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He's done something worthwhile at last.

Most excellent choice , mostly listening to Stereolab today.

Have a shower over your bath but are fed up of getting soaked when you just want to turn it on to get warm? This solution is ingenious Anyone got any other hacks or clever fixes?

Not very amusing or interesting, but:- High viz jacket man (because we saw him frequently, but never ever without his high viz jacket on). Turn around woman ( because you'd often see her walking briskly in one direction for some time, and then...

There used to be a fella in our town who was a bit of a drinker and known around all the pubs, he was nicknamed Pally Ally, he got his name years ago when he mispronounced the correct name whilst asking for a bottle of Pale Ale

Isn't that what Emlyn Hughes' teammates used to call him?

Quite a few that I spot regulalry on the high street, my favourite is Fat Wes, cos he looks like a fat Wesley Snipes, always immacuately dressed in brand new Primark gear, still wears a bluetooth earpiece and I'm fairly sure he's pretending to...

We used to have a postman in the 1980's who used to deliver the post in our street by number, crossing the road back and forth rather than doing the odd numbers on one side first and then going down the other side to do the evens. My dad used to...

Chuck him in the same hole as Thatcher.

There's a guy i see all the time looks exactly like my dad did in the 80's, same hair, clothes etc so I call him 1980's Raymond. But i was sitting in chippy one day and he walked past and I heard 2 kids go 'hey look, there's 80's guy'. Made me...

There was a slightly older woman who was part of our free party scene back in the day who we called '80s Tracey, because she looked like she was straight out of the 1980s. There was also Mushroom Dave and Minging Pete, Baldy Neil, Neil Steals...

Anyone else do it? Give nicknames to strangers you encounter on a regular or semi regular basis? You know, that guy in the park who doesn't speak to anyone and his dog has a weird limp (Limpy Dog-Man). Or the woman at the swimming baths who...

I remember a few good nicknames from my RN days. A bloke with the surname Board who used to get called Ouija. Messrs Real and Gay who used to get called Issy. My favourites was a bloke who had the nickname Sledge. Why? He was always being...