My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

[5t3IIa]

You go and look up your statistics Santino.

Guardian reading urbanites outnumber trolls like you, son.

 

[IMR]

Your kind are doomed Santino. Spraying spunk all over your computer keyboard when you could be siring brats.

 

[5t3IIa]

I've heard in Ireland they put up thousands beforehand to any pubs where they might hold receptions as collateral for any damage that might be incurred.

Don't know how true that is

Yep, who knows? Don't let that stop you repeating it though

 

[IMR]

Guardian reading urbanites outnumber trolls like you, son.

Not for long!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yep, who knows? Don't let that stop you repeating it though

I was just wondering how true it is or whether it's just certain well-known families that have given the rest of them a bad name

 

[5t3IIa]

I was just wondering how true it is or whether it's just certain well-known families that have given the rest of them a bad name

How the fuck do I know? Or you?

 

[Part 2]

It was a well-made documentary, although ironic that the travellers' way of life embodied a lot of values the Guardian is not renowned for extolling to its own readership - marriage, rigid gender roles, primacy of family ties over friendships with non-relatives, high birth rate.

Not sure what that has to do with it being 'fascinating and well made'

Myself I'm still waiting to hear what happens to the poor girls who don't behave as expected and abide by the strict (ahem) 'moral' code. The ones who are 'scandalised' because they choose to do what most teenagers do, go to school, have boyfriends, experiment with drinking and aspire to something other than cooking and cleaning.

Although I don't think we'll be hearing about it somehow.

 

[Santino]

A wide range of gypsy- and Pakistani-related racism is now available on Twitter.

 

[lizzieloo]

You do realise you're all looking at this from a completely different cultural viewpoint right?

Those women didn't come across as feeling oppressed for a start.

 

[Santino]

You do realise you're all looking at this from a completely different cultural viewpoint right?

Those women didn't come across as feeling oppressed for a start.

So?

 

[Chairman Meow]

The grabbing was pretty shocking stuff.

As for the money and the cars, its not quite like what any successful businessmen would be driving. A lot of settled travellers live in Rathkeale near Limerick and every Christmas a lot of the men drive their cars home from wherever they've been working in Europe( mainly in tarmaccing gangs). The cars are something else, many worth 100k plus, often driven by mean in their 20s. Some of them build absolutely massive houses, then live in the garden in their caravans. My husband works with a bloke who is related to settled travellers, he says it is true that they have to put a lot of money behind the bar when a wedding is on. He went to a wedding in Youghal last year and the whole town pretty much shut down for the day except for one pub!

I did feel sorry for the little girl in the massive communion dress, she could hardly walk!

 

[Strumpet]

Love the combination of such strict, old fashioned morality and the glamour model dresses.

Me too

Grabbing

The grabbing was pretty shocking stuff.

I know!!

I did feel sorry for the little girl in the massive communion dress, she could hardly walk!

And I did. Especially when a couple of the other little girls started laughing.

 

[madamv]

I love the irish traveller accents. Very smooth and sexy

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

he says it is true that they have to put a lot of money behind the bar when a wedding is on.

But why? Is it just one family or group of families that made pubs do this or are their parties just naturally rather lively and a bit more thanthe odd glass gets broken?

 

[5t3IIa]

Money behind the bar for drinks!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Money behind the bar for drinks!

aha

 

[ernestolynch]

Grabbing is far less 'shocking' than what non-gypsy teens with less strict family morals get up to in the parks of a Friday night.

 

[ernestolynch]

It was a well-made documentary, although ironic that the travellers' way of life embodied a lot of values the Guardian is not renowned for extolling to its own readership - marriage, rigid gender roles, primacy of family ties over friendships with non-relatives, high birth rate.

Spot on. The Irish travellers I know think this programme is great.

 

[ernestolynch]

Domestic violence, misogyny, medieval attitudes to female sexuality...

Racist twat.

You don't really think childless atheists and hispters are going to inherit the earth?

LOOOOOOOOL

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Hipsters, lol.

 

[ernestolynch]

I look forward to the day that Gordian Beans and 'i' people become extinct.

 

[Cloo]

Swanley "If I'm late, she'll murdercaite me."

That guy was the definition of 'big lummox'.

 

[Plumdaff]

Continuing their way of life and ensuring plenty of descendants. You don't really think childless atheists and hispters are going to inherit the earth?

That's the meek. The childless atheists and hipsters are doing the DJing.

 

[ernestolynch]

That's the meek. The childless atheists and hipsters are doing the DJing.

And cycling/bussing it home to their flat above a shop lol.

 

[pennimania]

The grabbing was pretty shocking stuff.

As for the money and the cars, its not quite like what any successful businessmen would be driving. A lot of settled travellers live in Rathkeale near Limerick and every Christmas a lot of the men drive their cars home from wherever they've been working in Europe( mainly in tarmaccing gangs). The cars are something else, many worth 100k plus, often driven by mean in their 20s. Some of them build absolutely massive houses, then live in the garden in their caravans. My husband works with a bloke who is related to settled travellers, he says it is true that they have to put a lot of money behind the bar when a wedding is on. He went to a wedding in Youghal last year and the whole town pretty much shut down for the day except for one pub!

I did feel sorry for the little girl in the massive communion dress, she could hardly walk!

me too - that was quite a disturbing image - but I suppose it was what she wanted.

 

[ernestolynch]

me too - that was quite a disturbing image - but I suppose it was what she wanted.

Jesus wept. Maybe one day she'll come around to your way of thinking, eh?

 

[Griff]

I did feel sorry for the little girl in the massive communion dress, she could hardly walk!

That was the LOL! of the programme.

Jesus!

 

[Santino]

Grabbing is far less 'shocking' than what non-gypsy teens with less strict family morals get up to in the parks of a Friday night.

What, all teens?

 

[ernestolynch]

What, all teens?

No, not ones from your sheltered life experience, no.

 

[Santino]

No, not ones from your sheltered life experience, no.

What proportion of teens do you reckon, then? What's your evidence base. Aside from tabloid journalism, I assume. You wouldn't be basing your argument solely on a few Daily Mail-type stories about the terrible things that teens get up to.