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BlindedByTheLights

792 posts

84 months

Thursday 9th March
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Puzzles said:
The local page is losing its mind, why you ask?

Because someone got flashed at night, no not like that, while driving another car flashed their lights at them.

Amazing the number of people who have said call the police!

Another one chips in, is it a black bmw they flashed me once.

And you’ve got all the conspiracy theorists saying they want to steal your car, attack you etc.

These people have wild imaginations. You’d have thought they were joking but they aren’t.
Do they have dogs?

Spare tyre

8,065 posts

117 months

Thursday 9th March
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BlindedByTheLights said:
Puzzles said:
The local page is losing its mind, why you ask?

Because someone got flashed at night, no not like that, while driving another car flashed their lights at them.

Amazing the number of people who have said call the police!

Another one chips in, is it a black bmw they flashed me once.

And you’ve got all the conspiracy theorists saying they want to steal your car, attack you etc.

These people have wild imaginations. You’d have thought they were joking but they aren’t.
Do they have dogs?
It’s the new breed of dog fiddlers

They have infrared led headlights that illuminate the invisible markings on the pavement

Hide you dogs hide your wife

kevsmev

205 posts

245 months

Thursday 9th March
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For some context, Westminster Rd. is a small industrial site that consists of just the one road and at one end is the local recycling centre. Not so long ago there was a massive police raid on one of the units where they found a large cannabis factory, and a few arrests were made. As they were clearing the unit, the smell around the area was intense, with some people saying they were getting high.


Cupramax

10,216 posts

239 months

Bill

49,946 posts

242 months

Thursday 9th March
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Cupramax said:
"Elvis Martini" Great name!!

Saleen836

10,223 posts

196 months

Thursday 9th March
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Bill said:
Cupramax said:
"Elvis Martini" Great name!!
Drive past that every day and never smelt a thing biglaugh

bobtail4x4

3,474 posts

96 months

Friday 10th March
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our local page has a landowner asking if kids sledging in her field (without asking) can stay over to the left as the horses are on the right side
one local brain doner said move the horses to another field....

pocketspring

2,389 posts

8 months

Saturday 11th March
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Bit weird this evening. Dead cat up someones driveway, outside the front of the house. Someone has taken a photo over the hedge, of both dead cat and house, asking whose house this is as you have a dead cat outside. You know, in case they don't notice.

Spare tyre

8,065 posts

117 months

Saturday 11th March
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pocketspring said:
Bit weird this evening. Dead cat up someones driveway, outside the front of the house. Someone has taken a photo over the hedge, of both dead cat and house, asking whose house this is as you have a dead cat outside. You know, in case they don't notice.
Similar one here

Someone found a drivers licence

Any one no xyz

Lots of tagging various people in

Others asking where it was found

Someone says there’s an address on all licenses- this triggered an aggressive response from the chav side of the village

The mind boggles how they all get through life

Caddyshack

7,750 posts

193 months

Saturday 11th March
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Bill said:
Cupramax said:
"Elvis Martini" Great name!!
I might change my name to that.

austinsmirk

5,406 posts

110 months

Saturday 11th March
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On my village site tonight

Just seen two youths walk past my house. Can someone come and have a look?


Yep, I’ll finish my food, get dressed properly, turn ant and dec off: put all my snow gear on ( it’s an utter blizzard here) and head to a random part of the village with a non specific address to look for youths.

There’s a good number of people saying “ really ? “

ten200

200 posts

79 months

Saturday 11th March
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If someone does go and have look, there will probably be a follow up post reporting more people hanging around their house.

pocketspring

2,389 posts

8 months

Saturday 11th March
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ten200 said:
If someone does go and have look, there will probably be a follow up post reporting more people hanging around their house.
I'm thinking-

"Can anyone help? My mate and I were walking back from working at the old folks home when a pick up with two burly blokes kept driving past."

g3org3y

20,015 posts

178 months

Monday 13th March
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Frimley111R

14,068 posts

221 months

Monday 13th March
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g3org3y said:
I hope you gave them a 'Like' hehe

hidetheelephants

20,332 posts

180 months

Monday 13th March
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Are these weird caricatures some kind of mass experiment to detect and classify morons? I don't think I've ever seen one subject appropriate one, although I do stay away from zuckerbook these days.

shih tzu faced

2,191 posts

36 months

Monday 13th March
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These tragic messages with totally inappropriate cheerful backgrounds never fail to crack me up. Even better when they’re badly written which happens a lot biglaugh

There was one on a here a few days ago asking if anyone had been found dead in town (with a pic of a smiley woman holding a birthday cake) and now this dead swan one complete with cheesy grin and a double thumbs up. Love it!

spitfire-ian

3,643 posts

215 months

Monday 13th March
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g3org3y said:
Ah, the good old Manningtree Shout Out group which has spawned at least three others after fallings out amongst the members about what can be said or posted. From what I recall there is now Manningtree Shout Out Uncut, Manningtree Shout Out After Dark plus some others along a similar vein.

Seems that with these groups is that if you don’t like the moderation style or the admins you just start up another similar to bh at the other ones!

Roofless Toothless

4,856 posts

119 months

Monday 13th March
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The local groups down my way frequently have posts asking about named individuals the poster wants to get in touch with. There may be perfectly innocent reasons for wanting to catch up with old school friends and so on, but the eagerness with which people flock in to help always astonishes me.

We have no idea why the poster wants to contact somebody, and equally not a clue as to whether the person being sought would rather remain unidentified. The opportunities for this to end in malice are many.

Why do people not see that giving somebody’s contact details, probably without consent, to a complete stranger on the internet is not a very good idea?

Spare tyre

8,065 posts

117 months

Monday 13th March
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spitfire-ian said:
g3org3y said:
Ah, the good old Manningtree Shout Out group which has spawned at least three others after fallings out amongst the members about what can be said or posted. From what I recall there is now Manningtree Shout Out Uncut, Manningtree Shout Out After Dark plus some others along a similar vein.

Seems that with these groups is that if you don’t like the moderation style or the admins you just start up another similar to bh at the other ones!
I’m not on FB, but observe my wife’s

We had a sensible group, things like I’ve found a Labrador etc

Then a splinter group set up their own banter variant

Now it’s double the nonsense spread across two groups, people screenshot ting the first group onto the second

The banter group is mostly chav type stuff and people who like to wind others up