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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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MissHollysDolly · 31/08/2025 22:31

We’ve got “Jane in the big house” and “Jane in the little house”

Panda89 · 31/08/2025 22:28

We have:
Nuclear man
police lady
the geeks
cider man
no ball games

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 22:24

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 22:20

Countryside around Glasgow but family going back to Hebrides and west Scotland (Argyll ) and also Orkney.

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I'm not far from glasgow myself. Been to Orkney with my parents growing up, such a lovely place. 😃

Notashamed13 · 31/08/2025 22:20

Ozempic Jane 😂that's tickled me!

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 22:20

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 21:45

Where in Scotland did your dad come from,if its ok to ask?

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Countryside around Glasgow but family going back to Hebrides and west Scotland (Argyll ) and also Orkney.

32DuploBlocks · 31/08/2025 22:16

We have:

  • Millionaire
  • The Catholic Man
  • The new ones (lived there well over a year!)
  • Ozempic Jane
  • Shouty Man
  • The Mafia
  • The Miserable Bastards
  • Bag for Life (never seen without a shopping bag!)
  • The One with the Red Car
  • The One with the Red People Carrier
  • Scottish Man
FunnyOrca · 31/08/2025 22:09

Gospel preacher
Number 1
The Family
The Hunger Games contestants
The Old lady
The Gardener (know her best and actually usually use her name nowadays)
Tango Man

Notashamed13 · 31/08/2025 22:05

Notashamed13 · 31/08/2025 04:08

Next door by their names and then we have:

  1. The ones who mistreat their animals
  2. Bulldog
  3. Mr disabled
  4. The Oracle
  5. The cat lady
  6. Sideways Steve
  7. Costa man
  8. Tattoo lady

I think we will Definitely be known as they loud bastards.

Edited to add "The ones with about million kids" (how could I have forgotten them)

Edited

Sorry to return, this thread has made me laugh out loud today. My OH and I went off to Asda to do our weekly shop this morning and one of the above nicknamed neighbours walked around the corner.....my OH immediately pipes up "Bulldog".....I couldn't help but laugh and tell him about this thread! Edited to add that this lady doesn't own a bulldog but has the most amazing resting bitch face (hence bulldog chewing a wasp lol)

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 21:45

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 17:07

I've seen still game. I love it. I'm half Scottish but I never lived there so I dont know the ins and outs. My Scottish dad was lovely and had a great sense of humour.

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Where in Scotland did your dad come from,if its ok to ask?

constantlylactating · 31/08/2025 21:32

So.

Bird Man and Bird Woman
Shiny Bonce
The Starer
Her with the Dog
Garden Bin Man

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 21:18

We have the fake blind man, he walks up the street with his white stick and brings a newspaper home. And batman, tall guy who wears a black mac but never has it buttoned up so its blowing in the wind behind him.

Vitriolinsanity · 31/08/2025 19:10

Allmarbleslost · 31/08/2025 11:05

Only for one of my neighbours. He goes by ATW (Adam The Wanker)

I have TTW first name Tim, next door to him are lovely
Next door are Shut up Ethel (their dog, but are actually very nice
Next door to them are Skip Diver Shrew and Two Volvos and a Camper

I suspect I have several NN’s

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 17:07

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 16:58

You need to watch still game, its on Netflix.

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I've seen still game. I love it. I'm half Scottish but I never lived there so I dont know the ins and outs. My Scottish dad was lovely and had a great sense of humour.

KickHimInTheCrotch · 31/08/2025 17:02

Mr and Mrs Fussy
The Fat Controller
MAMIL
Cat family

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 16:58

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 15:33

Oh ok 😀

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You need to watch still game, its on Netflix.

Frankieohfrankie · 31/08/2025 16:15

Halloween (lovely man, had a tree which pretty much blocked his windows in)

RobertaFirmino · 31/08/2025 15:53

We have:
Them on the corner
Wiggy
The Latvians
Muscles
Temu Rayner
Green Party lady

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 15:33

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 14:56

Its pronounced lza 😆 🤣

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Oh ok 😀

Millytante · 31/08/2025 15:19

There’s a local bloke who passes on the main road on his rickety old pushbike who from the first time I saw him has been ‘Jarrow March Man’

In my giddy teens we’d had a lovely old couple next door, Mr and Mrs Hall.
We thought we were terrific comics by referring to them as Albert and Assembly.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 31/08/2025 14:57

Catpiece · 31/08/2025 11:24

Trappy. Strangler. Mattress burner. Dot woman. Useless. Thrash metal. Where’s Wally. The Screamer. Cunt kid. Big Moult.

Christ!

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 14:56

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 12:19

How do you pronounce that. Is it Isa as in I....or is it Isa as in ISobel?

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Its pronounced lza 😆 🤣

SliceofTosst · 31/08/2025 14:49

Riddles - a bloke who always wears the same clothes but we can't describe his look.

Santa - a bloke who wears a white bandana all the time but has red hair. Initially it looks like he's wearing a santa hat

HeadsWinTailsLose · 31/08/2025 14:30

68 - deaf head
70 - little twat
72 - dog man, dog man’s wife
74 - fat Richard and lazy Emma
55 - Klare with a K
53 - Gingers
51 - big fella and woman with same birthday as DH

TimothyIsNotAnArmardillo · 31/08/2025 14:22

These are the houses I pass on my usual dog walk

Mr and Mrs Cross - not cross at all, but their house is on a crossroads
Mr Shiny - spends a disproportionate amount of time polishing his car
Mr Goose - he has a goose that escapes
Mrs Yappy - small happy dogs (she's actually Mr Goose's wife but has a separate name for some reason)
Mr and Mrs Chintz - the house looks as if it is full of nick nicks and floral decor

I dread to think what people call us! Probably Mr and Mrs Building Site as our house is such a mess (ongoing project)

PollyannaWhittier · 31/08/2025 14:10

The three houses opposite are:

Little drummer boy (he's about 17 now, but still plays drums)

Bob the builder (he's actually a plumber it turns out, and he's not called Bob, but we named him shortly after they moved in based on the van full of tools 😆). Bob's wife is the Queen and the kids are the big princess, the little princess and the prince (due to a 'princess on board' car window hanger they had when the eldest was little, about 15 years ago).

And Twitchy (nosey curtain twitching old lady).

Next door both sides, and the two either side of them, we call by their names.