Nicknames for random strangers

[SLAVEN BILIC]

The woman next door is affectionately known as “that tw__ next door”. The missing letters from that word are ‘at’

 

[chrismpw]

A mate of mine was good at this. There was a bloke with a hand deformity that meant his first two and other two fingers were fused together, in a cloven hoof kind of thing. Despite this, the lad often stood up and played guitar at our local pub. I say played- he would spend 30 minutes on the stage tuning his guitar, then announce he'd be back after a break, which would be permanent. My mate knew him as Sean O'Fingers.

There was also an Indian fella with wild long hair (same pub) who would get very animated playing pool - my mate knew him as Mad Ras.

In my home town there's Referee Man - an old fella who is always dressed as a ref, wearing black shorts in every weather, shuffling about the high street, all day every day.

There's also Tractor Man ... an old bloke who drives around town on his battered old tractor - you see it parked up outside random houses all over the show ... I imagine hes the town's Pat Mustard.

And Rent-a-Skip ... the neighbour who's a one man band builder who permanently has a skip in the front garden, where he can dump materials from his jobs from his van.

 

[Kurt.]

Bloke at the bottom of our street was nicknamed Arthur…… hewould walk miles and miles every day but always complain about his Arthritis… hence Arthur

 

[COYBL25]

A mate of mine was good at this. There was a bloke with a hand deformity that meant his first two and other two fingers were fused together, in a cloven hoof kind of thing. Despite this, the lad often stood up and played guitar at our local pub. I say played- he would spend 30 minutes on the stage tuning his guitar, then announce he'd be back after a break, which would be permanent. My mate knew him as Sean O'Fingers.

There was also an Indian fella with wild long hair (same pub) who would get very animated playing pool - my mate knew him as Mad Ras.

In my home town there's Referee Man - an old fella who is always dressed as a ref, wearing black shorts in every weather, shuffling about the high street, all day every day.

There's also Tractor Man ... an old bloke who drives around town on his battered old tractor - you see it parked up outside random houses all over the show ... I imagine hes the town's Pat Mustard.

And Rent-a-Skip ... the neighbour who's a one man band builder who permanently has a skip in the front garden, where he can dump materials from his jobs from his van.

Sounds like the cast of the modern day Archers !

 

[ArtetaMagic]

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 chuckle

 

[Kurt.]

And there was deaf Richard…. RIP, sadly passed away now. True story, he was caught stealing breeze blocks from a site when they were building new houses down the road….. he’s would go in the middle of the night with his wheelbarrow and fill it with blocks…. He got caught because his wheelbarrow had a terrible squeak on the wheel

 

[BlueInNZ]

I've always called one of my neighbours Boo Radley. Hardly ever see him.

It was a ploy of mine to scare my kids by referring to him as Boo Radley but tbh all rather pointless since they're too old for such parental silliness.

 

[Littlesue]

Used to work with a young lady who's nickname was "Tradesmen's". Never understood why so asked a bloke on the shop floor and he said a few blokes had been out with her and she favoured the "back door" variety of sex hence the nickname

 

[Blue 1]

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 chuckle

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 (he stole things), Beardy, Dillon the Villain, Dogend, and various others.

 

[Voodoo Billy]

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 call him 'Zig-Zag'.

 

[Connor mcloud]

An old guy who lived in our road was known as Sliding roof because he used to wear a wig,
And a guy in the pub was called The Bat because he wore glasses and broke them one night an couldn't see a thing,
So he was forever known as the bat

 

[Rita_Poon]

Thrush, because he was an irritating tw...

 

[kev]

There's a bloke called Dave who drinks in my local.
I had known him for about 3 years before I found out that his name is actually Rodney. Even his wife calls him Dave.

 

[Bryan+]

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 looks so much like an ex Arsenal midfielder I mentally refer to her as 'Ray Parlour's ma'.


Yes, yes, I am a social inadequate who should really talk to people rather than giving them weird names, but I can't be the only one?

this legit might be me?

 

[Bungle]

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 have conversations with people that aren't there.

Almost every day he walks over to the cashpoint opposite work, stares at the machine for a minute or two and then heads back up the high street.