• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

“I Hate Neighbourhood Snitches”

by Toby Young
10 May 2021 2:08 PM

A reader spotted a good comment by someone styling herself “Delores” on Nextdoor.co.uk, a website that hosts numerous local forums. This one was headed “Neighbourhood Snitches”:

I hate Neighbourhood Snitches. Unbelievable, after over a year in lockdown, a family decides to have a celebration in their garden with just a few family and friends and their neighbour opposite – not next door, opposite! – decides to take a photo of them in their garden, post the photo on a neighbourhood WhatsApp group asking whether they should report them and one of the group members informs them to contact the police!!!

The neighbour complains that the family are disturbing them. The police show up and stop the celebration. This is on a beautiful Sunday evening between 6-7Pm. The disturbed neighbour had their window open whilst taking the photo. How disturbed were they really?? This is the calibre of neighbour living on XXXXXXX Road. You know who you are. I hate Neighbourhood Snitches!!!! And the police need to find better ways of spending their time!!!

The reader replied to this person in the forum:

Magnificent comment, Delores. Do, please, one day go to the War Tunnels in Jersey (if you’ve yet to do so). The tunnels – built by the Germans – now house a museum about Jersey’s wartime occupation. There is one exhibit which it is impossible to forget: a small rather crumpled piece of paper on which, in faint pencil, are written two names – those of a father and son who listened to a radio [banned, of course]. The note was written by a neighbour informing the Germans. Father and son were shot.

Tags: SnitchesStasi

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

The Electorate Didn’t Endorse the Lockdown Policy Last Week; They Just Plumped For the Least Terrible of the Pro-Lockdown Parties

Next Post

Covid Recovery Group Calls on Boris to End All Restrictions on June 21st

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

20 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
cinnamonpress
cinnamonpress
3 years ago

Our neighbour called the police, the accusation that we were having a party. We were actually watching the Voice. Not my cup of tea, if I had my way we would have cancelled our BBC funding by now. However, we have a family with remarkable lung capacity and the SAGEgovt had at the time threatened the nation with a fine (or worse) if we didn’t ‘stay home to protect the NHS’. It was Saturday night and yes it was noisy as our imprisoned teens joined in with comedy voice and unfortunately, percussion. At the door, the masked investigators tested out their freshly acquired 101 detective skills, asked a few questions, looked us up and down (no party clothes, inebriation or glass in hand). One pair of eyes appeared to glint in the moonlight as they settled on a celebratory banner. Is it possibly someone’s birthday? Perhaps there has been a little party after all? Husband smiled sweetly and mildly remarked on it being from a child’s birthday some weeks prior. He stayed firmly in front of me, aiming to end the inquisition with charm and understanding, sensing that I was internally constructing a more acerbic response to the masked enquirers, young enough to be our children. This SAGEgovt has done many bad things, one little one being them pitching neighbour against neighbour, in fact actually enlisting the vinegary ones to spread a little reflux through their community. We have a way to go before we are through this tyranny but hopefully in time we will be able to unify and relate well, but only once everyone is in reality about how this SAGEgovt has used and abused its citizens.

Last edited 3 years ago by cinnamonpress
70
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  cinnamonpress

without a doubt people use these “rules” to get at someone who is annoying them, same as blasphemy laws in some countries.

16
0
chaos
chaos
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

When I had county lines dealers next door we used covid to get the police out when dealing was occuring because it appeared to result in a more immediate and consistent response. As it happens the scumbag dealers were then done for dealing when attending a covid breach.

8
0
HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago

Nextdoor.co.uk. Something resembling a scrappily put together memo was shoved through my door a couple of years ago. It was this organisation. As I was already getting suspicious and cynical about data gathering it looked far too amateur to look credible. Then the Rona kicked off last year, and we had another one of these “memos’ inviting to get together with our neighbours, help each other out, be kind and all the rest. It looked grassroots. It wasn’t. It’s a global tech company calling itself “hyperlocal” to land into communities and gather information and spread misinformation apparently. People in my got a bit excited about it but I refused to join in. So glad I didn’t.

36
0
Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

It really is a truly dreadful thing. The version hereabouts, to which I do not subscribe (along with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the other sewers) seems to provide a useful service in finding lost animals, keys etc., answering enquiries about various services that people want, and flogging stuff. Unfortunately, that’s perhaps 50% of the content.

The other half is bitching, griping, stool-pigeoning and curtain-twitching, with a heavy admixture of propaganda, lockdown-loving and complaints about non-wearing of “face coverings” by people who probably wear them in bed, as Poirot wears his moustache net.

I understand that a few robust characters have posted things, not just about Covid, but also trenchant criticism of local matters and people, which “step outside the narrative”, and have been rewarded with bans and censorships. That being so, they have without doubt protected both their sanity and integrity by being chucked off the heap of ordure that is Nextdoor.

Last edited 3 years ago by Hopeless - "TN,BN"
29
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

by the way if anyone does have a good supply of pigeon stools, do please get in touch.

