Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

Hating the poor, nimby fucks, racism, progress haters, tax refusers, let's all hold hands while we die together. Examples welcome.

The two Facebook groups for my city are basically old people reminiscing about where they hung out as teenagers.

the neighbourhood Facebook group that keeps haunting me is mostly just local crime paranoia. still bullshit, obv

There's a doozy in Northeast Minneapolis where a gun-happy libertarian pitbull-loving douchette is always on patrol, lest a Somali person or LIBRUL be seen somewhere in her vicinity, actually enjoying their lives.

I still go to a Google group for my dad's neighborhood, one of those places where there's only one entrance/exit. Every month, someone will wonder how much it would cost to put a camera or a security gate at the (public) entrance, and every month, someone replie that the criminals would probably just steal that too.

The racism on some of these is the most discouraging I've found on the 'net. Discouraging because what former residents say in those groups is rude, hurtful, unfair, and INACCURATE.

No neighborhood near where I have lived has EVER been "respectable". Around my old hood are many areas that were essentially mob turf. NO ONE back in the day would boast about their community.

Doesn't stop them from interrupting current black residents to call their middle-class neighborhoods a "ghetto".

We really need a stronger movement against racism on the Internet.

i'm not in a facebook one but my neighborhood is one of my city's more racist and it's so painful. like "i just wanted you all to know that last night at around 10 there were 2 young black males walking around yelling," in addition to the mundane "i saw a raccoon" and "we never used this food item does anyone want it"

meant to say mine is nextdoor

The comments sections in 4nne 4rundel 1st Alert and 4nne 4rundel County Breaking News and Events got hella racist during the Freddie Gray protests, but I was happy to see a lot of anti-racist pushback after the first day or so.

I just joined "You know you're from 3dgewater when..." group for the purposes of this thread. Wish me luck.

I'm such a dick. They let me in the group and it's totally harmless and even positive. All like "what was the name of the hardware store before they turned it into a Royal Farms?" type stuff.

Even class pictures from the elementary school demonstrating that it was a pretty diverse community decades ago.

I'll stand by the other pages I mentioned as being pretty bad though.

Hey harbl, I just saw that raccoon! No joke.

But yeah, I joined one of these things and there's a lot of really depressing things about it. Paranoia running crazy.

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meant to say mine is nextdoor

― computer champion (harbl), Saturday, May 23, 2015 1:46 PM (8 hours ago)

i signed for nextdoor wanting to be on the W. Oakland one where my practice space is because we've had some break ins, but it forced me into the one where i actually live, which is a combination of shelves for sale and suspicious person rummaging through garbage at 2am

Edgewater group won't hold a candle to Cape St. Clare (no googleproofing -- name and shame). Anne Arundel Co really did become racist fuckhead central in the last 15 years or so -- you hear more western PA and Texas accents, too.

I understand that for a lot of people, Facebook is for nostalgia and reuniting with your old schoolmates, but why, twenty or thirty years on, has it not occurred to the conspicuous consumption crowd that some of us are still loyal to our old communities and don't need to hear your "there goes the neighborhood" scare stories. Especially when those tactics were old forty years ago.

Then there are people who grew up in a very progressive and pro-labor community and who somehow think the current residents want to hear their smug libertarian politics.

How can someone live in proximity to the black community throughout their childhood and not absorb ANY knowledge of or appreciation for that community and its values - not to mention being utterly ignorant about the implications of integration. For example, it's not black people's fault that the mall closed down - as if money rains from the sky wherever YOU go.

Was sick of and alienated from these people the first time around. Also appalled that their ignorant children live in expensive new-construction homes because living in a 1960's split level is for "ghetto" people.

I wanted to alert local residents: on Tues afternoon around 5 pm I saw a man in the courtyard area between 2 buildings in this area, who appeared to be looking in ground floor windows, kind of lingering and staring at various apartments. He was carrying what looked like a collapsible cane (maybe for breaking windows?). By the time I got outside to investigate, he was gone. I recognize most of the people who live in the buildings in my area and I definitely did not recognize him. Just a heads up to be alert for prowlers, lock windows when you're out, maybe leave a radio or TV on, etc.

my facebook neighborhood group is

1) punks yelling about yuppies gentrifying the neighborhood
2) yuppies getting mad that punks keep breaking windows and pepper spraying business owners (yes, this really happened last week)
3) me writing and erasing x50 times a message saying PUNKS YOU ARE THE REASON IT IS GENTRIFYING IN THE FIRST PLACE but never posting it
4) the really cool city councillor for our hood answering ppl's questions and generally being awesome

1-3 = dud, 4 = k-classic & poss. the best thing abt facebook for me right now imo

To the asshole who left this note:

I just had to put my dog down yesterday and it was such a joy to come out to my car today and find this note. Thank you. Beautiful timing. Also, I didn't touch you're fucking car. Lastly, if you are so god damn worried about your bumpers get a fucking garage. You do realize where you're parking, right??? If I had a dime for every mark on my bumper from people parking I'd be a millionaire. You're truly an idiot.

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Suspicious person 1d ago
D*** R******** from Grand Lake
There's an African American male about 5ft 5inch tall balled real thin build walking around here with a shirt no underwear he was hiding in my yard behind my door my husband chased him off he might have went in someone else's yard make sure you watch your children keep your door locked windows locked ect..... Just be careful an be aware oh an one more thing he seemed to be high with a green shirt no pants no underwear but had on shoes an socks he look to be in his 20s

balled?

balled, with no hare.

ect....

kind of pleasing Springsteen album track vibe to that North Little Rock one

Wel now, ol' Wesley Dinwiddle fell out of the swinging door cage
Bout lost half a foot, man, it's been a coon's age.
How ya doin', Harrell, you been keeping real busy?
How bout you meet me tonight in Atlantic City.

Naw these look safe as hell. What could go wrong.

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I feel bad now.

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The other night we were at a bar in the area and a guy came in asking if people wanted to buy ink cartridges. Is this a code for drugs? Or is this the new bar selling trend? I've seen people trying to sell roses and other romantic items for people to give their ladies, but this was new for me. Any ideas?

It's the new "car stereo": ink cartridges.

jjj: i quoted your first post on my neighbourhood's facebook

someone asked me what a tax refuser is, i said i would ask you

what is a tax refuser?

I had a good time winding up my local Facebook group last year around Guy Fawkes' night

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'D3bbie Fr4m3' is no relation

it went on a lot longer than that - 250 comments, then i got banned.

I like the guy who threatens to call the police on charges of 'wasting people's time'. Can't remember if I managed to prntscrn the part where I said I'd heard a series of loud bangs coming from outside, and on being told it was fireworks replied 'I'm closing my front door all the same'.

I just got in an argument with a cop on my neighborhood group who was saying that it was good "broken windows" policing to target bikes as much as possible. They're ridden by the criminal element.

Also, a number of people are upset about a corner where there are just too many newspaper boxes, and a taxi stand that had a lot of taxis lined up at it.

we had a guy kicking up a fuss about a pedestrian crossing being built (along a very dangerous and busy piece of road which many pedestrians use every day) because it would hold up his car.

Class-A trolling there, dl.

File under: Surely_some_mistake!

Hello All,
Frequently I see garbage like mattresses, box springs, on the corners of Jayne and Perkins, Warwick and Perkins, and at the end of Lee at Vernon. I'm always puzzled given that the garbage is located in front of multi unit buildings, with I imagine hundreds of people passing it daily...and yet the garbage remains. Do folks not know it's quite simple to report it to public works? Are people oblivious to it because they've passed it so many times? Maybe they're thinking since they didn't put it there, they're not responsible for calling it in. Please folks, if you live close to where the garbage is, call it in to public works and they'll pick it up. We all pay tax dollars to receive this service

I live at the end of Warwick near Euclid and there's an apartment building across from me that's on the corner. The balconies face our building.
About once every week there's a woman who throws parties and is extremely loud. She's sits on her balcony, drinks and smokes cigarettes to all hours.
Not sure if she knows how loud she is but it echoes.
Anyone else hear her? And if you know her please quiet her down or find her a boyfriend.

I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but I'm actually now a member of a *secret* facebook group whose purpose has become in large part to make fun of the main neighborhood groups.

Classic. I need to start one of those for my burg.

Ohhhhhhhhh they are sooooo terrible.

Recently:

Long clusterfuck thread about nanny-shaming
Long clusterfuck thread that started as a parody of the nanny-shaming thread and somehow turned into someone insinuating that it's Jewish people's fault that the neighborhood Barnes & Noble is closing because they let their kids destroy the books and toys

nextdoor, Jesus Christ I wish I didn't know how many monsters lived near me

It's amazing how many innocuous topics are a bat signal for xenophobes.

Here's Nextdoor in a nutshell:

'did anybody hear that noise'
'somebody was casing my house'
'kids are selling newspaper subscriptions'
'I was burgled yesterday when I left all my ground floor windows open'
'_____ new restaurant is great'
'you're an agent of gentrification'
'you're the real racist'
'I've lived here for ____ years and ACTUALLY you're the racist'
'all of you are racist'
'free chunks of concrete in my driveway, you haul'

Nextdoor ultimately booted me for not giving my real name, which turned out to make my life much more peaceful.

today it was

"two suspicious men were walking by my house. i asked them what they were doing, they said they were going for a walk. i stared at them as they walked away. they stared back! i felt very uncomfortable..."
"they might be ILLEGAL ALIENS, there are so many MURDERERS being allowed into this country. here's an article from the WSJ with statistics."
"my friend was MURDERED by someone she wanted to help, don't let your guard down. RIP to my friend i miss her every day."

Just checked it out for laffs, and it has the strangest way of assigning neighborhoods. I'm not even in the same zip code as the one they assigned me.

the West Oakland nextdoor is apparently highly "entertaining" and trollable, but my neighborhood is burglaries, nanny shares, and lost chihuahuas

I'm NO Golden Gate, and as I've said it's been quite some time since I looked at it.

Conversely my hippie neighbor who's lived here for just over a year organized a block party last saturday afternoon that turned into a pretty nice way to acquaint myself with some of my neighbors. He did make everybody stand in a circle to bond, but otherwise it was quite enjoyable.

'you're an agent of gentrification'
'you're the real racist'
'I've lived here for ____ years and ACTUALLY you're the racist'
'all of you are racist'

West Oakland is apparently a lot of that too.

just got a nextdoor post emailed to me, filed under "crime and safety" (the only post emails i receive from them.) subject: LEMON THEFT

I'm a member of our local "Remember Our Neighborhood?" group where people post photos of the new highway back when it was still the old highway, etc.

There's a big thread about what was on the corner before Walgreens came along. Was it a Chinese restaurant? Was it a Sambo's? No, Sandra Beatty Walker, the Texaco station was up the hell a ways.

I found a picture of the Chinese restaurant and posted it, because, hey, welcome to my wheelhouse.

20 posts later, the thread's still going with "I'm pretty sure it was a McDonald's..."

the Nextdoor app has lot of lolz points for one crazy in our neighborhood who's always going on about bank tellers fucking with him, someone tore down his American flag, ect. Also, a LOT more racists surrounding us than I would have imagined. Many posts along the lines of "saw a black guy walking down the road. STAY ALERT PEOPLE."

There was one back for my dad's neighborhood where someone was popping off with "There were MEXICANS slowing down and LOOKING at our HOUSES."

Which was followed by someone saying, "We were HAVING a NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE, if you didn't HAPPEN to NOTICE."

My neighborhood has a really awful bougie/gentrification group that's basically white ppl getting incensed abt squatters and queers and POC but in of course really thinly-veiled ways

I started my own for the neighborhood a little over a year ago and it's almost 1000 deep and ppl ask advice abt where to do or find stuff, or they barter or sell things, we have fun food conversations, it's rly quite wonderful!

v proud bcz the South Philly-based group that it was spun off of is filled with weird creepy assholes who say awful shit all the time and my awesome posi West Philly group is p self-moderated

Large pheasant or exotic Chcken

View larger photo For last two days this bird has been at our feeder eating Sunflower seeds at various times... Has someone lost this bird? We are on Palm Ave

veganism is popular also at the extreme right of the bay area, in hitlertown which is named after an austrogerman vegetarian and pamphleteer of the early 20th century

a common joke in hitlertown seminaries in the 1950s was that they never had enough seed for birds because it all ended up being fed to the choirboys

that's amusing sarah but i deeply believe that sharing lost/found pet info is the one good thing i've seen in action on facebook

^One friend's lost dog search went nationally viral in the UK a couple of months ago because of FB and Twitter, and the dog finally turned up on its ninth day out. Granted, the friend in question is a fairly well-regarded journalist/presenter but she was bowled over by the kindness of strangers and the amount of reach they helped her to achieve.

