VeryBritishProblems explained the trivial way people pick up nicknames and the examples flooded in – 17 favourites
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I once worked with a lad called 'Tony Two Shoes' , because he once wore a brand new pair of shoes to work.
— Ryan Murphy (@ryan7507) November 4, 2024
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We had a neighbour who was referred to as ‘Spanish Umbrella’ for 30 years because she once told my mum she’d got one in the garden. This was during the heatwave of 1976.
— Mandy Tither (@AmandaTither) November 4, 2024
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I had a housemate known as Tango.
When studying painting and decorating he was going to use a compressor to spray a wall with orange paint. He messed up somehow when setting it up and the paint exploded.
There was a white silhouette of him on the wall.
— AuDHD & 2e Me (@2eAdult) November 4, 2024
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‘Garage Door Geoff’
When I was a kid, a bloke over the road named Geoff once banged his head on his garage door, whacked it with his broom in anger and knocked it off the brackets. The rest is history— Richard Littlefair (@RichLittlefair) November 4, 2024
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We had a Hob-Nob Clive, because he once brought some biscuits in…and they were just regular Digestive biscuits. Just seems he got a free upgrade in the ol' nickname department.
— Guise Knightcott (@GuiseKnightcott) November 4, 2024
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Lad at Uni called “Batman”
Opened a beer using the bottle opener on his belt, on his first night
Obviously his Batman Utility belt
— Coggs (@CashoutCoggs) November 4, 2024
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I call my next door neighbour Fatberg because she sent her landlord round to moan about blocked drains, I contacted the water company and it turned out there was a massive fatberg in the cul-de-sac behind us. So she became Fatberg https://t.co/uodoVOCTCQ
— Kimberley (@EnajYelrebmik) November 4, 2024
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A girl in my husband's kindergarten class sneezed and farted at the same time.
For the next 14 years of school she was known as Sneezefart. https://t.co/eMO8pgQTds
— AuDHD & 2e Me (@2eAdult) November 4, 2024
It all got a bit literary.
I used to know a guy called "Handbag" because he was from Worthing. (I had to have it explained to me. In Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack Worthing reveals to Lady Bracknell that he was found as a baby in a handbag).
— Russ (@Russell_CNX) November 4, 2024
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