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Had a fun one recently./
I'm admin on the local group with 20,000+ members
Someone posted about receiving poor service in a local cafe, and quite a few others posted echoing they had also received poor service.
The place changed hands in 2018 so it is quite possible that many of those reviews were prior to it changing hands, but I suspect many are more recent.
Someone else posted that they had a 1-star hygiene rating (from a visit this year)
I got contacted by the owner last night asking me to remove the post as it as 'defamation of character' and libellous, and that she'd like me to go into the cafe and view the receipts as 'evidence' that the post was incorrect.
I'm an admin, not some referee and adjudicator so I suggested if she had evidence that the OP was telling porkies that she post it on the thread and I could close comments. At least then she'd presented her side of the story.
The reply was that they didn't want to 'air their private lives' on Facebook (not sure how a receipt would be airing private lives, but there you go) and that due to my attitude they would be pursuing legal action.
She didn't say pursuing against whom, or for what, but I wait with baited breath
I'm admin on the local group with 20,000+ members
Someone posted about receiving poor service in a local cafe, and quite a few others posted echoing they had also received poor service.
The place changed hands in 2018 so it is quite possible that many of those reviews were prior to it changing hands, but I suspect many are more recent.
Someone else posted that they had a 1-star hygiene rating (from a visit this year)
I got contacted by the owner last night asking me to remove the post as it as 'defamation of character' and libellous, and that she'd like me to go into the cafe and view the receipts as 'evidence' that the post was incorrect.
I'm an admin, not some referee and adjudicator so I suggested if she had evidence that the OP was telling porkies that she post it on the thread and I could close comments. At least then she'd presented her side of the story.
The reply was that they didn't want to 'air their private lives' on Facebook (not sure how a receipt would be airing private lives, but there you go) and that due to my attitude they would be pursuing legal action.
She didn't say pursuing against whom, or for what, but I wait with baited breath
SistersofPercy said:
S11Steve said:
Sometimes I really do miss living in Stoke for the entertainment value....
Tell me about it. I'm out of the area now enough that I don't need to add the Stoke bit but bloody hell its embarrassing. The Joris bloke was just pure comedy. I joined most of the local town FB groups for the comedy value though. They rarely disappoint.Spare tyre said:
Can some explain this to me, in simple terms a non chav can understand
He posted his car on FB to his cover photo. An image viewable to anyone who looked.He then crashed his car and someone locally posted a picture of the this car on the local group, including reg.
Car gets cloned.
He goes nuts at local FB saying it's whoever posted the picture of his crashed car thats caused it to be cloned.
It's pointed out HE posted pic of car months before.
Thread deleted.
So top
zoid skills alround
CX53 said:
And today there was someone asking to borrow a dinosaur shaped sandwich cutter for her sons birthday. She wasn’t happy when I pointed out they’re 0.99p on amazon free delivery..
I may have already said this but there's this whole vein of social housing stuff goes on on my local group which is completely opaque to me, the stuff about swapping houses seems a bit odd, I would assume you had to involve your landlord 
Someone was whining that the local housing association would't fit something minor to her house (IIRC a clip for the chain on a venetian blind and that she was worried that her exotically-named child was going to throttle themselves on it.
Someone else just posted a link to one on Amazon for <£5 and proceeded to get all sorts of abuse ("WTF do you mean by posting that?" "Why shud she have to pay for it in a HA property" etc.).
Not the home life of our dear Queen, that's for sure.
CX53 said:
The firework whining has begun already on my local page...
They do my head in. There is a guy on mine who thinks the world should stop because his dog is reactive to them. Add to that the people who cant begin to comprehend people use fireworks for other occasions, especially Eid and the like.My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
Johnnytheboy said:
I may have already said this but there's this whole vein of social housing stuff goes on on my local group which is completely opaque to me, the stuff about swapping houses seems a bit odd, I would assume you had to involve your landlord
Someone was whining that the local housing association would't fit something minor to her house (IIRC a clip for the chain on a venetian blind and that she was worried that her exotically-named child was going to throttle themselves on it.
Someone else just posted a link to one on Amazon for <£5 and proceeded to get all sorts of abuse ("WTF do you mean by posting that?" "Why shud she have to pay for it in a HA property" etc.).
Not the home life of our dear Queen, that's for sure.
Sounds like the sort of person who won’t pay a fiver for that but she’s got all the sky tv channels for Destiny and Jayden to watch their cartoons on. Someone was whining that the local housing association would't fit something minor to her house (IIRC a clip for the chain on a venetian blind and that she was worried that her exotically-named child was going to throttle themselves on it.
