The ornery nature of some people

[Oldgreybeard]

I've got some contractors in building a stone wall at the moment. They dug out the foundations yesterday, and because the soil here is heavy clay there was a fair bit of it tracked into the lane. Within 30 minutes of the lads finishing for the day, I was out there with a pressure washer, cleaning the mud away. Whilst doing this I stopped and chatted to a friend out walking her dog, and joked that if I didn't clean up the mud someone would be bound to complain.

Sure enough, when the lads got in to work here this morning they told me their boss had received a complaint, with a photo. The photo was taken whilst I was out there unreeling the hose and cable for the pressure washer, getting ready to clean the lane up, believe it or not!

This person didn't bother to speak with me, even though I must have been out there at the time they took the photo. Instead they've sent emails of complaint to the parish magazine, the boss of the contractors, the council and several others in the village.

WTF they couldn't have just asked me if I was going to clean the lane I don't know. If they had an ounce of common sense they would have seen that I was getting ready to do a clean up, anyway. Instead I'm now spending my morning replying to questions raised by the shit storm this nasty little person has chosen to create.

[Mr Gus]

Get the big guns out OGB.
furtive photo taking is arschloch "modern" behaviour of the mostly contemptible types who won't do their own contextual research as to genuinely"moan-worthy" or not.

Precisely why Facebook sucks, it's bingo winged prattle content (I checked out ripples facebook page & was disgusted to see it is more of the same scrolling format idiocy)
..your better check your local village Facebook gossip-whoring page as well, looks like they may well have dashed home with a paragraph of pompous "complaining for likes" photos to get a momentary adrenaline hit that they all seem to thrive off.

To sum up, they must have been hovering clicked, & posted? ..really spiteful, stupid & sad.
Neighbour or dog walker do you think?

[Bugtownboy]

If someone hasn’t the decency, respect and bolleaux to come round to understand the ‘problem’, there’s no problem.

They’re just being vexatious.

I accept you have to support your contractors, but I don’t think I’d get into any virtual comms with the neighbour.

[Oldgreybeard]

I hadn't thought about Facebook, I never use it anyway, but it's the sort of cesspit where people like this probably rejoice in their own intolerance. I might ask one of the village "organisers" if I'm being slagged off on the village group - no doubt I am.

I don't think it's a neighbour, as I know most of them, back from the time I was building the house. Back then I took the time to send out a weekly newsletter to all the neighbours, letting them know what we were doing and giving advance warning of anything potentially disruptive, like big trucks arriving. All of them were very reasonable, and none complained.

I think I know who the complainant was. I spotted a dog walker coming down the lane, who stopped some distance away, as I was sorting out the pressure washer hose and cable. When I got back to the lane after having plugged things in and turned the water on they had gone. My guess is that they took the photos of the mud just minutes before I washed it off.

It is vexatious behaviour, but par for the course around here. There are one or two people with nothing better to do than complain about others at any and every opportunity. When we were building the house I must have had at least half a dozen visits from the planning enforcement officer. Each time he was prompted by a complaint, although he'd never tell me who the complainant was. None of the complaints was upheld. After about the third or fourth visit the enforcement officer just asked if he could come in and sit down for ten minutes, so it looked as if he was doing something, as he knew full well that the complaints were vexatious, but he had to be seen to be doing something about them. He was a pretty decent chap, although I didn't envy him his job one bit.

[Mr Gus]

Enough to make you get rude signage printed.

Clearly a person for which the fundamentals of 2+2 ,even with the hands digits to assist in the complex math is beyond their scope of understanding.
Good luck OGB, sadly Pre-loading snooping software on phones (Facebook et al) is not questioned due to dumb society who buy into it, & it's hell to remove, free up memory ..oft requiring full on jailbreak to achieve (beyond many)
The result is time spent (chargeable to my minds eye) tracking down the sites forcing removal & expunging of, if you can get the pic, then likely it has a lot of data-metrics of the originator, time, phone type, location et al, that you can do a comparison with the suspected persons photo signature elsewhere.