1
0
JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/lk-samuels/the-fascist-left-myth-or-reality/

1
0
alw
alw
3 years ago

Next Door is a nasty website. Scares the sh.t out of people reporting supposed criminal activity in your area. During this last year it has allowed scammers to post recommendations about dodgy tradespeople. Avoid like the plague.

16
0
AllieT
AllieT
3 years ago

Yes I think the neighbour was definitely disturbed … in the head!

7
0
Silke David
Silke David
3 years ago

I used to be a member and found it quite useful for tradespeople recommendations.
I actually came to this site via a recommendation from a fellow ND user, but they sent me a private message, seems they feared the snitches?
My account was suspended after someone complained as I once again asked people to use their common sense and weigh up risk and mental/physical health in regards corona restrictions.
To get back on they asked me to verify quite private information, so I did not bother.

16
0
I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

I hate Neighbourhood Snitches!!!!

Me too – I loathe snitchers with a passion.

In my opinion if a person is accused of something then they have a right to know who the accuser is and face them – especially if the allegations have been proven to be unfounded. Anyone that has an axe to grind can call anonymously and report someone they dislike for absolutely anything.

Someone to snitch on the snitchers would be poetic justice – all those who snitched on their neighbours during lockdown revealed by a snitcher … give the lockdown snitchers a dose of their own medicine.

What goes around comes around.

15
0
Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Today’s snitches would have been WW2 collaborators, sending their neighbours to death without a qualm.
After the war, rough justice caught up with some of those foul people. Think on.

28
0
Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Tar? Feathers?

8
0
Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

Aye, plenty of both.

9
0
J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

We have some of the most selfish ignorant people I’ve ever known as neighbours. They make our lives hell on almost a daily basis; breaking our stuff, parking on our drive, using our drive to hold building materials (once, they even put a skip on our drive just before we moved in), their son fires up to 13 balls (including a basket ball) and other objects into our small garden within one playing stint and lately, the balls have started hitting our kitchen window. The list is really extensive.

Despite all this, I refused to dob them into the police for constantly breaking and continue to break lockdown ‘rules’. Even when they were having loud parties in the garden with multiple families in attendance late into the night, I stubbornly refused to grass on them.

In terms of the article above, I really don’t understand the mentality of someone calling the police on a neighbour who they’ve previously had no conflict with.

I truly believe society is malfunctioning.

20
0
Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Know how you feel.
Hell is truly other people.

5
0
Stephanos
Stephanos
3 years ago

One of the most distressing things about this whole saga has been the attitude, or rather non-attitude of the Church. I have yet to hear of ANY clergyman fulminating against these people, yet here is a flagrant abuse of neighbourliness and friendship.
I sometimes have met clergymen and women when out for a walk and have represented this to them in no uncertain terms; apart from some shiftiness when I mention it, this has had no effect whatsoever.
Well done Delores and to the reader commenting on her post.

7
0
debra
debra
3 years ago
Reply to  Stephanos

I would highly recommend checking out the Irreverend podcast http://irreverend.org.uk/podcast/ – wonderfully sceptic; filled with the Gospel and much humour.

1
0
bowlsman
bowlsman
3 years ago

It’s a long life. I would make sure I had the most noisey party at every family celebration for ever. And take photos of them for posting as well. These people are stupid as are sites like that.

3
0
Crystal Decanter
Crystal Decanter
3 years ago

How on earth could anyone in National Socialist Germany go along with it??

1
0

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

In Episode 35 of the Sceptic: Andrew Doyle on Labour’s Grooming Gang Shame, Andrew Orlowski on the India-UK Trade Deal and Canada’s Ignored Covid Vaccine Injuries

by Richard Eldred
9 May 2025
1

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

BBC Quietly Edits Question Time After Wrongly ‘Correcting’ Richard Tice on Key Net Zero Claim

9 May 2025

News Round-Up

9 May 2025

Sun-Dimming Quango has £800 Million of Taxpayer Money to Blow – and a CEO on £450k

8 May 2025

What Does David Lammy Mean by a State?

9 May 2025

Electric Car Bursts into Flames on Driveway and Engulfs £550,000 Family Home

9 May 2025

News Round-Up

26

The Sugar Tax Sums Up Our Descent into Technocratic Dystopia

26

Electric Car Bursts into Flames on Driveway and Engulfs £550,000 Family Home

16

“I Was a Super Fit Cyclist Until I Had the Moderna Covid Vaccine. What Happened Next Left Me Wishing I Was Dead”

11

What Does David Lammy Mean by a State?

11

BBC Quietly Edits Question Time After Wrongly ‘Correcting’ Richard Tice on Key Net Zero Claim

9 May 2025

Electric Car Bursts into Flames on Driveway and Engulfs £550,000 Family Home

9 May 2025

“I Was a Super Fit Cyclist Until I Had the Moderna Covid Vaccine. What Happened Next Left Me Wishing I Was Dead”

9 May 2025

Nature Paper Claims to Pin Liability for ‘Climate Damages’ on Oil Companies

9 May 2025

What Does David Lammy Mean by a State?

9 May 2025

POSTS BY DATE

May 2021
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Apr   Jun »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
wpDiscuz
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

You are going to send email to

Move Comment
Perfecty
Do you wish to receive notifications of new articles?
Notifications preferences