My hometown group is generally pretty OK, probably because it has links to the local historical society. Lots of former C-average-and-below doofs posting about secret wilderness party locales of days gone by etc, surprisingly little racism (but what little there is comes from posters who are provably, quantifiably stupid for reasons like the one just noted). One notable thread did attempt to out the paedophilia of a recently dead local businessman who'd moved from the area 20 years previously, but it got taken down by a rather dim version of the group's Nice Police on the grounds that his kids might see it.

xp - this is nextdoor, and yes i agree -- today's top story, is someone who went on vacation for a couple weeks, and their neighbor stole their cat and won't give it back

exotic chicken lol

There was a Sambo's where Sherwin-Williams is now... Sambo's used to be there... Sambo's was farther up on the parking lot, more where the paint store is now... I know Sambos was where the paint store is now... I think Sambo's was actually about where Sherwin Williams is now... Sambo's where paint store is... Sambos was where the Sherwin Williams paint store is... Sambos was never on the corner. It was behind it on the hill. It was were Sherwin Williams Paint is now... Sambos was where the paint store is right behind... Sambo's is where the paint Store is now that's next door... There was a restaurant called Sambos... Above where Sherwin Williams is now was Sambo's... Sambo's Restaurant was on the hill behind Lindsey's Steak where Sherwin Paint is now... Sambos was up the hill where the Sherwin Williams store is now...

THESE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME GODDAMMED THREAD.

My neighborhood associate fb group is great, lots of wackos and unintentional comedy. Great post (and response) from a few weeks ago about a neighbor that takes offense to the city requiring him to shovel the sidewalks:

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this sort of exact thing happens every day on my nextdoor site.

C---- M--------
I have a 2007 Toyota Sienna Limited minivan for sale. If you are interested or know someone that is looking for a dependable vehicle that is great for kids, please let me know. It has 99,000 miles and I am asking $10,500.

L---- C----
Hi I like to know if you're already sold the car if not what was your asking price.

Christ they're still talking about Sambos? Should rename to the Sambo's memories group. xxpost

People freaking out about the occasional raccoon in Queens was pretty entertaining -- 25 people screaming "IF YOU SEE THEM IN THE DAYTIME THEY ARE RABID!" "WHY WON'T THE POLICE CALL WHEN I COME!" vs two people saying "Yeah actually raccoons are nbd, and they come out in the daytime for all kidns of reasons."

haha, attn: sunny - http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/us/dog-town-buries-nickname-but-feud-lives-on-the-talk-of-north-little-rock.html

Dog days have returned, indeed, to North Little Rock. The city's Civil Service Commission has suspended the Chief of Police, his deputy and the head of the Fraternal Order of Police, with full pay, while it investigates reports about them.

The commission began public hearings last week to explore charges of ''conduct unbecoming a police officer'' against Police Chief William Younts, whose nickname is ''Bubba.'' Chief Younts is a stocky man with a naturally red face that turns redder when he denies the charges.

He adamantly rejects accusations by a waitress, for example, that he was ''rowdy, obnoxious, very intoxicated,'' or, as a banker testified, ''having trouble maintaining vertical stability'' at a Sambo's restaurant on the morning of Dec. 12.

my mom used to work at a Sambo's in the late 70s when i was young ... but not in North Little Rock

I'm sure the chief of police in her town had no problem maintaining vertical stability.

I'm sure he did from time to time.

in a later incarnation of that Sambo's, the owner paid a hitman to kill her husband.

in a later incarnation of that Sambo's

Was it a paint store?

The name got changed to Sandy's? I think? It's near the trucker motel off Highway 101 near Pacheco Pass

haa

Unfortunately with maps and waze, people are being rerouted all over the place avoiding traffic; it has become a disaster with traffic. So the riffraff have learned about our convenient little bypass and speed through like maniacs. I can't tell you how many people don't even slow down at half the stop signs on the whole stretch of our street. It's definitely no longer just us. I am thinking about the neighborhood, the children, the dogs and trying to hold on to a tiny bit of whatever convenience is left for us, with the taxes we pay to live in the area.
The street really needs to stay closed.

I can't tell you how many people don't even slow down at half the stop signs on the whole stretch of our street. It's definitely no longer just us.

haa

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is that alt lit or is that actual fb posts

poetically incorrect

I sure hope William S. Burroughs is pleased with himself for this.

they should just figure it out once and for all and pin it to the top of the group.

exterminate all rational discourse

I forgot I had this one from a Google Group. (I pretty much join them all and then play the quiet game when a mod wants to know which house is mine.)

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My wife, a public school teacher and current stay-home mom, posted an ad for her tutoring services. Among said offered services was tutoring for the city's gifted-and-talented test, which is given in Pre-K. Thread turned into a 100-post clusterfuck about (1) whether the test shoudl be given at all (2) whether tutoring is some kind of unfair advantage -- notably, most strenuously argued not by people who can't afford it, but by people whose kids "didn't prepare" and still got in, therefore they are special snowflakes, therefore anyone who prepares might just be "getting into a program they can't really handle" (3) whether all of this implied that the regular schools in our neighborhood aren't good enough (4) those damn yuppies coming to our neighborhood (which was always a middle to upper middle class neighborhood)

My grandmother belongs to a Facebook neighborhood group and according to her the only thing anybody posts about are "suspicious" (i.e. non-white) young people walking around

good debate imo xp

counterpoint: my car battery died, I posted to my neighborhood dads group to see if anyone had jumper cables, and a random dad showed up within minutes.

here's a classic i meant to post

I can't wait till it [public school being renovated] closes,very few students that walk down Berry Street towards the light rail show any respect to the people that live in *******.The school should allow children in the area [almost entirely white area] to attend the newly renovated school,Children that appreciate the school,the people that live there and the neighborhood This will keep the trouble making students out of *******.

there is certainly no prohibition on "children from the area" attending and the kids in this neighborhood are not that great, does it even need to be said

now that the police dept has joined there is a lot of "thank you for getting these criminals off our streets!"

FB DAD: Don't worry about it. No charge.

MAN ALIVE: No charge? Then why did you even come over here?

*FACEBOOK DADS HI-FIVE, ASCEND INTO THE THE HEAVENS.*

This is my favorite recent post:

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[ article/link headline: "20 Best Water Playgrounds and Sprinklers for Kids in NYC"

‎Rena ____ to _______ Parents
June 16 at 5:00am ·
I know that this is just an "innocent" picture that someone shared, but as a lifeguard, can you see the potential dangers here?
If you saw a child alone, looking down at the water and knowing children are curious, this child is in a dangerous situation. Then again, I guess you're not a lifeguard so you don't see the potential danger here. Even if it is just a painting, it's set up in a very dangerous situation. Sorry if you don't get it. If this was a real situation and that child fell into the water, he could drown in less than 2" of water if he fell in and couldn't stand up. Look at the height of the deck. It's about 3" . It's an accident that can and should be avoided.

Even if it is just a painting, it's set up in a very dangerous situation.

giggling at the thought of applying this to washington crossing the delaware, judith and holofernes, etc

I don't get it, what part is a painting?

look at the top, it's not even a reflecting pond, unless those people are standing on top of water

https://arthuride.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/st-peter-walking-on-water-by-boucher-francois-17661.jpg

still a very dangerous situation!

Yeah, it's clearly not a pool, it's just some sprinklers on a soft surface. I've been there. But the woman was undeterred when people explained that to her. "Children can drown in 2" of water" etc.

I hope I'm not wrong, but I'm pretty sure the scenarios where children drown in 2" of water are where the kid is unattended and therefore winds up unconscious face down in water for more than a few seconds.

author is thinking of kid as unattended i think but has forgotten the pov presence -- obv if the kid fell the painter would rescue him.

(the others present being indifferent to alien spawn)

what a beautiful painting

very irresponsible post

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I guess you're not a lifeguard so you don't see the potential danger here

The hot topic right now is continuing to mourn the already now-closed Barnes & Noble and complain about the Target soon to replace it (sort of a mini-Target or Target Express or something).

Shoshanna ____ this community desperately wanted B&N to stay. Petitions were filed. Pleas made. Our B&N was a place to browse, hear stories, linger. To gather as a community.

Evan G____ [to particular poster] if you don't understand that reading and lifelong learning is essential I hope you're teaching your kid(s) more than just materialism/consumerism.
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do yall not have a library nearby?

lol my neighborhood facebook group wouldn't want a B&N or Target. Just more parking.

they can linger in target now

Nothing consumerist about a B&N no sir!

Reminds me of this story http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13202183.Former_PM_Brown_loses_fight_to_save_home_town_Tesco_as_old_Kirkcaldy_neighbour_is_crowned_superstore_chairman/

where the only thing you can say is if tesco is the hub of your community, you already lost a long time ago :-(

I mean, i'd prefer a bookshop to a target. But that's why there is the concept of the public good, you know? Because the free market is not your friend, devoted to making life comfortable and stimulating for u

Is self-trenchanting frowned upon btw

1/3 of B&N is Starbucks, Lego sets, and overpriced notebooks

At least Target has soap

i realize this is prob the 3rd or 4th most bizarre part of the post but:

"Look at the height of the deck. It's about 3"

so the kid is what, 10 inches tall? is 3 inches too tall for a deck? what does this have to do with drowning?

I guess if it's between Barnes & Noble and Target I'd take Barnes & Noble, but honestly in the age of Amazon there is no reason to go into a Barnes & Noble -- shitty selection and illiterate staff. People in my neighborhood mostly went so their toddlers could play with and fuck up the toy stock, or for free storytimes. That was my impression anyway, never a lot of people in the cash register line.

The actual problem in my neighborhood is that commercial rents on the main strip are almost inexplicably high, which favors chains.

Right now there's a group with a kickstarter project to open an indie bookstore in the neighborhood, and while I find starting a private business to be a slightly weird use of kickstarter, they've managed to raise almost $60K, and good on them I guess.

I was halfway joking about the random stuff at B&N, but I actually was impressed by their selection of Funko Pop figures, some architectural lego-style kits, and some other random stuff they have these days. They also have a lot of vinyl records. 2016 is a hell of a time for large chain bookstores.

As easy as it is to laugh at them, I do sort of sympathize with people who make the categorical error of thinking the capitalist sphere is democratic, and thus "petition" for a store to stay open when it no longer can or wants to pay the asking rent.

**shrug**

I love Barnes and Noble. Have a membership and shop there at least once a week.

xp - the neighborhood adjacent to me actually successfully petitioned and lobbied to get a Trader Joe's.

meanwhile it's the best time of the year on my neighborhood NextDoor group: gunshots or fireworks?

why pick one?

People really will not STFU about this Target coming in. I don't know what "mom-and-pop businesses" they are talking about that they say are going to be killed off. Convenience stores?

Our biggest Target controversy was when they _closed_ a Target in a kind of food-poor area and moved it a couple miles west. Was really glad to see some of the staff relocated, though. Honestly, there was less of a controversy than there should have been because the people most affected have less of a voice.

And yet another vaccine thread today, yay! As much as I am pro-vaccine and hate anti-vaxxers, this one is a case of a pro-vaccine parent needlessly stirring shit up, knowing the usual suspect crazies will come out of the woodwork.

We know who the three anti-vax parents are and they always say the same shit. I don't need to hear it again.

I have friends who joined the community group for a town a half hour away after hearing how hilariously bad the group posts were :)

just seen a couple of black kids hanging round, didn't look like they were from the area stay safe ppl

Picture of a fountain

- "I've lived here for 55 years and have nver seen this fountain!"

- "It was installed about three years ago on North Ave."

- "Where is this? I've lived here for 40 years and have not once ever driven by this thing!"

- "WOW! WHERE IS THIS????"

- "Anyone remember eating at Sambo's?"

lol

- complaining about fireworks on the 4th of july
- complaining about the homeless situation
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- complaining about gas powered leaf blowers and how they're probably operated by undocumented workers

repeat 234x

yeah, we had the fireworks complaint thread too

usually about twice a day someone asks for a doctor rec

suspicious person was at playground

Can anyone recommend things to do with children anywhere in New York City?

- "Anyone remember eating at Sambo's?"