"Concerned citizen, or muck spreader" ? challenge em on resolver for your time & good name

Mine starts at £50 an hour, 4 hour minimum.

[Bugtownboy]

This forum and the Green Living Forum are my only forays into Social Media - I know FB and IG can be used positively, but, as with all things, they can be used in a destructive/disruptive/damaging manner.

Why people have to use language, behaviour and attitude in such a way in the virtual world that they never would in real life really bemuses me.

Even something that’s actively moderated like the BBC HYS still comes up with some real fruitcakes.

Scary that these people must look normal and walk amongst us.

[Oldgreybeard]

Enough to make you get rude signage printed.

Clearly a person for which the fundamentals of 2+2 ,even with the hands digits to assist in the complex math is beyond their scope of understanding.
Good luck OGB, sadly Pre-loading snooping software on phones (Facebook et al) is not questioned due to dumb society who buy into it, & it's hell to remove, free up memory ..oft requiring full on jailbreak to achieve (beyond many)
The result is time spent (chargeable to my minds eye) tracking down the sites forcing removal & expunging of, if you can get the pic, then likely it has a lot of data-metrics of the originator, time, phone type, location et al, that you can do a comparison with the suspected persons photo signature elsewhere.

"Concerned citizen, or muck spreader" ? challenge em on resolver for your time & good name

Mine starts at £50 an hour, 4 hour minimum.

Definitely just a busybody. I now know who it is, it is the same person that constantly complains about anything and everything. She moans about people not cutting their hedges (fell foul of my neighbour over this, who told her that they were NOT going to murder baby birds to assuage her misplaced desire for tidiness), people having bonfires, she's even moaned about people hanging their washing out on a Sunday (she's under the impression this is illegal).

TBH, I feel sorry for her. She seems to have spent a lot of her life alienating people and complaining. I can't see how that can make anyone feel good about themselves.

On the topic of signage, one of the lads jokingly suggested that he should stick up one of those spoof signs like the graphics that used to be painted on the sides of wartime aircraft. Instead of showing the targets hit, he suggested showing dog walkers that had fallen over in the (now non-existent) mud on the lane. Have to say it made me chuckle. Almost tempted to print something up and stick it on the fence outside.

This forum and the Green Living Forum are my only forays into Social Media - I know FB and IG can be used positively, but, as with all things, they can be used in a destructive/disruptive/damaging manner.

Why people have to use language, behaviour and attitude in such a way in the virtual world that they never would in real life really bemuses me.

Even something that’s actively moderated like the BBC HYS still comes up with some real fruitcakes.

Scary that these people must look normal and walk amongst us.

The Jekyll and Hyde nature of people when using some forms of social media is something I find fascinating.

Many years ago, back in the days of Yahoo Groups, I was active on a forum that used to get a bit heated from time to time. It was always one person that initiated and orchestrated the unpleasantness. After a while I spotted that it was deliberate. This person was undoubtedly very clever (rather wealthy former merchant banker I later found out) and he would post comments that were inflammatory, wait until someone had responded in anger, then edit his post to make it less contentious. The arguments would invariably continue for some time, with him doing as he had originally, making some inflammatory comment (usually about his support for fascism) then editing it after getting people wound up.

It was a predictable pattern, one that I and a few others spotted, yet despite getting warnings from moderators he always managed to claim that he hadn't actually broken any forum rules. The funny thing was that I met him once, several years later. I had no idea what he looked like, or even what his real name was. He knew who I was, though, and came up to me at an event and introduced himself. He was about 5ft tall, over 70 years old and a very unassuming and well-spoken chap, nothing at all like his online persona. I actually quite liked him in real life, but I could never understand why he was so unpleasant online. Just something that amused him, I think.

[Mr Gus]

"Days since nosey dog walker busybody complained about non-existent mud pdoblem"
(With a few number stickers printed to keep the pub visible for a few weeks & a laminated explanation for the curious, shaming the busybody) ..May ridicule her into silence if someone else posts it for other locals to see on facecloth "community"

[Joeboy]

Enough to make you get rude signage printed.

