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Notworthy · Mar 24, 2021

To the Person who..... is my biggest bugbear. And the posts that are solely there to get praise. Our community Facebook page is just an endless cycle of complaints about Parking, Fireworks, dogshit, bins There have been some gems that have kept me entertained.

DuckDuck · Mar 24, 2021

My one today had a van parked outside their house for 5 hours ! No one sits in van for 5 hours, she then confronted him as to what he was doing then he drove off ? It none of her bloody business why he was sat in his van for 5 hours, and the bloke looked dodgy , what does that even

Oh and sometimes they look eastern European. do you know how many countries are in eastern Europe, a fuck ton that's how many and how does one look eastern European unless they're dressed as Romanian travellers I would literally have no clue where Anyone was from

Kikini Bamalam · Mar 25, 2021

DuckDuck said:
My one today had a van parked outside their house for 5 hours ! No one sits in van for 5 hours, she then confronted him as to what he was doing then he drove off ? It none of her bloody business why he was sat in his van for 5 hours, and the bloke looked dodgy , what does that even

Oh and sometimes they look eastern European. do you know how many countries are in eastern Europe, a fuck ton that's how many and how does one look eastern European unless they're dressed as Romanian travellers I would literally have no clue where Anyone was from

I often think it would be easier for these people to whinge about "others" if there was an international law that stated that you were only allowed to wear the national costume for their country of birth I must admit though it did throw me down a rabbit hole of wondering what the English national costume would be, all I could come up with was a tracksuit or leggings and a hoodie (maybe that's just me though)

On my Next door it's all really dull. Just people asking for recommendations for tradespeople or moaning about the Thames levels when we have rain

TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo · Apr 3, 2021

Ahh God it's grim isn't it. So much complaining! I was coming to the end of my tether with it but conveniently the app seems to have logged me out which has solved the problem.

One that amused me was a post of a photograph of someone's car, complete with visible reg plate, asking if anyone knew why he parked there and sat in his car all day and had been doing so for the best part of a year.

The answers ranged from a sympathetic "perhaps he's lost his job and can't face telling people" to him "definitely" being a drug dealer. I think the best response was someone who said "Are you telling us you've been watching him for a year and you've never thought to go and ask him if he's ok"? Just brilliant.

I'm not sorry to have got rid of it though, I can't deal with the constant negativity.

Gem2212 · Apr 3, 2021

Not on next door but my estate Facebook has a new thing where people offer to swap their random shit found when having a clear out for wine/beer. I cringe so much when I see “will swap for wine”. I can’t be the only one though someone posted an actual bag of rubbish last night asking if anyone wanted to swap for a bottle of wine

Shesaidwhat? · Apr 3, 2021

I’m not on Nextdoor but at the beginning of the first lockdown the ~~busybody~~ woman at the end of the road took it upon herself to create a Facebook group for the residents of our road (we’re not a private road or anything just a standard road).

My husband finds it hilarious that every delivery van on the road seems to cause mass panic that some randomer is looking in people’s houses and instead of going out and asking said stranger if they need any assistance they’ll put it in the group an hour later with “did anyone happen to see that man looking in number 42s garden?”.

Bin/recycling day is another drama filled passive aggressive status day because someone has found a random crisp packet or coke can in their bin that isn’t theirs .

Artax79 · Apr 3, 2021

My Nextdoor is full of people asking for recommendations for a ‘local’ plumber, builder, scrapman or gardener. Emphasis on the word local

My area FB page is PURE COMEDY GOLD!
It’s called “[my area name] Past & Present” which initially was to share memories from the past etc.
Then some people got the hump because people were using it as a sort of neighbourhood watch type of group.
It was decided it would be both

Randomly a couple of weeks ago a neighbouring town’s name popped up in the title of the group. This caused absolute uproar!
So everyone from my town is reporting all the ‘past’ memories posts from the neighbouring town and vice versa

Then our neighbouring council have decided that residents of our council are no longer allowed to use the tip. This has caused more uproar than the neighbouring town joining us on the group. Quite rightly.
But none of them have actually read the councils website and people in the North of our borough can still use it (it’s less than ten minutes from us - the alternative is 40 minutes away)

It’s actually quite entertaining on our groups sometimes

Vloggerfam · Apr 3, 2021

Wait until someone decides their post is ‘urgent’ and it sends everyone on the app a text message no matter what time of day only to find out it’s not urgent at all.

the urgent thing is meant to literally be if the street is on fire or something

Holidaybobs · Apr 3, 2021

Where I live now doesn’t have a group on Facebook but, I’m still a member of my old area and honestly it makes my night sometimes.

There are so many arguments, the last one was someone posted a cctv image of a woman apparently not picking up her dog shit. People in her favour started stating it was physically impossible for the dog to have a shit within that timeframe. The woman in question eventually came onto the debate to defend herself.

Arguments over the best local takeaway.

The classic, ‘foreign looking man seen in an old white van, be careful out there guys’. I mean, seriously?

Recently, someone set up a WhatsApp detailing any suspicious activity. Someone mentioned said WhatsApp group on the FB group and an almighty row occurred with people asking if they weren’t special enough to be in the group. And was it because they didn’t live on the right street!

