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Nicknames for the neighbours

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FrankButchersDickieBow · 21/04/2021 01:26

Are we being unreasonable for not knowing our neighbours real names and have nicknames for them instead?

We have Mr P - Mr perfect, you know the type, wears his charity t-shirt going for his jog, reels his washing line in when the clothes are dried, wears tartan for golfing etc.

Onslo and Daisy, argue on the street, loves a velor tracksuit,

The horse whisperer - walks bandy legged, obsessed with horses, has it on their letterbox

The Young Ones - only young couple who live in the street and always have people round

The Exhibitionist-loves to get out the shower and trot round naked in his room after a shower

Batty old art teacher - curly hair, does yoga, smokes weed

Shagarada - heard her shagging one night whilst we were in the garden, she had her windows open.

My name, is Michael Caine, and I am a nosey neighbour

Anyone else use nicknames?

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CompleteBarstool · 25/04/2021 19:16

This thread just popped up in y watched threads and reminded me of another couple from where we used to live:

Fat Bob who was a chubby version of The Cure's Robert Smith

Broomstick boy, a lad of about 18-20 years old who walked as if he had a broomstick shoved up his arse

muttley68 · 25/04/2021 21:50

My neighbours are known as Mr & Mrs Cabbage even though they're brother and sister. They eat 5 cabbages a week between them and she cooks it anytime from 8am for at least three hours at a time. Makes you want to gip when you open the back door. Workman actually heaved when they were rendering the house 😆

Menora · 25/04/2021 21:53

We had Jesus and now we have the vampires 😂

LoveMySituation · 25/04/2021 22:08

My current neighbours are the twats, I know their names, but I am beyond fed up of constant door slamming(all doors) annoying yappy ratdog barking, and everything being done as loud as possible

LoveMySituation · 25/04/2021 22:09

Posted too soon. Previous was wanking Bob. Due to his special Sunday morning treat Grin

GigantosaurusRex · 25/04/2021 22:12

We live next door to 'the pound shop kardashian'

Habbyhadno · 25/04/2021 22:26

This is amazing, we have:
Audi Man - gets a different Audi every year, was once seen sporting an Audi cap.
Ribenaberry - loves a purple velour tracksuit
The Punchings - husband deffo punching above his weight with his wife.
Babe - once heard her boyfriend call her babe about 20 times in a sentence, so that's stuck.
Them Across the road - live across the road.

Chatty man and his wife - older residents, talk to everyone and knows absolutely everything happening in the area, can't go out of the door before Chattyman pounces
Drug dealers - the son is blatantly a drug dealer

I realise this makes me sound like I live somewhere chavvy, but I definitely don't.

ConfusedCarrie · 25/04/2021 23:19

Demon Debbie looks like she's chewing a wasp and thinks she owns the street. Nosey Nora sticks her nose in everything. Storming Norman stamps and barks orders at his kids military style. Tom is short.

BluePeterVag · 26/04/2021 00:02

I was talking to by brother about neighbours. He has

Dog Shit Dave - has 2 dogs, never picks up after them.
Ooompa Loompa - far too much fake tan
Long Distance Clara - she is courier for Amazon

dysongirl · 26/04/2021 03:14

Too funny.
So it's pretty normal to have names for your neighbours then?
Thought it was just us Wink

BurnerPhone · 26/04/2021 07:38

I'm enjoying these!

We have;
the hippies,
the chavs,
DHL man,
Maureen 2.0 (previous owner was called Maureen)

In our old place we called the people above us the goons and I very nearly called them that to their face when seeing them in the local pub 🤣

Embroideredstars · 26/04/2021 07:53

Way back in the 90s we had the "Groundforce couple". It seemed like they'd watch every episode of Groundforce and the following weekend start that project off in the garden, showing my age now as I doubt some people even know the show!

The name we had for our direct neighbours was based based in their nocturnal activities!

chloeb8 · 26/04/2021 11:37

This thread has me in stitches 😂😂😂🤣🤣

AlwaysLatte · 26/04/2021 11:43

Haha! Just be careful... we had a postman that always walked around slowly and was always later than any other postman, in a world of his own. I nicknamed him Dozy but once I saw him in town and called out 'Hello Dozy'!

Jasper18 · 26/04/2021 11:58

We have Gareth Chippendale
Gareth likes to strip off in front of his bedroom window, he prepares first by opening the blinds and switching the lights on he then removes all his clothes flings them across the room, stands in window briefly before closing the blinds and turning the light off Smile

ChochoCrazyCat · 26/04/2021 12:31

@BurnerPhone Haha I think you may have lived on our previous street that we've just moved out of.

We had:
Maureen (unofficial neighbourhood watch)

The hippies

The old punk guys

Crazy couple (that would have domestics at 4am in the street)

Ginger homeless guy (wasn't really homeless but would beg outside local shops)

Knuckle duster granny (little old lady who walks her Bichon Frisée...one day she took her hand out of her pocket and showed me her knuckle duster, which she wore because she'd heard there were "dodgy foreign guys" in the park. "I hit first and ask questions later", she told me)

It was a..."vibrant" area, so to speak. But first time buyers often can't be choosers Grin

TartanPunk · 26/04/2021 15:41

We have The Perv next door - nosy and looks over fence into our house; the Loud Canadian - because he speaks at such a volume with a deep, booming voice (can hear him speaking in our house if he is in his garden, even with the windows closed); the Twat Parkers - they have 5 cars between 3 adults, have plenty of driveway parking but instead park on the road; the paedo - neighbours told us he looks through a hole in the fence at her daughters; Nice Pete - just a great chap called Peter. Dread to think what we are called!Grin

Sparks46th · 26/04/2021 15:47

We live next door to the "Arms Dealers". They seem to have a lot of money and keep themselves to themselves.

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