Fleaflyfloflum

Yeh, and i bet theres a few old pervs around that will like them too!

TiddlyPom

Perhaps. If they go for kids in the KMart catalogue, they'll go for anything.

Kooky.

I honestly reckon not. I've read a bit about this. The proper travellers are almost of another era. They may get married at what we may consider a scandalously early age, but they have old-fashioned values and her doting Daddy would not have allowed her to sleep around.

She won't be seen to need an education, she'll probably be a wife and mother. It may seem wrong to us, but it's just different.

Oh and the kid at my school with the big f'off detached house and the ponies? Her dad was a scrapper.

sasbear

I hear you Brad!

JackTheLad

Is this the era where they sent kids up chimneys, worked them 20 hours a day and married them off at 14?

You know just putting a cute smiley at the end doesn't make that 'other era' any cuter. Its what we would call child abuse.Labelling them 'travellers' and then assuming their ways are quaint is just stupid.

JTL

Kooky.

Nice one, JTL - you know damn well I did not put a smiley after that comment. Good bit of selective editing there.

What's your problem? Is this really about travellers or a previous time I disagreed with you? Don't answer - rhetorical question, the answer to which I care about not one jot.

JackTheLad

Nope, you decided to take my joke: "how many credit cards did they steal to afford that wedding". take it seriously, post a pointless reply, climb on your high horse, defend these leeches on society, and act like an arse about how I use smileys.

Have I had a fall out with you before? Its quite probable if this is demonstrative of your usual attitude. But I don't keep check, I just say what I see, as Roy Walker would say.

JTL

Fleaflyfloflum

The ideaology of old time travellers and these more recent swathes of "pikeys" as somoene else called them is poles apart.

How do i know this?

Because just one year before we left UK, we had a large family of them buy a bungalow at the end of our street. Within 6mths 4 families had moved in the surrounding area.
Within 2yrs they had ruined the neighbourhood. 2 of them had got 14yr old girls pregnant who were NOT trravellers (not that it makes any difference as far as i am concerned)
They had terrorised one old age pensioner for not allowing them to park their vehicles across his drive, beat up the son so bad he was hospitalised, and one of them managed to knock down and kill a 37yr old father of three girls whilst riding his bike to work. The driver had never held a licence, had already gone to jail for drink driving, and was high on cocaine when he did it.

Sorry... i have no sympathy.

RenShen

A black man trod on my toe in Sainsbury's the other day, all black men are clumsy. Oh, and a ginger cat shat in my garden last week so I I have no sympaty for ginger cats anymore either.

NJJ

"5 seconds here we go"
"so close - it's not the one"
"Wot's old Chipsey up to?"

kiwinow

I admit all the time I was reading it I was gobsmacked that Daddy just agreed to such an expensive wedding and even more astonished that a 35 year old could afford to pay for it, as well as an expensive caravan. But he didn't seem worried at all did he?

I'm a bit surprised though that travellers have this glitzy expectation. Sort of takes the romance out of it. She seems a lazy little so and so, but I guess she'll get what she wants out of life.
Apparently, I also have gypsy blood, which may explain why I can't stay in one place.

JackTheLad

You missed the old classic

"Good guess... but it's not right"

What the hell did that mean. You're wrong! is what it meant.

Many comedy shows parodied that phrase, and I still drop it into conversations to this day.

JTL