To not go because they have stupid nicknames

[AmperoBlue]

Invited to dinner (supper is their chosen term) with long term partner. Invite by the couple and to meet a few more of their "chums" who are in town.
The thing is they act like they are in a Richard Curtis film.They are all "delightful" but it's so so grating. The conversations are always about something nice that happened either now or in the past. No one ever is really funny or interesting or anything really.
Some have made a bit of money but none are upper class or even upper middle so it's all a bit twatty.
The really annoying bit is that they all have fucking stupid nicknames like you did in the 80's. Even the teenage kids. I can't give them all as too outing but there's a Mumps, several with food nicknames and some others pronounce their names wrong for effect.
Yes they are all perfectly nice and there are worse things to be doing but if I have to call someone Scone again it will finish me.

you definitely need to go

kitchen sups? scrummy!
go and give us all a good laugh at the pretentiousness of it all

Chips will tell you about the time he was delectably naughty at a garden party with Claudia, his chum from childhood who'd blossomed into quite the prime article. It'll be a story filled with secret tumbles in the hedge maze and near-discovered mischief near the fountains.

You'll all sip your vino and chuckle affectionately whilst he lights his pipe with a roguish smile and a wink. Good old Chips. When will he settle down?!

I absolutely hate it when people say supper meaning dinner because they think it makes them sound posh.

I say supper meaning dinner because that's what my parents always said. In fairness, they were really quite posh while I'm downwardly mobile - but you can't always shake off the language you grew up with. And I've noticed my DCs, who have had a far less posh upbringing than I did, still say "supper" - you just inherit these things.

Don't go. They clearly like you and want to spend time with you, and you view them with disdain and want to laugh about them behind their back when they are extending warmth to you. They deserve a better dinner guest to be honest.

"because they think it makes them sound posh."

I'm not talking about people who naturally say it.

I think you probably just don’t ‘get’ this group and that’s fine, by you've said nothing about these people to imply that they are not nice people while being spectacularly unkind yourself.

Supper is when they give you a bowl of hearty soup or stew or some suchlike. Dinner is usually a 3 course affair. I don’t like supper.

I grew up in NE Scotland,

We had dinner in the middle of the day, and had supper as our evening meal.

Never thought of it as posh,

Is it a Candlelight Supper?

Do they pronounce the name Bucket "wrong for effect" ?

Will there be red trousers? John Finnemore has a super song about them.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pZS4jdI-o

I know a similar lot. Call their childrenby other actual names but not their actual given names. Cutesy names for the grandparents; for each other; for siblings. They even name other people's children cutesy names and the parents go along with it. I didn't know whether to call the kids by their names or their nicknames at first. It's weird shit

I'm sure they can find dinner guests who don't sneer at them and mock them on the Internet.

Oh OP you’d hate me. I hope you’re not someone I think is a friend, that would make me very sad to think you were sat there judging. I use both dinner and supper as I mean different things by them. When I say supper I mean a slightly lighter meal than dinner, served later in the evening. I thought that was normal - it is amongst my friends. I have also invited people to a “kitchen supper”. To me that means casual, in the kitchen rather than the dining room, so probably family style food in a dish in the middle of the table like lasagne or shepherd’s pie rather than formal plated courses. I like having people over for supper. And I have a “stupid” childhood nickname as do quite a few of my friends (you’ve not been invited to supper with Torty, Beef and Camel have you?)

Mrs Jackson please tell us more about Hoots and Cranky - that has made my night!

They sound like my kinda ppl

Don’t go. You sound awful and ridiculous.

I know the difference between supper and dinner. But Racecardriver is right. It's all "supper" now because dinner is too try hard ( or perhaps because C4 Dinner Dates made it sound a bit common).

ProseccoPoppy, I like your style😂 I’d hand out with Torty, Beef and Camel no probs if they’re nice.

The only one being “twatty” is the OP.

you view them with disdain and want to laugh about them behind their back when they are extending warmth to you. They deserve a better dinner guest to be honest.

^I agree

Will Hugh Grant be there?

I think it depends on the part of the country as well as “social standing”. I think it goes:

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea or supper

Or

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Supper (late evening snack)

Dinner is traditionally the main meal of the day.