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Woman in her house with the caption: Am I the only one that gives my neighbors names they don't know they have?? like "red truck dude"
"cat killers" "sweet grandma with the rose bush" and "the slut across the street"

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[–] 71 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I hope my neighbors know me as the slut across the street.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thanks ThotDragon, to me you're now the slut from across the fediverse. 🩵

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yep. We call some of our neighbors:

    • Boy-next-door (he’s actually a dude in his 50s)
    • Stilgar (because he kinda resembles Javier Bardem’s Stilgar)
    • Boom boom house (because they have those obnoxious subwoofers in their car and you can hear them coming from a mile away)
    • Barn house (because the paint color of their house makes it look like a barn)
    • Young couple (they look like our age and have no kids, although I think we’re pretty much older than them)
    • Karen (no explanation needed. We all have the neighborhood Karen. Thankfully she’s several streets away and we only feel her presence in the neighborhood group chat)
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My neighbor is named Karen. She's absolutely a Karen, but she's my Karen.

    She's actually pretty nice and takes care of her neighbors, but she is all up in the neighborhood's business sometimes.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yes. Most of them are "fentanyl zombie" followed by a number.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So do you reuse the number or keep counting up

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    One of my neighbors is Lucrezia and she offered to spell it for me and I was like "It's cool, I got this, everyone knows the Borgias..."

    I couldn't tell if she was impressed or horrified.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I can't remember all my neighbours names (thou I often greet them), but I know their dogs name :-)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I have helped my neighbor across the halls kid with his gaming PC.

    Couldn't tell ya her name, but the dog below me with a heart problem is named Sophie, the neighbors down the hall have cats named Mink and Stink, and a few buildings down there's a lady with two huskies one named Pogs and the other Skips (Skips has 3 legs)

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Sugar"

    Because we were working in the garage and she came over. Dressed in tight, revealing clothing with her breasts pushed up, she asks us a few times if we want to buy any sugar. We were certain she wasn't talking about baking, but we weren't sure if she was a sex worker or offering booger sugar. So henceforth, she became Sugar. We're pretty gay, but not sure if she read that. So maybe it was the latter?

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hopefully, they just look like people that would be the type to kill cats. Otherwise, they live by psychos.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's a family a couple of blocks from me that could be called this although I don't think it's intentional on their part. They operate more or less a free range cat colony and the cats keep getting run over because it's a busy neighborhood with narrow streets and cars parked all along them. I drive very slowly here (there are also lots of kids around) but most people don't.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Long time ago I had one of those "single property renovator man" types move in to replace the nice neighbor girl next door. You know, instantly they freshen up the backyard and put a dozen cameras all over the place.

    We let my kitten out back at night for a little exploring. Walled back yard. Within a span of a few minutes found her dead by our sliding glass door with a head wound. We didn't know what happened at the time. Too shocking to think straight.

    But a few days later, the asshole is plinking beer cans in his backyard with some family members or something. Errant rounds are pinging off our windows and leaving rust stains in our pool.

    We call the police because someone is discharging dangerous projectiles within city limits, at our house, and the lone, bothered, podgy lawman gives us the "Jus' sum good ol' boys, I asked them to take it easy." routine.

    I'm glad I never got this man's actual name. I'm afraid of what I'd do with it now that we don't live there anymore. I figure there's nothing worse I could do to him than the pathetic existence he leads on his way to hell anyway.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have

    Johnny Derp - looks like as if Depp was a recovering meth-head

    Thicc Ass - the girl that always lets her poodle out in the back yard to shit

    Karen - close enough to her real name but sure acts like it

    London bros - they are hicks with no etiquette of living in a community. Also they are actually from Guelph, I think...

    Frenchman - he's actually from France and works at a Fromagerie

    The Thief - old dude who picks the berries and tomatoes in the alley

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    I have lived in my house long enough that people around have changed and until I meet them and know their real names they are assigned the last persons name and a version number.

    Like Mr. Wilson 2.0

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What's that lady across the streets number?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Guy obviously having an affair, wine mom, right wing boomer #42, right wing boomer #43...

    I know the names of all their dogs.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    My father’s neighbor has always been “Ms Waldi” to me. 10 years after my mom and I moved out from his house, my dad told me when I was visiting that that’s not her real name.

    That lady used to have a dachshund. “Waldi” is a common German name for them (or dogs in general), so my mom used to call her that. My dad copied my mom and I my dad. I still don’t know that woman’s real name.

    Oh, and my dad’s new one also calls her by that name.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    40 year old child. -seen his dad have to come by and teach his kid how to run a lawnmower.

