do they live on a golf course? wouldn't then the driveways be all grass and not require paving?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PSppJNl.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
lol yes
― kinder, Thursday, 7 January 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
Tutor. Looking for help with my iPad-I need to change my AOL password so I can get my AOL emails! #Askyourneighbors
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 September 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
Our neighborhood group is mostly about fireworks, helicopters, dogs off leash and (sometimes) coyotes.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 September 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9re5BM8.png
― pplains, Sunday, 26 September 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
😬
― mh, Sunday, 26 September 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
oh like kum is so much better
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Sunday, 26 September 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
It's a dumb name for a national chain!
― pplains, Sunday, 26 September 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Young dum and full of kum
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 27 September 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
― 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
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 27 September 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
Kame and Went
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 27 September 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KTak3co.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 27 September 2021 02:55 (two years ago) link
same energy
cant wait til 2061 for the 69th annual capital jizz fest assuming the LIEBERALS wont have outlawed it by then
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 27 September 2021 02:59 (two years ago) link
went to kum & go yesterday after being inspired by this thread
― mh, Monday, 27 September 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
how’d it go?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 27 September 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
I arrived and then I left with an iced tea
― mh, Monday, 27 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
please tell me you didn't ...
― sarahell, Monday, 27 September 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
what do you have against iced tea
― mh, Monday, 27 September 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
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
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
dear god
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
…a busker?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 25 November 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 03:34 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
oh hey I guess it's a thing
https://www.reddit.com/r/Busking/comments/m0qpv0/strange_new_busking_trend_with_fake_musicians/
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
he takes things into his own hands!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcriklU3FQ
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
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
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:09 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:26 (two years ago) link
yeah call the violin police
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:26 (two years ago) link
It's terrible. How am I supposed to explain to my kids that that abysmal pantomime is not what real bowing technique looks like?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:34 (two years ago) link
as a childhood violin player from like grades 4 - 12, violin scamming is cool and funny
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:40 (two years ago) link
if it looks really dramatic (see movie: The Red Violin) tip extra
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
Mh you must have been a suzuki child
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
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,” thoughamazing 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
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:45 (two years ago) link
I honestly thought OP was someone trying to describe a "violent scammer".
I stand corrected.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bc/af/94/bcaf941afda1d82c2aee164f2d5acd55.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
I see the PA buskers in grocery store parking lots all the time, never occurred to me it might be fake.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:25 (two years ago) link
someone needs to stand up for authenticity in violin playing.
if not you, then who?
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com/thumb/worlds-tiniest-violin_400x333.jpg
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Raw Like Siouxsie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 24 January 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
It's been awhile, I give 'em that much.
https://i.imgur.com/QlFnkGR.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
ask Sherwin Williams?
― sarahell, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link