On Halloween they were passing out candy AND ALCOHOL
My sister and her husband pass out cotton candy for the kids and cocktails for the parents on Halloween. They are the favorite house on many people's trick-or-treat route. They've done it for so long that kids that grew up in the area are grown and excited to bring their own children to their house.
I know this is not the point of this but raking (and mowing) lawns needs to stop being a thing. It's bad for the lawn, the plants around, the essential bugs, and bad for the environment. Even aesthetically, it looks bland and stupid.
I think monoculture lawns look really cool and doubly so if they are neat and clean with some nice landscaping to pair. It can be gorgeous.
Unfortunately, it's unethical, unsustainable, and I will avoid it myself, but to say it looks bland and stupid seems like your prerogative is to shame other people into doing the right thing. Which, good luck with that.
That's fair, probably just my subjective opinion. But i don't understand why so many people don't find a diversity of plants and colors more beautiful and simulating to the mind than a monoculture. It's your prerogative to think it looks nice too i guess.
A lot of people don't have the artistic capability and aren't willing to put in the effort to make an entire diverse yard landscape look good, let alone maintain it. Now, when well done, of course a diverse yard can also look great.
But, it's not like you can just neglect your yard and mother nature will bless you with a beautiful ecosystem in time because of your good intentions. You're going to be dealing with dead shit, non-native weeds, non-native insects. And depending on where you live there might not be a whole lot of anything lively to look at entirely naturally occurring.
You have me curious what your landscape looks like if you are a homeowner.
I was thinking the same, I'd like more context though, if it's a quick throttle blip (or like if they're driving stick and need to reverse the car up a slope) could be understandable. If they're bouncing it off the rev limiter for a minute that's a different kettle of fish. Given the rest of the post I'm erring on the side of it being blown out of proportion.
I had those neighbors growing up. Loud parties until 1 am on school nights, constantly revving their motorcycle. They also parked a boom lift in their driveway and I'd routinely wake up to their teen son looking in my second floor bedroom window.
Surprise, talking with them didn't help anything. My dad helped by getting me earplugs. My mom told me to stop bothering her by having needs.
I didn’t call the police and I had a conversation which lead to a worse behavior for a time. I just ignore them now, but they’re still a nuisance. And I am talking about a 40 year old man, not some adolescent…
Right on, sounds like you did the right thing. fwiw, I figured as much…my comment was more a commentary on the FB/Nextdoor post from OP.
Sorry about your luck, I’m sure most of us have had bad neighbors at some point, I know I sure have. It’s such a bummer too because it imposes on your sanctuary of home. Doubly so when it’s a grown-assed man acting like a petulant teenager. Hope things mellow out for you in the near future fellow lemming
Don't even need HOA for this. This is what half of the posts on any Nextdoor or town Facebook page look like. There's an internet-based firehose of impotent rage simmering just under the surface of every "quiet" suburbia in the US and it's all this same type of shit
Imagine, if you will, this bitter, hateful collection of skin folds wedged into her motorized chair, wheezing, tossing the oxygen hose back over her shoulder while her fat little unmanicured thumbs angrily throw themselves at the mucous-stained phone screen…over and over and over…like little raging marinara-covered kamikaze pilots, with little to no regard for spelling, grammar, or hygiene. The phone makes its best effort to autocorrect the jumbled barrage of entitlement being ejaculated into it, but in reality, it just wants to die - just like her husband.
All the trees leafs falled into my lawn and know I need to rake it
All the trees tree's leafs leaves falled fell into onto my lawn and know now I need to rake it
That hurt to read. Please encourage your children and neighbors to learn how to read and write. You can't even blame autocorrect because neither leafs nor falled are words in English.
Also, "i have to rake it". Do you though? What did the Earth do for the millions of years before we came along with our goddamned rakes? Just a global flood of leaves, I guess.
Dumb top reply considering all of their complaints are about stuff that is not contained to the neighbors property, except the google fiber thing which is just bizarre.
As soon as you're making other people smell or hear something you're making it their business.
All noise pollution defenders deserve to never hear their own choice of music without someone else's bassline cutting through it.
I would hope the 911 dispatcher either hung up on her or ripped into her for trying to waste emergency resources on petty bullshit. Isn’t that a charge?
Why are so many arguments on the Internet started like this where a specific, qualified claim is made and then the response tries to pretend a universal, unqualified, ridiculous claim was made instead?
Why are so many arguments on the Internet started like this where a specific, qualified claim is made and then the response tries to pretend a universal, unqualified, ridiculous claim was made instead?
