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

We also carry metal straws around to use every where.

the more I think about this...

My DH has a luthier. No, wait. He has two luthiers. He plays 'for himself'

I hand knit our cat's blankets. She likes them more than shop bought ones.

DGS's can instantly tell if an egg tart is Portuguese or Chinese - and each only like one of these.

I am common as muck. Really.

@jenthelibrarian I love smoked salt but it doesn’t last (the smokiness fades once it is opened). I use it to add smokiness to my vegetarian parsnip carbonara in place of bacon.

I’m so many things on this thread. I once had a very wanky convo in public about sourcing cheap Himalayan pink salt. Most of my food convos are v wanky.

I’ve been known to complain in Wagamama that their don buri is ‘not how they serve it in Japan’ to glaring looks from my partner and other dinner companions.

I need to join in the horseless dressage wankery. Except I pretend to jump. Every time I drive over speed bumps, I point my car at the bump, I encourage it with an encouraging 'hup', then pat it on the steering wheel when we have safely finished the course. I drive a decidedly unwanky golf and get annoyed when Audi's and so on get a 'clear round'. I should probably seek help about this issue.

In my defence, I do enjoy other such wankery as Waitrose, Water Babies (the only way forward for the wanky north London yummy mummies to teach their babies to swim), and also trendy second hand baby shops in the like of Muswell Hill, when I can purchase designer delights for fraction of the price still massively way over anything that a supermarket would sell and probably not even as good.

You can get avocado and poached eggs on toast in Sainsbury’s cafe. It’s not wanky.

Before this thread I had no idea how many women around me were engaged in imaginary dressage. I shall look at the world quite differently from this point forward.

I also think it needs to be brought up in future when people go to AIBU looking for advice.

'This Mum ignores me on the school run'.
'Are you sure she isn't distracted by doing imaginary dressage?'

I'm making my child's Christmas jumper for school because I don't like the ecological impact of buying a nasty plastic one. That's quite wanky really.

When I'm walking, if I'm not careful, my mind reverts to a mindless mantra of 'canter, canter, jump, jump'. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

I just hear my old instructor 'legs on legs on legs on' in my head... i gave my horse up two years ago when I got pregnant. The affliction is real!

I just hear my old instructor 'legs on legs on legs on' in my head... i gave my horse up two years ago when I got pregnant. The affliction is real!

Chai latte.

'CONTACT! I SAID CONTACT!! OH FFS'. . .

#mbosnz 🤣🤣🤣

I never drink cava or prosecco. If I want fizz it has to be champagne or ill go without.

Did we all have the same riding instructor, or are all riding instructors ultimately the same? Question for the ages. . .

I'm the same about fizz. Champers. All the way.

"I once took some aioli camping" - classic.

Decades ago, the only cigarettes I would smoke were these fancy coloured ones in a flat pack, with gold filters. I was an '80s teenage wanker.

These days I make my own spelt bread by hand - (no bread machines for me!) - and I discovered recently that adding chia seed to the flour makes the bread 'bouncier'. So I handcraft my own spelt and chia bread!

Re: medjool dates. Yes to stuffing them with marzipan, but hopefully you don't mean the bright yellow block stuff from Tescos! Please God, only stuff your dates with homemade marzipan! A sprinkling of chopped pistachios wouldn't go amiss on those marzipan dates, either.

Finally, making loose leaf tea in a pot isn't wanky. It's normal.

Isn't it?

Do heritage vegetable seeds count as wanky. If so, them.

cms1972 those gold tipped cigarettes were Sobranie cocktail cigarettes. The reason I know is because I smoked them too, usually while wearing my teenage uniform of black beret and Breton top. Slightly incongruous in late eighties Northampton.

Dear peaceanddove I do believe you are right. But did you narrow your eyes meaningfully as you squinted through the smoke, like the tortured teenage soul that you were?

@cms1972 'Decades ago, the only cigarettes I would smoke were these fancy coloured ones in a flat pack, with gold filters. I was an '80s teenage wanker.'

Sobranis? I smoked those

I have a friend with a harp.

I actually had a long silver cigarette holder, though channeling F Scott Fitzgerald was equally slightly incongrous while wearing a damp donkey jacket from the Army & Navy stores !

Cross-posted!

Leaf tea, china teapot and cup and saucer. All mine and mine alone. Abernethy biscuit to nibble on whilst having the tea.

Best thread ever!

As a teenage Goth in the 1980s I smoked either Sobranie Cocktails or the Black Russians. Now I'm all sourdough, good coffee and shakshuka.

Absolute wanker