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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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Crochetandtea · 31/08/2025 04:00

Heart man ( heart surgeon)
Alpaca people
Dirty farm
Clean farm

All in our area but not close neighbours as we are quite rural.

TheGreatWesternShrew · 31/08/2025 03:42

Simon, Simon and Simon. All my neighbours are called Simon. We don’t bother differentiating much but when we do it’s Back Simon, Front Simon and Nosy Prick Simon.

BetteDavisChin · 31/08/2025 03:00

Paul from the end
Paul from the tip
Them with the red door
The gays
Burglar Burns
Her with the glasses and the little dog
Her with the glasses and the big dog
Brian (his name is Ian)
The one who works at the Cop-op

persianfairyfloss · 31/08/2025 02:56

The shitheads. They were incredibly noisy and unpleasant. We were so happy the day they finally moved out.

FortuneFaded · 31/08/2025 02:50

I forgot about:

The Postman - isn’t a postman but wears shorts in all weather/seasons

Tick - Not the full ticket

Sonia - Plays the trombone in an orchestra. She is very nice but we don’t know her name and it is too late to ask

FortuneFaded · 31/08/2025 02:42

Makka Pakka - She is obsessed with people not walking on her lawn so she has stones on the edge of her grass which she paints white at least once per year and is always cleaning them with a wee sponge.
Briefcase Wanker - takes a briefcase on wheels to work.
Jess Bezos - called Jess and is always getting Amazon deliveries.

Some that don’t need an explanarion:
The Shits
Moaning Myrtle
Full Kit Wanker
Super Hans

literalbinbag · 31/08/2025 02:40

Mr Sheds - he bizarrely builds and dismantles sheds about 800 times a week

EdnaBeveridge · 31/08/2025 02:37

CC (Conservatory Cockup) it took 8 months

King Twat and Maggie -he thinks he owns The Road, she sounds like Thatcher

Temu Ken & Barbie - she drives a pink Fiat, he's got a motorbike, both very 'polished'

FiFi & Bert - elderly, very camp gentleman and his little dog (Bert is the dog)

Agapornis · 31/08/2025 02:22

[Cat name]'s owners
Ginger shit cat's owners
Nice ginger's owner
Shit dog neighbours
Nice neighbours
(as opposed to)
Weird neighbours (they're in the garden about once a year, and cut back their roses when they're at their best).

We know the pets better than the owners. I suspect my nickname is cat lady or similar.

KawasakiBabe · 31/08/2025 02:18

Actually DH calls Dave the Rave, Dickhead Dave, since he nearly knocked him DH off his motorbike, lol

KawasakiBabe · 31/08/2025 02:16

Him with the van (self explanatory)
Jill and Phil (Like Howard & Hilda, for those who remember, just so alike)
Awww poor, Bill (A totally lovely man but now has dementia)
Dave the Rave
Sarah”s dad at the end (I know his daughter)
Her straight over
The new lot (been here about 5 years now, but that’s what they’ve been called and pointless changing now

Her straight over calls me Cindy, it is not my name. DH and DC think it’s hilarious.

Agapornis · 31/08/2025 02:15

Miffylou · 30/08/2025 23:57

Not a nickname, but my extremely talkative neighbour is called Roger. If he spots DH or me in the garden he witters on and on and it’s hard to escape for ages.

This is known in our house as being Rogered.

Ha, we have a similar neighbour called Rob. Sometimes we get Robbed.

Soppydawg · 31/08/2025 02:04

Mouth almighty (this was a phrase from my 70’s /80’s childhood and it’s fun to bring back old sayings but on this occasion I’d rather not but ndn has the loudest sweariest nasty shouty voice I’ve ever heard!!

Eggsyummyeggs · 31/08/2025 01:53

The weird one.
Clown face.
Papa bear.
The queen bee.
Bin Hitler.

NewLifeLoading · 31/08/2025 01:48

I would be 'The woman we never see'

starfishmummy · 31/08/2025 01:46

Don't really have any apart from one who moved out who was Mr Dimwit. Mr Dimwit was often seen using assorted garden power tools and be kitted up in items of safety gear for his upper body/face/head - but would wear flip flops. We used to hope thst we were not called upon to deal with amputated toes.

coxesorangepippin · 31/08/2025 01:44

Bob the builder
The McNuggets
BMW
Uncle Fester
The Lentil Weavers

god knows what they say about us

NewLifeLoading · 31/08/2025 01:39

The man in the moon
The horsy neighbours
The ones with the nice garden
The nosy fuckers on the end
And the Jock (although partner told me yesterday it can be offensive, so i will have to find another name for him)

Loveshoney · 31/08/2025 01:38

We had
•Travis & Portishead to describe the neighbours GC with trendy names we couldn't remember
•Pole Dancing Shirley (from the street it looked like she had a pole in her bedroom but we finally realised it was a floor to ceiling trim on her otherwise fully mirrored wardrobe door)
•Heather and Pete at the front plus
Heather and Pete at the back as we had neighbours with the same names
•Shitface Bastard - horrible man who complained about everything including the kids playing perfectly normal childhood games in the cul de sac during the holidays

intoFolklore · 31/08/2025 01:36

One side - the amazon neighbours. A few days after I moved here they knocked on accusing me of stealing their parcels and screaming at me, then continued for hours screaming through the letterbox saying they were gonna call the police and crying begging for their parcel back that I never had. Because of that I've never taken a parcel in for them, and when they're not in and I get asked if I can take their parcel by the courier I always say no 😀

Other side - masturbating neighbour. I always hear her loudly moaning through the wall doing herself. Usually around 8pm when I'm putting the kids to bed and the walls are thin so that's just lovely isn't it

I don't speak to either of them. My old neighbours before I moved here I just referred to them by name as we were really friendly with each other and would speak every day.

HideousKinky · 31/08/2025 01:26

We have Ron the Serial Killer one side, Loopy Lisa the other side and The Ice Queen down the road

BunfightBetty · 31/08/2025 01:24

We have:

Fruit n Veg (runs a fruit and veg stall)
Armando (Fruit n Veg’s next door neighbour. Has MH issues and drives FnV mad with incessant noise at all hours. It’s nearly come to blows several times. We don’t know his name but he might be Spanish).
Stirling Moss (drives his car down the road at 90mph)
Eddie Kidd or The Kidney Donor (drives his motorbike down the road at 90mph)
Breaking Bad (suspected drug dealer)
Common Nan (bit mean, this one. Picks her grandchildren up from school and minds them every day. Could be an Eastenders character)
Mrs Postie (Royal Mail operative)
The Lustraphiliac (Portuguese lady in her 60s, always washing her front step)
Eric and Ernie (gay couple in their 60s. Always rowing)

DoRayMeMeMe · 31/08/2025 01:19

Our old next door neighbours had labelled someone else who lived in the village Oo. It’s an alien complete with Jazz Hands hand movements. They were shocked to find out it was my husband’s boss! But we all laughed,

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 01:09

GuiltyPleasure · 31/08/2025 00:14

Our next door neighbours are “the footballers”.
They’re lovely guys house-sharing that happen to play for a premier league team. The number of delivery drivers that ask us if X lives next door is unreal. They’re the most quiet, lovely neighbours you’d ever get (they also throw an excellent end of season party)

Blimey. Can we come and live in your road.

Godsprincess · 31/08/2025 01:06

We call ours big glasses and chimney 🙈