Not sure how this is relevant considering you didn't make a specific, qualified claim. Saying something "Sounds fake as hell tbh" isn't a qualified claim by any reasonable metric. If you had instead said, "This sounds fake because " that would be qualifying your claim.
That a particular post "sounds" fake as hell is indeed a specific, qualified claim.
I'm not saying that nothing similar ever happened at any point in time which is what you're trying to get me to defend. I'm saying that this particular post sounds fake as hell.
That a particular post “sounds” fake as hell is indeed a specific, qualified claim.
No, it still is not. Qualifying a claim means to carefully scope it and be honest about its limits rather then using a all-encompassing assertion. Saying something sounds fake is not a qualified claim. Saying something sounds fake because many of these 'Karen' types of posts are faked on the internet would be one method of qualifying your claim (albeit poorly), while providing specific details about why you believe this one in particular is fake would then be supporting your claim (just to head that argument off.). I encourage you to actually look up some examples of what a qualified claim is if you're going to try to argue what is and is not one.
I’m not saying that nothing similar ever happened at any point in time which is what you’re trying to get me to defend.
I pointed out numerous counterexamples that we can both agree happen to showcase how this post could be true, which just showcases how your post lacks qualification. Your post was an absolute claim; It doesn't acknowledge exceptions or counterpoints that one might make.
I'd recommend you bow out of this one, it's abundantly clear that you're in over your head here. Or you can keep arguing on the internet about how you're arguing on the Internet, I'm not your dad. Just some dork who has as much or more free time as you do.
Oh someone is going to block me rather than admit they're wrong. I'm going to lose so much sleep over this.
one of the stupidest arguments I've ever seen.
Odd, was gonna say that about you. How does one make a qualified claim without a qualifier? Is English not your first language, or are you just the tyoe of person to hand folks a piece of bread with some jelly on it and insist its a PB&J?
It's funny I was just talking to my oldest, who said "I never feel more like a middle aged Karen than when I have to call the non emergency police line about something going on" and I said "I don't know how I didn't manage to raise you with a healthy fear of the police. I have called them once only."
I remember what I called them about, too. The police helicopter was circling and circling and the baby (same one who is the woman in the comment above) kept crying because she couldn't sleep, I called 911, asked for the non emergency #, called and asked what the heck was going on, told them if they were chasing someone they had lost them. They put me on hold then came back and said it was training! I told them it had been hours and my kid couldn't sleep. It did end soon after (probably nothing to do with my call) and hopefully at least let them know it was problematic.
Especially in a neighborhood. I used to live in this one apartment that had the worst other residents. Like, don't blast your music in the middle of the night? Don't smoke indoors. Don't burn the building down. Take out your trash, ever. And don't use a subwoofer, I cannot believe the amount of people who think this is okay EVER, or in the middle of the night. It wasn't a small building, too. Using a sub for hours in the middle of the night had to have ruined like a hundred different people's sleep.
I never thought I'd say this, but our HOA and HOA president is sick AF. This little old lady don't give a fuck about the normal HOA shit. Semi truck parked in the driveway? Whatever. Grass getting 2ft long? doesn't matter unless the city sends a registered letter. HOA dues are like $25/year so the planter in the front of the neighborhood can get replaced 3 times a year.
How about instead of bitching online and wanting to try to get their neighbor in trouble, Karen grows a pair and goes and has a civil conversation with the neighbor. If they are as friendly as stated, that would be the adult thing to do.
Not much to tell. It was what the group name made it out to be. Saw some really interesting stuff there. But it looks like they're going to start doing this weird clickbait bullshit like so many groups do.
I've had a great amount of fun trolling on there with a pseudonym and AI-generated selfie. Been doing it for years. You do have to be careful with it, as they need a verified address, but there's still a ton of latitude to be weird and fuck with your neighbors' heads a bit.
if it was as bad as she was making it out to be I’d be pretty pissed off too. It’s probably not though. Loud music very occasionally is okay but I’d expect it to be turned off around 10/11 unless it was a very special occasion and I’d been warned in advance (and invited). I doubt the smell of weed is that bad. They shouldn’t be handing out alcohol.
Dude people give adult beverages to the adults walking their kids around in every neighborhood. It's not a big deal. They're not handing beers to toddlers.
I dunno, I think parents handing out alcohol to other parents on Halloween is one of those fun things that makes neighbourhood friends.
It's hard to make new parent friends so it's a quick vibe check and a friendly offer to some parent who has walked very slowly, has a sore back from crouching down and holding hands for a couple of hours and knows there will be a battle about candy distribution later.
someone please add a big red square around the arrow and red circle I almost missed the crucial nothing it pointed it at
undyne genocide fight
When did mermaids get involved?