Someone else just posted a link to one on Amazon for <£5 and proceeded to get all sorts of abuse ("WTF do you mean by posting that?" "Why shud she have to pay for it in a HA property" etc.).
Not the home life of our dear Queen, that's for sure.
The neighbour who’s front garden (if you can call it that) runs next to our driveway, rent their house, and I had to speak to him about getting some conifers under control.. the language barrier was a bit of a nightmare. Not to mention the f
ked old ironing board that’s been rusting next to the openly on display wheelie bins outside their house for about two months. Anyway, he proceeded to tell me he wanted to contact his landlord anyway to ask them to extend the drive into the garden. When I asked why it’s because he’s banging the bottom of his disgustingly modified Mercedes underside when he backs on to the bit of what used to be grass next to his driveway.
I couldn’t help but think a tenner’s worth of gravel would just help get rid of the step between the drop kerb and the bit of garden he’s destroyed by parking there, but the bloke obviously would rather spend his money on wind deflectors and bits of tat for his car than stop smashing the sump every time he arrives home from work
Edited by CX53 on Friday 11th October 14:55
SistersofPercy said:
They do my head in. There is a guy on mine who thinks the world should stop because his dog is reactive to them. Add to that the people who cant begin to comprehend people use fireworks for other occasions, especially Eid and the like.
My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
I’m a dog person, and we have two cats who don’t like fireworks, but like you I understand that the world doesn’t stop because people have animals... I really don’t get why people get so irate about it! My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
Someone retired gent has been burgled, which is very sad.
However, for the last few days he has been posting things like the following, which I've copied (and edited to add the stars before anyone points out)... he's literally adding every registration plate that drives down his road.
[i]RH05*** Hyundai, 1 occupant, male driver, came down ******* Road, turned left toward *************, initially stopped opposite side of road to my house, driver had to wipe inside of windscreen, condensation, could not see, just a funny time to be setting off somewhere. All lights on etc, looked legitimate. [/1]
Turns out this one was a NHS employee on a 6am shift, who is pretty pissed off at having his registration plate and the fact he was out of the house posted on a public page.
However, for the last few days he has been posting things like the following, which I've copied (and edited to add the stars before anyone points out)... he's literally adding every registration plate that drives down his road.
[i]RH05*** Hyundai, 1 occupant, male driver, came down ******* Road, turned left toward *************, initially stopped opposite side of road to my house, driver had to wipe inside of windscreen, condensation, could not see, just a funny time to be setting off somewhere. All lights on etc, looked legitimate. [/1]
Turns out this one was a NHS employee on a 6am shift, who is pretty pissed off at having his registration plate and the fact he was out of the house posted on a public page.
CX53 said:
SistersofPercy said:
They do my head in. There is a guy on mine who thinks the world should stop because his dog is reactive to them. Add to that the people who cant begin to comprehend people use fireworks for other occasions, especially Eid and the like.
My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
I’m a dog person, and we have two cats who don’t like fireworks, but like you I understand that the world doesn’t stop because people have animals... I really don’t get why people get so irate about it! My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583307/S...
Our dog used to be not at all bothered by them until a neighbour let off a load of proper commercial fireworks in the enclosed car park area behind our houses. It was properly over the top, it felt like the house was shaking, car alarms were going off and ours ended up with some paint damage where a rocket landed on the bonnet and got caught up in a wiper. Since then the poor little bugger is terrified of them :roll eyes:
Grahamdub said:
CX53 said:
SistersofPercy said:
They do my head in. There is a guy on mine who thinks the world should stop because his dog is reactive to them. Add to that the people who cant begin to comprehend people use fireworks for other occasions, especially Eid and the like.
My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
I’m a dog person, and we have two cats who don’t like fireworks, but like you I understand that the world doesn’t stop because people have animals... I really don’t get why people get so irate about it! My late Mum had a dog who was awful with fireworks. I recorded a CD of firework sounds which she played to him daily in the background, gradually increasing the sound over time. It worked and by November he didn't flinch.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583307/S...
Our dog used to be not at all bothered by them until a neighbour let off a load of proper commercial fireworks in the enclosed car park area behind our houses. It was properly over the top, it felt like the house was shaking, car alarms were going off and ours ended up with some paint damage where a rocket landed on the bonnet and got caught up in a wiper. Since then the poor little bugger is terrified of them :roll eyes:
Genuine Barn Find said:
I’m not on Facebook, but my wife advised me that a sheep had been found nearby which had been killed and butchered in situ.
I’ll be steering clear of takeaway Lamb Rogan Josh for the next few weeks.
Night time field butchery of sheep and lambs is currently fairly commonplace in Northamptonshire.I’ll be steering clear of takeaway Lamb Rogan Josh for the next few weeks.
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