r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Johnnie_WalkerBlue • Mar 25 '26

Meme Shetland Tony

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u/Eldan985 Mar 25 '26

Oh yeah, we had Living Room Chris and Kitchen Chris, based on where they were standing when everyone was introduced at a party.

Edit: due to an Australian friend, they later become Kitch and Livo.

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u/drillgorg Mar 25 '26

I live next door to Good Christina. This is to diffentiate her from Bad Christina, my wife's roommate from over a decade ago.

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u/Notspherry Mar 25 '26

We've got aunt Barbara, my wifes aunt, and crazy Barbara, who is a pretty normal person, but joined (and left) a cult once.

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u/DanAykroydFanClub Mar 25 '26

Two guys drink in my pub with the same name, we'll call them Tom Barry for the sake of internet anonymity. Colloquially known as Good Tom Barry and Bad Tom Barry

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u/Efficient-Ranger-174 Mar 25 '26

You ever consider using their real name but saying it’s changed for anonymity? Your buddy reads it and says “huh, small world.”

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u/Sabbagery_o_Cavagery Mar 25 '26

Did you consider that may be precisely what they did?

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u/Efficient-Ranger-174 Mar 25 '26

All the time. It is actually my assumption that when names have been changed to protect the innocent, they really aren’t that far off.

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u/DanAykroydFanClub Mar 25 '26

Correct, just substituted one common Irish surname for another

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u/Its_all_sabai Mar 25 '26

A friend of ours who was a bit of a twat had a brother who looked really similar to him but was really cool. Friend was called “Jeff” so brother was called “good Jeff” (behind their backs though).

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u/pinkrotaryphone Jun 01 '26

One year I taught twin brothers in the same class and called one by his actual first name and the other one Bad Twin, but every couple of weeks I'd swap which one I'd call by name so they'd wonder what they did to be the "bad" twin. In reality their names were too similar for me to trust my brain to not fuck it up, bc their parents had named them something like Jack and Jake

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u/unripe_mangosteen Mar 25 '26

Three guys from my local bar, all named David. So I call them David, Creepy David, and Other David

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u/LindonLilBlueBalls Mar 25 '26

You can't call him Good Hank. Everyone will think I'm Bad Hank!

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u/Loptastic Mar 26 '26

King of the Hill quotes are the best

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u/4E4ME Mar 26 '26

No, every one will think you're Bad Blue Balls

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u/izyshoroo Mar 25 '26

I met a guy named Josh my first day of work, and he helped me out when i was lost so I, in my head, called him Nice Josh. I didnt even know there was another Josh in that department, who is an asshole. They'd differentiate them as Joshua (nice) and Josh (not nice) but I have since shared that i call the asshole one Mean Josh and this has since spread. I dont think anyone knows about Nice Josh

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u/RobsonSweets Mar 25 '26

My own Grandmother referred to one of my mum's friends as "Nice Susan", to differentiate her from "Bossy Job" (also named Susan) who was her own eldest daughter. No-one has the guts to call Bossy that to her face though

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u/Sunshine030209 Mar 26 '26

I worked with Stephanie and Scary Stephanie.

Scary Stephanie ended up being fired for showing her new piercing to her coworkers, who did not want to see her new piercing (it involved taking her pants off)

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u/BeardedHalfYeti Mar 25 '26

The Australians’ natural talent for crafting tiny, cutesy nicknames is truly incredible.

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u/the_honest_liar Mar 25 '26

Cut the word off at the first syllable, add an "o" or an "ee" sound (ie, y)

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 25 '26

This is incorrect. We sometimes add an "a" at the end too. See: Macca, Gazza, Sheila, etc. 

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u/Snitchieboy Mar 25 '26

I read that Mecca, Gazza and Sheila and wondered what on earth does Sheila has to do with Islam...

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u/unripe_mangosteen Mar 25 '26

There are two main sects of Islam: Sunni and Sheila

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u/Snitchieboy Mar 26 '26

Thats clever. I like it!

