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Wazzocks keep instagramming my house

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znaika · 06/12/2016 23:37

I realise this is a very 21st century problem to have but seriously Just bog off will you (grammers not mners)
There' s been a queue of 'em today and another one now in the small hours, presumably because no passers by. BECAUSE NORMAL PEOPLE ARE ASLEEP!!.

Anyone else have these twats? Bucket of icy water? Aibu?

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ScrambledSmegs · 07/12/2016 10:02

Not the same thing, but when DC1 was about 5mo we were followed down Carnaby Street by a large group of japanese teenagers, all photographing her in her pram.

I was v PFB but even I had to admit that DD was not the most astoundingly cute baby ever to grace the planet and had no idea wtf these kids were obsessed with her.

This has given me the amazing, state-the-bleeding-obvious insight that people are weird and hive mind is real. Otherwise known as being a wazzock.

Tell them to go away and photograph their lunch instead.

StrangeLookingParasite · 07/12/2016 10:12

I only came back to say I also love the word wazzock. Evocative without actually being a swear word.

FoxSticks · 07/12/2016 10:24

I thought the London reference might be the house with the door that looks like 10 downing street.

Come on op - if you aren't in the UK we can't pop round and paper your house. Not that we'd want to. Tell us why it's photographed.

FoxSticks · 07/12/2016 10:24

Pap your house even.

Tuktuktaker · 07/12/2016 10:31

A bus-load of Japanese tourists have photos of a friend and me wrapped up in duffle-coats and woolly hats, gloves and scarves, eating our baguette sandwiches on a bit of grass outside Notre Dame on a sunny November day (we were on a school trip, never worked out if they thought we were typical Parisian school-children!).

RaspberryOverloadTheFirst · 07/12/2016 10:35

Wazzock. A very good word, especially when you don't want to be accused of swearing.

I've used it for as long as I can remember, and I'm 48 now. Quite common around our area.

shovetheholly · 07/12/2016 10:36

The weirdest thing I have ever experienced in terms of being photographed was being in Beijing. I had so many people stop me and ask to take a picture, particularly when I was on my own in the city - and loads of people wanted to touch my hair and skin and clothes. It was so odd. My Mandarin isn't very good so I couldn't really understand why, but maybe it was just a souvenir item from the big city?

GinAndOnIt · 07/12/2016 10:37

Just show us a sodding picture of your house! We're not gonna know where it is are we? But you can't post a thread like this and then refuse to show us!

GinAndOnIt · 07/12/2016 10:39

shove are you blonde? I always bloody get that when I'm abroad. I remember my parents having to wrestle me away from people stroking my head in Spain when I was little and had white blonde hair

When I lived in London and nannied the cutest two blonde girls, I'd have Asian tourists asking all the time if they could photograph them playing.

HeyRoly · 07/12/2016 10:44

Twentysomethings are doing this? All hours of the day and night? Thousands of photos online?

There must be something exceptional about your street, because your average hipster tends not to be that interested in just "a pretty house".

shovetheholly · 07/12/2016 10:46

Gin - No, I'm a red head but it's totally fake! I have very, very pale skin so it is probably an unusual combination? Maybe I just look weird!!

(I have some seeds for you - they are drying out in my kitchen right now).

PosiePaRumPaPaPumParker · 07/12/2016 10:48

Are you in Kidlington?

Madcats · 07/12/2016 10:48

Oh please, what country is this OP? Could you put a sign up in the window asking people to be quiet at night?

I would have no idea if my house was on Instagram (though my back gate and garage will feature on Channel 5 soon unless the whole programme gets binned...they were out there for hours).

We get open top tour buses round here and some disgruntled locals did threaten to get hosepipes out when they altered the route into the more residential streets. More of us use our blinds and shutters for longer now!

GinAndOnIt · 07/12/2016 10:50

Oh yay! Thank you

Mynestisfullofempty · 07/12/2016 10:56

I don't understand the bit about the OP's other posts being deleted because her emails were published online. How did anyone get access to her emails and what has it to do with her posts on MN?

SheSparkles · 07/12/2016 10:56

You need to start an instagram page called " wazzocks who Instagram my house" and take photos of the 'grammers, and tag them with all the tags they use

allyjay · 07/12/2016 10:58

I know, I know. Are you in San Francisco? That street with all the painted lady houses?

deste · 07/12/2016 11:01

Not sure why anyone thinks this is a stealth post. My friends mothers lives beside the seaside and tourists walk past her house every day taking photos. The most photographed buildings are the outside sheds and the majority of them are falling down.

TakeItFromMe · 07/12/2016 11:02

I'm jealous - I want to live in a famous house!

I did the Ramsay Street pilgrimage in my 20s. I was told that the people living in them rent them cheaply partly because of the tourist invasion but also because they have to move their cars and be out of the house at certain times of the week for filming. When we visited there was not another soul to be seen but we did it ourselves on the train and a lot of walking rather than as an organised group.

I used to be a huge fan of Spaced and wanted to go see the house but read online that the occupiers weren't very happy for people to photograph it and I'm a coward so I never bothered.

Glad to see how that Kidlington thing ended - I saw it on South Today when it was first happening and nobody knew why.

elevenswan · 07/12/2016 11:03

shovetheholly I had this once in my city, I worked at a tourist attraction and a coach load of Chinese tourists came in and started asking if they could have a picture taken with me, I was baffled. Turned out they'd just been to the art gallery and had seen dozens of pictures of deathly pale ill looking victorian women, a few of them with mad curly hair. Apparently I looked just like them

I live in about the most touristy place in the country after London and am regularly caught up in 50 Spanish school kids taking pictures while I try to walk the dog. People take pictures of the prettiest/oldest houses in the city centre but never seen them queuing up for it. That's generally reserved for the big fuckoff cathedral

Phoebeby · 07/12/2016 11:06

I don't get people taking photos but alot of people stop & rest against my wall & point at the house talking to eachother. I asked someone one day & apparently I have a rare peony tree in my front garden

TakeItFromMe · 07/12/2016 11:08

I don't understand the bit about the OP's other posts being deleted because her emails were published online. How did anyone get access to her emails and what has it to do with her posts on MN?

I'm glad I'm not the only one

plimsolls · 07/12/2016 11:11

I think she meant "email addresses" and is probably referring to when MN got hacked.

RortyCrankle · 07/12/2016 11:11

This made me remember when I was in my early 20s, living in Germany. It was near an American airbase and one morning I was sitting on some steps, with my basket of shopping. An open topped car drove by filled with GIs - one pointed at me and said 'oh look, a typical German fraulein' and they all took a photo of me with my mouth open, about to tell them that I was English but they had already driven off

shovetheholly · 07/12/2016 11:12

Ahahahahaha eleven it could well be something like that! When I was in Japan a child ran away from me screaming "It's a ghoooooost" That's how pale I am.

Are you in York? I used to live there and tourist-watching was quite a lot of fun.

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