I laugh every time, but there probably is someone asking this on every community thread and pplains is wishing he'd never heard the name "Sambo's"

I forgot the best fb neighborhood thing I heard about

a local photographer took pictures of every confederate flag he saw at a local motorcycle meet-up city event, didn't comment on it, just a series of pictures of helmets, patches, jackets, and stickers featuring the confederate flag, and someone posted it without comment in the fb group

I wound up finding a PC Richards sales guy through my neighborhood group because I need a new dishwasher, and he actually started talking to me about how upset he was about the Barnes & Noble while I was on the phone with him!

I felt sort of embarrassed because I've occasionally trolled people about it.

don't have a neighborhood group but my train line has a group and it's been inflamed this week by smokers on the line ; obv smoking on the train is illegal but there's rarely security on the train so smokers occupy a whole section of the train and it gets thick. the group has been discussing techniques for stopping the smokers (like pulling alarms to get the train stopped for security to be called) and others are angry that it'll delay our rides and it goes on on on

have they asked ppl to please not smoke

the passengers? yeah but it's big groups, like 10+, of smokers. they just ignore requests. I'm all for jailing the lot of them but the fb group hasn't yet settled on a collective solution that doesn't involve the cops (since the cops aren't generally around)

Guess the neighborhood is getting more upscale, cuz we now have our first (afaik) "Can you believe what these nannies are asking for?!" thread.

I had to ban myself from the thread because I was getting so fucking irate, and I always have to remind myself "these are real people who live in my neighborhood. Their kids may go to school with my kids soon."

Ariella _________

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First time mom smile emoticon:) seeing what's appropriate and fair for potential nannies. Interviewed a nanny last night and she requested two weeks paid vacation and five paid sick days, In addition to holidays.Do people here give their nannies paid vacation, paid national holidays and paid sick days? What about a metro card? Thanks so much! She would be with us 35 hours a week.

Eve________ She's probably part of ilanas nanny network. In my opinion that sounds cushier than my own job!

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Ariella______ Lol I'm in the wrong field!

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Ilana ______ Same! Sometimes I can't believe I agreed to this

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[man alive] Do you make $15 an hour with no health insurance?

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Ariella_____ [man alive] Pretty close to that and I'm on my husbands Heath insurance!

[NO, YOUR JOB AT A HIP NON-PROFIT WHILE YOUR HUSBAND MAKES BANK DOES NOT EQUATE YOU TO A NANNY, AND IN FACT, IF YOU ARE GETTING A FULL-TIME NANNY SO YOU CAN WORK AT A HIP NON-PROFIT, THAT'S PRETTY SWEET]

"Eve" is a dentist btw.

Holy shit, theyre objecting to providing whats effectively a fulltime employee their owed holidays and sick leave? Nannies are workers like anyone else, you entitled shitfucks. If you cant afford it, fucking look after your own damn chilren.

I mean as it is, I always spittake at the news that in the US, it seems the normal "good" job benefit is for only 2 weeks leave a year!?

(we get 4. Plus public holidays which'd be another 10 public holiday days off. PLus average 5-10 days sickleave).

I get more vacation for every year I've worked there. I'm up to nearly european standards by now

I've never had paid vacation at a job ... ever.

I don't even know what a vacation is at this point.

i wd've so killed myself 20 years ago if i lived in the US

I have had vacations ... like maybe 4 weeks of vacation (not counting the one day off before or after Christmas) ... in the last 15 years.

even tho i kinda know that is a thing it still shocks the hell out of me

I max out at 6 weeks before I stop accruing time. So I'm always hitting that limit because it's hard to take time off. A true benefit!

I get to the point of use 'em or lose 'em and wind up taking off every Monday in May and June.

if it makes you feel any better, if I had a full-time job working for one employer that wasn't myself, I'd probably kill ... eh, I'd either quit or get fired within 18 months

can I have a few coworkers who work from home, making it not a big deal when another of us works from home a few days, which has stretched into "I'm working eight hours today from a house on the beach, and will be going to the beach after that time, but it's totally a normal work day, I swear"

uh remove the "can" from that

I get four weeks vacation -- for some reason this is fairly common in my field but not in a lot of fields.

28 days is the legal minimum in the UK for full time worker. I get 21 days plus all the bank holidays (you are not guaranteed all the back holidays but it must be 28 days in total)

(I tried to get my entitlement reduced because I always have spare holiday left at the end of the year and would rather have the money but I was told it was not possible because of this minimum. This didn't stop them taking them off me, unpaid, when they 'expired')

Oh, this thread is massively of topic now, sorry

I work three days per year, of which two I am required to post on Facebook neighborhoods

Just ask a neighbourhood FB group what all their holiday entitlements and report back

http://i.imgur.com/IUx2Fvc.jpg

Chr1$ Le$her fighting the good fight, but it's a fight that no one will ever win.

Jesus.

so does anyone remember sambos??

Yeah, it was where Sherwin-Williams is now.

there is a parody thread going now on my group, sort of nice to remember there are other sane people in the neighborhood.

My group is mostly chill, except some people are a little too comfortable there...

"Do any of y'all know how to sew? I need something hemmed. Can't offer $$$."

I have a new concept for trolling threads on my group, which consists of randomly commenting "Just goes to show you."

Locals are thrilled that the authorities have finally cleaned the graffiti off of abandoned former strip club Wiggles. Pictured is councilwoman Karen Koslowitz.

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We can't help ourselves.

http://i.imgur.com/CPx8fiD.png

they really just need to add some kind of group notice of where sambo's used to be

Make it a whole separate group, imo.

I'll try to post stuff about it later but we have a huge local controversy right now over some nutjob and his Trump sign. Someone stole it multiple times, so the guy posted flyers all over the neighborhood offering a $5K reward plus 10% interest in his "lawsuit" proceeds for info about the thief. However he posted them on a bunch of old-growth trees (which is illegal) and did like $40,000 in damage.

The same guy also apparently ran for local office a few years ago and backed over a child with his campaign bus, killing the child.

oh fuck.

jesus christ

how do you do that much damage to trees by just posting stuff on them? then again, if anyone could figure out how, it's probably that guy

ok, man alive, you beat mine.

IDK much about trees but I guess staples are kind of bad for them?

he also put up a LOT of flyers, like this may have been small amounts of damage to a large number of trees

I signed up for Nextdoor based on this thread's recommendations, since my neighborhood Facebook group wasn't paying off at all in terms of being the worst thing ever. The only suspicious person reported has been a white guy with purple hair, who was actually walking around breaking into cars in broad daylight.

same

nextdoor has actually been pretty reasonable in my area, although I haven't gained anything of value from it beyond an idea of which blocks have people who like online communities

I just joined again, even though they keep putting me in a neighborhood that's not even in my zip code.

But I did see there's a "Nearby Neighborhoods" function, so maybe I can sneak back into my own zone.

Had to use the postcard function. That's cute.

currently mourning the loss of a Haagen-Dazs location

my latest favorite thing on nextdoor is the weekly "anyone know why police helicopter is flying overhead?"

More disturbingly, there are a lot of 'My husband was beaten up walking home' / 'Someone was in our garden trying to get in the back door last night' / 'Saw some sketchy people trying all the car doors down the street' posts which have pretty much stopped me leaving the house or sleeping soundly at night. I'd kind of rather be ignorant of these things.

Lol harbl yes, and in our case it's almost always actually a news traffic helicopter

I will say that they're not as batshit crazy on Nextdoor as they are on Facebook. Have run across any Sambo's posts yet.

Someone did post a Facebook link to a video and got besieged with half a dozen "I dont do Facebock!" replies.

Someone put me on a neighborhood fb group and it's lovely--flyers for community events, sales at locally owned stores, promoting music & art openings, being neighbors. It's heavily moderated by the owner tho.

NYC is still a liberal city even though Queens has some conservatives, so anyone posting anything overtly racist/homophobic gets shouted down pretty quickly.

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both Debbie n jeff want one divorce attorney?

You'd think that people with shared social media accounts would last forever.

Unless, and I know that picture is small, Jeff is the dog.

I am needing an attorney to divorce my dog. Thanks!!

Debbie without jeff

Every time I see a badly formatted spousal Facebook account, I can't help but think the man got caught cheating.

ALWAYS, at bare minimum messaging other women

lol I always assumed it was mostly old people where one wouldn't have had an account prior to being married but wants to check grandchild pictures or something, but that makes more sense

I have a friend like that. She first friended me years ago under her name "Angela Beauchamp". Later we were apparently defriended, and then she readded me under the account "Angela N Kevin Beauchamp". I got another friend request from her about a month ago under the "Angela Beauchamp" moniker again, and she is not currently friends with the "Angela N Kevin" account, which has apparently defriended me but is still active.

identity is difficult

mpls has a new racist page focusing on the bike trail running through town. a lot of blurry pictures of african-american people which i think are supposed to be scary and mentioning/tagging all the foudnations/city council people who support the bike trail. you can tell whoever runs it is a psycho

Every time I see a badly formatted spousal Facebook account, I can't help but think the man got caught cheating.
― jane burkini (suzy), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 10:31 AM

ALWAYS, at bare minimum messaging other women
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 9:37 PM

totally makes sense. based on the handful of fb connections i have that use this i figured it was probably one of those evangelical-approved methods for navigating the earthly hazards of the social media age. no reason it can't be a combo of all the above.

bike paths (of the "cycle track"/protected bike lane variety) have been a hot topic on mine lately too. last year they put one in a very rich neighborhood. everyone was so mad. they can't double park anymore, there are less parking spots, bicyclists should use the sidewalk, whatever. now they're putting in another one in a really good place for bike commuting to downtown and it's starting again. like this is going to add time to my already short commute which i should not even be using a car for. waaaaaa.

evangelical-approved methods for navigating the earthly hazards of the social media age

reminds me of this delightful twitter post
https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/781162508732203008

There's a woman in NE Mpls called Sh3lly who berates non-racists in her neighbourhood and/or deletes them from the group. One of my HS friends has fallen foul of her. Bonus: Sh3lly is craaazy about guns and her "pitties".

Sh3lly seems like she might have some sort of misfortune occur through her interests

what are pitties?

oh, pit bulls maybe?

yes

We've got an ordinance against having those breeds of dogs inside the city limits.

I guess

you could say

that

we're

a town without pitties.

Nothing so shitty as a town without pitties.

how do y'all keep love alive? how does anything survive?

in your town without pitties

currently a long thread of people fretting about what to do about a dead kitten on a sidewalk a couple blocks away. apparently no one has yet moved it but someone put up candles and a shrine around it.

i love the turns conversations on next door take, as usual my page is flooded with innocuous posts about missing animals or gardening and then the most recent comments, the only visible ones, are along the lines of "well Judy maybe if you pulled your dumb head out of your a** you'd see that i was talking about people who walk Fido off leash and not responsible dog owners"

finally got an invite to nextdoor and immediately logged in to see who was racist in my neighborhood, to my disappointment/relief the entire thing is "i'm selling my old phone" and "whose dog is that loose" and "lost my cat / forget it, found my cat"

Racist dog whistles!

yeah, so many cats wandering off and just wandering, and none of them seem to be the same cats

(((cats)))

https://twitter.com/JustinMoris/status/812724391142268928/photo/1

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(mainly in the States)

but why was he bringing a cup full of acid to a house party

Guy does legit look like a cliched hollywood villain. Or an MRA, which is a basically identical look.

the invite said acid house party

So this lady barely older than me moved back into the neighborhood. Good news is that she doesn't post about teenagers walking down the street at 9 pm. Bad news is that she's full of nostalgia about the "good ol' days" in every post - you know, circa. 1983.

I still read NextDoor because it's not Facebook. But this woman threw a grenade without knowing it, I think.

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Fortunately for us, Gary was there to jump on top of it.

http://i.imgur.com/o5iotm6.png

Someone started a petition now over this taxi stand on the main drag in my neighborhood. For some reason people have decided that the line of cabs is too long and they want it to be shorter, but no one can seem to give a coherent reason why. It's "congestion" but it's a busy six-lane commerical road and the cab stand is only on the service road. People say really dumb shit like "clearly we don't need that many cabs" when obviously if we didn't need that many cabs, that many cabs wouldn't be congregating there waiting for pickups.

Walking West on Lyr1c between St Ge0rge and M0non Tuesday night. I pass 3 black guys 2 short, 1 big 6'3" 220 + wearing white shirts and black baseball hats and smoking something, saw the fire, just hanging out near the corner. I passed them and turned North on M0non and came across this lovely graffiti. Coincidence maybe or maybe not.

