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nicknames for neighbours

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TheCreamCaker · 20/12/2021 19:57

Do any of you have nicknames for friends and/or neighbours? Over the years, we've had:

The Lottery Queen (she once won a few thousand and bragged about it for years)
Internet King (used to sit on his PC in the window - with no shirt on)
Father Ted (got a mass of white hair)
Roman Helmet (hair in that shape which is plastered to her head)
Mr Muscle (very petite and short man)
Honey Monster (huge woman with a moustache)
Big 'tache Slipper Man (no description needed)
The Mole (neighbourhood watch lady)
Barry the Bag (always shopping)

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IcedAbstinente · 20/12/2021 21:09

We have The Portuguese (They aren't but the last people who owned the house were)

The Lady with the Husband in Prison (He isn't. They are divorced and live opposite each other for the kids to go back and forth. It;s quite nie actually. I have no idea how DH came up with that name).

The Lady with the Picanto. (for obvious reasons).

Vapeyvapevape · 20/12/2021 21:10

My parents live opposite the Muppets and we have a Gaaaaaary over the road from us ( it’s an Only Fools and Horses joke)

SpanielsAreMyLife · 20/12/2021 21:10

We had welsh neighbours that we called Nessa and Dave Coaches..... they were retired and very Hyacinth Bucket in reality Grin

The man over the road is Tinky Winky as he looks like a teletubby sat on his motorbike.

Beamur · 20/12/2021 21:10

My DH calls our neighbour the low resolution fox. Looks good from a distance...
He's generally much nicer than this

Crunched · 20/12/2021 21:11

We have Flamboyant John, and DS at 6 called him this to his face, he seemed quite pleased Grin.

mumofEandE · 20/12/2021 21:11

We have/
The Newly Marrieds (they got married 1 years ago when we moved in!)
The Christians (No to Halloween Trick or Treating)
The smokers

Goodness knows what we are!

rachelvbwho · 20/12/2021 21:14

Lawnmower Man (always mowing his lawn)

The Thruple (a man and two women-we can't figure out the relationship there....)

Grumpy Tory (pretty self explanatory)

Happy Dog Lady (happy lady and her happy dog

Pallet Man (once asked for our pallet -we had just recieved a big delivery of gardening stuff and he came straight Iver to ask for it- but he never said thank you)

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 20/12/2021 21:14

We used to live near Boy Racer who was about 55 and drove a wreck of a BMW far too fast.

Xiaoxiong · 20/12/2021 21:17

We know all our neighbours by name but MIL has

Jane Jane
Van Jane (has a van)
Shotgun Jane (has some kind of air rifle that she uses to scare birds away)

So lots of conversations like "jane rang, you know, jane jane not shotgun jane"

I asked how the first Jane had managed to be designated "Jane Jane" and apparently she is "just more Janey than the other Janes"

NuckingFightmare · 20/12/2021 21:17

Weird Keith, he's just bloody weird!

Swirlywoo · 20/12/2021 21:18

@Xiaoxiong Grin

Cfive · 20/12/2021 21:19

I give mine awards in the christmas illumination awards. Big pagoda family currently the favourite for gold.

KarlUrbansWife · 20/12/2021 21:20

Oh I love this thread! We have:
Chavvy But Nice
Him With The Jag
Cretin
The Great Car Swap
Them Opposite
And the classic Knobhead, I'm sure you all have one of those
Funnily enough, the neighbours we really like get called by their names.

Allthesefolks · 20/12/2021 21:20

Fake Dave Smith’s* Dad
Caravan house
Mental Kelly
Next Door Numpties

*Dave Smith (not real name) is a friend of ours

TheCreamCaker · 20/12/2021 21:21

I worked at a large company years ago, and we had:

Miss Piggy (she was the boss)
Car Thief (she looked shifty, rumour had it that she'd been in prison)
Bus Pass (went everywhere - miles - on buses
Whispering St. J (she had a patronising voice)
Mrs Doubtfire (dressed much older than her years, always had a huge bag)
The Biscuit Manager (he gave himself some fancy title when actually all he did was order supplies.

We even had names for people in the pub:

Grotbags (no explanation necessary)
Red Knob (had a permanent tan all year, probably all over)
Mafiosa (wore clothes that looked like a gangster's?!)
The Moll (his missus)

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KarlUrbansWife · 20/12/2021 21:21

Oh and Old Next Door Neighbour Denz Grin

TroysMammy · 20/12/2021 21:23

They all have their own names except for The Cunt.

ReginaaPhalange · 20/12/2021 21:23

We have snooty McGhee and Xbox boy across the road. Snooty McGhee (the mum) turned her nose up at all the younger couples who moved in around her (new build estate) and her son Xbox boy, screams like an absolute idiot at his games console daily! He's mid 20s.......!

MondeoFan · 20/12/2021 21:25

Ours are -

Merc Man - thinks he's the bees knees

Banger Man - drives a battered car approx 22 years old

Window Licker - always looking out the window

Nosy Git - told my daughter off for walking around the back of his house with her mate (it's a public footpath)

Widow Twanky - resident alcoholic

IcedAbstinente · 20/12/2021 21:26

@Xiaoxiong

We know all our neighbours by name but MIL has

Jane Jane
Van Jane (has a van)
Shotgun Jane (has some kind of air rifle that she uses to scare birds away)

So lots of conversations like "jane rang, you know, jane jane not shotgun jane"

I asked how the first Jane had managed to be designated "Jane Jane" and apparently she is "just more Janey than the other Janes"

I love this. Grin
ComtesseDeSpair · 20/12/2021 21:28

The rather snooty and humourless man five doors down is a chiropterologist / bat survey specialist. Obvs we nicknamed him Batman. Once we realised how much he hates this, DP started referring to him using it to our other neighbours.

Sophie over the road is very jolly and volunteers for the RSPCA. We call her Catwoman. Unlike Batman, she likes this.

Further down the road we have Lives With Michael, because every year they send us a Christmas card, every year Michael’s husband’s name is written in illegible scrawl, and no years have we clarified what he actually might be called.

Pinkandpink · 20/12/2021 21:29

Ken and Barbie, guys called Ken and wife Anne. Just named them this as we didn’t know her name.
Hot tub man
Handcuff women as she was arrested when we moved in for being drunk.

BirdyBirdyTweetTweet · 20/12/2021 21:30

Weird and weirder (husband and wife).

Charmatt · 20/12/2021 21:33

When we were growing up we all referred to the woman next door as Honeymonster!

icebearforpresident · 20/12/2021 21:33

I have The Old Boot. We moved here a few months ago and I’ve spoken to her twice, both times it was her complaining about us parking in ‘her space’. Both times it was a different car and neither of them were our car. We live just off the town centre and people often park here for the shops, despite this she’s decide that any car she doesn’t recognise must be us. She’s a miserable old cow, verified by her immediate neighbour, who I’ve known since I was a kid.

Every time I see her in the street I smile and say hello, mostly because she’s so clearly annoyed by it.

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