Clearly a person for which the fundamentals of 2+2 ,even with the hands digits to assist in the complex math is beyond their scope of understanding.
Good luck OGB, sadly Pre-loading snooping software on phones (Facebook et al) is not questioned due to dumb society who buy into it, & it's hell to remove, free up memory ..oft requiring full on jailbreak to achieve (beyond many)
The result is time spent (chargeable to my minds eye) tracking down the sites forcing removal & expunging of, if you can get the pic, then likely it has a lot of data-metrics of the originator, time, phone type, location et al, that you can do a comparison with the suspected persons photo signature elsewhere.

"Concerned citizen, or muck spreader" ? challenge em on resolver for your time & good name

Mine starts at £50 an hour, 4 hour minimum.

Definitely just a busybody. I now know who it is, it is the same person that constantly complains about anything and everything. She moans about people not cutting their hedges (fell foul of my neighbour over this, who told her that they were NOT going to murder baby birds to assuage her misplaced desire for tidiness), people having bonfires, she's even moaned about people hanging their washing out on a Sunday (she's under the impression this is illegal).

TBH, I feel sorry for her. She seems to have spent a lot of her life alienating people and complaining. I can't see how that can make anyone feel good about themselves.

On the topic of signage, one of the lads jokingly suggested that he should stick up one of those spoof signs like the graphics that used to be painted on the sides of wartime aircraft. Instead of showing the targets hit, he suggested showing dog walkers that had fallen over in the (now non-existent) mud on the lane. Have to say it made me chuckle. Almost tempted to print something up and stick it on the fence outside.

This forum and the Green Living Forum are my only forays into Social Media - I know FB and IG can be used positively, but, as with all things, they can be used in a destructive/disruptive/damaging manner.

Why people have to use language, behaviour and attitude in such a way in the virtual world that they never would in real life really bemuses me.

Even something that’s actively moderated like the BBC HYS still comes up with some real fruitcakes.

Scary that these people must look normal and walk amongst us.

The Jekyll and Hyde nature of people when using some forms of social media is something I find fascinating.

Many years ago, back in the days of Yahoo Groups, I was active on a forum that used to get a bit heated from time to time. It was always one person that initiated and orchestrated the unpleasantness. After a while I spotted that it was deliberate. This person was undoubtedly very clever (rather wealthy former merchant banker I later found out) and he would post comments that were inflammatory, wait until someone had responded in anger, then edit his post to make it less contentious. The arguments would invariably continue for some time, with him doing as he had originally, making some inflammatory comment (usually about his support for fascism) then editing it after getting people wound up.

It was a predictable pattern, one that I and a few others spotted, yet despite getting warnings from moderators he always managed to claim that he hadn't actually broken any forum rules. The funny thing was that I met him once, several years later. I had no idea what he looked like, or even what his real name was. He knew who I was, though, and came up to me at an event and introduced himself. He was about 5ft tall, over 70 years old and a very unassuming and well-spoken chap, nothing at all like his online persona. I actually quite liked him in real life, but I could never understand why he was so unpleasant online. Just something that amused him, I think.

File her under ignore at all times, best of fortune to you in the build. Sounds like a mentalist to me. Sadly society protects these types and the Darwinian process doesn't get the chance to kick in, sad really.

[Fintray]

Many years ago whilst working in a papermill I got a call passed through from the main gate, from someone that was complaining (about noise IIRC) after speaking with the person I contacted the guy at the main gate and was told this guy regularly phoned to complain about whatever.
I was telling my wife about the call and when I mentioned the guys name she knew exactly who he was (she worked in the local doctors surgery at the time) and said he was a bit of an arse.
Anyway some years after the mill closed down I was reading the local paper and in the letters section here was the same guy complaining about something else. So these type of people must just spend their lives looking for things to complain about rather than contributing anything positive to the community that they life in.
Look on the bright side OGB that person will die at some point and not many people will miss them!