Hello Neighbors,
Just a note to be aware of...someone has been steadily at work DISMANTLEING the fence which restricts access to the empty lot at the foot of Orange Street... you know, the one with the growing collection of Graffiti in ever more resplendent colors.

Day by day, piece by piece they have removed the supports, upper cross piece, brackets etc so that today I noticed that one end of the fence is DOWN, with fresh graffiti and a 'signature' logo (man's head) on the ground inscribed via poured paint. You can see this guys work all over West Oakland and now he's working on us.

I'm sure he means to continue the damage further, so please keep an eye out and call police (?!) if needed. The owners of the empty lot seem to care not and "code enforcement" has stepped back from graffiti on private property. I once begged code enforcement to inspect the lot and clear it as a FIRE HAZZARD one Fall when there was lots of dry grass waiting to catch fire but it NEVER happened. And now we know what happens when fire hazards go unattended to.

I don't make a lot of polls, but was tempted with this one.

http://i.imgur.com/VwtC8J5.jpg

The last sentient thought to fling itself through my brain before I fell asleep last night was, "wait a minute. gas plumber?????"

i just keep seeing a giant dog w/ utility vest and belt

xp
Probably someone who can fix/install natural gas lines.

My last sentient thought before posting this: PP surely knows what it's referring to, and I am a fool for taking him literally.

Nope, not in this case, you're giving me too much credit.

Only way I really know to connect 'em is got gas -> broken toilet -> plumber.

Is anyone who works on things going through pipes a plumber? Because I knew this one guy in college who could do some amazing things with pipes, but —

I don't know if that's an official designation, but I can imagine people thinking of it that way.

You're absolutely right. Just never thought of a plumber being anything else than a wet guy in overalls or someone working for Nixon.

Though Adelaide... come on, mates, what is this.

http://i.imgur.com/bE4FVEs.jpg

At Female Choice Plumbing Adelaide, we pride ourselves on being able to attend to any Gas Fitting Adelaide requirement any time of the day or night. And we mean that literally – we’re open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Easter weekend, Christmas day and every public holiday included. Not only that, but with the sheer amount of resources we have access to, we’re able to have one of our fully qualified, licensed gas plumbers to your home or business within an hour. You’re in good hands, so don’t hesitate!

there's a group for bethnal green, in east london, which i was in but eventually turned off notifications for. it became colonised by exiled londoners in their 50s or 60s - their conversations were a mixture of nostalgia and racism. like someone would tell quite a nice story about getting dolled up on a friday night to go to some now defunct pub, and seeing all their friends there, and how everyone looked so nice and the whole street would be out, and it actually did sound really nice, then the next comment would be "wouldn't happen today! too many of the other lot around!" or something and the person who'd told the nice wistful story would agree. generally made me wish you could remove the wistfulness from the racism.

then ud just have the racism wtf

haha - i guess i meant more that it'd be nice if they didn't have to coexist, but yes ideally the racism would vanish.

I have never used an Internet neighborhood forum but I just read through this thread and the Sherwin Williams thing is KILLING me. The particular form of ubiquitous Internet racism seen in this thread is however super familiar to me from any number of times trying to Google neighborhoods and specific buildings while doing spare-time architectural semi-research - in particular the same type of good-old-days obsessive crank who jumps on any topic to report BLACK PEOPLE seen in the vicinity seems to spend a lot of time searching discussion boards where people are visitng or thinking of moving to a city and asking if neighborhood X is a safe area. The quantity of barely-concealed and almost-never-challenged racism that comes pouring out in response is stomach-turning.

Reams and reams and reams of blather that they're 'not supposed to say' but nothing else comes out of them, fuck them all.

The posters who feel they have to tip-toe gently through the Garden of Politically Correct by saying things like "The man who walked through my yard was an African-American gentleman who was carrying a large backpack."

Lady, just say what you were going to say so we'll all at least know which yard to dump our garbage this week. After all, Presidents Day was yesterday, but does that mean the truck will come by on Wednesday or Thursday?

Young twentysomething guy sitting on the sidewalk on ********** smoking a joint at 1:30pm. He is driving a black Toyota with dealer non-license plates with the car running. Walked past him twice and he didn't make any effort to hide what he was doing. Probably just a dumbass, but something about the whole scene is very off.

This artist, designer, dancer, and transformation coach (me!) is going through a housing transformation. A sudden 25% rent increase for the rent here in Sunset Pointe (Marina Bay) means it's time for me to (wo)manifest my next lovely home. Here I am at a crossroads. I see three paths....

• Path 1 will lead to a rental of my own. I'd like to stay in the Marina Bay area, or Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Oakland, but have you seen the rental prices lately? I am open to widening my search radius as wide as necessary. (Iowa?)
• Path 2: You've got a great house and you are looking for an awesome sage wisewoman to move in with you and make a home together. Roommates, an inlaw...?
• Path 3: You too need a new place and want to team up to find one and get more for our money.

Some more about me:
• I make the world's best kombucha (as I'm often told), I'm a paleo-locavore-seasonal chef, I kinda-sorta garden (greens, snap peas, and succulents), and I'm very tidy. Even though it adds some stress, I haven't followed up on listings that have electric stoves (yet!), I like gas for cooking.
• I like to work at home. My business is online -- coaching, branding, design, marketing. Clients never visit me at my home office (except over Zoom and Skype calls, that is). I need some space for my computer/printer/workstation setup. I'm flexible about working out of the home a bit, and going off with my laptop now and then, but ergonomics and finances make it really important for me to have a home office space.
• I have a cat allergy. I know that's a big one.
• I have never missed a rent or mortgage payment (or even been late!).
• I'm kind, generous, funny, smart, and have a robust current spiritual inner journey.

There was something else, but I can't remember.

Please, if you have any information that may help me, please get in touch. Blessed be.

Come to me.

a robust current spiritual inner journey

what does that even mean???

is it like gut bacteria or ...

I was about to recruit my own live-in kombucha cook but that cat allergy is a deal breaker

what robust spiritual kombucha journey womanifester can't cure her own cat allergy?

There was something else, but I can't remember.

Then why the fuck did you even write that wtf lady.

top post in my nextdoor feed --

HAIRY CAT WANTED

know that feel

late on this but I don't know who scares me more, the person who makes the world's best kombucha or the person who's tried enough kombucha to judge

more like kompukea

this kind of exchange happens on my NextDoor ALL THE TIME

Antique 1940s Lane Cedar Chest

S____ W___ · 26 Feb
Some scratches on the exterior, but solid and very nice cedar chest on the interior. Does what it is supposed to do. $100

C___ G___ · 3d ago
Hello, did you end up selling this?

S____ W___ · 3d ago
I ended up keeping it. It's really too god of a piece to part with! Sorry!

J____ L____ · 1h ago
Can you post the dimensions?

Haha.

I could get used to being "thanked" for my posts instead of just them getting "liked" though.

Might be worth telling the OP that it's illegal to sell those antique Lane chests unless the lock has been replaced -- a few kids have died in them over the years and they were recalled. Lane offers free replacements.

https://www.lanefurniture.com/about/product-safety

^^ And that's usually the post that follows the "Can you post the dimensions?"

:)

Followed by "Oh, I love Lane chests, can you give me contact info?" ad infinitum.

i mean seriously

Car storage

S____ Y___ · 10h ago

I'm going to be out of town for four months (June - September) and need a place to store my car. It's a Toyota, small hatchback. Does anyone have any leads on cheap vehicle storage or does anyone have a garage they would be willing to rent out? Thank you!!

G_____ J______ · 8h ago

A friend of mine has a space she rents out, I can pvt msg you her info if you'd like.

S____ Y___ · 7h ago

Hey there , I found a garage I can store it at, so I'm all set. but thank you anyway!

G_____ J______ · 7h ago

you're welcome!

L___ D_______ · 1h ago

i have a garage that i could rent you.

Please let that be Larry David

As much as neighborhood threads get out of control, I have seen a fair share of "upside-down" tangents - where the OP is "SCARY LOOKING MAN WALKING PAST MY DRIVEWAY, PUSHING LAWNMOWER" and the last visible comment is "D'aw, such a cute lil' pupper!"

it's a good dog, planes

As long as hes not pushing a lawnmower past Sambos i think we'll all be okay.

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whoops

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http://i.imgur.com/Dw02jJx.jpg

Looks up from computer and stares straight into camera. Addresses audience directly.

FRED: I mean, seriously. This used to be a classy neighborhood.

The posters who feel they have to tip-toe gently through the Garden of Politically Correct by saying things like "The man who walked through my yard was an African-American gentleman who was carrying a large backpack."

Lady, just say what you were going to say so we'll all at least know which yard to dump our garbage this week. After all, Presidents Day was yesterday, but does that mean the truck will come by on Wednesday or Thursday?

― pplains, Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:04 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw this one today amid the outright panic caused by a number of temp ATT door-to-door sales people in the area:

"He's wearing a black windbreaker with a white embroidered logo on his left chest, grey shorts and black tennis shoes about six feet tall, mid twenties, clean cut and well-spoken. He was not white or hispanic."

Uh-oh. Sounds like the Yazuka.

Clean cut and well-spoken tho. Not like one of those, y'know, hip hop thugs.

Hip-hop Yazuka.

"he was not white or hispanic" lol, what the hell.

When I go out to run my errands, I start driving around all over our area on West side of -----. I start from ----- street and go all the way to ----- street just going very slow from 1 street to another. If any of u see me, I drive a new "red" Dodge Journey XLT, around ur neighbourhood, don't call the cops. The only problem I have is I don't really know what to look for??

where the Sambo's used to be?

sometimes there are gems like:

E***** A**************, Adams Point
Not to be alarmist, but one of the neighbors almost died during the last few days after his foot got infected with necrotizing fasciitis.

!!!

SAFETY ALERT!!!
CXXXXXXX EXX from Argenta · 1d ago
I drove up into my driveway and out of the corner of my eye I see this white truck drive up behind me and a black couple around 25ish got out. It made me nervous how quickly they drove up like they were waiting for me to get home. The man was dressed in a suit and said he was working for a company that cleaned houses and wanted to see if I needed that type of assistance. I never got out of my car, I spoke to them through by rolling down my widow just so. He then said that he was giving away gift cards for those who signed up. As he said this he was unrolling/unfolding the gift card. That's when I really became suspicious. Why was the card folded up and he offered it to me to take, BUT I DID NOT TOUCH OR ROLL MY WINDOW DOWN FURTHER!!! When he saw I was not going to respond to his gesture or invite, they QUICKLY left. The lady never said a word, but was behind him as support. I mentioned this to a friend out of state who said it was a good ideal that I did not touch the card. There is something called Scopolamine that could have been blown into my face or just touching the card could have been a bad thing. He said people have emptied out their bank account and never knew they did it when they came in contact with this stuff. Neighbor, well it's here. Don't accept flyers or anything from people who offers unless you know they're la-get!!! I am so nervous how close I could have became a victim.
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"Neighbor, well it's here." is going to be my new catchphrase

la-get!

jfc

Why was the card folded up and he offered it to me to take, BUT I DID NOT TOUCH OR ROLL MY WINDOW DOWN FURTHER!!!

> just touching the card could have been a bad thing

was the other guy wearing gloves?

Iocane, bro

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp

lol that's like the adult version of telling kids not to take stickers from strangers because they might have lsd on them

Anytime you see an adult looking man riding on a bike that looks too small for him, he's a potential bike thief. They'll ride those smaller bikes because they can easily ditch them or carry them while they ride away on YOUR bike. Cash, drugs, sex and bikes, yes bikes, are the currencies of the criminal underworld.

URGENT NEIGHBORHOOD ALERT... TWO SUSPICIOUS GENTLEMEN HEADING NORTH ON BARBINEAUX STREET AT 3:45 PM

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RACE NIGHT
R--- · 31 May
Come to our Race Night this Saturday at the O--- club in B--- rd.
Non members £5.00 with hot food
Members £2.00
Come and have a great evening out and maybe win a few pounds.

S--- · 1 Jun
Thanks R---. Can I please have some details like what do we do in race night.. is it music and dancing and what age groups ? etc

R--- · 1 Jun
Hi S---, a race night is there will be a film of horse racing on which you can have a little flutter on , winner's will be given there winnings and any monies left over will go to charity.It is for any age groups but not for children. When it is over there will be music put on if you want to stay. Hope this helps you.