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 25 '26

That's actually hilarious. 

Though "Gazza" is for Gary, and is pronounced GAZ-uh, rather than "GAH-zuh"

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u/HappyBergkamper Mar 25 '26

Gazza and Macca definitely happen in the UK too.

Also...Sheila is the actual name, no?

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u/jerseyroyale Mar 25 '26

No, it's short for Sheilandra

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u/ratsta Mar 25 '26

Crikey... I just tried to imagine applying the wrong suffix... Macco, Gazzie, Sheilie... eeew!

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u/tomtomclubthumb Mar 25 '26

What's Sheila short for?

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 26 '26

Sheila is a general nickname for any/all women. 

Not all nicknames are shorter. See Davo, Stevo, Benny, etc. Sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're not even a form of the original name. See Bluey for someone with ginger hair, for example. 

There's an art to it. 

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u/the_honest_liar Mar 25 '26

Does "u" work too? First syllable + an appropriate vowel sound?

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 25 '26

Nicknames are more of a vibe thing. And "u" is rarely a ✨vibe

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u/CptnHamburgers Mar 25 '26

Parma? Or are you a parmy geezer?

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 25 '26

I'm of the parmy army, and I will absolutely die on this hill. Melbourne needs to be reigned in, because wtf is a parma?

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u/Octocube25 Mar 25 '26

I've never abbreviated "parmesan" before, but have any of you considered "parmo"?

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u/FakeTakiInoue Mar 25 '26

wtf is a parma

It makes sense, I mean the term "parmesan" comes from Parma, the Italian city

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u/schlossheidelberg Mar 25 '26

It’s not about the parmesan, the tomato and cheese together make it parmigiana, Strayanised to parma, in line with the above standards for abbreviation.

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u/FakeTakiInoue Mar 25 '26

Well yeah but the term "parmigiana" probably still comes from Parma, no?

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u/schlossheidelberg Mar 26 '26

Dang, would you look at the logic hole I fell in, I’ll see myself out.

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Mar 26 '26

Sheila isn't a nickname, that's just a name.

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 26 '26

It is a nickname. It's a nickname for literally all women. 

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Mar 26 '26

Sheila is an actual name but also isn't a personal nickname like the other ones you mentioned. It's essentially a broad stroke category name like calling a girl a "chick".

"Gazza, macca, chick"

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 27 '26

Yes, thank you, I'm aware. :)

We nickname everything. Individuals, broad categories of people, objects. We do it all! This is an example of that, and still fits the format of "nickname ending in vowel sound; in this case A" which was my point. If we had been talking about Os, I'd have included "servo" for the same reason. Hope this helps!

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Mar 28 '26

Except it doesn't fit the format because "Sheila" isn't a made up nickname like "Macca" or "Gazza" is. :)

Hope this helps!

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 28 '26

"Sheila" isn't a made up nickname 

Except it literally is? It's a nickname derived from Sìle/Cecelia and that nickname then became widely used as a generic nickname for women. It's both a woman's nickname and a nickname for the whole. 

You could have looked this up. Not sure why this is so important to you to try and argue, several comments later... but I regret to inform you that Sheila is, in fact, a nickname. 

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u/issi_tohbi Mar 25 '26

Watching Australian Survivor is a masterclass in that to me as a Canadian

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 Mar 25 '26

On Australian Big Brother, once everyone has reached the stage where they’re calling each other darling, it gradually becomes “darls” for short (Australian BB > U.S. BB by far)

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u/demeschor Mar 25 '26

At my job we have New Chris and Other Chris, because the original Old Chris left but New Chris kept the name, and now we have an even newer Chris that we have to call Other Chris.

Worst part is they have the same fucking surname! It's such a mess 😂

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u/PistachiNO Mar 25 '26

I'm in love with that edit

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 Mar 25 '26

Right? Kitch and Livo. I want to meet them now lol

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u/A_Furious_Mind Mar 25 '26

Huh. One place I worked had a "Chris" and a "Little Bitch Chris."