Page 6 | Brazen and Strange requests on NextDoor

PhilCornwall1 · 15/08/2021 07:41

After reading this, I've just signed up. So far I've read:

People kicking off about an automated bird scarer. At least I know what that noise is now, what a valuable public service this is!!

More lost cats than you can shake a pack of Dreamies at.

Richard, who seems to sell quite a mix of things, so far for sale, he's got:

A fishing rod
Nest of glass tables
Typewriter
A boat (eh???)
And finally. A fine selection of skirts!! 🤷‍♂️

QueenofLouisiana · 15/08/2021 07:47

Ours is lost cats, people looking for the local Hermes driver, an argument about a local wall (it’s quite a distinctive local wall) and teenagers causing problems. Then someone will suggest something is made available for teenagers to do (football posts, basketball nets, youth club) and this is either shouted down “ don’t want teenagers hanging around the park in the evening” or welcomed because “my 8 year old would love the youth club/ basketball court.”

CookieDoughThief · 15/08/2021 07:51

We had one on ours, a lady was asking if anyone fancied a night out as she had been let down, it was for a certain bar in town.
No replies except 1 person who said, no, I don't want to go to that bar, I rarely go out anymore and if I did I certainly wouldn't go to that bar.
Why answer then🤣

brokenbiscuitsx · 15/08/2021 07:54

I actually want to live in ignorance about how crazy my neighbours are, I mean I have an inkling but would rather not know ☺️

SpindleWhorl · 15/08/2021 08:14

I've just spotted that a near-neighbour up the road from me recently joined. She's quite eccentric (she probably thinks the same about me, tbf) so this could be fun if she posts stuff!

And I've noticed a local councillor lying their face off.

TriciaMcMillan · 15/08/2021 08:17

@TSSDNCOP

I think we may have a winner. First post is of a snake in someone's garden and they're trying to identify it

I think you live near me. One of the comments is a hysterical demand to know where exactly they live so they can avoid the area...

Pantaloonsfrom1971 · 15/08/2021 08:35

The hatred of teenagers hanging out on our local meadows in town is HUGE. It's all this aggressive stuff saying they need locking up or need a kicking etc when all they're doing is sitting with friends in groups having a laugh. The nastiness directed at them is incredible.

It's that and how shit our local GP surgeries are, which tbf they are.

gingercat81 · 15/08/2021 09:11

@Boredmotherofone

This is my absolute favourite! The best thing I've ever seen on the internet EVER

Not just the cat's face(!), but the genuine question!!!!!! 💪🏻🤼😹

Omg that made me belly laugh. That is amazing.

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Eastie77Returns · 15/08/2021 09:17

@SW1amp yes the missing shoe was a clog! The hand drawn picture…it was just too much

@VetInAVat LTN = Low Traffic Neighbourhood. Essentially the council has blocked several roads to traffic in our area (and many others) which has basically sparked a civil war with neither side conceding an inch. If you oppose LTN’s you are an evil car loving climate change denier who doesn’t give a shit about kids who are breathing in toxic fumes.

If you are in favour of them then you are an evil cyclist or entitled twat who goes around ferrying your Boden kids in a cargo box, you live on one of the gentrified, affluent streets in the borough (it seems in our area that the majority of roads closed to traffic are in the better off pockets) and do not care about the disabled who cannot walk, cycle or get a bus.

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SW1amp · 15/08/2021 09:19

@Eastie77Returns

Obviously blank out the phone number etc but you HAVE to post the picture! I don’t think other readers of this thread can fully appreciate the bonkers beauty of it without the full visual..!

HalzTangz · 15/08/2021 09:39

@bruffin

I refused to use Nextdoor, seems a pretty dodgy organisation in the first place.

I agree.

Not only do you sign up with your name, postcode, you literally have to put your street name and then your profile picture. So basically giving any weirdo access to wear you live.

Site should be closed

EBearhug · 15/08/2021 10:02

What's your shielding thingy called please?

Blur. There are probably others.

SW1amp · 15/08/2021 10:06

@HalzTangz

You don’t ‘literally have’ to do most of those things

I don’t have a profile picture and have my location set to the general area rather than our actual street

You can expect an entire site to close because some people don’t have the basic common sense, because you would also have to shut every other social media site at the same time

lboogy · 15/08/2021 10:08

@Eastie77Returns

I don’t know if it’s just a reflection of the people who live in my area or if Nextdoor just attracts strange people in general but some of the posts on my neighbourhood page are a just a mix of brazen entitlement and weirdness

Today a man has posted a long message explaining he desperately needs someone with a car to pick up his relative from Heathrow. He is not willing to pay but has offered to buy the driver a Costa coffee by way of compensation. For context, it would be a 40 mile round trip. Residents have responded asking why he cannot meet his relative himself or take the Heathrow Express/tube if he doesn’t have a car. He has replied that he doesn’t want to travel on public transport, his relative cannot take the Express as the ticket is “not in her budget”. When a (male) respondent offered to help the poster replied no thanks, the driver must be a woman

Another woman has written an abusive message criticising people who offered to help fund her 5 year old’s birthday party and then backed out. She posted a week ago stating she needed several hundreds of pounds to buy a bike and organise a party. Apparently someone sent her a PM offering to meet her outside Morrison’s to buy her a birthday cake and didn’t show up. Another offered to transfer her money and didn’t. A third person offered something else and didn’t follow through and so it went on. Obviously sad if true but…who goes onto a public site and makes these kinds of requests

Last week someone drew an intricate picture of a missing shoe. They lost it in a park whilst sunbathing(!) and said they were willing to pay compensation as the shoe had sentimental value (why they didn’t just post a picture of the surviving shoe is anyone’s guess).

