stainless steel water bottles everywhere My DH is as working class as they come and would hate someone to think otherwise!

Proper butter on toast!! No substitutions
Hot chocolate with all the trimmings
Monk fish.. for a Thai curry

My favourite lunch is smoked salmon blinis, sometimes with caviar. But I do tend to have a bag of prawn cocktail crisps with it which brings it back to normality somewhat.
I absolutely love shopping in Waitrose. Esp the ones with the fresh sushi counters.
My bread has to be fresh and unsliced. Everyday.
I also love Classic FM, esp the Christmas Carol World Cup currently happening 😆

Barolo wine.
Fruitcake with cheese- preferably a strong cheddar.
Truffle oil and pine nuts on linguine.

I tried to deny that as a working class Glaswegian I had raised wanky dc, but when they were in Waitrose upset because there was no bresaola and they had to have Parma ham instead I could deny the truth no longer.

Time40 'scuse me but opera is not wanky!