Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_post_office_murals

there are some lovely post offices. the one in woodhaven queens is amazing

someone has taken the time to write a post complaining about the removal of invasive tree species from a park, comparing it to eugenics and genocide during WWII

some people will really project their childhood slights onto almost anything

I joined a Facebook group for my adopted hometown of St. Marys. 5,800 members; the population here is 6,000, so...well, there are probably a lot of former residents who are in there too. I have to censor myself on Facebook all the time as is (not for profanity or wacko opinions, just for gentle kidding around that doesn't always go over well on Facebook), and I'll have to work doubly hard with this group. A lot of senior citizens here. There was a post earlier today asking "Where is the closest place to St. Marys to get a covert test?" I did not reply "Probably CIA headquarters."

The gypsies are at it again, offering to repave people's driveways with leftover asphalt.

I'd try to correct the slur, but calling them "Arkansas Travelers" probably isn't going to take me far.

https://i.ibb.co/pKpqtc4/szoter-annotated-image.jpg

Love it when folks from "Golf Course East" slag White Hall though.

do they live on a golf course? wouldn't then the driveways be all grass and not require paving?

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

I have a theory that if a "What's the best ___ food in the area?" thread is left up long enough, every single place in the area that serves ___ food will eventually be named by at least one person, no matter how awful.

lol yes

Tutor. Looking for help with my iPad-I need to change my AOL password so I can get my AOL emails! #Askyourneighbors

My neighborhood has its issues, but I appreciate that a regular feature of our FB group is warnings that the damn maskless Baptists from a local church are door-to-door knockin' again.

Our neighborhood group is mostly about fireworks, helicopters, dogs off leash and (sometimes) coyotes.

https://i.imgur.com/9re5BM8.png

😬

oh like kum is so much better

It's a dumb name for a national chain!

Young dum and full of kum

It's a dumb name for a national chain!

― pplains, Sunday, September 26, 2021 3:06 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

counterpoint: we have never needed a national chain with this name more than now

Kame and Went

https://i.imgur.com/KTak3co.jpg

same energy

cant wait til 2061 for the 69th annual capital jizz fest assuming the LIEBERALS wont have outlawed it by then

went to kum & go yesterday after being inspired by this thread

how’d it go?

I arrived and then I left with an iced tea

please tell me you didn't ...

what do you have against iced tea

on nextdoor, a guy around the corner from me, who is a fireman, posted yesterday that his "baby boy" (an adorable 10-month-old kitten with a blue collar) is missing, asking people to please grab his "lil man" if they see him. someone posted a screenshot from facebook that a woman in the building found him. come to find out the fireman's WIFE put the cat out, then LIED TO THE WOMAN WHO FOUND THE LIL MAN, and has now posted in her defense "i asked you repeatedly if we could get rid of the cat" AS;FDLKJSDF;LSGKJGJJGJDFGLKJJJJJJ

dear god

i don't know how I got subscribed to NextDoor but it's a veritable serial journal of unfounded paranoia.

"strange guy walking near my apartment" is like every other message and I'm sure the guy's crime was wearing a torn AC/DC shirt and not having brushed his hair yet.

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/p526x296/258185785_10165758947265304_1890718456438237600_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=1uErKBH9hpQAX8gXBf4&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=3ad6023ca20c4eb8eb5bee3945c9a062&oe=61A4B2DE

…a busker?

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