Drama in the local Facebook group.

[TheClaifeCrier]

A hairdresser opened up a salon in our village and spammed posted frequently in the village Facebook page about it.

The one and only Admin got annoyed and requested she stop. She kicked off, others joined the fray, pointing out that her posts were better than the ones about dog poo.

The admin archived the group in retaliation. He's just opened it up and announced he's quitting as admin.

So that's our scandal. Any going on in yours? It's better than Coronation Street.

@Bartlebysleftshoe & @lololove You aren't in a spa town starting with H are you by any chance?!

@GummyGoddess
Is that a town near Gatwick by any chance? I'm not there but saw the police asking for someone to come and claim their plants

The biggest recent/current drama seems to be about secondary school placements. The town used to have two secondary schools. One was moved to the next small town. The Catholic one remains. There aren't enough places and kids are being placed into schools far away. Lots of angry posts about the situation, usually coupled with anger over new houses being built in town, too. (Where are all the new kids going to go when there's no school for the existing ones?)

Some drama over frequent political posts, which are in theory banned, I guess. And political comments on non-political posts.

Mostly it's just people asking for recommendations for various trades, or where to eat, or whatever. Lots of complaints about the traffic. Online rubbernecking whenever an emergency vehicle or helicopter's been about.

I think our small town has about five FB groups, though, and I'm only in one of them. Maybe there's more drama elsewhere.

@fauxhumane Perhaps

Not a town with the best reputation, been here for 11 years and it's really grown on me.

@worried2019 No, but good to know it's not just our little town

It has its own off shoot cat, dogs & even poached egg groups.

Hang on, what? I get the dog and cat local groups, but poached eggs?!

Hang on, what? I get the dog and cat local groups, but poached eggs?!

New I'm not in that group, but keep getting it pop up as a group I might like. I don't quite know how the hell you fill a group with that, but apparently they do. It started after several very busy poached egg posts on the main group & others getting peed off about too many how to make the perfect poached egg posts

It all sounds very entertaining I've just joined mine 😁

@worried2019 nope it's a small town (that basically is a larger town joined with the seaside town next to us added on because it's so close and lots live in one and work in the other) on the east coast.

Sad how its repeated country over 😔

I am no longer on FB but these are making me laugh so much. Especially

I'm going here in a van to pick up x at Ys request please don't call the police 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I will have to just live vicariously through this thread

Ours is usually made up of:

• Recommend me a builder/plumber/tattooist/eyebrow microblader/Russian lash person/indian takeaway

• Youths causing havoc in KFC and Asda
• Shop burglaries
• What's going on there are police/helicopters/fire brigade/ambulance outside?
• Lost/dead cats

The big one today though is someone ranting about people sitting in cars on their phones with the engines idling. Arguments between those saying do they not care about the environment/kids breathing in fumes and those saying "I pay my car tax and MOT etc so you can all fuck off"

Lovely

We have a highly entertaining page about making sure we keep our town weird. Lots of pictures of weird things seen in the town

For example:
-pictures of people having sex on the beach

• Various people dressed up in strange clothes
• humorous graffiti
• Jesus in a flower pot

Etc

Faux
I suspect we might be neighbours, we have that group here too "keep xxx weird" it's great 😂

Loose sheep
Lost dogs
Dogs spotted that are presumed to be lost
Well fed cats that are claiming to be homeless
Thin / injured cats
Posts from a wildlife charity asking if anyone can collect X animal from Y place and bring to them
Someone pleased that new local policeman was seen out walking up a road
Oil / fuel spills making roads slippy
Car accidents
Recommendations wanted for dog walkers / plumbers etc
Lost phones / purses / jewellery

Someone has found a ferret and wants to know who it belongs to. Makes a change from all the moaning.

With a name like @Rockinhippy I feel quite sure we are

With a name like @Rockinhippy* I feel quite sure we are 

Fair point 😂😂😂

@ItsAFuckingPotato I think I'm on the same page. The same one that had a lady asking what the council could do to stop the dear in her garden eating her tulips? 😂

My old town one had a post about a guy on a motorbike having a wank outside asda.

Well today we have 1 lost dog thats been handed into police station and someone moaning about the "youfs" littering with their empty mcdonalds wrappings.

Normally its about buses being late/cancelled or about how we need a train station back again

The village shop closure and associated fraud by the owners (now has its own spin-off group), lost cats, lost ferrets, ferrets spotted running down the road, what are all the sirens, same woman repeatedly spamming the page to fundraise for the marathon, business owners spamming, plus the usual scam and weather warnings. It’s comedy gold.

The same one that had a lady asking what the council could do to stop the dear in her garden eating her tulips?

Well, if you've got an elderly woman in your garden eating tulips, you might rightly be concerned, and would hopefully think to offer her a snack or something.

Either I'm in the same group as some PPs or every community Facebook group ever (except the rural ones) is the same. Today's fare in my local one appears to be:

• arguing about the article 50 petition, whether it's full of forrin votes, and just because this is London we're not all Remoaners you know!
• visitor parking permit bewilderment
• litter picking in the park and what a bunch of slobs everyone is
• travellers... again
• local film crew sightings

Bit of a dull day actually... not nearly as much quality bonkersness as elsewhere.

Ours is the usual stuff about parking on pavements and dog poo. Although there's a lot of dodgy blokes driving around steal scrap metal from peoples gardens.

If there's a fire, accident or helicopter flying low you can guarantee that someone on the local group will know what's going within seconds!

Coincidentally I was added to our local group last night (after waiting 3 months!!) I frantically signed in hoping to discover some excitement to share with you all.

But no. Mine is same as all the others. Lost cats. Found cats. Helicopter. Dog shit. The most exciting part was a suitcase found in the playing field and a pair of spectacles found.

We Brits are nothing if not predictable