Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

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.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-09%20at%2010.33.40%20AM_zpscyzqmygl.png

whoops

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-09%20at%2010.33.40%20AM_zpsotw1vmoq.png

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.