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.

He probably does Sabine. What was that about patronising you said!
I don't think they worry in the slightest about me really. They are polite, I am polite.

I'd die of second-hand mortification for them if I went. They sound so incredibly twee.

Mumsnet is full of not-terribly-nice threads about people you'll never ever meet. I found this one really funny!

But I do admire those who are offended on Sherbet's behalf for having the energy to care

They sound awful, the sort of people I avoid like the plague!

" I feel awful and ridiculous calling a late middle aged man "Sherbert" all night."

Just call him Bert for short, then.

Just don't fucking go then. It hardly seems the crime of the centuary.

For some reason I imagine the vast majority of them have oversized teeth

Thank god Mumsnet wasn't always this prissy or we wouldn't have had the joy that was the pom bear thread.

They sound hilarious OP but I can see how it would get pretty irritating after a while. I can't bear adult nicknames either, it's just trying to hard to be unique and different.

I’m finding this really amusing.

AmperoBlue I said they are probably dreading you turning up and patronising them.

Go, but call everyone hun or babe.

Go but get their nicknames mixed up: Mumps becomes Measles, Sherbet becomes Humbug and Scone can be Eccles

I don't get the nicknames thing and can also find it annoying, however, I've met so many nasty people that these sound like a blessed relief.

If you can’t beat ‘em op...... go and insist everyone calls you ClittyLaLa all night.

Do NOT and I really mean Do NOT do a live thread if you decide to go. This is just the sort of thing that the Mail swoop on.

reallybadidea you're not living up to your name at all, cos your suggestion ^ is truly inspired

PintOfMineralWater Do they get their Christmas cards from the sixpenny tray?

I know a high court judge who loves to be called Bingo.

As a mid-teen, I was on the periphery of a group like this - their names were all so painfully contrived and it was all tedious - aside of this they were nice enough, but it was all very cliquey, and naff. They also have a group name. They had a reunion recently; we are all mid-40s now, and sent out the invitations still with all these pretentious nicknames. At least one uses his on Fb. I never used their nicknames, never got one either. And I didn't go to the reunion. It is all too try-hard and not my thing.

Go but get their nicknames mixed up: Mumps becomes Measles, Sherbet becomes Humbug and Scone can be Eccles grin

Cackled at this!

I can see how they'd be annoying. I'd probably suck it up. Could you consistently divert the conversation to something interesting so there's less time for irritating behaviours?

Or just don't go. I don't think you like them and, while I can imagine such people being delightfully obtuse, they could pick up on it.