To ask what the drama is in your local Facebook group?

[ItsTheDramaaMick]

Ours is a on fire at the moment. Usually it's just dog poo and why is the helicopter out, and tourists parking in the pub car park to go for a walk and getting a ticket..

However in the last week or so it has popped off and I'm living for the drama 🤣 it's not even the local community groups,

It's beef between 2 niche (very niche) hobby pages where one is saying x will happen and the other is saying y will happen, then page 1 started posting passive aggressive comments on the page of page 2 and frankly it's incredible.

Any one else got something fun going on, on their Facebook groups?

There was a post from a grandmother asking about whether we had a swimming pool she could take her grandchild to and someone said something about how grandparents shouldn't be doing that sort of thing with their grandchildren and it all kicked off.

And a dog who looked a bit poorly was left outside Lidl for an hour and when people tried to speak to the owner when she came out the shop she told them all to fuck off and dragged the dog away.

Maybe the ducking stool ..?

Oh, I needed a new podcast! Thanks for this!

Just had a look at the FB for the small town next door..
A ruccus and ' gobbing off' between the girl in the bakers and a resident who took her assistance dog in to the shop.
Praise for the new Indian Takeaway.

Also flooding and people getting stuck on roads which are flooded (which are known to flood and are clearly signed), with a raft of people suggesting that it isn't possible to know that the roads might be flooded and they can't be expected to look for these things.

Apart from that; pavement parking, lost cats and revised refuse collection.

McDonald's maybe opening soon dragging the area down apparently

We’ve had a great one this week. An anonymous poster has started a bun fight over neighbourhood cats coming into their garden and killing an animal that they had befriended.

Much mystery around what sort of animal this was. Apparently the anonymous poster had taught it over 20 different commands.

it was like the usual MN thread around cats doing what cats do, versus cat lovers, who think that putting up a birdfeeder is asking for trouble, with random guesses around squirrels and wood pigeons and what could possibly be taught 20 different commands. And what these commands might be

What is LTN?

Small village and someone who is well-known within the community is being ripped to shreds because apparently she was rude to someone in her shop. She wasn't named in the original post but has now been named and loads of nasty things said about her. Now lots of people arguing about whether it's slander or not and some are trying to report the woman so she loses her job 🙄She has been a bit off lately but is nice normally, and given that the person she was 'rude' to was kicking off in the shop, I think it's all way OTT. Feel sorry for the woman now being denigrated on Facebook.

Roadworks
Current ones
Planned ones
Concurrent ones

And no one ever sees the workers!

People up in arms about the local comp (which to be fair is ridiculous and rubbish and i feel sorry for any kid who goes!) and whatever ridiculous thing they’ve done this week.

In September the school uniform shop issues jumpers with a spelling mistake and they gave kids with those jumpers detentions as they weren’t in the correct uniform 😂 you couldn’t make it up

Every so often there are rumours that the towns John Lewis is closing - that really stresses people out!

The admin of ours vets every single bloody post so nothing exciting is posted anymore.

Yep! Someone's horse shat on the pavement. Someone else is threatening to bag it up and post through letterbox. Someone else is defending the horse shite. High octane stuff.

Ours is moderated do no dramas.

Cats getting knocked down and killed
Massive potholes
Flooding
People speeding
Dog Poo

My village is close to a regional airport with a 24-hour runway (freight at night) and a racetrack. Periodically, someone will move to the area and kick off about the noise. Then there’s a massive pile on.

There’s also a major festival each year that attracts a lot of traffic. Last year the organisers routed the traffic through the village and it was taking seven hours for some people to get back in. I swear people were asking for traffic updates well after the festival ended.

I'm in SE London, so it's mostly car break-ins and door-to-door scams.

Ours is still about the dog poo. Someone is claiming that every time they visit the local beauty spot either on foot or bike, they come back covered in it. This is unlikely since I go at least weekly and have managed never to tread in it (although I do think too many people fail to pick up)

Roadworks
I don't know how to describe it except it's a junction that is a cross basically

Main road and a side road that goes across it at an angle
Main road is one way due to road works, side road drivers are just driving straight across without looking, as they're presuming the entire road is shut
They closed it last Monday and there has been

EIGHT crashes so far

Pic added

Are you in Billericay??!!

Not much, mainly adverts and people trying to flog junk.

The most controversial thing to happen was asylum seekers being housed in a local hotel. There was a group set up complaining about it, with numerous people saying the asylum seekers, are gonna rape and stalk the old women. They’re gonna cause problems and objectify women. Complaining they were given bikes and clothing. And rather a lot of racist comments. Every so often a post will pop up in the community group, saying the asylum seekers have been following people around (mainly to the local shops). The main ringleader, promotes her weight loss coaching and cleaning.

honestly it’s fucking ridiculous. They’ve been there for nearly a year and I haven’t actually heard of any actual issues being caused, it’s just people in the racist group moaning about utter shite and it spilling over to the main group.

the racust group was open, but now it’s private.

Oh and someone emailed the council
Council have trotted out, inspected the junction WITH a crashed car on it and said "nothing we can do, no need for traffic lights, drivers need to drive with caution"

I think we live in the same town 🤣

Some temporary traffic lights are stuck on red
A road is closed and someone is counting the cars that ignore the signage and are having to turn around
A car has been parked too close to its neighbouring car
Praise for a nice lady who works at the local supermarket ❤️ (Not drama, but lovely)