S--- · 2 Jun
Thanks R--- for clarifying. It is not what I thought and will not attend this time. Wishing yo an enjoyable evening.

I've always wanted to turn up to a Race Night in full KKK gear tbh

lmao wonder what S_ made of the members/non-members distinction

Yeah, my amusement is partly the idea of someone expecting to find people advertising White Power nights on a neighbourhood group in South Tottenham, and partly because I'd never heard of Race Nights before - the idea of betting on a film of a race seems largely unsuited to the modern era in a lot of ways (I am probably being Sneering Metropolitan Elite here)

It is for any age groups but not for children.

I am confuse.

So our neighbors just loooove to use the word 'thug' for ant black guy just walking down the street. I got into a lengthy argument with this guy. Oh and hey what - I'm a snowflake and a tattle tale because I said I was going to ask the mod to remove all posts with racial slurs in them. Now god forgive if you were to say shit or fuck or cunt. Anyway here's the convo I had with the admin:

Hi David,

Could we please as THUG as an offensive word? Reference below:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.mic.com/articles/amp/99182/7-racially-coded-phrases-that-everyone-needs-to-stop-saying-about-black-people

Kate,

I'd like to help. I have a graduate English degree, so I understand the issue well, but not sure what you'd like me to do.

David

Hi David, maybe delete posts that use offensive language? Thanks Kate

Kate,

I understand why you find the word offensive, but the recent discussion makes clear that others don't agree with you.

I'm not the arbiter of language on the site. Blatant violations are easy, but not seeing that here.

I understand your position, and I'm sorry you're offended, but treading on free speech is not something I do easily.

David I'm from Australia via Scotland and I manage to restrain myself from using the F word and the C word and those aren't even racist. Calling a black man a thug is racist.

Kate,

I don't disagree. But I have no right to tell other people what words they can use.

Awesome. Do I can use cunt and fucking cracker as much as I like. Thanks for the clarification.

wow thanks David for your defense of free speech you cunt

I'm glad the ppl who run my fb neighbourhood group are a very cool and diverse crew, and who ban folks who do shit like that on the regular

feel free to move to st henri montreal quebec canada if you need a better fb nabe group in yr life!

"I don't disagree. But I have no right to tell other people what words they can use."
YES YOU DO YOU ARE THE SITE MODERATOR YOU POMPOUS ARSE

report em directly to fb for racist comments? can you do that in a group? so stupid that people "don't agree" that it's offensive, like, you would agree if you read like a 200 word article ya doofuses

Free speech is for the government to control. Anyone who runs a group or a company or a whatever is free to do whatever the shit they want to shut peoples speech down. I dont get why people dont understand this.

if it doesn’t personally bother someone they just shrug and say, “free speech!” if it does bother them, then they get all up in arms

if you say something and someone else dislikes they are a snowflake and if you dislike what they say, they are vile

I should add that the only reason I'm leaning on the offensive word theme is because, a week or so before, this other guy calls the board out on all the racism - veiled and not so much. A bunch of posters shouted him down on the pretense of offensive language because he used ' god' in a colloquial sense in his thread title.

Then along came good ol David to tell him the site does not tolerate offensive language. He followed that up by deleting a bunch of posts but not the thread so the title remained. So stupid.

So he's happy to tell people what they can and cant say when god is involved?

AMERICA FUK YEH

god people that use "thug" in that manner infuriate me to no end.

also lol at the moderator saying he can't do the one thing that a moderator is SUPPOSED to do

The dude is ridiculous. The south is ridiculous.

so via another email address i signed up for my mom's neighborhood NextDoor, partially to keep a tab on things for her and partially because we just bought my childhood home so she could continue living there. maybe it was always like this, i assume it has since this is just old timey talk:

D**** P****, W***** L*****
I've seen the guy c0l0red guy yesterday walking around and it just creeps me out I wonder if the police can take him in and ask him questions I feel unsafe!

here's a thought, FB Group person: just say "hello"

from nextdoor:

Due to an ordering mistake, I have way too many pencils.
One box of 12 pencils for $2 / One pack of 8 boxes (96 pencils) for $10.

https://i.imgur.com/GgzvLxW.png

https://i.imgur.com/qVqCVxG.gif

was that Sambo’s, as it ever was?

mulholland drive is the best, you wanna argue me? i'll pick you up and put you back down

omg dying at pplains's last post

https://i.imgur.com/F9pHe9T.png

there was a store called....

“That place was called Sambos” is the unending meme imo

I keep getting visions of the Louie CK "now you're making ME say it" bit

Gotta say though, ANIMAL CONTROL IS OUT OF CONTROL one of my favorite headlines lately.

ha yes!

"hey, does anyone know why where were a half dozen cop cars behind a vehicle they had pulled over on the freeway entrance next to our neighborhood?"

several posts of rampant speculation about drugs and weapons follow, no firsthand knowledge

I'm very tempted to just post "Heard they pulled someone over for exotic animal smuggling. Three bonobos and a python"

Do it

My small town Facebook group put up a sensational story titled "CHOAS AS LORRY BLOCKS [piddling little street] FOR THIRTY MINUTES!!!" and have now apparently blocked me for making fun of them. It's probably for the best I suppose.

In UK, lorry blocks neighborhood while in USSR, neighborhood blocks YOU – wait, that didn't make any sense.

Here's what's blocking our neighborhood tonight.

https://i.imgur.com/z5FscZZ.png

Someone posted their kids' three old Halloween costumes for sale on our neighborhood parent forum. One was an obviously offensive Native American costume. Some people called her out for it, and when she refused to get rid of the costume, a heroic friend of mine who I will just call Lea offered to pay her $10 for it so she could dispose of it herself. The woman actually took her up on it, and said she would leave it with her doorman.

Here is a picture of the $10 bill Lea left her, which the woman angrily posted to the group the next day:

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wtg Lea

At least a contender for trolling HOF imo.

the saddest NextDoor threads are missing pet threads but i do enjoy the terrible detective work of my neighbors, it's along the lines of

"Hi everyone, my cat got out last night and usually she returns but she didn't. Here's a photo, if you see her please contact me,"

http://www.shelter-cats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/eNathaniel2.jpg

"Hey is this your cat, I just saw her in my yard. Fingers crossed..."

https://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2014/01/low-tail.jpg

"i think we saw your cat on a wall outside, is this her?"

https://vetstreet.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1b4b0d5/2147483647/thumbnail/645x380/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvetstreet-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F01%2Fae5db0a33a11e087a80050568d634f%2Ffile%2FHavana-1-645mk062311.jpg

"is this her?"

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/21/04/bf/2104bfa3f59357dcff363723a2f33bec--pink-cat-pink-pink-pink.jpg

Got a bad dye job and is embarrassed to come home.

"DID YOU CALL ANIMAL CONTROL? PLEASE POST THIS ON THE CENTRAL DISTRICT PET LOST & FOUND PAGE."

I have been avoiding nextdoor because I saw a dead cat in the road last week and was too stressed at the end of the day to go deal with it. It's a very busy area as far as neighbors and pedestrian traffic goes, so I temporarily relieved myself of responsibility, vowing to gather it up in the morning and seek the owners if it was still there. Luckily, it was gone.

I'm sure there's a very depressing thread about it

https://i.imgur.com/rm3KEkb.jpg

BTW, "NOMAR" -- I FOUND YOUR CAT. PLEASE COME BY TO PICK HIM UP.

Here is a picture of the $10 bill Lea left her, which the woman angrily posted to the group the next day:

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive)

haha, one of my facebook friends is in this group and was just bitching about it on her feed yesterday

can i just say how glad i am that i am never going to have kids

Can anyone remember the name of that cat that used to hang around by the Walgreen's?

Sambo cat

Genuine LOLs

Sherwin Williams locations all springing up in place of homes that cats have wandered away from.

Exchange from recent thread about the fact that they're going to house a few dozen homeless people in a failed hotel in my neighborhood:

Jonathan K___ I think people are talking past each other here. We should not conflate "homeless people" and "bums". As I indicated with my earlier posted NYer article, many homeless people have jobs. Some are even university professors. No one wants bums. Dirty, disheveled, etc. often mentally ill. No one wants them near where they live. I sure as shit don't. But if someone is merely homeless and goes to school or work or what have you and they need a place to live, then I see no problem. I'm anti-bum. Not anti-homeless.

Lisa A_____ Okay, now that I can agree with.

Lisa A_____ but a lot of the righteous on here seem not to mind the legit bums. Like I said, standards.

S___ G______

My car was broken into on monday night. The window was smashed along with a neighbors truck. I saw a police officer parked down the street and told him what happened. I asked him if I should file a police report and he said I could if I wanted to but nothing would come of it.

K__ E______
Wow!! Better cars vandalized than mass shootings... with the inaction of law enforcement, perhaps that is next..

http://i.imgur.com/duNNr7o.gif

Carlos R_______ Santana
hahaha... many people in amnty and around manty dont even know USA history, what makes yoy believe they will understand chemistry to be able to build a bomb? or even electronics to create a trigger to detonate a bomb? lol and the ones that are well educated will never call about something like that hahaha... js...

W______ K______
You just sound like an idiot...

N______ R_______
do another song with Rob Thomas

Lol

i live in a densely populated residential neighborhood, tons of families, little kids everywhere. someone posts in our FB community group that they saw some dude walking around a residential street with a shotgun and so they called the cops to be safe. cue ~200 posts about how it's perfectly legal and you shouldn't have infringed this guy's rights and induced panic in the community and should've been better informed about our second amendment rights. jfc

ffs.

Welp, never leaving the northeast.

The excerpt I posted upthread was just a very small sampling of the 250+ posts about a mere 30-40 beds in an underutilized hotel being temporarily devoted to homeless people. So many people fall back on "the children" -- "There's a school down the road!" No shut the fuck up, you just don't want to see homeless people walking around. They're not a danger to "the children."

tbf maybe half of the posts supported the guy who called the cops, many folks saying "who cares if it's legal, don't be an asshole"

yeah, similarly there were an encouraging number of posts supportive of the homeless

I saw a guy open carrying at a grocery store. He looked to be about 20, had long greasy hair and an anime T-shirt. I was with my 2-year old. I wasn't exactly scared, just bummed out. Why this dude imagined a scenario in which he would have to shoot someone in a grocery store was beyond me. Coincidentally I wound up accidentally stealing an avocado (blame the kid) and I imagined the dude filling me full of lead in the parking lot. And yes I did go back and pay for it.

in my neighborhood the lost animals are found most of the time so it's pretty heartwarming

xp - maybe he was afraid someone would steal his gun if he left it in his vehicle ?

Loud profane music on C____ St

There’s a teen party going on C____ St. with several kids walking around the house. I called the Sheriffs office and complained after listening to “F__ dis N__ r” rap music coming through my closed windows. After 3 hrs I called back they told me the officer couldn’t find the house. I drove over myself and found several cars parked on the north side of the street about 400 ft from L____ Rd. I asked dispatch for the name of the responding officer and he put me on hold and then disconnected the call. Why the hell do I have to be subjected to this type of total disregard for others every weekend? If it isn’t loud music, it’s fireworks, or loud motorcycles or loud diesel trucks, or the damn ice cream truck! Thanks police departments great job

God, go live in a shack in the woods you old fart.

https://i.imgur.com/zBqRjH8l.png

Today I saw the following:

Smokey outside today.
Can really smell the smoke. Hills covered. Anyone knows what's going on!

Bear in mind that this is Oakland, where 40 miles to the north everything is on fire, and has been since Sunday night.

My friends are now internet famous: pic.twitter.com/4SWanMyVEr

— William Gillis ⚑ (@rechelon) October 12, 2017

NextDoor tumblrs are going to be great. Since ND is seemingly more private than other social media, people sure like to let their hair down on there.

My neighbor gave me this video of three kids ringing their doorbell and running away. Wondering if they did this to anyone else. It was around 12:15 a.m. Sunday. If anyone recognizes them please let us know.

wait, is that real or parody?

Every other week there's a "Does anyone know what's up with the helicopters flying over ___?!" post. It's almost always a traffic reporter.

"Henry Hill"

i tell you hwat

welp, finally happened. think my neighborhood just got gentrified.

https://i.imgur.com/FTYxcIN.png

isn't "beard barber" redundant?

some person in the neighborhood took a picture of my license plate because i was driving like a maniac. she's totally going to put it on facebook or something.

i want to die so much

imo just get some badass bumper stickers

Or drive faster.

