Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

Apparently the "scam" is that they mime to a recording but pretend they are playing. So a busker minus I guess, but not much different than 80% of the people asking for money on the subway because their mom needs surgery or they just need to get home to NJ or whatever.

there was a guy who used to do p much the same thing in my work subway stop, although it was really fucking obvious and just kind of sad. The Violin Scammer strikes again.

oh hey I guess it's a thing

https://www.reddit.com/r/Busking/comments/m0qpv0/strange_new_busking_trend_with_fake_musicians/

he takes things into his own hands!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcriklU3FQ

Not a neighborhood group, but I took on a moderator's role with the small-town FB group where I live a few months ago. It's something else...Can't talk about it, though; they're very Fight Club about telling tales out of school.

xpost unless these folks are in a saturated busking area and stealing money from other buskers, which in these cases they usually are most def not, seems weird to spend a lot of time on the internet complaining about it

yeah so I also just learned that this is apparently some kind of burgeoning national trend? Is there like a violin-syncing ring out there, like was rumored to be the case with the "deaf" guys who handed out the cards? Or is this just an IRL viral way of making money? It's mildly scummy but relatively harmless. Several people in the thread suggested calling the police, don't think it breaks any laws.

yeah call the violin police

It's terrible. How am I supposed to explain to my kids that that abysmal pantomime is not what real bowing technique looks like?

as a childhood violin player from like grades 4 - 12, violin scamming is cool and funny

if it looks really dramatic (see movie: The Red Violin) tip extra

Mh you must have been a suzuki child

Yes and no? We had no suzuki schools at all, but books 1-3 or so were basically the handbook for teaching kids strings. We didn’t do the “method,” though

amazing books for the fundamentals, but once you got into private lessons there were a couple drill/arpeggio books that were fire and would let you roast competition due to those being basics of high level playing

I honestly thought OP was someone trying to describe a "violent scammer".

I stand corrected.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bc/af/94/bcaf941afda1d82c2aee164f2d5acd55.jpg

I see the PA buskers in grocery store parking lots all the time, never occurred to me it might be fake.

someone needs to stand up for authenticity in violin playing.

if not you, then who?

https://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com/thumb/worlds-tiniest-violin_400x333.jpg

Lol

There has been a huge kerfuffle in my little town recently about marijuana dispensaries. Specifically, while one is not actually opening here, and I doubt one will, our board of trustees did not pass legislation they could have passed that would have allowed them to "opt out" of allowing them until some later date. And they didn't do that. Which I 100% guarantee reflects the views of the large majority of this liberal, pot-friendly town. But a bunch of people are upset about not getting their way and blocking dispensaries, so someone ran a challenger campaign against the incumbent trustees, who tbh seem like legit good people and public servants, like most small town govt people tend to be IME. They ran this really cranky, ridiculous campaign about "lack of transparency" which is complete bullshit, and about how we should have had a referendum (we legally couldn't).

Anyway one challenger dropped out and the other one lost, but one of the incumbent winners got... 420 votes.

It's been awhile, I give 'em that much.

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

ask Sherwin Williams?

The journalist recently killed in Ukraine is a local guy.

So there are pretty meaningful articles and testimonies about his character, but also people posting things like WAS HE A TEACHER AT CENTRAL HIGH BETWEEN 2009-12? MY DAUGHTER HAD A TEACHER NAMED MR. RAUNUEUD. WAS THAT HIM WHO GOT SHOT?

It, I dunno, kinda breaks the mood a bit.

He’s also the cousin of a friend who heartbreakingly posted about initially wanting to become a documentarian and his much older cousin giving him loads of time and advice. RIP Cousin Brent.

I'm used to seeing the FB tributes where everyone's saying "So sad," and "It's terrible," while there's some clueless Joe interrupting the thread occasionally with WHAT HAPPENED? and WOULD SOMEONE DM ME AND TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED?

Just not used to seeing the same treatment given to an internationally recognized figure such as B.R.

armed robbery
racism
missing old person suffering from dementia
legal help
urgent request for financial support
robbery
assault
assault with a deadly weapon
tragic report of dead bird

newcomer asking about what if we were to ask the county to install public water instead of well
what do you think should go in the old k-mart building?
package delivered to wrong address
bike left at the playground
loose dog
can we have chickens?
just tried the new mexican restaurant up the street. wetback burrito was delicious. they're actually owned by mexicans so you can say it!
pile of 4xl shirts. barely worn. $250 obo.

Ha! Mine is literally just:

Parking
Dog shit
Covid
Anyone seen my parcel?
Group of kids on bikes
Contact for plumber/electrician/decorator
Repeat and nauseam

https://ibb.co/Qkgy1VK

https://i.ibb.co/m0jfMKc/2-C6-FA48-D-F849-4-AEB-BE39-099288-CABF75.jpg

Holding myself back from responding, but shit like this pisses me off so much. "Hey, wondering if anyone would work for free at my kid's birthday!" Like, would you ask someone to bake you a free cake? Would you ask someone to come decorate your house for the party for free?

Really no point in responding bc no one is ever going to take her up on that - "Yeah sure, I'll show up at some random kid's bday to 'take candid photos'" And honestly, anyone would would say yes to that is not someone I'd want around my kids.

Like, would you ask someone to bake you a free cake? Would you ask someone to come decorate your house for the party for free?

Judging by some of the shit that gets posted over at r/choosingbeggars, there 100% are people out there who would ask for that for free as well. "I know lots of other parents who I can recommend you to if you do a good job!"

But lol yes, I would be deeply concerned about who would take up that offer.

To be fair, they're not saying it's a kid's party in the initial request.

Someone has posted a picture of a cloud they saw yesterday and is implying it looks like the Queen 'flying high to meet her Prince'.

sorry, 'join her Prince'. They've already met.

It does look a bit like the Queen flying like Superman actually. Every time I take another look I find it funnier

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Imagine if the Queen looked a bit like one of the seven dwarves, and was also a cloud. It's kind of uncanny actually.

I've just seen another Queen cloud via Twitter but it's shit compared to our one

Astonishing moment a cloud resembling Queen Elizabeth floats over English town just hours after she died https://t.co/LLtvpYSKRb

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) September 9, 2022

lol, please share yours, kinder.

Let me try it

https://i.imgur.com/fbwwtrV.jpeg

looooool

Hahahaha an amazing leap

Zooming across the sky

so does everyone turn into a cloud when they die? is every cloud a dead person? or only famous people? how famous do you have to be to be a cloud?

I caught a photo of this one shortly after Bush Sr died

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/images-41__700.jpg

Not Facebook, but our neighborhood email group might as well be Nextdoor for how obnoxious it is. A couple nights ago someone let off what were very obviously fireworks in the alley, complete with sizzling, crackling and whistling sounds, but we are now on day two of absolutely rabid, frothing at the mouth arguing about whether or not they were gunshots and how violent our area is.

Im having the best day on my neighborhood facebook group because I dared to say dogs are allowed to bark.

I CANT ENJOY MY GARDEN Because my neighbors two doors down have a doG!!!!!!!!!!!!!