😆 This👆
That part actually hurt
I thought I had a stroke.
Do you smell toast?
I could, if i bought some.
Yeah this part sealed the deal for me that this is rage bait
My sister and her husband pass out cotton candy for the kids and cocktails for the parents on Halloween. They are the favorite house on many people's trick-or-treat route. They've done it for so long that kids that grew up in the area are grown and excited to bring their own children to their house.
Thats cute as fuck :)
We've got a guy who's a wine distributor. On Halloween, adults get to try and compare a few different wines. Love it.
I know this is not the point of this but raking (and mowing) lawns needs to stop being a thing. It's bad for the lawn, the plants around, the essential bugs, and bad for the environment. Even aesthetically, it looks bland and stupid.
I think monoculture lawns look really cool and doubly so if they are neat and clean with some nice landscaping to pair. It can be gorgeous.
Unfortunately, it's unethical, unsustainable, and I will avoid it myself, but to say it looks bland and stupid seems like your prerogative is to shame other people into doing the right thing. Which, good luck with that.
That's fair, probably just my subjective opinion. But i don't understand why so many people don't find a diversity of plants and colors more beautiful and simulating to the mind than a monoculture. It's your prerogative to think it looks nice too i guess.
A lot of people don't have the artistic capability and aren't willing to put in the effort to make an entire diverse yard landscape look good, let alone maintain it. Now, when well done, of course a diverse yard can also look great.
But, it's not like you can just neglect your yard and mother nature will bless you with a beautiful ecosystem in time because of your good intentions. You're going to be dealing with dead shit, non-native weeds, non-native insects. And depending on where you live there might not be a whole lot of anything lively to look at entirely naturally occurring.
You have me curious what your landscape looks like if you are a homeowner.
I also think it looks really wasteful and ugly. Seriously I dont understand how beauty is in the eye in the beholder in this case.
I do think lawns need maintenance but not every Monday morning at 6AM holy shit fuck you lawnmowers.
in defense of kansas karen, having a neighbor that smokes weed all the time sucks. that shit reeks ass from a block away.
I find the same thing with cigarettes tbh. I wouldn't mind my neighbour doing it if she didn't smoke my old brand, though...
Not that I'd ever say anything
I think it smells heavenly, so that's subjective. I'd probably get along better with my neighbors if they were smokers.
... Why are you defending Karen anyway??
Because there's nothing wrong with people who don't want to smell something they find offensive all the time.
I agree, from here on out I will have this mentality towards people who smoke cigarettes near me, thank you!
Revving your engine every time you come home is asshole behavior though.
I was thinking the same, I'd like more context though, if it's a quick throttle blip (or like if they're driving stick and need to reverse the car up a slope) could be understandable. If they're bouncing it off the rev limiter for a minute that's a different kettle of fish. Given the rest of the post I'm erring on the side of it being blown out of proportion.
I’m going to guess it relates to their neighbour trying to get the mayor and 911 to evict them from their legally owned home…
This is the first time I've seen a red circle without knowing what it's supposed to be indicating. It centers on the number of shares??
I think it's to point out the first comment having more likes than the post itself.
I think it's to link "I want them to move" and "I need them out yesterday"
People agreeing? Yeah idgi either
Fake rage bait 🤷♂️
I also did a double take on that sentence, what an odd thing to say.
Turbo Karen lol. How neighborly, bet she’s a Christian.
I mean, I do have a neighbor that does rev his bike under my bedroom window and listens to loud music a lot. It kind of gets you at some point.
I had those neighbors growing up. Loud parties until 1 am on school nights, constantly revving their motorcycle. They also parked a boom lift in their driveway and I'd routinely wake up to their teen son looking in my second floor bedroom window.
Surprise, talking with them didn't help anything. My dad helped by getting me earplugs. My mom told me to stop bothering her by having needs.
Yeah but like…would you consider having a normal adult conversation with them about it before calling in the police?
If all it took was a normal conversation, it probably wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
I didn’t call the police and I had a conversation which lead to a worse behavior for a time. I just ignore them now, but they’re still a nuisance. And I am talking about a 40 year old man, not some adolescent…
Right on, sounds like you did the right thing. fwiw, I figured as much…my comment was more a commentary on the FB/Nextdoor post from OP.
Sorry about your luck, I’m sure most of us have had bad neighbors at some point, I know I sure have. It’s such a bummer too because it imposes on your sanctuary of home. Doubly so when it’s a grown-assed man acting like a petulant teenager. Hope things mellow out for you in the near future fellow lemming
Are you surprised Karen is acting like a Karen??
Unless I misunderstood and you're genuinely asking the person you replied to, but, careful, seems like a closeted Karen if ya ask me.
