Travelling Community.

[melv16]

Does anyone on here have a good word for them?
Knowing 3 people who have dealings with them, I certainly don't.

[ChillDoubt]

Indeed JD. After the furore Viz cleverly made a cartoon strip the week after entitled the Honest Decent Gypsies. It was extremely TIC(easily found via Google images).

[ToraToraTora]

nope total scum the lot of them.

[ChillDoubt]

Sorry, The Nice Honest Gypsies. It’s worth a look! LOL

[-Talbot-]

Baldric
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1477212.html


Jackdaw
From wiki
Controversy
The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called "The Thieving Gypsy ***".[19] During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was being tried for (and was later found guilty of) handling stolen property. In the same issue Viz ran a short strip called "The Nice, Honest Gypsies", featuring a kindly Gypsy woman selling pegs door-to-door and helpfully returning forgotten change.

[-SharonA-]

Most of the parks in my borough have had the gate locks broken and they've camped in said park for weeks on end whilst the council battle to get them evicted. They leave behind: excrement, rubbish, vile smell which we have to pay for to get the park clean again. If you do walk through park, you're met with abuse and intimidation.
Travellers, yeah love 'em.

[Baldric]

If it wasn't for the fact you're trying to score points, you may have realised that was a complaint about Corbyn/Labours Policy of 'Let 'em all in', however if it makes you happy............

[naomi24]

No good words from me – and since helping clean up after a group that set up camp on private land in a beautiful rural village the words running through my mind are distinctly unpublishable.

[Caran]

Travellers have set up camp across the valley in the forest. I have to look at it everyday. It's far enough away that I can't see much but it annoys me they are defacing a beautiful area. They camped there about 5 years ago.
It was a private gated area that had enormous boulders in front of it. They hired diggers to move the boulders away and broke the gates to get in. They were evicted after about one year.
But they have come back. Been here about one year and no signs of being evicted yet.

[Malachite]

I have only had experience with travellers who chose to give up their day to day existance to environmental issues, often turning up at sites of special scientific or natural interest to protest against road expansion, "development" and/or fracking. They are all thinking conscientious people who have given up jobs and "normal" lifestyles to do this. They try as much as they can to not leave a trace where they stop, down to small details like making sure their dogs' *** are buried and taking their rubbish to recycling places. I have a great respect for them, they are truly devoted people who have the best interests of people, plants, animals and the planet at heart.

[ummmm]

They aren't true travellers.

[Malachite]

Talbot: "In next week's edition - a nice honest gypsy renews his car tax" ;-)

[Malachite]

Ummmm, well ..they do travel! Sometimes to Glastonbury ;-) ;-)

[ummmm]

I've travelled to Glastonbury a few times ☺

Travelling about protesting is different than being born into that life.

[Malachite]

Ah ok ...and re Glast ...I know :-)

[Malachite]

...but shh!

[douglas9401]

Misunderstood, that's it, it's as plain as a pikestaff.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Funny how similar the forbidden names of two very different protected groups are.

[Malachite]

As for traditional travellers (eg Roma) I think times have got tough for them as the population density has increased and land rights have become eroded. Everyone seems to be evading the "elephant in the room" ie. the word "***" which I think is down there with terms like "Y**" and n****r".