This remains my favorite thing

E---- P------·Edited 2h ago
To all those interested, here are photographs of the cottage. the rent is $1950.00 per month plus one months deposit.

C------ M--- 2h ago
Lovely... how much is the rent? Thank you 🙏

tbf, sometimes the original post does not have the price, and after people ask the op edits the original to include it.

True I think that's actually the case here, for some reason I didn't register "edited"

I hadn't logged into nextdoor for months but did so the other day to make sure a cat I saw near my place wasn't lost. At some point in the last year it's hit the critical mass to become a nightmare hellscape of people making the same post over and over (do you know of a good leaf removal service?) and weird opinions about what the police should and should not do, most of which are insanely bad.

since i'm also signed up for my hometown nextdoor i get a double dose and it's amazing how little difference there is between posts on Los Angeles nextdoor and posts on rural IL nextdoor.

https://i.imgur.com/c8ORVSM.png

I'm probably the only one who thinks two people named Amber and Frazier are talking about Fire Wood.

thinks it's funny.

To the Man with 8 Eight Vehicles on Oakland and Harrison Aves
One of our neighbors has eight different vehicles parked on Oakland and Harrison Ave. They include vans, older cars and motorcycles.

I've had my catalytic converter stolen ($1400), back window smashed and have had the contents of the car gone through 4 or 5 times. In each instance it was parked closer to the 580 than I would have liked to do because this guy with 8 vehicles takes up all the spaces in front of my house.

I know who it is and where he lives. He is also a registered sex offender and pedophile. As far as I know he has paid his debt to society for his crimes, but he's screwing the rest of us over with his vehicles.

If you, the subject of this post, are here, please stop hoarding the extremely limited parking spaces in our neighborhood. Rent a garage. If the individual isn't here and/or not open to finding a compromise, I will be taking action to correct the situation whatever that means.

I just want to park my truck without it being destroyed!

parking is a hot topic on nextdoor right now

someone has created a poll, "Should the city require residential parking permits?" which I unwittingly voted in, causing me to get subscribed to the thread. I don't want to go back to unsubscribe because I know the comments would just make me insane, so I'm just quickly swiping email messages away before I read them

I am sure I'm going to feel like looking at it soon to laugh in glee at the chaos, though

fwiw there's no way my city is large enough or congested enough to need such permits, it's just a person on a short stretch of road angry that people have the nerve to park (badly) on the street

You have arguments over whether your town needs parking permits. My neighborhood argues about whether or not we should be allowed to park in the front yard.

imo if you allow yard parking the street is less congested, win-win

does pedophile and/or registered sex offender status come into play in these parking arguments?

While I am in favor of being kind to opossums, I must take issue with "beautiful". I believe them to be the most ugly thing that God ever created. I do feel a great deal of… See more

Just spotted two iguanas in the alley off Harvey. Is this normal?

I live in the East Columbia area near the spot where a man shot off one of his fingers last year in a gun fight. Tonight as I was having my X-Mas box of wine in the deck I spotted two lizard like beasts wrestling over what appeared to be a Purina Dog Food bag. I was at a loss thinking that this could be a hallucination but my dog saw them as well and he had less wine than me

An astronaut on the ISS recently took a photo of our metro, and boy, let me tell you, we are fucking famous now.

J** B********

Max and Leo are 11 months old, neutered, micro-chipped, and completely up to date with their shots. We've tried for 9 months to train our 4 year old dog to stop bothering them but we haven't had any success. We just want to find them a home with kind and caring owners, where they'll have a peaceful life. Please send a PM if you are interested.

B***** U***

Sorry the dog didn't learn to get along with them. I left my husband because his dog wouldn't leave my cat alone. I hope you can find them a wonderful forever home.

B***** U*** OTM

Someone reported Buddy the Cat missing. This neighbor posted this to say that she had found him:

https://i.imgur.com/7X9J9VV.jpg

"Recently we've gotten feedback from our community that Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever – so you can expect to see much more of them in the coming months"

I miss the ad hoc neighborhood groups that'd spring up and grow organically

and by organically, I mean some of them were so bad that friends would tell me things like "you have to join 'Townname People', it's got the most fucked up stuff"

so you end up with a conspicuous 10% of the group not actually from there, just there for the ride

on investigation, it appears there is now a second "Townname People - No Moderators" group set up in protest

I've got to find out what's going on here, I bet it's dramatic

I checked out the "no moderators" group and the first post was someone asking whether there was still going to be a pan-Asian grocery store set up in a campustown location that was formerly a pet store. First response was a poorly-formed "joke" combining the name of an american chinese restaurant dish with "meow."

so I'm guessing the no-moderators policy is to avoid the thought police who banned racists

best post on nextdoor today is a response to a thread where a woman was looking for a vet to express her dog's anal glands. she did not express interest in doing it herself, and since she was asking for a vet to do it, one would assume she did not want to do it herself. a helpful reply gave lengthy step-by-step instructions for how to express the dog's anal glands.

I was inspired by this thread to see if there's Facebook group for my town, and there is, but it has 1 post with someone asking for recommendations for a roofer :(

actually i'm sorry, i lied. i had stopped reading at "you need exam gloves and vaseline," she doesn't say what to do next???

"Put jelly on your shoulder, lie down upon the carpet..."

We had our first dead dog photo.

SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR DOGS OUTSIDE IN THIS COLD WEATHER????? Dog laid flat on its side, half buried in two inches of snow, legs sticking straight as if he had been standing and then tipped over. THE OWNERS OF THIS DOG SHOULD SPEND A NIGHT OUT IN THE COLD LIKE THIS ONE.

Somebody from our animal control department posted that the dog was found with bite marks all over it, which you couldn't see in the photo. Also, if the dog had froze to death, it would've likely been found curled up, not laying on the ground like it's trying to get some sun on the left side too. Oh, and the owners have been notified since he was wearing a collar, they're mortified and saddened. (Also, I guess HIPPA doesn't cover animals.)

The response? ANIMAL CONTROL SHOULD HAVE RESCUED THE ANIMAL BEFORE IT WAS ATTACKED BY OTHER ANIMALS AND oh for chrissake why am i on this list.

i'm on it so i can read about how THE BIKE LANE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED because hits-and-runs have definitely increased since people in the city's richest neighborhood now have to park their cars in a place eight feet to the side from where they used to be and they are mad

Lol we also have a brand new bike lane and the neighborhood is NOT HAVING IT. I mean look at this photo I snapped on a 15 degree day, see any bikers?

I am relatively neutral on biking myself but all the right people get angry at bike lanes, so i’m all for them

My other favorite thing is whenever someone announces that a new eatery is going in some vacant 350sf storefront someone inevitably says “what we really need is a supermarket.”

There's a half mile stretch of road that went from four lanes to two lanes (+ a turn lane) and I tell ya that change has just *ruined* the lives of everyone within a half mile radius. And they used to have such a nice neighborhood.

Another one is people complaining about the fact that they are demolishing the structure of a “historic” (ugly, dilapidated and outdated) Jewish community center TO BUILD A BETTER FACILITY.

It “goes back to the holocaust,” which I’m pretty sure did not take place in Queens.

My other favorite thing is whenever someone announces that a new eatery is going in some vacant 350sf storefront someone inevitably says “what we really need is a supermarket.”

We had a Savers thrift store close, in a location that had also hosted a Food 4 Less and a Budget Saver.

So obviously, Trader Joe's was the pick among the neighbors to replace it. Nevermind that currently the closest one to us is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Why not a location that couldn't even support three discount stores?

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27751694_10154957735670728_948591131771817845_n.jpg?oh=6eda69ffb582a4593e9f885d9a437db6&oe=5B0ABFA2

missing: 20 consecutive threads asking "Is anyone else's internet out?"

Had I known that Nextdoor was around the corner, I would've invested everything into Ring doorbell cameras.

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor

I forgot to post that here, but I think I tried sending that link to pplains on fb because of his love of neighborhoods

I learned of that account when they faved one of my Nextdoor tweets!

(Also, I never check FB messenger. Thanks though.)

I'll return to our regular smoke signal communication channel

totally and utterly useless picture of top of package stealer's head

totally and utterly useless picture of top of package stealer's head

yes!!!

goddamn i love those grainy RING videos where a guy briefly pauses to glance at a front yard.

[Georgetown-Seattle] Lost rooster on Ellis
He’s hanging out near 6306 Ellis at the moment.

so much murderous anger about slightly bad parking jobs

I already mentioned the dead dog in the snow. This past month featured photographs of a dead puppy in a cardboard box that someone had dumped at the cemetery. And then there was the still-alive cat who was found with a massive head wound. That poster later came back and dared whomever it was that reported her to show their faces.

woke up to a panicked email from NextDoor's "crime and safety" section.

IT'S THAT GUY AGAIN...CALLS HIMSELF TYRONE.

I think Tyrone is selling magazines.

how dare he call himself tyrone

our latest big thread was people complaining about door to door energy salespeople and an actual guy who had the job for a few days explaining why he took the job (mostly bc poor, no transportation of his own to get a better one). it was sad.

i'm coming off pneumonia here and tbh i would buy the shit out of some energy rn if someone would sell it at my door

i think you better call tyrone

J****** L******
Right now there’s several coyotes running up and down M** Street, between G***** Ave and H**** St.. Just a heads up if you’re planning to walk your dog, or if your cats are still out.

K**** F****
They’re out every night. They come right down M** Street and meet up in front of the church or on the football field at the high school.

those coyotes are just tryina get saved before judgment day ya fuckin pharisees

that is unfair to the pharisees but you know what i mean

To canine's land I'm on my way

Random guy at 1400 Uxxxx St asked me to make a quick call for him. I called XXX-XXX-XXXX with the speaker phone on. 'Katie' answered, and arranged to meet the guy outside as parents are home. 'Katie' asked the guy 'what do you need' to which the guy replied 'one,' at which point I cursed at the guy and hung up the phone. Guy kept walking up Uxxxx toward Cxxxxxx.
Does anyone know this number or where they live so I can more effectively report this to the police?

R U SERIOUS WITH THIS

yeah i mean Uxxxx St must be a fake

Random guy asked me to call bofa for him

names were changed to protect the stupid

so there's a new app called 'citizen' which seems a strong contender for new Worst Thing Ever

https://gizmodo.com/citizen-the-creepy-crime-fighting-app-formerly-known-a-1818607859

Dog Tied to Tree?
My neighbor has a dog tied to their tree. They work night shifts and I hate to disturb them so early but I also know, as animal lovers, they would not do this. EDIT: Just spoke with my neighbors. This is not their dog nor did they tie this dog up.

Is someone missing a dog?

Has anyone seen my tree, there was a dog tied to it last time I saw it.

"Oh, tie a yellow lab to the old oak tree, the old oak tree..."

Every post tonight is “all this noise, you’re ruining the night for everyone!”

We have a type of neighborhood watch, right now it’s me and 3 other people on Friday and Saturday 11pm to 5am and some of our older night owls who just watch from there darkened front windows, who call us.

Comment in response to a question about increased police activity in the neighborhood.

GladysKravitz.jpg

Who knew that one day we'd miss the Kitty Genovese era.

This is like one step away from the OMG, WHO'S CAT IS THIS? and it's a bobcat in a sink.

Except this one actually happened.

https://i.imgur.com/7emhMJ3.png

Gonna start posting a buncha frogs to my feed.

Is this your bald dog?

Is this your crow?

How about this one

UPDATE: found another nineteen crows. If any of these are yours please let me know!

I could never have predicted that the phrase "just in case" would have become one of my most-hated.

That doesn't seem that unreasonable unless your area is... very full of tortoises. Is it?

just had a lengthy neighborhood thread (deleted now): a woman said her son had found a corpse in a suitcase and was traumatized, and it took about fifty messages for someone else to chime in and say it was actually a live man sleeping *on* on ottoman. but that the guy who found him was indeed traumatized.

the sleeping man was alive, but the Otto man was dead, right?

The facebook group for my local area has grown massively in the last few months. Amongst other things, the number of suspicious characters spotted from behind twitching curtains has of course exploded alongside this. Thankfully there is at least a small minority speaking up against the overzealous suspicion and paranoia.

I'm itching to post clips from Hot Fuzz, but am not sure the joke is worth the hassle that could ensue... "The Greater Good!".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY

Do it!

Would they understand a Gladys Kravitz gif?