This is EXACTLY why I will never be part of a HOA.
Don't even need HOA for this. This is what half of the posts on any Nextdoor or town Facebook page look like. There's an internet-based firehose of impotent rage simmering just under the surface of every "quiet" suburbia in the US and it's all this same type of shit
Yeah, but see here's the thing. I don't care what those people say. I'm not legally obligated to give a shit what they think of me.
Whereas with HOAs, if they think your door handle is the wrong color, you get fined. And it's legally binding.
But these fuckwits on facebook and whatever the fuck other apps, can eat my entire asshole, as I give them the finger.
How is it the neighbors fault that you’re in the first neighborhood to get google fiber
They ruined her lawn.
Forget the red circle, what's up with the last sentence? Is it so hard to read what you wrote before you hit send?
I don't think their all they're 😀
Imagine, if you will, this bitter, hateful collection of skin folds wedged into her motorized chair, wheezing, tossing the oxygen hose back over her shoulder while her fat little unmanicured thumbs angrily throw themselves at the mucous-stained phone screen…over and over and over…like little raging marinara-covered kamikaze pilots, with little to no regard for spelling, grammar, or hygiene. The phone makes its best effort to autocorrect the jumbled barrage of entitlement being ejaculated into it, but in reality, it just wants to die - just like her husband.
All the
treestree'sleafsleavesfalledfellintoonto my lawn andknownow I need to rake itThat hurt to read. Please encourage your children and neighbors to learn how to read and write. You can't even blame autocorrect because neither leafs nor falled are words in English.
Also, "i have to rake it". Do you though? What did the Earth do for the millions of years before we came along with our goddamned rakes? Just a global flood of leaves, I guess.
Considering they're in a neighborhood with a HOA, they might have to rake the leaves or get slapped with a fine. Many HOAs are strict about lawns.
Not saying they're justified in trying to get their neighbors evicted. I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
Fair point.
I hate people who consider trees nothing but problems. Such people should be cut down.
Dumb top reply considering all of their complaints are about stuff that is not contained to the neighbors property, except the google fiber thing which is just bizarre.
As soon as you're making other people smell or hear something you're making it their business.
All noise pollution defenders deserve to never hear their own choice of music without someone else's bassline cutting through it.
I would hope the 911 dispatcher either hung up on her or ripped into her for trying to waste emergency resources on petty bullshit. Isn’t that a charge?
I would guess you call the non emergency number for noise complaints.
Unless it's like that time I called emergency at like 1 am for noise on the upstairs apartment, but it sounded like a domestic violence situation.
Sounds fake as hell tbh
No one has ever had a bad neighbor? Or no one has ever complained about petty bullshit on Facebook? Or Karens aren't real?
"nowing their they're" makes it pretty obvious it's fake
Not really. They use 'there' wrong early on in the rant. If anything, stuff like that makes it more believable to me.
I'm not sure it's fake, some people really are that stupid though.
That is not what I commented.
Why are so many arguments on the Internet started like this where a specific, qualified claim is made and then the response tries to pretend a universal, unqualified, ridiculous claim was made instead?
And?
Not sure how this is relevant considering you didn't make a specific, qualified claim. Saying something "Sounds fake as hell tbh" isn't a qualified claim by any reasonable metric. If you had instead said, "This sounds fake because " that would be qualifying your claim.
That a particular post "sounds" fake as hell is indeed a specific, qualified claim.
I'm not saying that nothing similar ever happened at any point in time which is what you're trying to get me to defend. I'm saying that this particular post sounds fake as hell.
No, it still is not. Qualifying a claim means to carefully scope it and be honest about its limits rather then using a all-encompassing assertion. Saying something sounds fake is not a qualified claim. Saying something sounds fake because many of these 'Karen' types of posts are faked on the internet would be one method of qualifying your claim (albeit poorly), while providing specific details about why you believe this one in particular is fake would then be supporting your claim (just to head that argument off.). I encourage you to actually look up some examples of what a qualified claim is if you're going to try to argue what is and is not one.
I pointed out numerous counterexamples that we can both agree happen to showcase how this post could be true, which just showcases how your post lacks qualification. Your post was an absolute claim; It doesn't acknowledge exceptions or counterpoints that one might make.
I'd recommend you bow out of this one, it's abundantly clear that you're in over your head here. Or you can keep arguing on the internet about how you're arguing on the Internet, I'm not your dad. Just some dork who has as much or more free time as you do.
I'd recommend you see a shrink because you're escalating the importance of yourself and of one of the stupidest arguments I've ever seen.
Should I block you now, or after the next wall of text you produce?
