Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

"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

http://i.imgur.com/jBDgDw7.jpg

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:

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21688327_10212093318300929_7600482255185268400_o.jpg?oh=88b3c1f07f7f0a30c0523d560e676c1c&oe=5A5E30A5

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."