Not someone I would have known before Googling, but I think that would work very well too. I was trying to find good Rear Window clips too.

https://i.imgur.com/WaSTcrq.jpg

"for sale, electrical wire, never used"

The persistently terrible parking around us is bringing me to verge of posting sincerely in the above-mentioned Facebook local neighbourhood group. I'm resisting by meta-posting here instead. Might have to buy some variety of 'You Park Like A...' stickers.

"Fox spotted in the wood behind our gardens!"

#SaveTheWoodFromBecomingStreets-petition

(two weeks later)

"What's killing our chickens? Another three last night :-( "

A classic awful post today from a repeat offender, this time concerning local Christmas decorations, bemoaning the "politically correct" 'Seasons Greetings' sign that goes up at the gates of the local park every year because "It doesn't even mention christmas". You can imagine the discussion which has ensued.

my latest favorite thing on nextdoor is the weekly "anyone know why police helicopter is flying overhead?"

― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, September 22, 2016 7:00 AM (two years ago)

just came to see if anyone had posted about this phenomenon before. they're at it again.

NextDoor alert because someone nearby is apparently whistling

i cant help it that im so good at it, i gotta share my gift

my latest favorite thing on nextdoor is the weekly "anyone know why police helicopter is flying overhead?"

― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, September 22, 2016 7:00 AM (two years ago)

I love this too! It reminds me that it's been uncharacteristically quiet here this past month -- or else the gentrification has really set in for good? Even better are the people that complain that the police helicopters should be quieter later at night/earlier in AM

Not here Cuomo and de Blasio! what are they thinking? As a Democrat I’m shocked! Put the jails where the people do the most crime! I oppose this as this neighborhood is not representational of the inmates!

"What do you mean then, put 'em IN CAPITOL PARK?"

As a Democrat I’m shocked! Put the jails where the people do the most crime!

Jesus with attitudes like that no wonder people think dems are snobby elitists :/

Woman just literally asked in the neighborhood parents group if anyone else has the cold that's going around. She didn't call it a cold, she referred to it as "the bug with the stuffy nose and fever." In winter.

Anyone else notice the trees don't seem to have a lot of leaves lately?

And what is with these little white pellets on the sidewalk crunching under my shoes?

I've moved to a village. It's all 'who does this escaped cow belong to? we trapped it in X's field' 'Someone's chicken's come down our path'

Sounds pretty great, actually.

people on local facebook comments complaining about how a road that has had bike lanes and pedestrian crossings are ruining an area. highlights include:
- same person saying there was nowhere to park (no parking spots were removed) and that two businesses in the area had closed recently so obviously the road plan is bad for business. this is an area of like, fifteen square blocks with a bunch of businesses, many of them new
- someone saying that they had to slow down and move around someone exiting their car on the traffic side. which seems like a normal thing you do on city streets with parking if you're not a jerk?

peeps be bitching

"why are they changing the road" is the new "hey do you remember what the business at the corner of park & 3rd used to be called"

people losing their shit over "road diets" is amazing to me

I'm a member of two NextDoors and both have had recent episodes of human shit found on porches.

oh for sure

i was looking at comments on an editorial in the local paper and there's some dude from the eastern part of the state who has made it his life's crusade to stop them everywhere. i guess his business is right outside a road diet area and he lost a little business? everything he cites links back to one single WSJ article -- every other editorial echos the exact same comments and references to studies

strong argument there for holding nationally distributed papers to a much higher standard

xp kudos on the porch work, pplains

what is a road diet?

A road diet, also called a lane reduction or road rechannelization, is a technique in transportation planning whereby the number of travel lanes and/or effective width of the road is reduced in order to achieve systemic improvements.

for instance, this worked really well in a neighborhood next to mine where a really wide road that has lots of stores on it got switched from four lanes of travel to two and made formal (as opposed to unmarked) parking and bike lanes on both side

xp to cite a street you might know, like if Solano Ave up in Berkeley used to have two lanes of traffic going each way and then changed it to how it appears now, adding in angled parking and turn lanes and cutting down the speed limit.

it drives people who hate paying attention while driving nuts because it turns areas with high pedestrian and bike traffic with traffic that ignores them into areas where drivers are forced to give those people space

xp - ohhh they did this with Telegraph Ave in Oakland right near me about a year ago -- between the diet, the buses, and the weird parklets -- it really discourages driving down that stretch of street

lol at Solano ave tho -- that's yuppie hell and way out of the way for me -- might as well drive to SF

I'm pretty sure that ppl on my nextdoor have complained about this telegraph ave road diet tho, however, it is eclipsed by the bigger issue of package theft. I swear, if someone were to run for city council in our district on a platform that prioritizes combating package theft with some innovative technological solution, they would win by a landslide.

package and bike thieves are the local scourge. every time someone loses a bike, someone replies that they should check the homeless encampments. Or when they see someone they ID as "a transient" with a bike, sometimes they take a photo of them and say "anyone missing a bike that looks like this?"

still tho, it really demonstrates the repercussions of amazon's dominance -- delivery companies are super lax now in terms of requiring signatures before delivery -- fedex saw no problem whatsoever in leaving packages on the doorstep to my apartment building, which is akin to putting them on the curb with a big sign that says "FREE!" ... maybe the prospective city council candidate could also file a class action lawsuit against FedEx on behalf of everyone in Oakland, pretty much

i mean, if the economic conditions of my life were such that stealing packages was a solid career move, I would totally target this neighborhood.

Amazon also just makes so much money that they'll take the losses on stolen packages and just send you a replacement with no question asked, so people feel secure in that regard as well. Which also cuts out local stores to an extent, people don't worry about not being home because it doesn't matter, they know a replacement would get sent regardless.

oh, I'm talking about FedEx -- delivering for companies that aren't just Amazon -- in that they are delivering so many Amazon packages, they need to be more efficient. Amazon would not refund me the cost of the makita drill batteries that got stolen, which I ordered from Amazon because Home Depot (and the other hardware stores) don't carry batteries for my 25 year old drill ...

imo Amazon capitalized on both sides of the equation by buying the Ring doorbell company

want some packages? we'll send you some. someone stealing your packages? buy our fancy motion sensor doorbell and find out who

brilliant!

maybe then they will buy nextdoor.com so they can monetize people complaining about their packages being stolen and posting blurry pics taken from the Ring cameras

I'm kind of thinking they will -- the Ring app already has a nextdoor-like feature and 90% of it is "this guy came up to my porch and looked in the window but didn't ring the bell"

oh yeah and the classic "loud noise - car backfiring or gun being fired?"

tbh I don't remember the last time I heard a car backfire but it's an interesting dichotomy set up

I'm kind of thinking they will -- the Ring app already has a nextdoor-like feature and 90% of it is "this guy came up to my porch and looked in the window but didn't ring the bell"

don't start shit won't be no shit let your cat sit in the window then imo

https://i.imgur.com/uopFUG8.png

NextDoor users are even more delusional than Craigslist users for people trying to sell their junk at high end prices

“Used ikea lack table missing 1 leg $50 cash offers only”

lol those things go for like $10 new in store!

someone's selling used bathroom mats in ours o_O

no longer do people leave notes on cars asking someone to move if they're taking up two parking spots, they snap photos of the offending vehicle and post them on NextDoor and the entire neighborhood is collectively *apoplectic* at these criminal acts.

Today, February 27th, at approximately 10:55am, OPD police activity briefly impacted the neighborhood near and within the 400 block of Oakland Avenue. OPD patrol located a stolen and parked recreational vehicle and were unable to determine whether the vehicle was occupied. Due to safety considerations, traffic was restricted to and from the area as officers employed various tactics to use time, distance, and communication to ensure the safe apprehension of anyone who may have possibly been inside the vehicle. Oakland Ave was reopened at 11:48 am and the vehicle was safely recovered without incident or arrest.

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Anyone else catch men pleasuring themselves in their cars on Grand Ave?
In the past 4 months I have caught 2 different men pleasuring themselves (pants down, genitals out) in the front seat of their cars on Grand Avenue. Both instances have been between Lenox and Perkins St during peak morning commute hours. Has anyone else encountered this? What would you suggest doing? Is this even worth reporting to the police?
*** If you have been doing this in your car in public, I urge you, please go home! A major street with people and children walking around is not the place for you to be getting off.

New7h ago · 23 neighborhoods in Crime & Safety

OL who is leaning over to look??

presumably someone thinking of the children walking around?

East Bay Veterinary Clinic Located at 568 Grand Avenue Sold Me Counterfeit Flea Medication And Killed My Dog

Is that a song title from the next Mark Kozelek record?

There was just a big furore because apparently the ground of the play area in the local park was painted the colours of the Irish tricolour flag overnight by vandals. This is in the east end of Glasgow, so a potentially controversial topic amongst certain people, including the incensed and offended guy who initially posted about it after being sent a photo by a friend. "Think of the kiddiewinks!" etc.

In the end of course, it wasn't any such thing. I believe the play area has always had flooring in green, pinkish and orange sections, though I've never particularly paid attention to it.

At least it was a great post for highlighting the sectarian bigots and credulous idiots in the immediate area. There was some nice piss taking as well, thankfully, with at least one Ivory Coast reference before it all escalated to deletion.

Are there that many sectarian Irish in Scotland? Dumb question probably, sorry.

There are (historically) issues with sectarianism in Glasgow. I'm not really clued up on it as I totally eschew both religion and football, but it's there. Being very lazy with my link choice here sorry, a bit short of time to read any deeper articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_in_Glasgow

Gonna go down to the playground and paint a big Mexican flag. Tell everyone it's the Irish flag if they complain.

Trayce - there are signs on public transport in Glasgow basically warning you not to talk about religion in public because you could be arrested for inciting violence.

Who... who includes a selfie with their post asking for dental advice?

https://i.imgur.com/lhPTDtz.jpg

at least open your mouth

someone had a fight in the alley

I also heard. The men were screaming, but not cursing. I prayed that the Prince of Peace would intervene. I also went to call the police. But didn't because I could no longer hear anything. It sounded like it was right outside my bedroom window in the back. Three young men rent the house next door. They are middle-class, but there is at least one girlfriend who sometimes spends the night. Many are deluded, thinking sin has no consequences. The devil is a liar.

Man, when the Prince of Peace and the Police show up to the same alley fight.

who would win? prince of peace or cops? scouting reports on POP are high in praise but afaik cops are 1-0 lifetime vs prince of peace

the bizarre poetry of Facebook neighbourhood groups

I joined the Reading one, but it proved to be a long series of "Who remembers Rumbelows?" type messages.

My nextdoor group has been relatively chill up until now, but recently the paranoiacs have infiltrated.

https://i.imgur.com/izv68JB.jpg

Someone else made a post to report a strange van idling on her street, but it turned out to be her neighbor who had lived there for 4 years.

Thanks. My husband says as you say...action needed. At 6:10 am one morning 2 weeks ago, .went to my car in driveway. I.was .not aware until later that I.may have witnessed something bad. I heard like a firecracker, then a short guy in hoodie running down the street....I ducked low near car....around 9am I reported it to the police.....not.good...

I had to try typing that out for myself to see how it feels. .....not.good...

haha

On the poetry front, there's one particular person in the group for my local area who always posts in an amazing and particularly idiosyncratic style.

Here's a favourite that I saved from a few months back. All the formatting is hers as well.

But also the railway line
BELLGROVE
Then to Edinburgh (via carntyne fine)
The sub. Bit to Springburn
Is not needed
A new Edinburgh-springburn route
Done via stepps
I think ?
If I’m wrong sorry
But I see all that area away for a new development
That no one wants
The old buildings need to stay

that one was a failed ilx sock, iirc

H------ E-----, A-----

Cars Keyed
Someone came around the L---- area and keyed all the parked cars including my own.
I don’t know if anyone has seen this activity before or has had it happen on their block/car.
Can anyone recommend a good camera? I need to stall it inside my car so that this doesn’t happen again.

H-- R-----
These things don't happen in Singapore, S. Korea, Japan..with or without surveillance camera. Probably don't happen in China, but they have cameras everywhere. The cause of these things is Western Leftism and rule by Democratic Party.

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70% of the topics she lists I have never seen show up on our nextdoor feed.

the neighborhood fascists have dropped their masks on this thread asking earnestly: Do anyone else agree that it’s time for the National Guard to step in to handle the crime in the city?

I’d rather the military patrol than watch several drug deals every morning and evening (I work 8+hours a day so I’m sure I’m not seeing the others) or have to dodge strung out people as soon as i get home.

I feel very safe in Israel with all of the military carrying assault rifles......much safer than Baltimore!!