Oh someone is going to block me rather than admit they're wrong. I'm going to lose so much sleep over this.
Odd, was gonna say that about you. How does one make a qualified claim without a qualifier? Is English not your first language, or are you just the tyoe of person to hand folks a piece of bread with some jelly on it and insist its a PB&J?
Why are they happy? It should be forbidden, everyone needs to be more miserable than me!
Did FromSoft make this person? They sound like the origin story for a ghost made out of hate.
It's funny I was just talking to my oldest, who said "I never feel more like a middle aged Karen than when I have to call the non emergency police line about something going on" and I said "I don't know how I didn't manage to raise you with a healthy fear of the police. I have called them once only."
I remember what I called them about, too. The police helicopter was circling and circling and the baby (same one who is the woman in the comment above) kept crying because she couldn't sleep, I called 911, asked for the non emergency #, called and asked what the heck was going on, told them if they were chasing someone they had lost them. They put me on hold then came back and said it was training! I told them it had been hours and my kid couldn't sleep. It did end soon after (probably nothing to do with my call) and hopefully at least let them know it was problematic.
Those are indeed asshole neighbours. You're posting it because you think she's wrong?
Buying a sports car to be noisy with it is drug dealer behaviour
Especially in a neighborhood. I used to live in this one apartment that had the worst other residents. Like, don't blast your music in the middle of the night? Don't smoke indoors. Don't burn the building down. Take out your trash, ever. And don't use a subwoofer, I cannot believe the amount of people who think this is okay EVER, or in the middle of the night. It wasn't a small building, too. Using a sub for hours in the middle of the night had to have ruined like a hundred different people's sleep.
Which leads to societal collapse! Nobody can work properly the next day and everyone's mental health will be getting worse and worse
This is a bit past the topic at hand but people who are part of an HOA should be hanged. Change my mind.
I never thought I'd say this, but our HOA and HOA president is sick AF. This little old lady don't give a fuck about the normal HOA shit. Semi truck parked in the driveway? Whatever. Grass getting 2ft long? doesn't matter unless the city sends a registered letter. HOA dues are like $25/year so the planter in the front of the neighborhood can get replaced 3 times a year.
Most are power tripping assholes who are constantly comparing with their neighbors.
How about instead of bitching online and wanting to try to get their neighbor in trouble, Karen grows a pair and goes and has a civil conversation with the neighbor. If they are as friendly as stated, that would be the adult thing to do.
It brings up the question of environmental conventions.
Like imagine you lived in one place in the world, then moved to another. Certain expectations of behavior would almost certainly be super different.
Let's say something you do isn't the norm there, but was the norm where you moved from, and that thing you do bothers other people.
Whose responsibility is it to act?
Yours, who has just moved somewhere new and different?
Or theirs, who are irritated by the behavior or thing?
I'm in this group. That was unexpected.
We need more info
Not much to tell. It was what the group name made it out to be. Saw some really interesting stuff there. But it looks like they're going to start doing this weird clickbait bullshit like so many groups do.
I started looking at Nextdoor recently and some of the people are just wild.
I've had a great amount of fun trolling on there with a pseudonym and AI-generated selfie. Been doing it for years. You do have to be careful with it, as they need a verified address, but there's still a ton of latitude to be weird and fuck with your neighbors' heads a bit.
Lmao that is ... Certainly a hobby...
This is pure Kansas City Karenness.
I was so afraid of getting some crazy boomer like this when I bought my new house. Thankfully they all seem lovely thus far 🤞
I hate air pollution and second hand smoking so I'm on Karen's side of this. Smoking affects people around you as well.
Air pollution lmao
Is that the wrong term to use? Smoking spreads toxic chemicals in the air, which pollutes the air of kids playing outside
Mmmm, cancer...
What kind of country music? Cause she could be in the right here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRdkrDk0BQ0
People under the stairs - Acid Raindrops
https://youtu.be/Dm6hcG5GT24
if it was as bad as she was making it out to be I’d be pretty pissed off too. It’s probably not though. Loud music very occasionally is okay but I’d expect it to be turned off around 10/11 unless it was a very special occasion and I’d been warned in advance (and invited). I doubt the smell of weed is that bad. They shouldn’t be handing out alcohol.
Dude people give adult beverages to the adults walking their kids around in every neighborhood. It's not a big deal. They're not handing beers to toddlers.
I dunno, I think parents handing out alcohol to other parents on Halloween is one of those fun things that makes neighbourhood friends.
It's hard to make new parent friends so it's a quick vibe check and a friendly offer to some parent who has walked very slowly, has a sore back from crouching down and holding hands for a couple of hours and knows there will be a battle about candy distribution later.