    Lumina guy - at one point had 3 Chevy lumina's

    Blue meanie- built like the blue meanies from yellow submarine

    Guy fieri- haven't talked to this guy yet, cause I have no interest in going to flavortown with him.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm assuming by the whimsical look on her face that the grandma is a redhead with no plants.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's rabbit girl, who is this anorexic as fuck lady who runs about 20 miles a day, looks just like a sinewy, starved rabbit hop hop hopping along

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  • Do you live in Media, PA by any chance? This sounds like the exact description of a woman that runs through my neighborhood and has to be in her 70s at least. It's not even running, it's more of this asymmetrical skip-hopping motion. I've never seen anyone or anything look less healthy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Tractor man, stupid dogs, horse people, fast truck, guy who waves, people across the way.

    Yeah, I’m rural

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  • I've got the crazy Germans, the I do yard work and just blow it in the street, the mysterious door dash only guy who might have a harem in his basement, and the fat polite guy who asks if he can park in front of my house so the time.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I have killed a bottle of tequila with my neighbor and still don't know his name. Labels are like, just suggestions anyway man.

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  • I have yet to meet "gorilla-looking dude who yells at his step-son and his lawnmower in public" who lives across the street, or even made eye contact with him. And no, this is not some variant of racism on my part -- gorilla-looking dude is white but looks much more like a gorilla than any black dude I've ever seen.

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  • [+] 19 points 1 year ago* (18 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I agree so much. Sadly it's hard to reach out with how entire neighborhoods are designed. They're designed like solitary domiciles that only exist because employees need a place to be stored when not in use.

    Ours is designed where cars just disappear into garages and only people walking dogs and delivery drivers (or solicitors) use the front door. So everyone hides behind those stupid ring cameras.

    "whaa but my neighbors are all assholes"

    I'll admit: Not all of them!

    Peoples' average temperament indeed seems set on being the "leave me alone miserable and lonely" default though.

    ... Or they're psychos. I live in a particularly transient city though, people move all the time, most rent, and you barely can tell there's completely different people next door one day.

    I deleted all the details to avoid a wall of text, but we've lived through a couple neighborhoods where everyone knew each other, and now it's barred windows and cameras that shout "YOU'RE BEING FILMED" when you're 50 feet away.

    I notice a common toxicity factor seems to be those "Muh property" NIMBYs that see a house as a "real estate investment" instead of a home. The ones who sic the HOA on people they've never met and are mad about everything. (They're probably also on Nextdoor posting about answering their door "with Smith & Wesson." Trolls.)

    I randomly met a really cool neighbor on a bike ride though. He happened to have his garage open! Sadly we don't text a whole ton but he's pretty cool.

    People tend to be pretty alright if you encounter them in the wild but nobody's opening their door to say hi anymore, and I also find that we're under so much immense pressure that just stopping for a chat feels like it eats a chunk out of a day. This is also not healthy...

    I want community, and local friends and all that. But I dunno, I think everybody is just burned out and vulnerability is especially scary these days, especially with the violent polarization of our politics of late.

    But I agree, people would be much less likely to vote to harm and oppress their neighbors if they knew more of them personally...

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I don't know why you seem to think that extroversion versus introversion is the same thing as having emotional intelligence or not. I would consider myself to be a very sociable introvert and have no problem with empathic listening, but it drains my energy pool so I can only engage it for so long. People who are extroverts do not have this problem as much because interacting with other people recharges their energy pool and being alone drains it.

    (I also have an additional problem that I have a very weird variant of bipolar that can cause me to get incredibly euphoric when talking to someone but then crash into a dysphoria afterward, which is extremely draining; this kind of thing is very unusual, though.)

    Perhaps you should consider applying the same supposed listening and empathy skills to people on internet forums that you supposedly do to people in real life? Or would that interfere too much with your lecturing?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Speak for yourself. I am not hiding inside so I can be miserable and lonely; I just find social interactions to be energy draining, so I need a lot of time in solitude to recharge.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (12 children)

    It isn't quite clear to me how burning myself out helps anyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    "Oww! Oww! Oww! My broken arm still hurts!"

    "Stop whining and keep doing those pushups, and you'll eventually get strong enough that those bones will knit themselves!"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    This is more like my son telling me his legs hurt all the time, but he just got back from running around like a maniac, and he's about to go run around like a maniac. And I'm not even suggesting the pain isn't real, but sometimes you gotta push through.

    And to bring it back to the example at hand, developing a community is hugely important. I know all of my neighbors and we all hang out and know each other. Half the time, I don't want to, but sometimes I just do it. Sometimes it's not great, but sometimes it is. But when we need a hand, I have a pool of people to pick from, and I know I'm in their pool.

    Dehumanizing the morons on the internet forum you frequent is bad, but dehumanizing your neighbors is really bad. The door swings both ways, community is important. Make an effort. I'm sorry it's hard.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Make an effort. I’m sorry it’s hard.

    Is this the kind of thing that you also say to the people in your neighborhood when trying to build a community, and if so, how do people usually respond to it?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not every conversation I have with my neighbors is surface level, and sometimes we talk about how just regular life shit can be difficult. It wasn't sarcasm, I meant it. Make an effort, despite the fact that I understand it's hard. I get it, it hard for me too at times, but you can't just shy away from difficult things all the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gah, it is not hard for me to talk to strangers! It just burns through energy.

