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

I'm a schemy working class sort but wanky enough to loathe reality telly and buckfast. Everything else is just degrees of personal taste. That being said, I'm a bit of a twat about my cast iron skillets, proper butter and listening to documentaries.

Oh dear here we go - I do also own a harpsichord.

Have DC with wanky first and middle names.

Only have wooden gender neutral toys for said wanky DC.

Have a fairly wanky job.

Just wrapped all Christmas parcels in brown paper.

I hand sew name labels into DC school clothes, love my cashmere woolies and have a grown-ups only room which is decorated perfectly to my taste. It was utter bliss to sit in there with the fire and write my Christmas cards.

Oh, and I will not tolerate margarine or 'spreads' of any type in my house!

I have a Keane album I sometimes listen to.

Though I consciously uncoupled myself from Coldplay and their album went to a charity shop.

Wanky, moi?

Tea leaves from Waitrose and smashed avocado
Bright goose-necked kettles
(I don’t have a car though)
Posh paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my wankiest things

Sans cheval dressage and cashmere woolies
Rye bread and flat bread and Cornish Yarg toasties
Quails that lay eggs with the wind in their wings
These are a few of my wankiest things

Striped Boden dresses and Nepalese pink salt
Wine from New Zealand and Farrow and Ball paint
Radio 3 sounds with soaring high strings
These are a few of my wankiest things

When the Merc breaks
When the Aga’s out
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my wankiest things
And then I don’t feel so bad

Purple 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Bravo!

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?

Oh, oui certainement cms1972 I also used to carry a stunt copy of a biography of Brecht, which I liked to read ostentatiously in public.

Avocado toast. Nice restaurants, expensive food and wine, hard cover books and classical music.

I love sitting down to a properly set table with a cloth tablecloth, nice silverware and cloth napkins every evening - I dont care what anybody says I will not eat in front of the telly

Cant believe there is so much dressage sans cheval wankery going on and I didn't even know ! I have been wanky for 2 years now after losing my 26 yo PSG DWB Boy and I won't have another at my age....doesn't stop me using leading ropes for my dogs and walking them out like I'm about to turn them out...with lots of little half halts (holding a lead with each hand and squeezing) Same driving as well, making a transition up and down the gears and 'collecting' in the middle lane before 'extending' into the outside lane....half passing- obvs- with 'leg on' as I go...total wankery!!!

ohhhhh hate saying this but it makes ME feel better, organic milk, its my thing, I know they give cows stuff to keep them lactating so they keep producing milk, on way to my local town theres a farm, cows to me look really skinny ribs showing kept in mud ect they are milking cows. so sadly in my head I like to think organic cows are running free in lush green fields, sad I know but its the only way I can have milk, so if you know different PLEEEEEAAASE dont say.

Please switch to dairy free. Coconut or almond milk is delicious.

Almond milk is really bad for the environment and is causing significant problems in California I believe.

Oat milk should be okay I would have thought.

I am an utter wanker. I love a wanky posh hotel - preferably a Ritz-Carlton or a Mandarin Oriental or a deeply overstyled boutique hotel.

I have wine flown in quarterly from my favorite winery in Napa. I also have preferred vineyards for each kind of wine in the Napa Valley.

I love expensive baby stuff - ideally wanky scandi furniture and teeny clothes from brands like Tiny Cottons, BoBo Choses and Tocoto Vintage. I'm also very into the very wanky "dress your baby as a peasant" fashion right now, but the husband hates it.

I also like cashmere everything, loose leaf tea from my local wanky tea shop and any kind of over priced artisanal bread

Flashy jewellery and a personalised number plate.

I've got a private plate on my car. It's not my name or initials though so perhaps not so much wanky, more pointless.

Does owning two pianos count?

Does mentioning to your dh you were thinking of putting up the winter/ summer curtains count? And changing the cushion covers over? I think this is quite normal but dh thinks I am bonkers

Does owning two pianos count?

Or one piano that nobody can play?

I listen to opera and orchestra at work on my earphones telling everyone I'm listening to radio stations my place everybody would know I'm a wanker within minutes!!
Fresh coffee
And I can do everything with my voice at home no need for light switches etc I was actually called a wanker for that one.

Sourdough bread from our local artisan producer. You used to have to queue up outside a lock up round the back of the station to get it, but they’ve opened a cafe in a new art installation in a medieval building.

Opera, ballet, Wine Society wine and private vineyard tours.

Bacon delivered by post each Friday, which the postmen finds both hilarious and inspired.

And at least 8 different types of salt.

Aibu to really fancy going for a drive to do dressage? I have no where I need to go though!

Specific coffee beans from the local artisanal coffee roasters. They are ground in a separate grinder straight into the coffee arm thing to prescisely the right amount (bean to cup machines are not recommended by said artisanal coffee roasters). Then made with a stupidly expensive coffye machine. I have become the ultimate coffee wanker and no other coffee is as good.

I also partake in the horseless dressage and cross country.

And currently I am in a wanky east London hotel where I have been brought wanky granola to the door as little breakfast before I go down to have wanky big breakfast. It is fabulous.

I reject lambswool in favour of cashmere. Plates I can’t put in the dishwasher. Victorian watercolours. A tweed flat cap. Salt in little pots with tiny spoons.