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Anonymous wrote:There's so much unintentional comedy on the more established CCDC listserv, almost all of it from people who are clearly 900 years old.

1. The people who think DC is going to eminent-domain them out of their homes and build Soviet-style superblocks on their property.

2. The people who think the Parthenon -- a dingy, wholly unexceptional Greek restaurant -- is the height of fine dining and regard any new restaurant that tries to open as a menace. One guy called Little Beast's opening "a tragedy." Not their food. The fact that they were allowed to open at all.

3. The people who issue daily warnings about scam calls and emails and don't realize they can avoid them by simply not picking up the phone or not responding to junk email.

4. That one "urbanist" dude who I guess is allowed to play devil's advocate even though he spends half his time talking about how much he hates pedestrians who get in his way while he's on his bike. He seriously talks about running them over with his bike -- he claims he's allowed to do so because DC hasn't built enough bike infrastructure -- and is allowed to do so by the moderator. I'm going to guess he is an ardent GGWash commenter.

The Parthenon posts are really bizarre.

My favorite post of all time was one suggesting that we could arrange to have unscooped dog poop picked up and DNA tested so we could figure out who was leaving it behind.

Turns out it’s 100% that bitch.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post a link to the Chevy Chase MARYLAND listserv ? I can't find it anywhere.

to my knowledge there isnt one. there are people who join the CCDC one, and there is a NextDoor for CHevy Chase MD, but not a classic listserv just for MD folks.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post a link to the Chevy Chase MARYLAND listserv ? I can't find it anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:There's so much unintentional comedy on the more established CCDC listserv, almost all of it from people who are clearly 900 years old.

1. The people who think DC is going to eminent-domain them out of their homes and build Soviet-style superblocks on their property.

2. The people who think the Parthenon -- a dingy, wholly unexceptional Greek restaurant -- is the height of fine dining and regard any new restaurant that tries to open as a menace. One guy called Little Beast's opening "a tragedy." Not their food. The fact that they were allowed to open at all.

3. The people who issue daily warnings about scam calls and emails and don't realize they can avoid them by simply not picking up the phone or not responding to junk email.

4. That one "urbanist" dude who I guess is allowed to play devil's advocate even though he spends half his time talking about how much he hates pedestrians who get in his way while he's on his bike. He seriously talks about running them over with his bike -- he claims he's allowed to do so because DC hasn't built enough bike infrastructure -- and is allowed to do so by the moderator. I'm going to guess he is an ardent GGWash commenter.

The Parthenon posts are really bizarre.

My favorite post of all time was one suggesting that we could arrange to have unscooped dog poop picked up and DNA tested so we could figure out who was leaving it behind.

Anonymous wrote:There's so much unintentional comedy on the more established CCDC listserv, almost all of it from people who are clearly 900 years old.

1. The people who think DC is going to eminent-domain them out of their homes and build Soviet-style superblocks on their property.

2. The people who think the Parthenon -- a dingy, wholly unexceptional Greek restaurant -- is the height of fine dining and regard any new restaurant that tries to open as a menace. One guy called Little Beast's opening "a tragedy." Not their food. The fact that they were allowed to open at all.

3. The people who issue daily warnings about scam calls and emails and don't realize they can avoid them by simply not picking up the phone or not responding to junk email.

4. That one "urbanist" dude who I guess is allowed to play devil's advocate even though he spends half his time talking about how much he hates pedestrians who get in his way while he's on his bike. He seriously talks about running them over with his bike -- he claims he's allowed to do so because DC hasn't built enough bike infrastructure -- and is allowed to do so by the moderator. I'm going to guess he is an ardent GGWash commenter.

Anonymous wrote:The moderator of this listserve once substantively re-wrote a post I had submitted and posted it on the listserve without advising me she had re-written it or adding a preface that the post had been edited.

Anonymous wrote:Can more people please leave the horrible original CC list-serv and move over to the new one? It's even more insufferable now, and the comedy gold that could help us get through this awful time in history on the Best of Chevy Chase (DC) Listerv on Twitter is being ignored. I stay for the sheer volume of eyeballs when I need to sell something - need more people here! https://groups.google.com/g/THE-Chevy-Chase-Google-Group

Anonymous wrote:The complaining and negativity is why I was really hoping the new list-serv would take off - and honestly I figured the younger people would migrate there, and the older people would stay on the moderated/edited original list-serv. I stay because it gets so many eyeballs, and postings about volunteering/donating/community events have been helpful, but I do really not appreciate the edits. People sign their names, but every post gets edited by the moderator, so it's not even really truly from the author, if one is being honest.

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Anonymous wrote:If the sender is willing to send it to 1000 or so recipients, they must understand that the recipients could do anything with their messages including posting on Twitter, printing in a newspaper, making flyers and posting them... once the hit “send” it’s out of their control what happens and the Twitter pp has every right to put it on Twitter.

Then they should use their name.

No, there is nothing in twitter that forces them to use their name and nothing on list serve agreement that prohibits them from publishing any communication. If the senders don’t like their communication on twitter then they shouldn’t be sending it to 1000 or strangers (even neighbors) on the internet. So think before hitting that send button.

We're talking about normal standards of decency, not what someone can legally get away with. Whoever started that twitter account obviously has as many mental and emotional (and character...) issues as the people he's trying to ridicule. At least they're willing to post their opinions with their names attached to them.

I think the site is quite humorous. Because it's real and just a small snapshot of what actually happens across all the various CC neighborhoods.

Odd one could say the poster has mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it hits too close to home?

CC is full of 70-80+ people who have decided their end life goal is to complain about everything. Not that every house has such people, just there are a few on every block and all they do is post complaints, go to meetings to complain, and actually yell at people for doing whatever one does in the suburbs. I have no scientific idea why this non-stop complaining seems to correlate to age, but there appears to be a relationship. When you see a number of specific names coming through on an email from the listserv, you just know it's going to be a rambling complaint.