I admit I just go on ND for the LOLs now!

I think we live in the same area. I was just discussing the person who expected help with a birthday party and got upset when people didn't follow through on promises to help. People are so weird

memberofthewedding · 15/08/2021 11:06

These two have to be classics!

#1 The bees stealing pollen

#2 Combat training for cats

I joined this a few years ago and was horrified to find that without any consent of mine my physical address was showing! Available for any nutter. No thanks. I immediately blocked them.

As with most posters it was cats, plus cleaners/plumbers/gardeners/etc. No disrespect to any of those trades.

IfYoureCrappyAndYouKnowIt · 15/08/2021 11:13

@SingToTheSky that is hilarious! Although not the issue of dogs stealing tools - that needs addressing.

We don’t have nextdoor (I’m in NZ) but we have another similar site. It’s all older people and the posts are either

Grumbling about young people not having manners/buying smashed avo on toast and the latest iPhone instead of a house
Photos of the town in the good old days, which invites comments of how nice it was then and how no one used seatbelts/looked after our kids and we all turned out okay.
Missing cats and dog poo. Some things are universal.

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Eastie77Returns · 15/08/2021 11:14

lboogy I think she is clearly struggling and I feel for her but the tone of her post is so aggressive.

Obviously the person who agreed to meet her at Morrisons to buy the cake should have turned up but there may be an explanation as to why they were not there. Common sense should have told her not over hand her bank details to the complete stranger who offered her money to fund the party. She could have checked Freecycle for the bike or there is an organisation in our area that refurbs old bikes and gives them to low income families.

She was railing against the person who promised the platter of of sandwiches…this will sound harsh but surely she could have made that herself…

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Sparechange · 15/08/2021 11:21

Oh! Oh! I have a late entry to the thread

Miriam Margolyes has posted on ours asking for people to join her in a sit in protest to stop the council fencing off part of the common to host a festival of black culture!

She is asking people to bring picnic blankets and flasks of tea to stop Lambeth council starting the fence erection tomorrow

She didn’t specify it was a festival of black culture that she was trying to prevent going ahead but the first reply pointed it out

Gothichouse40 · 15/08/2021 11:27

I never went on Nextdoor as wasn't sure about security. I'm on a neighbourhood Facebook page. Commented once on an issue that resulted in folk taking real issue with my post. I go on it for community news, but will not post again. Too many strange people and very similar to how I found Twitter. I'm no longer on Twitter.

SuzyDaarling · 15/08/2021 11:31

sparechange. Wow a celebrity post. Hard to see why fencing for a festival is a huge problem but there we go. Our park is a fencing epicentre for various annual events and as yet no complaints on nextdoor. Probably shouldn’t have said that as there will now be a run on park fencing disgruntlement.

SuzyDaarling · 15/08/2021 11:36

This thread has got me obsessed with checking nextdoor now. Currently someone is advertising free English revision books for £10 🤔.

Sparechange · 15/08/2021 11:50

@SuzyDaarling

sparechange. Wow a celebrity post. Hard to see why fencing for a festival is a huge problem but there we go. Our park is a fencing epicentre for various annual events and as yet no complaints on nextdoor. Probably shouldn’t have said that as there will now be a run on park fencing disgruntlement.

We have a loon group called ‘the friends of Clapham common’ who think they are direct descendants of the tolpoddle martyrs, and any sort of commercial activity on is a direct attack on the hard won rights of 1700s peasants to graze animals

The resurfacing of the tennis courts, the opening of a cafe, the hosting of any lovely community events or festivals all gets met with the same outrage and ‘if you tolerate this, the council will build high rise flats all over it and we will have no green space left by Christmas’

They are all insane but also quite adept at whipping up a frenzy on nextdoor

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Eastie77Returns · 15/08/2021 12:13

It is my experience that any group named “Friends of xxxx” invariably has a fair share of arseholes within its ranks.

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SuzyDaarling · 15/08/2021 12:18

Sparechange god they sound tedious and vocal. Terrible combination.

Undersnatch · 15/08/2021 12:24

Joined Nextdoor and within 24hrs had a private message from a man which gave me the creeps. Posted on here about it and hadn’t realised ND is known for pervs and weirdos. Really sad. I can’t laugh it off like some of you can, I hate the way men feel they can invade whatever space women may be in