My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

[Gromit]

Sorry my other thought about the programme.

Is there really a market for Monster truck limos?!!!!!

I was aghast that such a thing exists.
If he liked it and it made his day more special then I'm happy for him... ... but really? With a stripper's pole too? Mmmm classy!

Monster trucks are for the mindless destruction of other autos (and maybe running over nazis). Period! Not for ferrying people around.

 

[Ground Elder]

In this programme the impression we were given is that no one is ever going to get that cooperation from the wider Gypsy and Traveller communities due to issolationist beliefs.

I don't know how true that assertion was or whether it was the programme makers making excuses.

There's an increasing awareness by Gypsies and Travellers of the need to engage with the media to dispel myths, stereotypes and prejudice. It is one of the reasons they are so frustrated by My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding as it is seen as a missed opportunity to demonstrate the positive aspects of Gypsy and Traveller life.

 

[toggle]

This groundy chap really has tickets on himself.

ah.

well, someone who knows what they are talking about and dosen't aggree with you seemms to always piss you off no end.

well done ground elder.

 

[kained&able]

it wasn't a monster truck it was clearly a big rig. Trade and standards will be onto the company.

dave

 

[TruXta]

it wasn't a monster truck it was clearly a big rig. Trade and standards will be onto the company.

dave

Damn right!

 

[joustmaster]

cracking tv

 

[Melinda]

Its Victorians checking out naked Hottentot ladies in an exhibit.

 

[zoooo]

I would consider a proper monster truck to arrive at my wedding in. Not one with a pole though.#

I thought the little boy on last night's was very sweet . (The one watching the destruction of the camp over a wall.)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

it wasn't a monster truck it was clearly a big rig. Trade and standards will be onto the company.

dave

Trading standards will be on to you.



And I would love to be ferried around in that truck.

And wholly agree that a dress ain't a dress until it comes with a fire extinguisher.

 

[Part 2]

It's always better to make your own gypsy stock rather than use a cube.

I realised after it was a bit of a shit word to use I was thinking aloud rather than expecting someone to out the poster.

Just watched part 2. I liked Patrick, he looked to be a good bloke, would've been good to hear from his parents I thought. The girl's Mum was more than anyone on the series so far.

Also liked Jerry, the 12 year old kid, seemed a very insightful and articulate lad.

I don't like the scouse dressmaker, fucking irritating she is.

 

[Melinda]

Im laughing because the non traveller mum of the bride really was proper horrifying!

I dont mind the dress maker- she's discreet.

 

[May Kasahara]

Im laughing because the non traveller mum of the bride really was proper horrifying!

She looked like a negative

 

[zoooo]

I'm thinking/hoping she'll see herself on screen, and suddenly realise her skin is so brown it's purple, and her lipstick grey and snap out of it.

 

[Melinda]

She looked like a negative

I just saw your name and yelped with joy!! Hey my sweet

Im *still* laughing at that woman!

 

[likesfish]

tbf if a traveller wedding goes wrong it goes horribly horribly wrong
there was one in northan ireland where they used chinooks to ferry troops into stop the mayhem

 

[madamv]

She looked like a negative

Ha! Brilliant! So true!

 

[rutabowa]

tbf if a traveller wedding goes wrong it goes horribly horribly wrong
there was one in northan ireland where they used chinooks to ferry troops into stop the mayhem

cool, have you got a link to the news report!

 

[London_Calling]

I've only just twigged, this show is actually about monster dresses isn't it? 'Monster dresses and the women that drive them'.

 

[Gromit]

Monster truck big rig dresses on acid.

 

[Space Girl]

my OH is a didicoy - with his mum being Romany and his dad being Irish (not an Irish traveller himself but from Irish traveller decent) - makes for a weird look I can tell you ;-) and thankfully he does not want marry me so no big frock for moi!

 

[Santino]

We had to read that damn Diddakoi book at school.

 

[N_igma]

How many people actually know travellers? (not romany). The travellers I know drink, take drugs, have sex outside marriage, mingle with non-gypsies and will kick the flying fuck out of you if you get on the wrong side of them! This show romanticises the fuck out of them and I think they play up to the cameras!

 

[twentythreedom]

pikeys, lol. good on 'em, i say. they are the new middle england.

 

[N_igma]

pikeys, lol. good on 'em, i say. they are the new middle england.

The English ones must have been tamed by the inferior English gene. Proper Irish gypos will kill ya!

 

[grit]

The English ones must have been tamed by the inferior English gene. Proper Irish gypos will kill ya!

They are certainly far better spoken then the ones at home.

 

[twentythreedom]

The English ones must have been tamed by the inferior English gene. Proper Irish gypos will kill ya!

exactly. no cross-breeding required, middle england is saved. yay!

 

[girasol]

Isn't it illegal to deprive children of basic education? That poor 12 year-old girl didn't look like she wanted to be taken out of school to clean, cook and look after her siblings!!!!!!!!

 

[gabi]

I think the dressmaker explained that one - the parents feed the schools lies about the kids moving back to ireland.

fucked up. very fucked up. i know theres selective editing going on with this prog but even that cant excuse what a misogynist community this is.

 

[girasol]

ah, must have got distracted and missed that bit... I am now really finding it hard to sympathise with their way of living - I know I'd go insane living like that, even if I had been trained to think that was all that life had to offer... It's not like they don't watch tv/movies, so they know there's more to life than looking after husband/family. Their double standards are insane

It's not like they are some unspoiled tribe where the men go hunting and the women stay back preparing the food. It's something else altogether... It's totally opressive of women in the worse possible way, by depriving them of an education and choice.

 

[skyscraper101]

I thought the little boy on last night's was very sweet . (The one watching the destruction of the camp over a wall.)

He actually brought a tear to my eye. Him talking (very articulately too) about the destruction of his home summed up the problem that many travellers face in living peacefully as travellers in Britain today. For me, it was the best bit of the series so far. A brief moment of reality away from gaudy dresses and 8 year olds getting spray tans.

I'm still not sure about this show. One one level it is a rare insight into some aspects of traveller life, but the show does seem to have an agenda to focus on the 'outrageous' aspects of traveller life rather than offer a more in-depth look at a society constantly under threat. I dunno. It is oddly addictive viewing though. Apparently it has got Channel 4's highest ratings since Big Brother in 2008. It has clearly tapped into an large area of interest.