Local Facebook groups

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DavieW said:

Grahamdub said:

Woman on our local fb page complaining that the posters she put up yesterday have all been taken down overnight. The fact we had winds here strong enough to blow down trees seems to have passed her by.

Blairgowrie?

Near Bristol. Tree fell across the road through the village. Luckily the local fb page kept us updated

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Just checked my local one. Every time someone posts about suspicious looking foreigners or anti social parking etc some bloke names and tags his mate and everyone starts criticising him.

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Spare tyre said:

I’ve got a hire van at the mo, might go for some prowling, perhaps take some nets and puppies with me, see how many points i can rack up

I even have a few friends who look a bit grubby, could have some fun

Maybe put some fireworks on the passenger seat and an EU sticker on the back?

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djc206 said:

Spare tyre said:

I’ve got a hire van at the mo, might go for some prowling, perhaps take some nets and puppies with me, see how many points i can rack up

I even have a few friends who look a bit grubby, could have some fun

Bonus points if you dress up like the child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang.

But maybe look a bit Romanian?

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djc206 said:

El stovey said:

But maybe look a bit Romanian?

That would be an interesting look

Tracksuit and tatty top hat. New for winter ‘19 season.

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"That cat has clearly been run over by Michelin Pilot Cup 2 tyres, 315 width, 35 profile on a 20 inch rim at approximately 33mph in a 30 limit. I have passed this information to the police"

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Really pisses me of to.

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droopsnoot said:

I've almost commented on several posts recently that a sometimes sensible point is not being made because the spelling and punctuation errors make it almost impossible to read. Many, but not all, are political in nature. There's a woman that a FB friend keeps sharing posts from, she's suggesting all sorts of stuff to be sent to MPs in the run-up to the election (some of which is probably bordering on hate mail) and there isn't a single post without a mistake of some sort.

A recent one from someone else, not about politics, was about boycotting self-serve tills in supermarkets, but it contained the line "By using self-serve checkouts you are helping corporate's fire employees". And for a minute, even though I'm not 100% on apostrophes myself, I did read that as a good thing - while I couldn't quite think what a "fire employee" is, it feels good to help them.

( - might not have been "corporate's", but it was one of those words intended to make a business sound like a bad thing. Can't find it now or I'd post the graphic).

Sounds like you live in our village. There was a lot of discontent when the local Co-Op replaced a couple of attended tills with 3 self service tills. Lots of comments about jobs being lost, although none were, and vows to never use the evil self service tills. Fine by me, as I walk past the queue to use them myself. You can feel the evil glares behind you though as you walk off 30 seconds later while they are still queueing

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CharlieH89 said:

I’ve left my local group as there’s too many politics posts.
Plenty of people trying to push their views down people’s throats.
I spoke to the admin about these posts being monotonous and nothing to do with what’s happening locally.
Fell on deaf ears. I was told to block people but I had already blocked a fair decent percentage of the people who only went on there to chat bks about Brexit.

I left our local Nextdoor group for the same reason. A few people spoiled it for everyone.

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Rawwr said:

bingybongy said:

I'm an admin on our town's page.
It's soul destroying.
This week it's poppies, next week it will be fireworks, then a dead cat, then a sheep out of a field, then the chippy/Chinese/Indian is st, does any1 no what time the co-op opens, local town council are corrupt/left wing/tory fkers, then dog st, XR are saviours, Corbyn is a , Boris is a .
I love it, 10000 members and I've had a private messaged threat, been called a and my favourite, a grammar Nazi
But yet they still post.

So just like Pistonheads then?

The crucial difference is that people post bile and rubbish on PHs but their name and photos and family/friends and jobs etc usually aren’t linked to their profile.

You’d think it would make people more careful what they post but on my local FB group, it seems worse than here.

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Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

After Halloween, we had the posts from the mothers of the little brats all congratulating the little darlings on how wonderful they all looked and how polite they all were. It's kind of a funny Facebook thing where the usual suspects fend off any possible negative criticism by being overly positive.
I might let my dog take a poo on someones drive, and post a picture of it saying what a wonderfully formed poo it was.
Strangely no firework posts on out local page yet?

(I don't have a dog, but you get my point).

