my local facebook community group is spectacularly idiotic today, is yours?

[GaryBaldbiscuit]

Just a few
Is the tip open today?
Are there any buses?
Are the doctors open?
Can I weigh my baby today?

To name but a few!

They just give me an extra days worth of methadone.

Ours is an out and out war about fox hunting after the annual New Years Day hunt came through the town today.

At least it makes a change from the usual parking wars

I live rurally - last night someone messaged the admin on local group asking them to contact the church to make the bells stop

Roger is my hero!

Ah. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, just put up ranty FB posts about noise pollution in rural areas.

Do you think Roger knows 'Old Lands Eye'?

I wonder if he's lost a dog, a cat, a rat or a peacock. I'd ask him, but I'm scared.

Old Lands Eye

Ours really kicks off when the travellers move in (which happens at least once a year). There will be posts about where they are and landowners trying to secure their land. Posts about the mess they leave. Posts about them shoplifting in the coop and the staff being too scared to do anything. Followed by accusations of racism, a big row and threads being closed or deleted by admin.

We had one recently from a women who was shocked and extremely disappointed that our small local Sainsbury’s didn’t sell vegetarian suet. Demanded that we all march ourselves down there to complain or better still, avoid shopping there altogether. The comments were the best bits especially all the people pointing out that the three other supermarkets in our small village sold it.

My local one had a post about a model railways event. Said it had been the most popular yet. Two trains shown with a few frenzied looking people crouched on them and half a dozen spectators. One of whom had their head in their hands.

Lot of photos of the area when it was flooded a few years ago.

The old chestnut ‘We’ve got parrots in our garden! where have they come from’. The ever spreading invasion of Ring-Necked Parakeets, only been around 50 years.

I don't know if this is just a thing local to me as I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet but oh so many posts asking for vacuum cleaner recommendations. Shark vs Dyson vs Gtec usually. - It's always the shark if you're wondering, but the corded or cordless?! now there's a whole other discussion!

Also I was amused by lots of posts on 23rd/24th december all asking "Does anyone know what it's like in Tesco today?". Well I haven't been anywhere near it, but I'll hazard a guess at fucking manic Judith

ImNotWhoYouThinkIam
This was mad. Someone posted mentioning fireworks at 3am being a problem for people with anxiety/ptsd etc.
Someone else mentioned animals and people who needed sleep as working today.
Other people told them to buy ear plugs, get over it, stop moaning, some people are worse off/have to use food banks etc etc.

So, basically MN then?

I am on 2 or 3 local pages, they're all competing as to who can be the most batshit.

I live in a very naice area, so there is always aggro whenever it comes to youth (dangerous species, flogging's too good for 'em); crime (too much of it... except there isn't); new homes (my house has been here since the dinosaurs built it, everything else is a new-fangled blot on the landscape); new people (I've lived here since Methusalah was a newborn) etc etc.

And most of them seem to be functionally illiterate as well, which makes their rants even harder to decipher.

My local FB page is the usual mix of lost cats/dogs/stolen hanging baskets /sightings of perople shopping in their pyjamas etc
Half of the people keep complaining what a shit hole the area is, and the other half keep defending it.

Should old facebook pals be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old whatsapp be deleted,
And Old Lands Eye!

Chorus.-For Old Lands Eye, my dear,
For Old Lands Eye.
We'll tak a cup o' prosecco yet,
For Olds Lands Eye.

And there's a hand, my trusty nail technician!
And fleas all land on wiiine!
And we'lltalka right good new years eve,
ForOlds Lands Eyeeeeeee

So do you know what Tesco’s like
And the chippys closing time?
Or will Roger have a go at you
On Old Lands Eye

Our local Community Facebook page is actually very useful. Unfortunately we have been suffering from weekly train strikes every Saturday, and until recently we were getting some trains, but now there are no trains at all on Saturdays. Getting the heads up on these pages when Northern Rail move the goalposts is very useful.

Reminders about Christmas bin collections were also very helpful because it never occurred to me to check the council website. When I told DH he said not everyone has Facebook and the council should have publicised their Christmas collections more clearly.

We also get a lot of lost pet posts, and I find it very heartwarming when other members find the missing pet and they are reunited with their owners.

I find the local Facebook page a very useful resource indeed.

A lot of people use ours to book taxis.

Lots of missing cats, and found dogs

Loads of emergency nails/makeup/hair (which always baffles me)

We get a fair amount of travelers so posts about their whereabouts, recently they parked up at a primary school and everyone went apeshit

There is one man who takes lovely photographs of the town and the surrounding countryside, which he shares on the group. Something nice amongst the moaning and requests for a window cleaner.

We have a resident photographer as well Purdy.
There were loads of pictures of nearly empty reservoirs this autumn. We also have loads of people asking for recommendations for local tradespeople, taxis, services etc.

It is so much better than Yellow Pages.

Someone got death threats in the comments for complaining about a local garage in ours.

We have 3 local fb groups (and a parking group, and one complaining about the primary school parking) because the main one has some rules, and people can't cope with rules it seems.

Someone lost a dog about 6 months ago. People are posting pictures of dogs of that breed (or often, dogs of a totally different breed) from lost dog sites all over the country and asking is this x? Sometimes people have the audacity to walk a dog of the same breed in the village - often they are photographed and posted on fb. It's a pretty common breed. Anyone who suggests that maybe this isn't appropriate (and the dog probably met a sad end in a badger sett or on the main road) is shouted down by "x's army 😡🙄

We have three as well. One is just for selling stuff, the other two do pretty much the same thing, except that one is moderated and the other one isn't.

Roger needs to be on mumsnet answering posts, can you imagine...

Talk was off a local fairground and things that were there years ago, this was posted and photo shopped, see if you can spot it