Are there as many odd people on your local FB group as on mine?

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I swear it seems like quite a normal town but then you go on the FB page and it’s full of weirdos

Today it has all kicked off because the tap water tastes funny in the area. Loads of comments about how tap water is toxic, you should only drink bottled water, it’s all contaminated etc etc

Weird mix of posts about dog poo, local electricians, then some vaguely racist jokes (“you can’t have a laugh these days”)

Last year it all kicked off because someone spent ages knitting scarves for trees and then there was some appreciation but some people saying how weird it was and they didn’t like it at all

It’s just all so very odd. People are odd.

We have a genuinely droll poster on our Next Door site who may have been banned as I haven't seen him in the last week. Many people didn't get his sense of humour.

E.g: 'I was stopped by tourists today and they asked the way to so-called "Hadrian's Wall". The govt needs to step up.'

People were getting really worked up.

Mine (actually my parents’ area as I live overseas) is disappointingly normal. Adverts, ISOs, free cycling offers.

My aunt and uncle’s one (yes, I was being nosy) is full of BREXIT type people swapping mad conspiracy theories about heat pumps and electric cars, however.

Just the usual village stuff. A couple of people have posted anonymously complaining about noise things (countryside animals, planned fireworks) and then almost the whole group lynch mobs them.

Someone here in Melbourne has posted a request for a free ferret cage. Well he has asked for an ferrat cage and I’m making an assumption it’s for ferrets - I know about ferrets thanks to Eddie Grundy on the Archers. He has helpfully posted pictures of the cage he wants which is like a ferret hotel. In the body of his request he is asking for a Ferrari cage which is a great autocorrect.

Ours is full of Do you have my parcel, is the garage/post office open? the time it takes for admin to approve the post they could've called or googled these places.

Then there's the folk who helpfully tell the community how to behave/drive.

'It's very wet today, gentle reminder for people to drive slower and be aware of pedestrians as you drive through puddles.'

It's quite amusing some days to watch how annoyed folk get and spend an inordinate amount of time arguing back and forth.

Our local FB is basically a fight club. People posting footage from dash cams because some one cut them up etc

Or people ‘Desperate for a Russian lashes technician with availability for today’. (NB I didn’t know what they were so googled them and decided that look wasn’t right for me)

Or ‘has anyone lost a cat? This one is in my garden’ I’ve literally never thought when a cat strolls through my garden ‘it must be lost’ I just assume it’s being a cat… what must vets think when random cats are given to them to be scanned?

The ‘can anyone tell me about xyz school?’ Posts which descends into a full-scale medieval style public flogging of some poor sod who is attempting to educate the children of the Huns.

By far the best post was a photo of some dentures and a used condom on grass with the caption “ I don’t want to even think about what when on at (name of country park) last night” Apparently it is a ‘dogging hotspot’ so I guess it’s an educational group also 😂

Obviously like any good FB group there are some covid-specific and general conspiracy theorists, the dog shit police, the ‘Binfluencers’ and the ring doorbell nutters “anyone know who this man is? He tried to get into my home earlier” (spoiler alert, 9/10 it is the Amazon delivery driver )

Obviously i enjoy not participating in it immensely.

Ours is mainly complaints about yet another set of temporary traffic lights going up along the main road, the local horse has knocked his water over again, lost cats and dogs.

It's about to be filled up with people moaning about fireworks on any day other than bonfire night and then about fireworks going off anywhere other than an organised display.

Oh and some lost keys.

Just checked our local FB group, the most recent post is 'I can't find the donut van'.

I want that person's life if that's their big issue! 😀

Firework complaints: the pet owners who hate them and the people who enjoy them.
Walking dogs in the heat.
Local events
Tradespeople
Lots of suspicious vehicles that turn out to be neighbours families visiting.
Can be quite entertaining

I had to leave our local group as it got quite crazy during lockdown. People posting photos of anyone they felt was breaking "the rules".

There were council ground workers illegally mowing the grass in the rec, a group of 4 teenagers who had the audacity to sit on a bench outside the pub and drink a can of pop, people working on roads. It all got quite heated when I said you can't just post photos of children online to start a witch hunt. I got piled on and accused of being a shit parent since I condone such thuggish behaviour then the landlady barred me from her dirty pub with shit food and sticky tables. Absolute bunch of nutjobs.

Ours is quiet, only a handful of the same people post anything. Usually just posts about lost or found pets, and coyote heads ups.