Local Facebook groups
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My local page used to be dominated by a chap posting loads of old pictures of the area with detailed descriptions and his own memories. It was great but then he died and the page ended up like every other page described here.
The best moment recently was a 'foreigners driving around in a transit van stealing dogs post' that went viral locally as they also managed to get the registration of the offending van. It made it into the local paper and the police managed to track down the van which belonged to a legitimate scrap dealer.
The best moment recently was a 'foreigners driving around in a transit van stealing dogs post' that went viral locally as they also managed to get the registration of the offending van. It made it into the local paper and the police managed to track down the van which belonged to a legitimate scrap dealer.
I have joined ‘people in local newspapers looking sad’ on FB as I find it amusing. Local FB groups I avoid like the plague, same for all the expat ones.
My mate lives in a gated community with wide streets, grid format and traffic lights on every intersection. He says the local FB group is mainly postings about people running red lihhts at night. Hence I always run red lights at night when I go there just to see if I show up online. Petty yes, unsafe not at all.
My mate lives in a gated community with wide streets, grid format and traffic lights on every intersection. He says the local FB group is mainly postings about people running red lihhts at night. Hence I always run red lights at night when I go there just to see if I show up online. Petty yes, unsafe not at all.
Same stuff on our local chat, first one I remember: "Where can I get cheap pot noodles?" Jesus, are there expensive ones? Sell your bloody phone/computer and buy food if you're that hard up FFS.
However, this got me a LOT of 'publicity'
. Feel free to try to beat my reply count of 331!
"WTF is it with some dog owners? It's hot outside so many of us sleep with the windows open and yet late at night and early in the morning I hear their stupid animals barking. Can't they control the stupid animals or do they think it's fine or simply just don't care. And why are they mostly embarrassing little yappy dogs??"
The comments were utterly predicatable with some 'in post' arguments too.
However, this got me a LOT of 'publicity'
. Feel free to try to beat my reply count of 331!"WTF is it with some dog owners? It's hot outside so many of us sleep with the windows open and yet late at night and early in the morning I hear their stupid animals barking. Can't they control the stupid animals or do they think it's fine or simply just don't care. And why are they mostly embarrassing little yappy dogs??"
The comments were utterly predicatable with some 'in post' arguments too.
I'm working abroad and tried joining an expats facebook group.
It's full of people trying to find apartments at half the market rate and alerting everyone when Lidl has cheddar or bacon in stock, but does have some decent restaurant recommendations (went to a really nice Greek restraint a while back which several Greeks had recommended).
My wifes a member of our local one in the UK and it seems to be full of people either moaning about traffic driving down the road to fast, or complaining about proposed traffic calming measures meaning they'll have to drive too slowly.
It's full of people trying to find apartments at half the market rate and alerting everyone when Lidl has cheddar or bacon in stock, but does have some decent restaurant recommendations (went to a really nice Greek restraint a while back which several Greeks had recommended).
My wifes a member of our local one in the UK and it seems to be full of people either moaning about traffic driving down the road to fast, or complaining about proposed traffic calming measures meaning they'll have to drive too slowly.
Frimley111R said:
Same stuff on our local chat, first one I remember: "Where can I get cheap pot noodles?" Jesus, are there expensive ones? Sell your bloody phone/computer and buy food if you're that hard up FFS.
To be fair there's a current PH thread on pot noodles which delights in hunting out cheap sources of pot noodles, although it must be said they are usually the more exotic type.legless said:
My local one is full of NIMBYs and casual racists, and plenty of posts like this one.
There's also huge uproar about housebuilding nearby, and lots of posts decrying the 'loss of the local green spaces' despite the fact that none of the houses at this end of the town are older than 20 years old. I dared to point out once that they were part of the problem, and it caused a s
tstorm for weeks.
Sounds familiar. We had the same until someone posted up that all the people who were complaining about new builds had kids and some of their kids had children too so where were they supposed to live? It went very quiet.There's also huge uproar about housebuilding nearby, and lots of posts decrying the 'loss of the local green spaces' despite the fact that none of the houses at this end of the town are older than 20 years old. I dared to point out once that they were part of the problem, and it caused a s
tstorm for weeks. We had dozens of complaints about speeding drivers, the Council put up speed humps so then we had complaints about those instead.
We had problems with kids on motorbikes so the Police did a stop & search sting and eventually caught loads, within minutes of it happening the first poster moaned they weren't doing enough!
Some have realised that there is a page for this too so we now have various local '<insert your area here> Moaners pages'!
On the local history picture page all the pics are labelled as to where they are or were.
Some woman says 'Where was that?'
The answer was 'It's written on the pic and the building behind is still there'
'Well not all of us have lived here for 100s of years!'
Followed by a screen shot being posted showing it clearly labelled.
Her mate or mother then strides in and accuses the poster of being unnecessarily rude to her!
Our village group is usually pretty pleasant, I feel that's backed by an unusually strong (nowadays) actual community that gravitates around the village pub. Most people know each other, therefor are reasonably pleasant.
Day to day observations closely match this thread:
- Dog st
- Poor Amazon delivery drivers being targetted by the curtain twitches for suspiciously creeping round the village no doubt squinting at obnoxious house names
- Youngsters asking for jobs (there's literally only a pub here, so not much to go on)
But every now and then the page completely explodes, and has once needed to be torn down completely and restarted. Generally this is because we have the village old-timers assuming that everybody who moves into the village is a townie who is intolerant of anything to do with country living so any complaints they make about the village are completely unreasonable. Examples include:
- Somebody complained about the cockerels and peacocks making a noise
- Complaints about the farm trucks and seed lorries going too fast through the village (I strongly agree here, no reason why that should be tolerated)
- School traffic for the private school at the end of the village, has been here since day #1 of the village centuries ago - so complaints against it are frowned upon
- Farmers bombing around on uninsured quadbikes/ATVs - this is what caused the last group closure because people started lobbing physical threats around
- And this week's argument, horse st on the road. Somebody complained about his front wall constantly being splattered with st and he's now getting the Townie treatment
Largely I love it, but our local "big" town FB Group is just horrendous, and I need to throttle my exposure to that by just letting my Missus join it and give me the juicy stuff as it comes along.
Day to day observations closely match this thread:
- Dog s
t- Poor Amazon delivery drivers being targetted by the curtain twitches for suspiciously creeping round the village no doubt squinting at obnoxious house names
- Youngsters asking for jobs (there's literally only a pub here, so not much to go on)
But every now and then the page completely explodes, and has once needed to be torn down completely and restarted. Generally this is because we have the village old-timers assuming that everybody who moves into the village is a townie who is intolerant of anything to do with country living so any complaints they make about the village are completely unreasonable. Examples include:
- Somebody complained about the cockerels and peacocks making a noise
- Complaints about the farm trucks and seed lorries going too fast through the village (I strongly agree here, no reason why that should be tolerated)
- School traffic for the private school at the end of the village, has been here since day #1 of the village centuries ago - so complaints against it are frowned upon
- Farmers bombing around on uninsured quadbikes/ATVs - this is what caused the last group closure because people started lobbing physical threats around
- And this week's argument, horse s
t on the road. Somebody complained about his front wall constantly being splattered with st and he's now getting the Townie treatmentLargely I love it, but our local "big" town FB Group is just horrendous, and I need to throttle my exposure to that by just letting my Missus join it and give me the juicy stuff as it comes along.
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