My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

It seems to me they just see animals as money making things. I know there are people like that from all walks of life though, not just them.

I've never been able to understand why they measure their status by how many horses they own - especially if they neglect them?

& I agree with the poster who wondered how they pay for such elaborate weddings - I wouldn't have a hope!
 
To much generalisation, BUT you have confused tinkers with Gypsies, different species altogether, even so not all as you describe, could it be something they said?;)
 
Poor lass, Joan. I felt dreadfully sorry for her. I hope to God that if she really enRAB up that unhappy in her marriage that she can find strength to get out of it, despite her traveller credentials of 'oh, I must never get divorced'.

Honey, if you're reading this and you're unhappy, you better believe that you can get out of this if you really want to.

I know she won't be reading this etc etc, but her story really bothered me.
 
'Prejudice':mad: IMO the prejudice they get is because of ordinary peoples experiences of some/a lot of their worst elements.
IF as they say they're such a close knit and self contained community, you'd think they would want to reign in these bad/worst elements. Which would go some way to removing these so called 'prejudices'
Also the policy of not intergrating/marrying 'country folk' is hardly an endearing trait. Obviously they think we're not worthy of them or their lifestyle. They've put up the barriers, and then complain when they recieve hostility & prejudice.
 
Whats to get? They think they look nice because in their culture thats what ''nice'' is. Trashy clothes don't always equate to trashy person anyway, even in our ''normal'' culture.
 
"Is it really" - tinker is quite an offensive word, I'm pretty sure no-one would use it to self-identify, it's very similar to pikey.

Gypsy is a catch all word which covers Travellers and Roma people (who I think are originally, as in centuries back) from the Indian sub-continent.
 
They sound like the Geordies we see on the box enjoying (if throwing up all over the town is enjoying) themselves.
OR IS IT VERY GOOD EDITING.by the way the people you mention are tinkers,as was the wedding folk. ;)
 
Did anyone else notice that Joan's mother started off with a strong Irish accent, then at the wedding she had changd to very broad Lancastrian.
 
I thought they came out of it rather well, apart from the gaudy wedding dresses.

Not a fight to be seen, no drunken women weeing in the gutter, nor a lot of bad language.

Strange that the women were, on the most part, very, very good looking, yet the blokes pug ugly to a man.

So maybe a wee bit of inbreeding isn't that bad for the gene pool.
 
Walking down the street with sandwiches....nooooo.
They probably had the trays sticking out of their huge vehicles windows.
That way it looks like burger stalls.
 
Oh. My. Fkn. God. I have been crying for four flaming years thinking he died from that heart attack - not to mention TELLING people he died :o:o He had it in the courtrooms battling with the local council and then it was all insinuated he'd passed away in the docu and he was never mentioned again.
 
There are lots of gypsy sites around here, where I live - most of them "legal" but quite a lot of them completely illegal.......

.........like the traveller "site" they set up in the car park at Asda Gravesend. Their large dogs were running loose, out in front of cars and shoppers were scared to leave their cars unattended incase it was broken into whilst they were inside! They parked their caravans across the front of the car park entrances to prevent the Police from getting in to evict them

or in the Yellow car park in Bluewater during the summer - they set up their own patio tables and large brollies so they could eat al-fresco, all the food that had been robbed from M&S....

the large private bit of land at the back of the Hospital - where the Traveller men angle grinded the large metal gates and barriers that were there to prevent "unauthorised access" off the hinges, so they could drive their top of the range Merc 4x4s onto the land...then the tipper trucks....the flat back lorries.....and a couple of old totter carts....

....so now, all around my village - which is considered "rural", the council have "humped" up the edges of the green spaces to prevent the travellers from just driving their 'vans onto the fielRAB.....

and those that live in the houses a few streets away - they have their 'vans in the gardens ;)

it's so easy to spot an ex-Traveller house around here, they are the ones with tall ornate iron gates across the front of their driveways with a flat back lorry parked outside.

To be truthful, they are not very popular. The children are not well behaved at all; the horse owners tend to tie their ponies up to their front doors (not a lie) and the older kiRAB are a menace on their Imp motorbikes just driving around and around at high speed - sometimes three on the bike!

The man who lives across the road to me, got into a bit of a contretemps with a couple of them, who were having a conversation with each other, whilst they were in their cars on the main road that leaRAB into the road where we live. He asked them if one could just move their car, so he could go past. A "discussion" broke out about who had right of way etc ;) which got a bit heated....
The next day my neighbour woke up to find his car covered in white gloss paint that had been deliberately poured over it.

So unfortunately, there is little sight of "god fearing" "well behaved" travellers around here I am afraid.
 
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