SFC, are you aware that a festival for children may have to be called off because a group of gypsies set up camp on the grounds where it was to be held? The gov't can try to remove them through a court order, but that would still take weeks, by which time the festival would be due to be over anyway ... they say the grounds are already polluted with human waste.
The gypsies also leave bags of trash behind and generally scar the environment, they don't care about preserving the tranquility of the spots they roll into.
I don't hate any gypsy for his or her blood or ethnic make-up, that doesn't matter to me at all - but it doesn't stop me from thinking that the majority of them are pains-in-the-ass. Sounds harsh, I know, but they are.
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SFC SKI
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:38 am
MEM, maybe you were referring to those who adopt a certain, ahen, "freewheeling" lifestyle as gypsies, whereas I thought you were referring to the ethnic Gypsies. If that is the case, I see your point.
I don't know how the situation would be resolved in England, but something like this would probably be resolved by local police running off these filthy creatures, or arresting them. Of course, so bleeding heart from some gated community would probably file a suit on their behalf.
SFC Ski: "Of course, some bleeding heart from some gated community would probably file a suit on their behalf."
That is exactly what happens here. Social policy is completely in the hands of the human rights-mad loonies (who advocate human rights even for creatures who don't act human like those filthy freewheelers/freeloaders we were discussing, or terrorists [especially illegal immigrant terrorists]). Cherie Blair is really the one running the country, not Tony - or at least that's how it so often seems.
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Wade
Sep 17, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Child of nature you are way over romantizing Roma. We hurt each other and Gaje(non Roma) all the time.Mac Diva Gypsies are probably more materialistic than most Americans.They love "things" and even worship them especially clothes,cars and jewelry.
Gypsies are very interesting Peeps .Do you know any personaly ? Or are you just speaking from hearsay ?
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STM
Nov 08, 2009 at 7:05 am
Known any personally? Well, I've never had dinner with one as far as I know, although if I ever did, I'd make sure I put my wallet somewhere where it couldn't be easily got at.
I have been "personally" robbed by gypsies on the Paris metro, though. What fun that was.
Luckily, the woman I was with must have looked like an angel to the little gypsy boy who - as part of a large family scam involving the old distraction while getting pickpocketed/bag opened - stole her wallet containing passport, cash, credit cards, etc.
While I wanted to belt him, she knelt down and spoke to him kindly and softly and he went off to his sister and came back with the wallet, with everything in it.
Later, the gypsy mother cursed me on the platform.
Returning an hour or so later through the same station, they were there again. The boy smiled and waved. My girlfriend smiled and waved back. The mother looked dark, and glared at us, cursing again, and a gendarme was offering nothing but the classic, disinterested gallic shrug as a British tourist tried in vain to explain to him - in English - that she'd been "robbed by those gypsies over there".
I suspect the gypsy mother's curse worked on both of us. I wish I knew exactly what the bloody thing was.
Regarding the reputation of gypsies, fair or unfair: in Australia, 13,000 miles from the Europe of our forbears, the slang for being ripped off is "gypped" (as in jipped).
No prizes for guessing why.
As for the little gypsy boy ... I hope he went on to have a good life, and that it didn't involve him taking over the family business.
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26 - Mark Edward Manning
SFC, are you aware that a festival for children may have to be called off because a group of gypsies set up camp on the grounds where it was to be held? The gov't can try to remove them through a court order, but that would still take weeks, by which time the festival would be due to be over anyway ... they say the grounds are already polluted with human waste.
The gypsies also leave bags of trash behind and generally scar the environment, they don't care about preserving the tranquility of the spots they roll into.
I don't hate any gypsy for his or her blood or ethnic make-up, that doesn't matter to me at all - but it doesn't stop me from thinking that the majority of them are pains-in-the-ass. Sounds harsh, I know, but they are.
27 - SFC SKI
MEM, maybe you were referring to those who adopt a certain, ahen, "freewheeling" lifestyle as gypsies, whereas I thought you were referring to the ethnic Gypsies. If that is the case, I see your point.
I don't know how the situation would be resolved in England, but something like this would probably be resolved by local police running off these filthy creatures, or arresting them. Of course, so bleeding heart from some gated community would probably file a suit on their behalf.
28 - Mark Edward Manning
SFC Ski: "Of course, some bleeding heart from some gated community would probably file a suit on their behalf."
That is exactly what happens here. Social policy is completely in the hands of the human rights-mad loonies (who advocate human rights even for creatures who don't act human like those filthy freewheelers/freeloaders we were discussing, or terrorists [especially illegal immigrant terrorists]). Cherie Blair is really the one running the country, not Tony - or at least that's how it so often seems.
29 - Wade
Child of nature you are way over romantizing Roma. We hurt each other and Gaje(non Roma) all the time.Mac Diva Gypsies are probably more materialistic than most Americans.They love "things" and even worship them especially clothes,cars and jewelry.
30 - shirley King
Gypsies are vvery interesting peeps . Do you know any personally ?
31 - shirley King
Gypsies are very interesting Peeps .Do you know any personaly ? Or are you just speaking from hearsay ?
32 - STM
Known any personally? Well, I've never had dinner with one as far as I know, although if I ever did, I'd make sure I put my wallet somewhere where it couldn't be easily got at.
I have been "personally" robbed by gypsies on the Paris metro, though. What fun that was.
Luckily, the woman I was with must have looked like an angel to the little gypsy boy who - as part of a large family scam involving the old distraction while getting pickpocketed/bag opened - stole her wallet containing passport, cash, credit cards, etc.
While I wanted to belt him, she knelt down and spoke to him kindly and softly and he went off to his sister and came back with the wallet, with everything in it.
Later, the gypsy mother cursed me on the platform.
Returning an hour or so later through the same station, they were there again. The boy smiled and waved. My girlfriend smiled and waved back. The mother looked dark, and glared at us, cursing again, and a gendarme was offering nothing but the classic, disinterested gallic shrug as a British tourist tried in vain to explain to him - in English - that she'd been "robbed by those gypsies over there".
I suspect the gypsy mother's curse worked on both of us. I wish I knew exactly what the bloody thing was.
Regarding the reputation of gypsies, fair or unfair: in Australia, 13,000 miles from the Europe of our forbears, the slang for being ripped off is "gypped" (as in jipped).
No prizes for guessing why.
As for the little gypsy boy ... I hope he went on to have a good life, and that it didn't involve him taking over the family business.