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To have nicknames for my neighbours and ask what yours are for yours?

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Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 22:53

Apparently most people in the UK have nicknames for their neighbours that they use within their household.

Mine are -
Their names - J & M (next door)
Next door not J & M (I actually know their names but still call them this)
Barky dog people
Penguin people
Policeman's family
Old boy

What are yours, and perhaps more interestingly... what do you think your neighbours call you?

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Wafflefinder · 30/08/2025 23:27

Not in my current house, but on our previous road we had Tattoo Head (bald man with tattooed scalp) Iceland Twat (drove an Iceland van at reckless speeds) and Psycho Dave (Dave, who used to loudly shout at anyone who dared to park their car within 50 metres of his house).

garlictwist · 30/08/2025 23:27

The Von Trapp Family Losers - actually just a couple but they have loads of mawkish “live, laugh, love” type signs in their garden, many with misplaced apostrophes, which do not meet with my approval.

AllrightNowBaby · 30/08/2025 23:26

The Landrovers
Night Nurse
Horsey People
Olive Oil (as in Popeye and)
you’d understand if you saw her.
Grumpy tree haters
Oh and Big Gob, although I’ve never seen her, she lives the other side of the hedge, she moved in last year with her Dd 12, they spend all Summer in a jacuzzi and talk in a shout all the time… 😬

BeardofHagrid · 30/08/2025 23:25

Don’t want to know my nickname btw 😂

BeardofHagrid · 30/08/2025 23:25

Next Doors/J&M

Fatties/Scots

No Holly (it’s all they ever say to their dog)

Binfluencers

Peruvian Princess

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 30/08/2025 23:25

Weed boy X2 of them in the block.
Prick with his car.
The polish lassie (I know her wee boys name but not the mum)
Mutant dog wifie.

I'm probably knows as grumpy old bastard.

MeDadMeDad · 30/08/2025 23:24

Coffin dodger -old guy next door, we've had a falling out with ( real name is Alan) sometimes refer to him as Mr time warp as well.

Benifit bums/lottery for life family- never worked and all claim benifits.

Taxi man family- dad drives a taxi. Don't know their names

R0ckandHardPlace · 30/08/2025 23:22

Pablo Escobar (convicted drug dealer) and his wife Mrs Hinch (very glam, has various cleaners into their Instagram house numerous times a week. They literally have their driveway jet washed once a fortnight).

Rita (short for ‘Lovely Rita meter maid’) Always complaining about parking. Not very lovely.

Twat and Mrs Twat. Live opposite, they’re a pair of twats.

Jeffrey Epstein. Definitely a swinger. Pineapple garden ornament and a hot tub the size of Belize. Has a ‘party’ at least once a month. Rita loses her shit about the visitors’ cars. He’s apparently married but I’ve never seen her.

Lance Armstrong. An absolute Elevenerifer who claims he invented the mountain bike.

We just call the nice neighbours by their actual names.

DiscoBob · 30/08/2025 23:22

Two Sheds
Curly
Pubic Charles (He used to stand naked in his window and looked a bit like Prince Charles?!)

clickyteeclick · 30/08/2025 23:22

Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 22:53

Apparently most people in the UK have nicknames for their neighbours that they use within their household.

Mine are -
Their names - J & M (next door)
Next door not J & M (I actually know their names but still call them this)
Barky dog people
Penguin people
Policeman's family
Old boy

What are yours, and perhaps more interestingly... what do you think your neighbours call you?

The Gingers. House of 4 and only one of them is slightly a teeny bit ginger.

LadybugsAndSunshine · 30/08/2025 23:22

We have nicknames for some of ours, they are..
Sadsack
Mrs Safe word (you can imagine)
Hashtag aesthetic
McDonald’s Clare.
All very bitchy and I should probably stop.

SprayWhiteDung · 30/08/2025 23:21

WWomble · 30/08/2025 23:12

I had a neighbour who consistently called me Jane (not my name), in the end I accepted it and sent my Christmas card to him from Jane!

That reminds me of the thread from years ago (might have made it into classics), where OP simply could not decipher the name of her neighbour from their family Christmas cards. Her 'best guess' was 'Poddle'.

I still remember OP's family inviting them over for a meal and her asking the neighbour "Would you like me to pass the peas, Poddle?"

I can't actually remember what her actual name was, but - unsurprisingly enough - it wasn't Poddle Grin It might have been something very vaguely resembling it like Pamela or Pauline... but for all I can recall, it could just as easily have been Catherine!

Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 23:19

MickGeorge22 · 30/08/2025 23:02

I'm intrigued by penguin people. Do they have a funny walk?

Edited

No lol.

They gave giant, inflatable, light up penguins that they put up in front of their house at Christmas.

Our kids love them and every year beg me to buy them similar giant inflatable Christmas decs and I always refuse because they're not my thing

Last year my then 6yo was so enthralled with the penguins that she insisted we send a Christmas card to "the penguin people" as she called them, just to tell them that she loved their penguins so much. Even though we don't know their names.

Caught up in the Christmas spirit, I let her post one through their door but they never acknowledged or sent one back and now I cringe with embarrassment that I sent it 😂

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Goofles · 30/08/2025 23:18

Shouty Twats
Old Ravers
Fourkids

Cismyfatarse · 30/08/2025 23:17

Tesla man.
Camper van arsehole.
Ballet woman.
Biology teacher.

Campervsn arsehole no longer has a camper van after his terrible parking and insistence on having it right outside his house on a narrow road led to the bin lorry taking the side off. Thank goodness there was not a fire.

WhereBoomBandsarePlaying · 30/08/2025 23:17

The Polish party people, they are fun at 3am

Shortpoet · 30/08/2025 23:16

Witness Relocation.

Previous Next door neighbours. We said hello and introduced ourselves when they moved in. He said “huh” and ignored offered handshake and didn’t give his name.
I often left for work at same time and I would usually say good morning if I saw him. He would never say it back. This went in for 12 years!

We decided he was so secretive because he was in a witness relocation program and was worried if he spoke to us he’d reveal too much of his real identity.

SprayWhiteDung · 30/08/2025 23:16

RaraRachael · 30/08/2025 23:12

We called our horrible neighbour Manpaps. Thankfully she has now moved away.

Eh? As in man-boobs?!

Beaverbridge · 30/08/2025 23:15

I've got 40 washings and her husband the grey ghost.
Car man.
Dog walking woman.
Next door folk it's just their names.
God knows what they call me ha.

Brumchum · 30/08/2025 23:14

Sulking Sandra and Kinky Ken.

notyetpregnant · 30/08/2025 23:13

a few years ago a drunk driver hit a few cars on my road very late at night, and in the middle of all the drama I looked out the window to see my neighbour (who had been in bed when the incident happened) was out on the street offering out cans of cider to bystanders and then a little later with a glass of gin.

My partner and I jokingly started referring to him as gin and tonic after this and this has stuck so we now only ever refer to him as gin.

ninjahamster · 30/08/2025 23:13

Loopy Linda
Tour bus Terry
Jeremy Corbyn
Crazy Keith
The Aussies
Mr and Mrs Chatterbox
Crazy Rae

WWomble · 30/08/2025 23:12

I had a neighbour who consistently called me Jane (not my name), in the end I accepted it and sent my Christmas card to him from Jane!

RaraRachael · 30/08/2025 23:12

We called our horrible neighbour Manpaps. Thankfully she has now moved away.

NoDramas · 30/08/2025 23:10

The POVs . Not because they are poor - pov for poverty (yes, I know, but it’s used round these parts as such) but it’s the beginning of their surname and both their cars have POV on the number plate. Very outing…🤣