Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

What's the wankiest thing you'll admit to doing?

123 replies

NotDarkGothicMama · 07/06/2026 16:32

Inspired by this AIBU thread and Sunday lunch.

When I have a particularly large parsnip to prepare, I enjoy waving it around like a club and pretending to be a caveman first.

What is the wankiest thing you’ve seen your ex do? | Mumsnet

That made you think - what a knob! And that you are well rid of them! lighthearted thread - I’ll go first - Recently my ex changed his profile p...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5537889-what-is-the-wankiest-thing-youve-seen-your-ex-do?page=1

OP posts:
Simonjt · 08/06/2026 15:13

I take progress pictures at the gym (our gym has a special posing area for this in the changing room so you don’t snap someone getting changed) and they go in a seperate album on my phone.

I do hyrox, which is fairly wanky, but to take it to another level I do it topless.

AltitudeCheck · 08/06/2026 15:28

I'm a running wanker, OH is a cycling wanker, we were sat in a quiet alcove in the pub chatting about our / our acquaintances latest Strava achievements.... I cringed when I realised there was someone sat in the booth behind us... she must have thought we were the wankiest pair of bores alive!

Wauwinet · 08/06/2026 15:38

Last week I asked the gardeners to start cutting the lawn 2cm shorter.

SkinnyOatFlatWhiteForMePleaseBarista · 08/06/2026 15:42

Simonjt · 08/06/2026 15:13

I take progress pictures at the gym (our gym has a special posing area for this in the changing room so you don’t snap someone getting changed) and they go in a seperate album on my phone.

I do hyrox, which is fairly wanky, but to take it to another level I do it topless.

The gym I go to had a 360 degree camera set up in the posing room after the last HYROX sim… you would have loved that!

JudgeJ · 08/06/2026 15:46

SadTimesInFife · 08/06/2026 14:42

Memorised "Xanadu" poem by Coleridge. I recite it to myself in moments of boredom, stress or frustration.

If I can't sleep I have been known to prove from first principles the formula for solving quadratic equations!
It's the one that starts with x = -b +/- ........... can't do the notation correctly on here though.

Malasana · 08/06/2026 15:52

Psiren · 08/06/2026 11:16

Agree but I will also refuse a mug if its coloured inside. It needs to be white or it makes the tea taste funny.

I’m the same! It just tastes so wrong.

Tiptow · 08/06/2026 16:05

SadTimesInFife · 08/06/2026 14:42

Memorised "Xanadu" poem by Coleridge. I recite it to myself in moments of boredom, stress or frustration.

Ooh I just fell in love with you a bit! 🌟
Wonderful thing to do!

Yapper73 · 08/06/2026 16:21

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 08/06/2026 10:40

As a child, I was tempted to do the same (but didn't). I thought the cat would look so much better without her whiskers.

Then my younger sister came along, and actually did it. Alas, she only cut one side off before our mum caught her, so the poor cat looked worse than ever.

Edited

Me too

NotDarkGothicMama · 08/06/2026 16:32

B1anche · 08/06/2026 14:48

The exes are much wankier than what we're fessing up to.

I wonder what our exes would say about us though! I suspect it wouldn't be comments about our china mug preferences or 'witty' Latin quips.

Oh I know. I'm trying to imagine what exH would say about me. Probably that I stopped him from having the DC for Christmas a few years ago. Boo hoo. He was up on drug-related charges and his proposal was that they spend Christmas at his sister's empty flat with him and a strange man that was camping out there temporarily. He thought I was unreasonable to say no and keel them with me.

