Talk:Wanker

message: I've created a stub for the British slang term  git, which is pretty much a softer synonym of wanker (though with a different derivation and  subtleties of usage). Help with expanding it would be appreciated. Cheers! Artw 03:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Get" is still in common usage in northern England. Mr Larrington (talk) 19:54, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Git 

message: *Reference to wanking gesture: 
*Entry with a discussion of etymology: 
*Article which has a reference to showing off and an interesting account of a court case involving "wanker": 
*Not actually relevant, but has a funny anecdote: 
*Some paper from the Australian Linguistic society I haven't read: , found on this page:  (Well maybe you should read it. It says clearly that wanker = pretentious in Australia.)
*Not really a reference, but discusses explanation in OED (might be worth following up): 
*You have to pay for this one and I don't know what use it is; nevertheless, it has the word: 
I hope my half-an-hour enduring Google torture was not in vain.
Rintrah 12:20, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a nice pic of the hand gesture in context  in case anyone doubts it's real. There are some rock stars who have famously used it - Liam Gallagher perhaps? -- zzuuzz (talk) 12:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's proof it can get you in trouble: . Rintrah 13:46, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And here's proof people are sometimes willing to overlook it: BBC Image - Article. Hakluyt bean (talk) 23:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References! 

message: Please clear out all but the most important trivia (a contradiction in terms, I know). Meeeeep 07:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: I don't see anything in the article today that merits these tags. If no-one has any specific problems then I'll remove them in a few days. Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 00:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Theswe applied to an earlier version of the article (one that was up for deletion). We can probably take them off right now given the significant work done since. Artw 00:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've copyedited this fucker, even though the tags were removed, and its now ready for a peer review. I originally put up the  one during a copyedit of the article. It now reads much better. Meep 14:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|OR}}, {{tl|tone}} and {{tl|Copyedit}} 

message: Why does "tosser" redirect to here? They are 2 total seperate insults.--68.149.181.145 21:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are not dissimilar. (see wiktionary:Tosser) -- zzuuzz(talk) 21:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Literally they mean the same thing; their common signification, too, is similar. 16:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are not the same thing and the sentence claiming they are synonymous is incorrect. Toss-pot is a term that means "drunkard" and tosser derives from this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrscruffy (talk • contribs) 20:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tosser

message: Please add in the article that Devo said "I'm not a wanker or a
banker" in the "Triumph Of The Will" lyrics.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.219.36.133 (talk) 20:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devo lyrics 

message: The suggested usage of "Wanker" in Mexico (as detailed in the last line under the heading of "Meaning") seems to be completely out of place and it also seems to be a case of poor translation or poor grammar.
Fts9 (talk) 16:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage in Mexico 

message: Hello, in the section In Popular Culture, in the following line:
In the PC game Team fortress 2 the sniper, being of Australian decent, often uses the word wanker in taunts such as "Thanks for standing still, wanker."
decent should be descent instead. I am not registered, so can't edit the article, so please someone else do it.
:Done.  Can't remember off-hand what the edit-request-complete template is...   a_man_alone (talk) 20:36, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling mistake 

message: Shouldn't Tosser have a disambiguation page?  In tech slang there exists mail tosser for instance, most popular with older protocols such as fidonet (in that sense either a mailer or a script invoking the mailer), but I still hear the expression today in relation to SMTP MTAs. 76.10.128.192 (talk) 16:03, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tosser redirection 

message: 'Barclays Banker'= Wanker
I'm surprised that hasn't been noted. 
I'm off for a 'Barclays'...
... not really. :) 70.238.219.124 (talk) 05:04, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If it has a place at all, that place is in Rhyming_Slang#Taboo_terms, somewhere close to Jodrell Bank.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:2C4A:1CB0:A4CF:B6E2:53C0:AE7D (talk) 21:20, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cockney Rhyming Slang 

message: The Wanker is a novel by Owney Keenan published on Amazon in November 2014
Owneyk (talk) 18:23, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. —  (e • t • c) 19:15, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 November 2014 

message: Typo right here: 'because the spell together the word "wanker"'.  Couldn't change it myself or I would
: Done. Artw (talk) 19:15, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

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message: Rather than "Wankh" resembling "wanker" and causing offence, it's more likely that it simply resembles "wank". A wank is a session of masturbation. "Go away Mum, I'm having a wank". "Having a wank" is a commonplace use, that's what one does with a wank, has it. "Wank" itself is therefore a noun, you can have a quick wank or a two-handed wank or any type of wank you might be able to imagine, and knowing men, as well as being one, I can say that's probably a lot. 
That said it's also a verb. "I'm wanking". "I'm wanking over a picture of your sister I got off Facebook", etc. Good old English, often most versatile when it comes to swearing. Which "wank" is only very mildly so.
So, technicality, but "Wankh" resembles "wank", not "wanker" as the article currently states. I looked at the reference, number 24, and there's nothing there to counter this. I know it's a small point but we all like accuracy, right? Oh and it ought also to go without saying I'm British so I know what I'm talking about, wank-wise.
I'll leave this comment, and nothing will ever happen. Or else I could just change it myself and start an edit war for no reason at all with some over-sensitive... Wikipedian... who get very possessive over "their" articles and are very uncompromising over the smallest change. So I'll leave this here now and maybe make the edit in 6 months when I remember. You have that long to present a defence for being wrong. 
84.68.182.108 (talk) 01:36, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wankh vs Wannek vs Wank 

message: Wanker is a term that is used often to describe Ted Lasso in his TV series. 47.32.201.130 (talk) 17:17, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture 

message: I came upon this article after listening to Sister Rosetta Tharpe's version of "This Train". It has a few lines starting with "You know this train don't pull no wankers" and was released in the 1930s. See for example https://www.jiosaavn.com/lyrics/this-train-lyrics/IC0PaSFSU14.I don't see it mentioned in the article and it predates the other uses, so could be of interest. As I'm not a confirmed user I cannot fix it myself... Troglodyx (talk) 06:23, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early use in popular culture