If you did the poo yourself, you’d likely get filmed on a ring doorbell and you might see a still of that posted on your group. Best dress as a clown or something to get even more likes?

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Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

I suspect the stupid owners only freak out at non-organised bangs, the dog picks up on that and hides under the bed (from its owner).

bks. I love fireworks, bangers, blowing things up etc but my dog is terrified of them, to the point where she is shaking like a leaf looking for places to hide.

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DRFC1879 said:

I spend my time between two places at present. I have a place in Doncaster which is my official residence but spend just as much time at my girlfriend's house in Leeds. I wanted an old pallet to make a planter for her garden so thought I'd ask the local facebook group.

I couldn't find it as it's a hidden invite-only affair. So the girlfriend sent me an invite and messaged the group admin outlining the reason. I was rejected because my facebook profile says "from Doncaster."

Just think of all the havoc it would've caused had I taken an unwanted pallet from someone in the area. Utter anarchy!

I tried getting rid of a pallet on our local page. A few people went off on one saying someone might use it on a wood burner and it would release all the poisonous preservative fumes and all the nails in it could injure someone. Maybe I should have turned it into a planter

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Its Just Adz said:

Ari said:

church bells had been muffled due to someone moving into a nearby house and complaining about the noise of the bells.

That's a cracker, I'm going to throw that in like a grenade and watch the carnage.

TBH given all the fireworks bks going on there at the moment it's one that needs raising.

There is a nice wine/beer/shop/bar where we are and you can be having a nice evening before them feckers over the road start Friday night bell ringing practice , they want to FRO disturbing the peace, drowningout conversations etc, muffle them or leave it until a Sunday morning only for those knobbers who don't know what a clock is for nowadays.

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Zetec-S said:

Neil1300r said:

Then there were people trying to have Wednesday evening as a Clap for Boris.

Christ, I'd forgotten about that one. Someone shared a post suggesting it, which quickly descended into a massive argument about politics...

Mine was all about panic buying (obviously making it worse by posting photos of empty shelves)

Then everyone became an expert posting medical advice, then it was all about whether schools should be closed, now it’s all curtain twitching about people exercising and photos of kids not social distancing and arguments about whether we should be clapping for Boris or not.

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PurpleTurtle said:

I made the mistake of downloading the 'Nextdoor' app on recommendation of my sister-in-law, a Hyacinth Bouquet in the making.

Endless threads on:

Dog poo: these people obviously normally employ dog walkers and are too posh to pick up their dog's poo themselves

Pharmacy queues: workers are inept, it's disgusting, yadda yadda yadda. Yeah, it's not like they are busy or anything.

Bonfires: massive gripes. I'm actually with them on this one. The rules kinda imply staying home and doing as little as possible, not completely remodelling your garden and then burning all the waste because the tip is closed, right at the time when all your neighbours have been told to stay at home and the sun has just come out after months of seemingly endless rain.

My Nextdoor, community is quite civilised and useful and infinitely better than the local Facebook group(s)

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Glassman said:

You also have 'community leaders' who are like school prefects.

There’s so much of this going on at the moment where people (who don’t generally have much power and influence) are being given a bit more power, controlling people in a supermarket, online groups, limiting what you can buy, telling us how close we can stand at a checkout, and all the curtain twitching going on in forums.

There’s so many examples of people doing great things to help each other during the virus but there’s loads of little hitlers that are going to be unhappy once their newfound Covid power/high vis/clip board vanishes.

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GloverMart said:

They're not all bad though, these Facebook groups.

I joined one a couple of years ago (for the village I was born in) and not long afterwards, a lady commented on my surname (it's quite unusual!). We exchanged a few messages via DM and it later turned out I had a brother I didn't know about. .

Isn’t this the plot of twins or something?

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Pennsylvania one works ok

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-i-need-more...

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alorotom said:

I created a FB account just to join the estate group where I live as it’s nearly finished. Everyday it is a slew of adverts and self promotion. I commented to this end and many people agreed. I was however lambasted by the “organiser / admin” as not supporting locals and local businesses and subsequently thrown off it!

Nice neighbourly attitude!

Works both ways, perhaps. If your version of neighbourly attitude is to criticise a group promoting local people, news and business for doing what they say on the tin, they might feel you're not right for it.