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AIBU to have nicknames for my neighbours?

147 replies

MedicalCannabis · 12/07/2024 00:45

I saw a very funny thread on Twitter about this. I can't remember any of my neighbours' actual names, except one whose is amusing...

Please join me in sharing your unique neighbour nicknames!

We have:
The underwear model
Guy who owns the place
The fat family 🙈
Build-a-cunt 😬

I think sharing more would be too risky!

YABU - You should learn their names and stop being rude about them.
YANBU - Keep nurturing your creativity and being a massive curtain twitcher.

OP posts:
subtletyisntlostonme · 12/07/2024 06:40

Oh yes...

The Bouffant Man
Bouffant Man's wife

Shouty man who lives in Ned Flanders' old house

Brenda
The bass player

Coastalcreeksider · 12/07/2024 06:45

The Steptoes as their front driveway is like a junk yard and in one property I lived in, the Wimp and the Blimp. They were horribly noisy and he (Wimp) was awful so I never felt bad when my brother called them that and several other neighbours used the nickname too.

GB81 · 12/07/2024 06:50

Ours are loosely based on Viz, let me introduce you to…
Vicar Sergeant (& Mrs VS)
Ginger Tompkins
Cockney Wanker (not even a Londoner, just loud and from the South 😆)
Mr Pastry, or Pervy Pastry in the summer when he insists on sunbathing naked 🤢
Mr Glue Feet
Mr & Mrs Half Mast
Arthur & Arthur (M/F couple look exactly the same)
Mrs Brady Old Lady - has sadly now died
Mr Shaker Maker
Thankfully Mr Boring Twat has just moved out!

Killingoffmyflowersonebyone · 12/07/2024 06:54

Cat family - their cat shits in my garden. I throw it back over. It’s a good, strong, neighbourly relationship we have

Evie’s mum - (little old lady about 90 and I always see her walking her Westie - Evie - but never asked her name!).

A&B - who I know

The dog hater - hates my dogs.

Jaguar twats - spend hours on a Saturday, every Saturday, detailing their jag.

MrsTartanTeacosy · 12/07/2024 07:04

We have nicknames for the people we don’t know but also those we don’t like, so the children don’t ever accidentally hear us referring to them by name.

Otho - looks exactly like he should be in Beetlejuice.
Otho’s sister - self explanatory.
Dame Washalot - he washes his car constantly.
The Eighth Dwarf/Sneery - she turns her nose up at every weed she sees.
Stop It Stop It - ineffectual with her offlead dogs and says this on repeat.
Damon Hill - she uses the sharp cornered cul de sac like a race track.
Carmen - play on Car Man, he burnt his DP’s car out on their drive, drunk and having a row, soon after moving in and we thought he’d maybe be bother but she stayed with him, he’s been quiet and nice ever since, & it’s been years.

twentysevendresses · 12/07/2024 07:05

Just remembered two from years ago (different house):

Wannabe Elton (my immediate, 'joining walls' neighbour) - single young man who played Elton John CDs very loudly all day, whilst singing along at an equally loud volume. He would not have got the Golden Buzzer!

And on the other side, Dan, Dan The Duvet Man - I only lived in this house for around 18 months but he had a duvet pegged on his line the day we moved in...and it remained there the ENTIRE 18 months that we lived there. The day we moved out (whilst he was at work) I unpegged it and left it just inside his porch 🤣

Ghost2 · 12/07/2024 07:06

We have nicknames for ours and they likely have nicknames for us.

We have

  • conspiracy nutjob
  • glass bin thief
  • cute cat house
  • hippy van house
  • Deirdre Barlow
  • Cunts by association
Heroverthere23 · 12/07/2024 07:06

Name changed for this as have told people irl. We have one that we call ‘Aldi bags’ they used to argue a lot, police have been called a few times, always screaming at the kids, and one time she had thrown him out and my son was watching from his bedroom window and shouts down “she’s packed all his stuff in Aldi bags” so from then on the have been known as Aldi bags. Bit awkward as she’s now a TA at my kids primary so I have to make sure the kids don’t actually call her that!

