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Or is this a wank room?

226 replies

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 16:19

Was browsing Rightmove and found what might be a wank room.
Tell me what you think!

YANBU- It’s a wank room
YABU- It’s purely innocent vintage decor in a bathroom

OP posts:
mamboshirt · 13/01/2024 02:59

Makeupalley · 12/01/2024 17:20

I have gold taps. And I'm on another thread about the possibility of dying whilst drinking wine in the bath. Now I'm worried I'm deffo going to be branded a pervert when I pop my clogs drunk in the tub...

😂😂

mjf981 · 13/01/2024 04:52

No not a wank room - I've even heard of that. Do most people just not do it in bed??
It is however an awful choice of wallpaper! 🙄

mjf981 · 13/01/2024 04:52

*never even hear of that..

mjf981 · 13/01/2024 04:53

Heard even, ffs

lottiegarbanzo · 13/01/2024 08:10

This is exactly the sort of bizarre, fresh take on everyday life that comes from people 'speaking out loud their inner thoughts' for which - enhanced by the insights and anecdotes that follow - I value Mumsnet.

Thanks OP

StonwEd · 13/01/2024 08:40

My old hairdressers had this wallpaper. The pic of MM looking like she’s in the sound of music used to irk me irrationally. Never fancied getting jiggy with myself although now you mention it it was in the room they’d wash your hair and my hairdresser was awfully good at the head massage, I did find that rather “relaxing” 😅

MasterBeth · 13/01/2024 08:48

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 18:30

I am questioning it now after this thread because the photo reminded me of it and I know now that my reaction to that room of 🤮 is not normal.

I mostly babysat for visiting American military as I grew up near one of the airbases and our village was three quarters American families. They had Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler.

I was sheltered at that age- 15/16.

"They're sex people, Lynn!"

StonwEd · 13/01/2024 08:49

MasterBeth · 13/01/2024 08:48

"They're sex people, Lynn!"

🤣🤣🤣🤣

SummerFeverVenice · 13/01/2024 09:13

CaramelMac · 12/01/2024 20:48

I once looked at a house where the living room had a single armchair pointed at the TV, no other furniture, and a massive picture of Rod Stewart on the wall. I think that was probably a wank room.

Was it a reclining armchair with a mirror on the ceiling?

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SummerFeverVenice · 13/01/2024 09:15

Fionaville · 13/01/2024 01:57

Speaking of wank rooms, I once found a porn mag in the cistern cupboard at a Premier Inn. The cisterns were build into a unit next to the sink and had a little hinge door for access. Being inquisitive, I lifted it to have a look and found the mag in there. What followed was a few years of me checking every cistern cupboard, in various Premier Inns across the country and I found more! Like it was a secret society of porn mag loving, travelling business men! I haven't been to a Premier Inn in years, but I imagine smart phones have reduced this practice. I don't think hotels put Bibles in the bedside cabinets anymore either. They were simpler times.

They were simpler times. I can well believe this sort of lending library of porn mags being stashed in Premier rooms.

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SummerFeverVenice · 13/01/2024 09:18

lottiegarbanzo · 13/01/2024 08:10

This is exactly the sort of bizarre, fresh take on everyday life that comes from people 'speaking out loud their inner thoughts' for which - enhanced by the insights and anecdotes that follow - I value Mumsnet.

Thanks OP

Thank you. 🥹 it’s nice to be appreciated.

OP posts:
Trinity65 · 13/01/2024 09:28

What a strange mindset

AndThatWasNY · 13/01/2024 09:31

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 16:30

Interesting responses.

I thought of a wank room because as a teenage babysitter, I lost count of the homes that had lads mags stashed in the down stairs loos?

So I saw this and my mind went to that.

I have never in all my years seen porno magazines in a bathroom you must have had some dodgy babysitting gigs.

Trinity65 · 13/01/2024 09:32

NeverDropYourMooncup · 12/01/2024 16:46

Can't be a wank room.

That wallpaper's not washable...

😆😆

Mumof118 · 13/01/2024 09:36

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 16:30

Interesting responses.

I thought of a wank room because as a teenage babysitter, I lost count of the homes that had lads mags stashed in the down stairs loos?

So I saw this and my mind went to that.

Who on earth were you babysitting for?!

I did an absolute tonne of babysitting as a teen and never once saw a porn magazine in a bathroom. Not even one.

As for the Marilyn wallpaper, it’s just a trend like any other, that fans do. My old boss had a celebrity water closet, but I can’t remember who it was. Might have been Freddie Mercury. I’ve also seen a Michael Jackson one and my grandparents had a more subtle, Audrey Hepburn inspired full bathroom.

Bobbotgegrinch · 13/01/2024 09:54

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 18:30

I am questioning it now after this thread because the photo reminded me of it and I know now that my reaction to that room of 🤮 is not normal.

I mostly babysat for visiting American military as I grew up near one of the airbases and our village was three quarters American families. They had Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler.

I was sheltered at that age- 15/16.

If it was magazines like that, then they probably weren't being used for wanking either. All 3 of those were considered "high-brow" for porn, and would be about 50% articles, film reviews etc. and 50% naked women.

If the magazines were kept with the other reading material, then they were likely being used as reading material rather than wank fodder. Most men don't tend to have a wank on the toilet, it's not the most pleasant experience. In the bath or shower yes, but that's going to make your playboy a bit soggy ;)

Chikky123 · 13/01/2024 10:21

Iamacatslave · 12/01/2024 16:29

Could we please see a photo of the garden…

"howling" 😂

HarpyRampant · 13/01/2024 10:32

ItsBeenRaining · 12/01/2024 17:38

Anyone for a tennis player with her arse showing.

And a bare-chested man with prominent pecs cuddling a baby.

OP, I think you babysat for quite strange people with bathrooms full of slightly camouflaged porn magazines. Or, when you say ‘lads’ magazines’, do you mean things like Nuts and FHM? I think that, while they included photos of topless women, were also considered actual reading material for male thickos before they started scrolling mindless on their phones on the loo?

Oscarsdaddy · 13/01/2024 17:49

When I was a lad (in the 80’s) I’d have Page 3 cut outs on my wall. That was a w**k room. This is nothing but vintage art and your dirty mind 🤣🤣🤣

Andistarr · 13/01/2024 17:56

If it were why are you worried? Live and let live.

CauliflowerBalti · 13/01/2024 18:24

The correct term, as Carol & Tandy would tell you, is ‘mastabatorium’.

DisabledDemon · 13/01/2024 19:26

Saw this on an old Come Dine With Me the other day. The woman just happened to really admire Marilyn Monroe.

transformandriseup · 13/01/2024 19:29

My hairdresser also had this exact wallpaper in her toilet

Engagebrain · 13/01/2024 19:53

Are you seeing a therapist?😂

Pres11 · 13/01/2024 19:54

I’ve seen some questions on mumsnet but this has to be the strangest ever?!!!