    In particular, I have never had much trouble talking to strangers with my full empathy turned on. It gets a bit tricky when I don't actually care about what they are talking about, but I have a couple of abilities that help with this. First, I generally care about the person and making sure that they feel valued, regardless of what they are saying. Second, I have a mild form of bipolar so I am used to having raging emotions underneath the surface that are disconnected from the situation at hand and needing to regulate them, so I can keep up an expression of interest--and again, I am generally genuinely interested in the person--even while feeling very restless underneath. In fact, I have been so successful at this that in the past a couple of conversations with strangers have led to them asking me out, despite the fact that we were both men and I am not gay.

    Again, though, all of this burns through energy. So the difficulty has nothing to do with me lacking a skill but more like being exhausted from having done hard physical labor all day, and then having a random person demand that you drop and do pushups or else they will declare that you are not trying hard enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest it was a "skill issues," as the kids say these days. And I think it's a pretty apt comparison to physically demanding tasks. Got a flex the social muscles or they atrophy, and the benefit is building a network.

    I'm with you 100% though. I'm tired all the time, and sometimes the thought of going out and being "on" with people is daunting. And it's funny, because my wife is like, you're an ENFJ or whatever the fuck (I'm exactly as uneducated in that field as she is educated), and I try to tell her that despite how I was, how I am now is tired of social situations, generally. But I try to just eat it. And sometimes I don't eat it and I sit at home and unwind. I just know that theres benefits to maintaining relationships, and that for some folks a text chain isn't enough. I do wish that everyone was cool with texting, or even talking on forums like this, but I know that's not the case generally.

    I do feel like we've gotten into the weeds here. I just really believe in community, despite the fact that I'm a curmudgeon. I just imagine a world where we can't perhaps communicate the way we do now. What are we left with? Well, the people whose homes I can walk to, essentially.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A lot of the people I regularly interact with are at a contra dancing venue. Does that not count as a community because I have to drive to interact with them instead of walking? (Genuine question; not intended as a gotcha.)

    Also, keep in mind that my original comment to @ameancow@lemmy.world was responding to the following,

    We have spurned community because it’s more tempting to hide inside and feel miserable and lonely. Losing community was how we lost civics and representation and basic human empathy. [emphasis mine]

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  • [+] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Funny how you go on and on about the importance of connecting with the people around you, but then when someone shows up who is different from you and talks about how they are different, you stop trying to connect and turn incredibly hostile instead.

    So much for empathy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's less that I am defensive and more that I think, based on your comments here, that you are a judgemental self-absorbed asshole who does not understand people nearly as well as you think that you do. 😉

    (Also, for the record, although I may be a troll online, I am not a troll in real life. Despite what you seem to believe, I do not actually live in a cave.)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I don't even know my neighbors enough to assign them labels like that. I just like keeping to myself.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Jan 6er has a for sale sign up up and Carehome's been rather quiet.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I work IT a fortune 500 company with like 60k-100k employees. Moved in last month and what do ya know, two houses down is a manager for an application I support. What're the chances.

    Gonna suck when he comes knocking or giving me evil eyes for issues I didn't cause.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I like the "quotes" sometimes, but this trend of screenshots of people looking around distracts me.

    ...I mean, at least look towards where the quote is gonna be.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The junkie cunts across the road.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    No, but I'm a cashier and I have nicknames for my customers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Being friends with your neighbours is OP

    Just walking next door for your next game night or drinking and chilling? Fuck yeah

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Just the one "asshole on the corner"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure they have nicknames for us, but I think of them as houses before people. "House with loud dog" "The Name House" "The First Name House" "proselytizer house"

    First name house and name house are not those families anymore. Those people either died or moved out.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    We remember the names of their dogs, and use those.

    So it's "Rex's Mum" and "Fido's sister"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I don't even know what my neighbours look like.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Say... Can you introduce me to your neighbors?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This ain't no meme

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    We use

    "Shit neighbours" "The ones with the baby" "Remember, where the British couple lived before"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The family across the street are Pugsley and Fred West.

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  • Meanwhile I keep a spreadsheet of all their names, relations, jobs, etc so I don't forget when I talk to them... <_<

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The woman in the apartment nextdoor is called The Slug. She drinks like a waterfall, smokes like a chimney and screams like a cow. Looking like one doesn't stop her from finding men to bring over and bang though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Big lady who must wear mumus all the time = moo

    Lady with tonnes of kids = baby making machine

    Lady who took her kids for ice cream all the time = ice cream mom

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'd like to know more about "the slut across the street" they sound friendly.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Every block has one. And if your's doesn't, then it's you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    ...... fuck mine are called cat killers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    How does she know the colour of the bush?

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