I'll say if there's one thing everyone in Little Rock can agree upon, it's that we never want to see the National Guard called out for anything ever again.

musing on the recent closing of a TCBY, nostalgia for when things were good and people valued their slaves

Where we spend our money creates an important dimension of our reality. Think of a dollar as a vote, then think what are you voting for? Unfortunately, our priorities are often in conflict with our beliefs and desires. I think of that every time I order from Amazon, although I don't know where I might find all the little odd things I need, things that were once sold in 5&Dimes, which themselves had displaced smaller shops. In NYC there was an old couple who had a tiny button shop on First Avenue, that was it, just rows of wooden boxes on the walls. Then next door there was Maria and her husband, who could add up long lists of numbers in his head, who sold fruits and vegetables. The NY I grew up in no longer exists. And it is a fiction for younger generations. Maybe they'll see it in old movies if they're willing to watch. In the 80's began the commodification of everything. I've been reading southern history, and from their point of view, the south fought the Civil War to maintain their version of civilized life (I know, I know). over against a soulless money-oriented north. They argued that as slaves were property, they had value, whereas in the north, workers were expendable, easily replaced, and could be worked to death. The north won, and still is winning, as all living things on earth face extinction.

Wow!

Are you up in NY now?

no, this person is just reminiscing about growing up there

I didn't realize there were still so many TCBYs out there!

I was thinking the same

The one in my hometown is still open, but there's only one other in the Baltimore area.

In 1991 TCBY moved into the tallest building in Arkansas, Simmons Tower located in downtown Little Rock, and the building was renamed The TCBY Tower until 2000 when TCBY vacated.

I could've also mentioned it It's the tallest building in Arkansas, but it doesn't always have to be about me.

I don’t think my home town ever had a TCBY ... we did have a Sambo’s

the one for the broader West Philadelphia area is a literal nightmare so much of the time that i stopped really checking it, but have stayed on it because sometimes i need to search to see other denizens' recommendations of where to get shoes resoled, or obscure cleaning supplies, etc..

it's been a minute: what happened to EXCELSIOR and Zing threads? because sometimes:

East Bay Veterinary Clinic Located at 568 Grand Avenue Sold Me Counterfeit Flea Medication And Killed My Dog

― sarahell, Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:14 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is that a song title from the next Mark Kozelek record?

― brain (krakow), Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf that vet clinic has always seemed pretty shady to me

I love the honest-to-God gerrymandering that goes on Next Door:

https://i.imgur.com/zFmAUET.png

Like, what did the guy at 47th and Pike ever do to piss off the Levy Pike mod?

Then there's the fact that while the other neighborhoods take up almost entire zip codes, at least 100 sq blocks, we've got "Levy Pike" about a dozen blocks? And oh, I guess "Francis Street" deserves its own neighborhood watch since, lemme tell you, it's nothing like those other neighborhoods.

And again, those poor homes caught in that Wheeling West Virginia strip between Francis and LP. No, I'm sorry y'all. You should have thought of what you were doing before you bought the house of the guy who used to mow the lawn at 7 a.m. on Sundays.

hahahahahahahahahah

surely my city, with actual city-recognized neighborhood associations with boundaries..
*checks nextdoor*
hmm, well that isn't right

pic.twitter.com/L4sahqRQda

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) September 27, 2019

o_O

Lately mine has become a rotation of:
- Look at how this jerk parked! (photo of car too close to poster's car)
- Look, a homeless person in the subway, what is happening to our neighborhood?!
- I saw a delivery person for ____ littering! They won't have my business anymore!

Here's what I see, over and over again.

every day, fuzzy night vision camera of "man checking car doors last night" with accompanying useless description of "man"

Someone finally got a Facebook group going for our neighborhood (as opposed to Nextdoor) and it's mostly been a force for good, to my surprise.

However, a few months ago on Nextdoor, someone without any video evidence reported a "hispanic family" caught in the act of breaking into their boat. Then they got salty and deleted it after I pointed out that could describe a few hundred people in our neighborhood.

Camille Paglia is on my partner's NextDoor and it's going about as well as you expect.

more details please!

ours are mainly just arguing over who owns which cat

lol.

"If you are in this group and on Mayfield and your dog has been barking non-stop since 9am, PLEASE make it stop. I have a sleeping baby 😩🙄🤦🏼‍♀️."

Camille Paglia is on my partner's NextDoor and it's going about as well as you expect.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ta.

LOL

This is typical...

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/paglia_nextdoor.jpg

a woman reported her black lives matter sign was stolen and that she had put up a new one. she asked if others would like one of her extra signs. cue predictable all lives matter responses.

https://i.imgur.com/7vHinhr.jpg

new board description, amirite

10 year olds... don’t react to small stuff? some wires crossed here

I mean, I watched all 86 seconds of it, but that doesn't mean you have to.

I did and I don't know why

*Man rings doorbell*

*Man waits*

*Man walks away*

*Voice says, "Hello?"*

*Voice says, "Hello?"*

*Voice says, "Hello?"*

Melody: Maybe I misread, but the way he kept looking around behind him looked like he was trying to assess if anyone could see him.

Those teens are out of control . The police need to do something or we need to stay at home until those teen are out of the street . Very danger . I just moved to Baltimore from Florida , and I didn’t expect to see this here . The city is beautiful and people very friendly. I’m in love with the city but getting very scared

very danger
much teens

But I dunno, sometimes they aren't so bad.

https://i.imgur.com/FHeQ4GR.jpg

the comments on a nextdoor post explaining parking and street restrictions over the weekend when “the president” is visiting are something

how about a thread with several pictures trying to figure out what to do about a fence that is too close to the sidewalk. then the fence's owner shows up and says they installed it after researching the code, etc. then the passive-aggressive person who posted it says "i feel scolded!" as if they didn't post it to scold an anonymous person. then the discussion continues for many more comments than the last racism post got.

How close to the sidewalk was the racism post?

https://i.imgur.com/0sxgUHE.jpg

(I've removed the location info)

What happened on January 31st?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2zJ8vaB5jo

I don't know where Mike lives, but

2020 – The United Kingdom's membership of the European Union will cease in accordance with Article 50 after 47 years of being a member state.

That is correct. The UK leaves the EU at 11pm UK time on Friday Jan 31.

lol. anytime there's fireworks, cue the people complaining how rude it is to their pets

Oh fuck yes, get a thundershirt for your furbaby and STFU.

nextdoor!!!
Observed on Bay Place, a shoplifter confronted by a Whole Foods employee, who then smashed his beverage containers upon the sidewalk. I followed him across the street and captured his visage for posterity.

I found an even dumber sort of group: I got invited to a catch-all group for graduates of my high school (which I obviously did not join)

There is a discussion thread where people are debating what year had the largest graduating class. 1976? No, 1980 was surely larger. Some people are sure they know the exact number in their class, and remember their class rank (?!)

I have no idea why anyone would know or care, is where I am at

this is a question that can probably be solved with a 30-second phone call to the school's admin department, and can absolutely never be answered by simply guessing on facebook

great work

I don’t think mundane discussions are about ephemera as much as they’re about people looking for a reason to have mundane discussions

I should start one asking if the school had an official mascot, and if so, when

https://i.imgur.com/oa6APCo.png

In case you were stocking a Shirley temple.

transportation department posted a survey about dockless scooters, pearl clutchers and pedestrian haters have everything to say that's bad about things that move but aren't cars

I think you've got a good point and I hope no one is hurt. The Bible
definitely forbids leaving them in front of people who cannot see and it's
not safe. I just enjoy them People definitely are obligated to leave them
in safe places.

let he who is without car place the scooter in a safe place away from people who cannot see

Genesis 46:29

That joke's a lot funnier if you read the King James version, and not the new wave ones that show up first on Google.

i know who this lady is because she used to go to my gym (and complain about the music) and i always love her nextdoor posts because they are just quintessential old rich white woman

Teens clustering together at Gilman despite social distancing warnings re covid19!
Parents, if you have teenaged children who are doing track runs at Gilman these days, please be sure they do not cluster together. The ones we have seen are running shoulder to shoulder and standing in close together groups. This is not good. Even though they’re young they need to practice social distancing now.

quintessential old rich white woman otm

i need to find the one where she complains about kids leaving school and going to starbucks because "starbucks is not a babysitter," maybe that's a better example

omg this woman has a twin who lives in a neighborhood adjacent to mine (a richer one)

Sorry to put this out there but I contine to see small groups of Piedmont kids walking by the house during day or gathering at night. I'm not sure if parents don't know this or don't care or what but please read the article below (hopefully link worked). Just saw a group of four, maybe 8th grade, girls walking with their arms around each other :-o

oh and the post title was the classically pass-agg

Shelter in Place applies to all of us!

Top Post on Nextdoor! Litter in the Streets

A Bug Between the Sheets!

the woman i posted about above is still going on with her pass-agg posts about social distancing. now has posted anecdotes followed by "I don't understand. I thought this was an upscale, intelligent community!" on at least three different threads. also has canceled her subscription to the local paper because someone got an op-ed published about racism in her neighborhood. i love her.

I love her too!

Redacted NextDoor neighbor, Adams Point

If you're in the 300s on Warwick and are making your own personal soundtrack to an adult film, please remember you're living in close proximity to many other people. It's getting really monotonous & you sound like a crying baby.

tip sambos... the one remaining restaurant in the chain will reopen "under a new, undetermined name"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/us/restaurant-name-trnd/index.html

lol **rip

wow, I didn't know that it was originally named after the owners! My mom worked for a sambos in the 1970s when I was a toddler

Never going to the restaurant started by Irv Dickson and Johnny Hedron either.

Irv Deathson and Johnny Hedrone.

people complaining about fireworks going off everywhere around 1 am. someone suggests it's not a good thing to call the cops about. best response, explaining things you could consider before calling 911:

When I was a kid, people were setting off fireworks on my lawn, it was dry. I thought the lawn would catch on fire and they didn't belong on my family's law. I banged on the window to get them to stop. My hand went through the pane. I severed my thumb and most of my forefinger, had to bring them in a cup to the ER to be reattached. 40 years later, I still don't have feeling in them. I was a professional violinist, too. So, it's important that people use their own judgment.

people are still upset about the potential displacement of Gerald the Rose Garden turkey ...

We ran off an Air BnBer! Never been so proud.

Gerald the Rose Garden turkey is top post two days running

Not a Facebook group, but I recently discovered a website that my county uses to address problems, called See Click Fix. I learned about it when I had to report a lost cat. Mostly it's public complaints about potholes and zoning issues and unkempt yards. But this morning I came across this gem, submitted around 1 a.m.

SomehSome of the hd channels of Verizon FiOS like fox news, fox business, OAN news have a lot of noise and intermittent sound while the CNN, and CNBC, have perfect HD video and sound. I called Verizon several times to no avail. Also I pay extra for a Greek news channel at 1789 which is completely on the blink for the past 3 months. Since the problem is on only a few HD channels like 616, 617, 618, 603, 611, and a few others, the problem is not in my coaxial cables which have been checked, but in the Verizon hub that generates and transmits the HD signal. This is going on for 3 months now and I am at a loss what to do since Verizon has been unresponsive. Can you please help?

https://i.imgur.com/8BshCxZ.jpg

I don't watch a lot of TV, especially not news, but I have FiOS and this problem is definitely not limited to Fox and OAN.

It is neighborhood group-related because you follow reports from your neighborhood.

i left my neighborhood Facebook related group because its members started getting hysterical about people leaving the house. like, "no one should leave the house ever if they can help it exercise and mental health and pets don't matter," while simultaneously deleting posts about the need for humans to spend time out-of-doors and admins arguing vociferously with anyone who raised concerns about such an outlook... it ended for me when i was called a "spoiled bitch" and "comrade" in the same post by someone whom *i know* when i gently suggested that people not use bellicose metaphors to speak about illness.

10% of my nextdoor is that--people panicking about the number of people outside, the other half is white women going PLEASE STOP THE FIREWORKS MY DOG HAS PTSD

yes, apparently there is only 10% plus one half

I know some military vets with heavy PTSD and this time of year is just awful for them, and I feel for pets, too. I also hate holidays, and find fireworks jarring.

That said, they are a concession to public joy that I don't argue about, particularly online, because it's like telling people the truth about cats.

I have to say I don’t really understand the reflexive defense of the asshole overgrown children setting off fireworks when people are trying to sleep except as some third-order anti-police shit, which, I guess, but also the fireworks are annoying