OP posts:
Inthezone5578 · 08/06/2026 16:37

Can someone link the overheard in waitrose thread. I can't find it

ohyesido · 08/06/2026 16:41

My DH hates anything that requires audience participation (in case he gets picked) so I convinced him to come to the London Dungeon with me by promising to move in front of him so the actors wouldn’t be able to pick him.

on the way to the courtroom I stepped to the left as we entered knowing the first one to be grabbed and put in the dock would be on the right. I gave him a cheeky wave and said “bye!”

he has not forgotten that and it’s my favourite anecdote

VanGoSunflowers · 08/06/2026 16:49

I made an Italian barista redo my Americano as he did it wrong 🙈

catin8oot5 · 08/06/2026 16:53

MNers having always tried to show off how middle class they are for the last 20 years.

OP’s post was funny 😆

The ones about little Hugo and antipasti in Waitrose are a worn out old trope.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 08/06/2026 16:57

NotDarkGothicMama · 08/06/2026 10:37

I change the loo roll to my preferred orientation in other people's houses.

This is absolutely not wanky. You are just doing the Lords work.

PencilsInSpace · 08/06/2026 17:06

Two art degrees.

Giggorata · 08/06/2026 17:12

I'm not sure that this is wanky but when I hang out the washing outside the back door, I always leave a gap so the dogs can see the comings and goings from their run.

DonewhatIcando · 08/06/2026 17:12

NotDarkGothicMama · 07/06/2026 22:08

If it helps, I raced someone at the traffic lights yesterday. I'm nearly 40 years old, drive a very boring car and had a little giggle to myself as I sped off.

😂😂
Same, a boy racer in modified Corsa that sounded like it was choking on conkers pulled up next to and was revving and inching forward while eyeballing me, my first thought was "we're racing!" I shot off like Lewis Hamilton screaming "eat my dust"
Im 60 and drive a Mini!

Piglet89 · 08/06/2026 17:20

ERthree · 08/06/2026 12:15

I do this😁

If I see shampoo/shower gel bottles which are squeezed so they pinch in the middle, I open
the cap and let air in, so they return to their original shape. This means squeezing them will once again release the contents.

Piglet89 · 08/06/2026 17:21

Oh yes: and correcting my husband’s spoken grammar.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 08/06/2026 17:28

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 08/06/2026 10:40

As a child, I was tempted to do the same (but didn't). I thought the cat would look so much better without her whiskers.

Then my younger sister came along, and actually did it. Alas, she only cut one side off before our mum caught her, so the poor cat looked worse than ever.

Edited

You do know that whiskers have a point to them? They help cats detect stuff in front of them, especially in the dark.

JennyForeigner · 08/06/2026 17:30

Pronounce theatre as thee-et-tah like some kind of spectacularly wanky Mitford sister on her way to the Crit. I have no idea what happened in my childhood to make me get exactly one word this wanky but no-one who ever heard it didn't immediately die of cringe.

BigBilly · 08/06/2026 17:39

Piglet89 · 08/06/2026 17:21

Oh yes: and correcting my husband’s spoken grammar.

Are you me?? 😂 I do this all the time, and he's good enough to say "you're improving me!"

prepapiano · 08/06/2026 18:24

I didn’t buy the avocados in Waitrose because they were Pinkerton, not Hass

prepapiano · 08/06/2026 18:25

JennyForeigner · 08/06/2026 17:30

Pronounce theatre as thee-et-tah like some kind of spectacularly wanky Mitford sister on her way to the Crit. I have no idea what happened in my childhood to make me get exactly one word this wanky but no-one who ever heard it didn't immediately die of cringe.

I hate this because it doesn’t even make sense, spelling-wise

foodlovefood · 08/06/2026 18:36

I have a car that is fast but underrated. The chav cars assume it’s slow. I get pleasure at pulling away from the traffic lights first. Then resume my normal driving mission daisy sped.

pulled out of the works drinks kitty as I can’t drink instant coffee and bring my own cafetière and ground coffee. DP thought I was a coffee snob as I bought my own espresso machine. But he uses it now

i realised in a coffee shop I was ordering a wanky coffee when they shouted lactose free, sugar free vanilla iced latte!!

Swipe left for the next trending thread