What’s Happening on Your Local FB Site?

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Some bits of humour on our local
Site. Last night some one posted that they had rescued a hamster or gerbil and asked if anyone was missing it. Turned out to be a baby rat, after she showed a picture.

Nothing - ours is very tame (squirrels in the recycling bins again).

When I first went looking for one I found a one in the US with the same name and it was very exciting - loads of crime and aggrieved neighbours having fights.

I live right in the city centre and Fakepawsville is what looks like a sleepy little village in the back of beyond, USA!

@Sparklingbrook Don’t think you’re in the same area I’m thinking of now actually! Must be more than one place doing the rocks.

@NoAdventure Ditto - think we live in the same town!

Must be more than one place doing the rocks

We also have lots of families doing rocks. And treasure hunts. And teddy trails. And activity jumping things on the pavements outside their houses where little kids cry if you don't do hopscotch while walking home with your shopping. And boxes of old books and dvds on garden walls.

The length of queue for the chemist.

The number of cars at a local green space and how dare they be there. At the same time arguing that it is perfectly acceptable that the main parks are still closed. They should just walk around the streets, but then posts that that part of town is really busy.

CCTV images of 'dodgy looking' people.

Someone has decided that another person has stolen their missing cat.

Oh and the rage at the dumped garden waste.

Oh no @EyeShipMiceElf. There must be a lot of rocks about.

@toomuchlikemyusername, I haven't looked on today's yet. I have been out briefly this morning but nothing to complain about.

Someone complaining that the rock they left hasn't been picked up or moved or photographed by anyone, and the picture on it is all smudged now that it's rained.

Photos of teddy bears cable-tied to lamp posts. (me neither)

People asking why teddy bears are appearing all round the town.

Apparently Tesco has delivery slots NOW!!!

Reminder that the person coughing in the shop MAY HAVE ASTHMA, OK?

Best of all today: 'There's only 34 more claps before Christmas

Best of all today: 'There's only 34 more claps before Christmas

Shoot me now

It's all the bloody painted stones here. Photos of kids picking them up and cuddling them and presumably moving them somewhere else. Someone dared to say that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to touch them and was torn strips off! Surely it's not just me who thinks it's a crazy idea to touch things loads of other people have mauled?

unbridled excitement about the new milk machine finally being available

@TreacherousPissFlap tell us more about the milk machine, that does sound exciting.

My FB local is 99% cat photos and people being lovely and offering help and free food.

We’ve had one kerfuffle when someone complained the food at the local independent posh restaurant was a bit salty and it turned into a whole ding dong.

there is one man who posts every day, in a humerous fashion, his dog walk and then his visit to the supermarket and all the odd people in town, i so want to berate him for these daily shopping expeditions, but I darent.

We have a milk machine at the farm shop and it is exciting! Pay £2.50 for a reusable 1litre glass bottle and fill with milk from the churny cooling machine thing in the shop for £1.50 (I think). Not the cheapest way of buying milk but there’s no plastic plus the milk is from the local happy cows farm. Win/win.

I am in Ireland
My home town is full of
Dog poo
Why is the ice cream shop open as it is not essential. Then the but the coffee shop is open ..
The bins are overflowing, bring your rubbish home
People posting the bags of rubbish they have collected on their walks
Sunrise photos
Support local restaurants
Post office queues
Lost keys, cats, dogs, glasses, marbles

Where I love
why is the Helicopter out
How long is the queue for Tesco
Bring your rubbish bush home
Where to get things printed - loads of requests for this
Lost and found dogs. - no one seems to care about cats around here

@Sparklingbrook
Oh come on now. Was the rain not too wet? Did you not notice any helicopters or police cars and need to ask what they were doing?
And it's very remiss of you to have not found the missing bees and posted a photo of a stone.
Please try harder next time you venture out

‘What time does the pharmacy at X street open?’ (It’s a small town with 2 pharmacies, both working half days since all this started, one in the morning the other in the afternoon. 90% of the town can’t get to grips with this.)

‘There’s a dog with a red collar running round the park’ followed by a load of comments about this dog which has been running around since before Xmas. Lots of complaints about ‘irresponsible owners’ and arguments about whether or not to phone the dog warden. Someone has now made the dog a Facebook page and it comments under all these posts to wind everyone up (highlight of my day just now to be honest!)

Complaints of local shops hiking prices when actually the prices are the same as they’ve always been, the people complaining just never bothered to use them before.

noworries , exactly as turnip describes. I already have a number of suitable glass bottles but will absolutely have to partake in the farm branded bottles.
The machine is there, it's JUST NOT READY YET

Not the cheapest way of buying milk but there’s no plastic plus the milk is from the local happy cows farm. Win/win.

That's how we get our milk however was the machine out of order for a few days recently ?

Lots of local business ads & requests for recs; lively discussion of Noisy Fox Sex; lost-&-found dog; misdelivered scrubs (successfully reunited with intended recipient, hurrah!); Man Intervenes In Mugging; random teddy left in a local park with note claiming it was Covid-free but just needed new home*; people clarting up entrance to another park; community garden project; destruction of a new street tree; co-ordination of the volunteer waterers of the street trees; extensive project for Cheering Up Of The Elderly goes into Covid-19 Hyperdrive; lots of support for our local hospital & their staff; lots of foodbank-supporting (& info on how to access); some discussion as to actual state of parking permit situation; offers of various free things...

Mostly, tbh, it’s a lot of people genuinely working hard to look after other people. In a non virtue-signalling way. Not least because even now round here most places that’d get you a clip round the ear.

*I immediately thought i. person claiming to have seen “old gent” leave it = responsible; & ii. Typhoid Beary; but someone in group allowed their tiny child to take it home... this is what gentrification does to a place, people...

A wonderful lady is organising hampers for key workers and struggling families.

2 lots of children taken into care after the parents were founded drunk/high. One little boy 18m was found wandering up the road in just a t shirt and nappy. Locals said he had been missing for hours

Does anywhere have yeast?
can anyone fix my car?
Look guys, I photographed a HELICOPTER(badly)
Looking for flour
can anyone fix this car?
What are the queues like at Tesco/Asda/Sainsbury's?

Early on, we had a spate of people out walking photographing other walkers and trying to shame them, but the admins put their feet down about it and it seems to have stopped.

We had a post about a flamingo that was making a run for it down my road after escaping from a local zoo last week 😂.

Flamingo post sounds epic as well as the dog account replying to people!!

My tolerance is through the floor so I try to avoid it right now.

V posh expensive area.

People taking photos of people walking down the street with rings marked around them so you dont get confused between people and cars maybe? With lots if how dare they!!! Comments.

People taking photos of people with three packs of mince on the Tesco conveyor belt - how very DARE they?! The poster has 25 kids and they never eat that much in A YEAR SELFISH STOCKPILING!!

Lots of unhinged people who phone the police if anyone in the road goes shopping.

Generally nutty behaviour

I have concluded there are two types of people in my neighbourhood. Nutty people and people who dont post on the community boards.

Lots of very nosey people. I didnt realise how much people watch and stalk people until now, so that eye opening in itself. In our micro community in the village I suddenly know everything about everyone due to some very informed gossips. I think they have binoculars and phone tapping equipment 🤯

Sounds the same everywhere. Folk certainly seem much less tolerant. Def have too much time on their hands.