My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

[rutabowa]

All of it.

Alcohol at Indian weddings, none at Pakistani weddings.

but look your first reply: as well as not being relevant it is just inaccurate. wound me up.

 

[Melinda]

The muse- 'Coming to America'

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

but look your first reply: as well as not being relevant it is just inaccurate. wound me up.

@ weddings in India you will usually find alcohol, at weddings in Pakistan you not find alcohol. What is inaccurate about that?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The muse- 'Coming to America'

Is that the bride he makes hop on one leg and bark like a dog?

 

[rutabowa]

@ weddings in India you will usually find alcohol, at weddings in Pakistan you not find alcohol. What is inaccurate about that?

that's not what you said though. you were replying to me, talking about this wedding in the programme.

 

[Santino]

You get booze at Sikh weddings; you may or may not get booze at Hindu weddings; you tend not to get boozy at Muslim weddings.

 

[Dan U]

Whereas all the Gypsies I've talked to about last night's programme hated it.

you actually know some though and aren't trying to score cheap internet points.

 

[tarannau]

(that's an Indian handbag btw)

 

[5t3IIa]

The muse- 'Coming to America'

Oh, well done. I forgot about that

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

that's not what you said though. you were replying to me, talking about this wedding in the programme.

You wanted to know how to tell the difference between Indian and Pakistani weddings. I told you and the answer has wound you up.

 

[rutabowa]

You wanted to know how to tell the difference between Indian and Pakistani weddings. I told you and the answer has wound you up.

No i didn't. I said it was presumptuous of the journalist to decide whether it was an indian or a pakistani wedding from a 2 second glance whizzing past in a van; you replied defending him saying it was probably because he had seen alcohol there that he knew it was an indian wedding. i thought this to be a ridiculous and unlikely defence of him.

 

[girasol]

(that's an Indian handbag btw)

 

[Ground Elder]

One question I have... the narrator made reference to the two types of gypsy groups in the UK, that being Irish gypsies, and the other being Romany. It also says that mixing with people outside the gypsy community is forbidden. Does anyone know if Irish and Romany groups are allowed to mix? Or is that also forbidden? It seems these shows are exclusively given over to gypsies of Irish descent so there wasn't much perspective on if the same values and stuff is true of the Romany community.

Irish Travellers not Irish Gypsies. Irish Travellers and Gypsies do share sites and marry, but they are two distinct cultures with different languages, religions, culture, history and traditions. The Gypsies I was with this morning certainly have no time for Irish Travellers. They hated the programme as they felt they would be judged by the behaviour of the Irish which they considered shameful. One girl wouldn't go to school this morning as she knew all her gorja class mates will have watched it.

What My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding depicts is not typical and mostly does not feature Gypsies. Don't go thinking you've gained a real insight into Gypsy culture through watching this programme.

 

[boerable]

Having been born into to a travelling family and the 1st one of my family to live in a house.I know the treatment by the Irish government and the church (move into a house or lose the kids) has cause a very them and us

As much as i love my family i can't denied that they view non travellers with distrust and fair game for some pretty shitty things

 

[Echo Base]

I used to drink in a pub which a lot of travellers used to drink in - all nice fellas - but anyway they didn't seem to have many reservations about flirting with non-travelling women. No idea if anything ever happened or if it was just flirting though. Also they used to buy us a fuckload of drinks. I liked them!

Most of it, if not all if they are proper traveller boys, is just flirting as with these lads its all about front. They love a bit of a gammon with outside girls but most of them would run a mile if one said, yeah ok, outside in 5.

 

[Echo Base]

Well I'm interested. What's the deal with that? For a community that's so protective over its children, it seems odd that they're happy to let them make their own way to a massive ceremony like communion on their own with only a limo driver as adult supervision.

Its all about front. They would fly them in individually on a 747 and land in the Priests backgarden if they could. EVERYTHING with these lads is about showing off to the other lads.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

No i didn't. I said it was presumptuous of the journalist to decide whether it was an indian or a pakistani wedding from a 2 second glance whizzing past in a van; you replied defending him saying it was probably because he had seen alcohol there that he knew it was an indian wedding. i thought this to be a ridiculous and unlikely defence of him.

But the journalist decided no such thing.

I stated how you can tell the difference between and Indian and Pakistani wedding.

The journalist merely suggested a non-racist term for a person who hails from the Indian subcontinent to the racist transit van driving groom, he made no mention of the wedding at all.

 

[Santino]

What's a gorja?

 

[Ground Elder]

Romany word for anyone who isn't a Gypsy.

 

[Echo Base]

What's a gorja?

Traveller word for anyone outside the community. Romany in origin I believe.

 

[rutabowa]

But the journalist decided no such thing.

I stated how you can tell the difference between and Indian and Pakistani wedding.

The journalist merely suggested a non-racist term for a person who hails from the Indian subcontinent to the racist transit van driving groom, he made no mention of the wedding at all.

ok so yuo were just showing off with a random fact that didn't actually reply to my post then... which was still inaccurate as lots of indian weddings don't have alcohol.

 

[Echo Base]

I liked Swanley until he laughed about being directed to the P*** wedding.

I thought that was hilarious, mostly because a 7ft traveller in a transit pulled up to a bloke asking where the church was and the bloke said, you here for the wedding, he said yes, and the bloke directed him to the Asian wedding. Fantastic.

 

[Santino]

Romany word for anyone who isn't a Gypsy.

Does it have a literal meaning? Like 'round-eyed devil' or something?

 

[Dan U]

Does it have a literal meaning? Like 'round-eyed devil' or something?

thats the chinese word for white people!

i forget how you say it now.

 

[Echo Base]

thats the chinese word for white people!

i forget how you say it now.

gwi-lo

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

ok so yuo were just showing off with a random fact that didn't actually reply to my post then... which was still inaccurate as lots of indian weddings don't have alcohol.

Nope. Just winding you up for jumping in calling people presumptuous and racist when you'd actually grabbed the wrong end of a shitty stick.

 

[fractionMan]

I've not seen the latest one but I saw the one before and remember thinking they're Irish travellers not gypsies. So why is it called blah blah gypsy wedding?

 

[rutabowa]

Nope. Just winding you up for jumping in calling people presumptuous and racist when you'd actually grabbed the wrong end of a shitty stick.

i was calling the journalist in the programme presumptuous. i don't know why you are so intent on defending him. and i would have thought my calling him "racist" was quite obviously taking the piss. so it is you who has had the wrong end of the stick all this time.

 

[Ground Elder]

Does it have a literal meaning? Like 'round-eyed devil' or something?

The Romany language has its roots in north Indian languages and shares some words, including a version of gorja, with Punjabi.

 

[Dandred]

I'd love to see a new age traveler wedding!