#2881

yeah - I got a cheap dishwasher off it the other day. I put up with all the rubbish on there cos it can come in handy

#2882

It’s a weird psychological quirk that despite the fact we now have available to us massive data of crowd-sourced reviews, people still seem to value single personal recommendations, even if they’re from strangers. I work for a company that deals with this, and it’s so frustrating - why would you listen to what one person has said, when you could listen to what 100 people have said!

#2883

I chucked our old washer dryer on the front lawn expecting a scrap man to have it away within minutes. Was still there 3 days later. Posted on FB and some bloke who uses the drums to make patio wood burner things came and had it. Sorted.

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#2884

As someone who is really struggling to get hold of a window cleaner, I see no problem with this.

But I’m Not On Facebook.

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#2885

it’s when you get the same people repeatedly doing it though, asking someone to hold their hand through every minor decision and task in their life.

#2886

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#2887

Yoga’s probably a fair one tbh, the difference between teachers is so vast that I really doubt I’d go to one if I hadn’t had a fairly decent recommendation from someone I knew.

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#2888

People who post this kind of trash have absolutely no idea of the percentage of benefits that get paid out to different groups of people. If they read the truth from official government statistics they wouldn’t believe it anyway, though.

#2889

I’m sure someone’s asked about this recently on the local Facebook groups. Want me to copy and paste the responses for you? :wink:

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#2890

I’ve got a feeling my mum now belongs in here. Since she’s got a new laptop and taken an extra day off each week, she’s pumping her hot takes on Facebook.

#2891

Taking the caps-coloured text only…

HI SOCIAL MEDIA MY LIFE SPOUSE AND FAMILY NOT MARRIAGE PLEASE SOCIAL MEDIA

this is clearly a coded cry for help

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#2892

I would say yes but I don’t live in that area any more.

#2893

you guys are so cynical :grin:

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#2894

The flip side of that though is that when you look at items with many reviews, individual ones become kind of meaningless. For example every single hotel will have a few reviews stating that it’s the worst hotel in the world. I recently bought a new washing machine, all I wanted was something that would wash my clothes and not take too long and was fairly cheap (really cheap ones take like three hours), but they get three star reviews because what other people want is different from what I need. I don’t need an £800 washing machine which has a hundred settings that I won’t use. Some items on Amazon get one star because they were out when it was delivered. There can be such a thing as too many reviews.

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#2895

Who wants some of Ol’ Ma 29’s Facebook current affairs hot takes? Everyone? Good!

Can’t remember the context for this one…

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#2896

Dear god

#2897

Loving the use of !! to signify a blistering take

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#2898

Great isn’t she? Didn’t realise it was such gold. Glad I un-unfollowed her :laughing: Today’s shittake is about obese kids.

#2899

:ok_hand:

#2900
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