Also, another personal favourite - kids not from the local area are congregating at the shops. Someone asked how can you possibly know they aren’t local and the poster replied, saying they know every child in the area

Honestlyk8 · Apr 3, 2021

Mine is people complaining about homeless people while also petitioning to stop flats and housing estates being built!

Oh and one wanted everyone to fight against the proposal for a new chicken shop because ‘chicken shops lead to stabbings’

Rocknrolla · Apr 3, 2021

Deleted this app swiftly not long after I’d installed it, dog shit date was far too intense.

Shesaidwhat? · Apr 3, 2021

I can’t work out if every neighbour is the same or we all live in the same place.

Bitofthebubbly · Apr 4, 2021

Facebook is where the drama is in my area. Parking comes up frequently! I rarely get involved now but I once got into it with someone over a picture someone else had taken and uploaded of a car parked across the path, leaving very little room for anyone to walk past without having to go into the road.

As usual there’s some back and forth in the comments. I pointed out how this was a danger, particularly for people in wheelchairs and this guy replied saying there are no disabled people in the area and he knew this because “he hadn’t seen them”. I mean that is besides the point but righto mate..

Magwitch · Apr 10, 2021

There was a great one on my local Facebook page the other day. Someone posted a photo of a large pile of white powder at a local area that has lots of walking and cycling tracks, cue lots of hysterical posts along the lines of 'It's KIDS doing DRUGS' and 'It's POISON put down for DOGS'. Until someone pointed out that it was more likely to be piles of chalk being put down to later mark out running and cycling tracks. But, no, he got shouted down, poor sod, with all the DRUGS and POISON.

Then an older lady called Barbara (who very rapidly became my favourite local Facebooker) came on to tell everyone to pull themselves together and that she had smelled and tasted the white powder and it was, indeed, chalk.

I'm not dumb enough to think that the local kids would be leaving thousands of pounds worth of cocaine just lying around a local beauty spot, but I'm not sure I would have the guts to actually taste the stuff. Good on you, Barbara!

Notworthy · Apr 10, 2021

Magwitch said:
There was a great one on my local Facebook page the other day. Someone posted a photo of a large pile of white powder at a local area that has lots of walking and cycling tracks, cue lots of hysterical posts along the lines of 'It's KIDS doing DRUGS' and 'It's POISON put down for DOGS'. Until someone pointed out that it was more likely to be piles of chalk being put down to later mark out running and cycling tracks. But, no, he got shouted down, poor sod, with all the DRUGS and POISON.

Then an older lady called Barbara (who very rapidly became my favourite local Facebooker) came on to tell everyone to pull themselves together and that she had smelled and tasted the white powder and it was, indeed, chalk.

I'm not dumb enough to think that the local kids would be leaving thousands of pounds worth of cocaine just lying around a local beauty spot, but I'm not sure I would have the guts to actually taste the stuff. Good on you, Barbara!

I bet Barbara was a little disappointed I know I would be

I forgot about Bonfires, its coming up Bonfire season so I'm expecting pages full of moaning. I actually live near a village that has a code and Bonfires, noisy garden work etc are all banned on the weekend so it's always entertaining on the 1st hot weekend day when every normal person rushes out and fires up the petrol lawnmower or the strimmer.

Vloggerfam · Apr 10, 2021

Oh I forgot we always have people moaning about fireworks. On bonfire night, like it’s cropped up unexpected

Sazbee · Apr 10, 2021

There's a disused pub in my village which was also a motel so there are chalets at the back which have been taken over by the local junkies, covered in graffti and now the car park is full of abandoned cars with parts missing. Houses have been proposed to be built there and the UPROAR it has caused!! Most of the residents don't want houses to be built because they don't want to look at them and various other reasons. I don't understand how you would prefer to look at a squat/drug den but ok.

ClockworkDolly · Apr 10, 2021

Shesaidwhat? said:
I can’t work out if every neighbour is the same or we all live in the same place.

Most places in Britain seem to have the same disputes - bins, parked cars, suspicious vans, dodgy people hovering around - the list is endless, but very entertaining nonetheless.

Mrs Pomadour · Apr 10, 2021

ClockworkDolly said:
Most places in Britain seem to have the same disputes - bins, parked cars, suspicious vans, dodgy people hovering around - the list is endless, but very entertaining nonetheless.

Our community Facebook page is the same, everyday someone has a missing cat followed by the dog shit post and if the said dog owner, doesnt come and pick it up they will hunt them down, or release video footage they have, I wait in anticipation for that day it never comes followed by has my parcel been delivered to someone else by mistake, followed by picture evidence of where it’s been delivered to, there has been COVID advice by non experts followers by advice from an actual doctor who been shot down in flames I could go on but I won’t, it is definitely a source of amusement x

Vloggerfam · Apr 10, 2021

Mrs Pomadour said:
Our community Facebook page is the same, everyday someone has a missing cat followed by the dog shit post and if the said dog owner, doesnt come and pick it up they will hunt them down, or release video footage they have, I wait in anticipation for that day it never comes followed by has my parcel been delivered to someone else by mistake, followed by picture evidence of where it’s been delivered to, there has been COVID advice by non experts followers by advice from an actual doctor who been shot down in flames I could go on but I won’t, it is definitely a source of amusement x

Oh we get the video footage. And then the argument about whether it’s legal or not to post videos of people without their consent

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