Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

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

Reports of fireworks at all hours of the night (from friends) are making me glad I moved out of the city. At some point I just don’t care what they’re about. I like to sleep and for my family to be able to sleep.

they are very annoying, the commenting on nextdoor has now become Q-anon level though. people are now saying they are psyops, posting screenshots from craiglists of fake fireworks ads for "pro-BLM," and sarcastically suggesting we should give the firework setters "EBT cards."

also "they are using fireworks to cover up the gunshots," and a guy posting a daily mail article about fireworks that does not mention gangs and saying "gangs are shooting fireworks at each other"

yeah, fuck that bullshit— it's stuff like that which makes me keep my mouth shut and let the young folks have some fun til 11pm most nights in June into July.

my main question is where is all the money for the fireworks coming from, because so many people are laid off, and some displays near me would run in the tens of thousands dollar amount many nights.

I enjoyed watching my mostly white liberal neighborhood group tie itself up in knots over Junteenth celebration fireworks this weekend. We support the spirit of those who would light the fuse in celebration if that is their intent, but we heartily condemn the sound of the resulting explosion in the sky. And while our instinct in these matters is to call the cops to have it stopped, we are concerned that if the fuses are indeed being lit by African Americans out of celebration of their freedom, the police might show up and shoot at them to stop it and we can't have that on our conscience, but many of our dogs don't understand that context and are quite upset about the noise.

they are very annoying, the commenting on nextdoor has now become Q-anon level though. people are now saying they are psyops

omg yes!!! except here people are suggesting that the fireworks are being set off by the cops to traumatize POC, or a variant, a plot to set Latino ppl against Black ppl ... and, on the on the other side, I think Gerald the Rose Garden turkey is being re-homed

though apparently Gerald's life is still at risk --

https://www.change.org/p/urgent-protect-the-life-of-gerald-the-rose-garden-turkey

They should erect a statue of that damn bird. I've become very attached to him through your updates of the past week.

I enjoyed watching my mostly white liberal neighborhood group tie itself up in knots over Junteenth celebration fireworks this weekend. We support the spirit of those who would light the fuse in celebration if that is their intent, but we heartily condemn the sound of the resulting explosion in the sky. And while our instinct in these matters is to call the cops to have it stopped, we are concerned that if the fuses are indeed being lit by African Americans out of celebration of their freedom, the police might show up and shoot at them to stop it and we can't have that on our conscience, but many of our dogs don't understand that context and are quite upset about the noise.

― BrianB, Monday, June 22, 2020 11:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the AI is getting crazy good

xp - considering there are a lot of statues that have been removed recently, there are plenty of available sites for a Gerald the Rose Garden Turkey statue.

anyway I don’t want anything to “be done about it” I just reserve the right to call these people selfish immature assholes

There's some guy in our neighborhood that has been lighting off really, really loud firecrackers every day for the past week or so, from about 6:00 until well after midnight. I'm fairly certain it's the same guy who always does it, but this year he's really ramped up his frequency and extended the hours. It's utterly obnoxious.

Look, I get the primal appeal of watching colorful fireworks shoot into the sky, but I don't get the "dur dur me like things go BOOM" idiots that spend, quite literally, hours each and every night making loud bangs.

I mean, I'm not going to call the cops or do anything about it beyond bitch about it here, but I don't enjoy watching our cat sprint to hide and cower under a couch every 20 minutes or so. Best I can hope for is the idiot blasting off a digit or something.

These days, every time a firework goes off late at night I have to check Twitter to make sure the cops aren't down the street bombing people again.