Am I a laughing stock?

For me, the association is Fawlty Towers so i would just regard it as humorous that you called your house that. I think your sister and mum have been a bit mean, tbh.

Yes, a weird response to a pretty innocuous thread and nothing at all like OP's concern.

As for the interiors comment... bizarre!

this. I know other people who do the same and their friends don't think anything of it. I think your sister is a bit of a cow though

Have you considered remaining the property to 'doors closing, lift going up?'

Yeah doing it once or twice, ok a bit cringe, but repeatedly doing it, it’s a lot cringe, so I’d really advise to stop. Just say at ours, come to me etc, you know like normal folks.

No need to be such a bitch.

What on earth goes through people's minds, when they look through all of the many available threads (on just one tiny fraction of the internet), find one that doesn't interest them and then decide to click on it and then participate - to tell everybody that they don't find the thread interesting?!

Are they the same people who choose to participate in a tribute thread to a (maybe non-household-name) celebrity who has just died, purely to enlighten everybody else that they personally have never heard of them?!

Wow! Projecting much? I could've been more succinct. As in: YABU. Because people who do that are awful, typically?
Go recline on your grey velour 'couch'.

What on earth gives you that impression? (No, I'm not a sock puppet, I just think you're making a ridiculous leap.)

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I think it's just one of those harmelss jokes - though I wouldn't do it as my family would just comment and take the piss.

It is one thing I really like about MIL she not po faced and is up for a laugh - nice to have that round the kids growing up TBH.

I personally think it's pretty cringe, and the kind of thing that's only funny once, if at all, but I wouldn't think any less of you for saying it, and it wouldn't be a topic of conversation behind your back! We all have our little quirks that other people find cringe or annoying, that's life.

Any offence or annoyance that you may have caused to others due to your joke name for your house is massively outweighed by the sheer nastiness of your so called nearest and dearest’s statements. Is this a once off or indicative of how they usually speak to you?

How can you possibly know to be able to declare that? I hope neither of you ever become high court judges!

Wow, projecting much? Your ex' and his DM sound vile, but your story has no relevance to OP's situation and your "And I bet your interiors are hideous" comment is ludicrous and just plain nasty.

I think mean of them.
Perhaps go a bit quiet to recalibrate a bit.
I hope they regret their nastiness.

Yes it a cringy name, but so what.
I voted YANBU as the poor behaviour seems to have been adults apparently making fun/ bitching behind your back and not saying it to your face. This could be called playground behaviour but that would be insulting to well-behaved kids.
You’ve learnt something about these people.
The shame should belong to them, not you, so give it back. I’d suggest sitting down with them and voicing your concern that they could judge the phrase extensively behind your back but not to your face. Show concern at THEIR behaviour.

I think it's obviously a joke, and I get it, it's not so hard. It's very weird and hurtful of your family to have said this and to have talked that way about you.

Please get a house name sign with it in and put it up ready for the next time your sister and mum visit.

I think its cute if you mean it jokingly. My family and I are never serious about anything and they would find it hilarious if I called my lil 3 bed council house 'surname towers' I think your family are a bit miserable and definitely do not deserve an invitation to the bat cave for your next soiree ( maybe call it something different each time to rise above misery arses)

Not in front of the teenagers, though!!

There’s very little evidence to backup the fact you’re thick skinned.

I'd take the piss too to be honest.

I think the OP might have missed that the reason they're insufferable isn't what they call their house.

Inclined to agree. Sorry, OP!

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