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

Ooh yes, I forgot about salt! I have a jar of truffle infused salt that DH doesn't like so I use it myself, it's lush! We also buy meat where we can anyway, at the local farmers market so we eat venison, rabbit, duck, fancy artisan bacon, partridge and pheasant fairly regularly. We are definetly food wankers!

WorryBadger

I very occasionally watch part of a televised opera and while doing so I briefly admire myself for being quite the thing

I whole-heartedly applaud you for the expression of this sentiment

@Time40

Farrow and Ball paint. Seriously expensive wine. Opera

I have found my mumsnet spirit animal

Those are the best and only things that matter.

Mustn't forget the semi regular shopping trips to Borough Market - and picking up 'our favourite butter' from Neal's Yard Dairy.

Oh, and sniffing a hand crafted 'healing' cream 'with a 'special' ingredient and saying 'Oh, you've used Geranium from Neal's Yard in this. Have you tried adding a couple of drops of Rose Absolute and Mandarin to it?' before thinking just how utterly wanky that sounded.

For those who like expensive paint my choice is

www.mylands.com

I really love this thread, thank you for starting it OP

I like:
loose leaf tea
porcelain crockery
organic meat, dairy, fruit, veg
home cooked food almost always, no takeaways ever
R4 and R3
Private Eye, the LRB
seamfree flannel pyjamas
Scottish pure wool blankets (DS snuggles under a huge one in the car each morning as it's so cold when we get in to go to school at the moment)

Oceanvillage - oui oui to films with subtitles - especially some of the reeeally obscure** unwatchable miserable black and white ones with directors Q&A beforehand

Intrigued by the title , I skim read this thread and conclude I have a wanky life. I seriously had no idea.
I realise now I’m an object of fun.
It all makesme very happy though which seems like a good enough pay off.

Anyway, I must go and meditate.

Craft beer
I’ve reached a stage where I don’t bat an eyelid at paying £7 for a solitary can of beer. From a shop. To drink at home.

@Maneandfeathers @SickNotes and @WorryBadger so glad it's not just me.

I do cross country looking out the window of trains. And it is impossible, impossible to walk down any woodland track without working out where I could canter.

I don't even ride that often!

DD does and responds well to both walk on and trot on when I'm in a hurry and all else fails.

That makes me a wanky loud parenting wanker too.

I use proper linen tablecloths which were embroidered by my old grandmother years ago and also tray cloths, they're not gingham though. They take more effort to iron but look nice IMHO

Ooooh, now I don't think this one is actually wanky. It's just vintage-loving, and vintage isn't wanky all that often.

In addition to joining in with the L’Occitane Almond Oil wankers 👋🏼 , I also use a Hario V60 pour over coffee thingy (I have a 2 and a 5 year old, only the most pretentious of wankers has time to let the goddamn coffee “bloom” and then pour hot water from a goosenecked kettle for 2 mins.

I also graduated from Breton sea salt butter to only buying... organic goats butter

Time40 [...] I have found my mumsnet spirit animal

@ChampooPapi :waves: :twitches whiskers:

I rather like contemporary dance. Something of a challenge to watch a lot of the time (angst-ridden writhing about on the floor wearing rags, and usually on a barely-lit stage accompanied by incomprehensible music), but if you want sheer unadulterated wankery, eavesdropping on other audience members' conversations in the bar in the interval takes some beating

Pre-peeled quails eggs. Nocellara olives with Chablis. Only drinking real coffee. Shopping at Ocado. Gin balloons. Vintage glassware. Expensive notebooks. Hardback books. Putting two spaces at the end of sentences!

Wanky classical posh dressage riders doing horse less dressage. Proper wankery!

I only wear cashmere socks and I make no apology for it.

I also have a cashmere onesie and a cashmere tracksuit, plus about 30 cashmere jumpers. Dozens of scarves/gloves/hats etc. Just got a new hat and gloves today. Oh, and a monogrammed blanket for travelling.

I like cashmere, basically.

I also collect designer handbags - Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci etc. And then go out with my debit card, keys and phone in my fucking coat pocket

Cloud forest organic fair trade coffee beans, because you don't get the immediacy with the ground stuff. Actually using the word "immediacy" in conversation about coffee. Why DW hasn't caved my head in I do not know.

Can it be a wanky person? Bradley Jaden looks like he might be the epitome of wanky but by good Lord he beautiful and talented and I rather like him.

is* beautiful

@Cherrysoup

I miss my last workplace we were all so wanky we paid into a real coffee fund because we couldn't manage having to use instant.
We took it in turns to make caffetieres.

Sourdough toast ,raspberry bon mamam jam,arabica bean ground coffee,fancy nuts, fancy cheese, fancy crackers, farrow and ball paint,scandi decor,french movies, Parma gin and posh lemonade, smashed avocado and egg with halloumi cheese,shark hoover(!!) A few of my favourite things,which according to this thread are wanky

We use only salt that I buy mail order from a place which is nowhere near the sea, very small scale production.