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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] SpookyLights@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago

Her neighbor is going to see this and be like "oh It looks like "judgemental bitch" made a meme."

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So do you reuse the number or keep counting up

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Use their house number for accuracy. You don't want to be spreading gossip about the wrong fentanyl zombie.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

This post is a great example of why we lost America. And what is spreading across the world right now.

Hold a goddamn yard sale and talk to your neighbors people, get to know them, PRETEND you care, at least enough so you can exchange phone numbers and watch each other's places when you take trips or recognize each others lost dogs.

I promise, it not only gets easier, it becomes a source of pride and comfort knowing the people around you. 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.

"whaa but my neighbors are all assholes"

I don't care. You should still know their names.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days 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.

[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is me too. All my neighbors names are “Sunny’s Mom” or “Legolas and Gimli’s Dad”

Also, Gimli is a Corgi and I love their owners so much for this.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Also, Gimli is a Corgi and I love their owners so much for this.

We all love their owners, now. That is delightful.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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)

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'd like to meet thick ass

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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?

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Have you tried being gayer?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm sorry.... Cat killers?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days 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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[–] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's that lady across the streets number?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

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

I know the names of all their dogs.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours 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.

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.

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

Yeah, I’m rural

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours 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.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Just the one "asshole on the corner"

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Being friends with your neighbours is OP

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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

The junkie cunts across the road.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

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

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

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

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

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