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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

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

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

[–] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 4 points 22 hours ago

Sure thing 'Lady with glasses who never says a thing'.

[–] SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago

We use

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

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

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

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

How does she know the colour of the bush?

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 20 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 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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...

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I agree with and appreciate your honest, realistic perspective.

And I maintain that we can break through the challenges of fear and propaganda designed to push people indoors and to stop organizing, to stop creating communities. It's artificial. It goes against millions of years of evolution. People want to be connected and part of a community, but the manufactured fear is stronger right now.

In fact, this is how I've turned my share of conservatives towards better ways of "thinking" which is understanding that even the person who hates you and everything you stand for, on some level, really, really wants your acceptance. It doesn't sound like it makes sense, but that's just it... our species is loaded with contradictions, it's why we have a reality-TV president and why we have so many people spinning out about wildly unrealistic issues or false-flag stories stoking people's fear and anger. Because we're not rational.

I often tell the story about how at my first job I volunteered to start taking the difficult clients' calls for my boss, they were so happy to hand that task over they didn't care if some monkey from the warehouse like myself was handling it.

What I did was listen to the angry client's calls, I listened to their stories and their feelings and their frustrations, and didn't try to fix it all, just listened and said I understand. Then they would call back and ask for me. Still angry, but now seeking the only person who will let them have emotions about it, then over time they did business only with me, and apologized for their temper earlier.

We can all do this. It's not a jedi trick, but it does take a level of emotional intelligence we're not developing inside on Lemmy and Reddit and Discord. We have to get out more, we have to be the bigger people we think we are. We have to get over our own hangups and fears and insecurities and lead by example. I strongly feel any of us are capable of doing this, even if it's just once, if we all did it we would change our country.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day 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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 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.

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] clungebob_cumpants@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What nickname would you give to me?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What do you want to be called?

~~good girl~~ clungebob cumpants is fine

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[–] 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

[–] SpookyLights@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago

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

[–] 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.

[–] Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

Yeah, I’m rural

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

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

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

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

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 34 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)
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours 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.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 28 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 (3 children)

So do you reuse the number or keep counting up

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[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

Have you tried being gayer?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days 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

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[–] 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 2 days ago

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

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

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 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.

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