MumofSpud · 12/07/2024 07:13

We've got:
Mr Virgin (worked for them)
The newly married (even though they got married 10 years ago!)
Mr Inside Out (keeps loads of junk on his driveway)
The Christians / The Flanders
Phoebe's mum (Phoebe is the dog)
The angry lady
The drug dealer

Quite a variety!

Redhairandhottubs · 12/07/2024 07:23

We have:
The shouty people
The deaf man and his wife
The people with the dogs
The couple with the cats
The two blokes
The woman who smokes in her dressing gown

Greentapemeasure · 12/07/2024 07:25

We’ve got ‘The Russian Man’ he isn’t Russian but he looks like an actor that played a Russian in something years ago and it’s just stuck.

’Tinsel Lady’ she’s got a bit of tinsel permanently stuck on the side of her TV in the front window.

‘Mrs Barefoot’ always comes out to her car with no shoes on.

AGodawfulsmallaffair · 12/07/2024 07:28

Car park wankers

Mid life crisis motorbike man ( although he seems to have left and been replaced with moped man, bit of a downgrade ).

Footle · 12/07/2024 07:32

In a previous life:: Bobby the Boyish Belgian

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MedicalCannabis · 12/07/2024 00:45

I saw a very funny thread on Twitter about this. I can't remember any of my neighbours' actual names, except one whose is amusing...

Please join me in sharing your unique neighbour nicknames!

We have:
The underwear model
Guy who owns the place
The fat family 🙈
Build-a-cunt 😬

I think sharing more would be too risky!

YABU - You should learn their names and stop being rude about them.
YANBU - Keep nurturing your creativity and being a massive curtain twitcher.

Only have one
Whisk Mac
whenever we saw him he had a glass of whisky in his hand.

Dusta · 12/07/2024 07:55

I’ve just got Tesla Twat, who’s decided he needs priority on the on street parking, along with his other vehicles, , and parks inches from other cars.

autumn1610 · 12/07/2024 07:59

I’d love to know if we had nicknames. The only one that religiously sticks is nosey bitch (then her name) that lives across the road. We do say it jokingly but she’s always peeking through the blinds or just out the front and had a warning from one of our neighbours that she’s a gossip

CaputDraconis · 12/07/2024 07:59

Even if we know their names they have nicknames!

Couple of ours:

Nutty knickers
Mazda man
Black poodle
The dickhead at the end of the garden
Sainsburys (give you 1 guess where she works...)

ageratum1 · 12/07/2024 08:00

We mostly talk them by their house name or number if we don't know their name, but most people we do know them

Panda89 · 12/07/2024 08:04

We do this 😆 but ours are not that inventive

The Nuclear man
The geeks
Police lady
The Cat-nappers
Cider boy

I wonder what they call us??

Inspireme2 · 12/07/2024 08:24

The rockstar thinks she is, sings loud, terribly out of tune.

The Pet Shop - Several dogs sitting in the window and cats, never seen them out for a walk yet.

The Little Shits - Students with little consideration for parking over footpath, leaving bins that tip over and never clean it up.

The Weird Guy- Peers over to our front door or stands at his letterbox staring like we live on a busy road, we do not.

The Threesome - not sure who's, who's partner, or the dynamics in this house nor want to know.
The Pommy lady - Neat little garden & house works and keeps to herself.
( Not a UK street here)

Blackcats7 · 12/07/2024 08:37

@MedicalCannabis the fat family? Nice bigotry. Any other groups you would like to name by physical appearance? The disabled family? The black family? No? Just fat as the last acceptable prejudice as usual then.

crackfoxy · 12/07/2024 08:41

The coppers
Mrs bouquet
The hoarders
The dominatrix
Keith Allen

crackfoxy · 12/07/2024 08:43

Oh forgot
The doc
King C

KimberleyClark · 12/07/2024 08:45

We had ones for people we met in the park walking the dog.

Tory Woman
Popeye - retired merchant seaman