Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

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

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.