Big fat gipsy wedding

[dave50]

A new series started last night. As usual with half the gipsy male faces blurred out, I wonder why? Again no explanation of how they 'earn a living' enabling them to own big Range Rovers and Mercedes cars, benefit fraud and thieving spring to mind.

[Ankou]

"but I can pretty much guarantee that my neighbour lawfully earns his money and pays tax on his salary"

are you his accountant then or do you work for hmrc?

scum is an offensive description. grow up.

[glenis]

what I would love to know is what do the girls do with their dresses after the big day - most of us pack them away in boxes , but how do you do this in a caravan ???? especially when the dress is the SIZE of a small caravan

[boxtops]

I have to agree with you, NOX - we've had drug dealers and all sorts in this road, they own their houses.

The culture is so different to what we are used to - if this programme hadn't been on the telly, some of us would never have known about it. I for one am pleasantly surprised how jealously they guard their womenfolk, and how domesticity is the girls' whole aim in life.

[NOX]

For the last few years I've had several families who winter on my land, and I have nothing but the nicest things to say about any of them. You tend to get treated in life the way you treat other people, I've never called them scum and assumed they are cirminals, and guess what they've never acted like scum or stolen from me.

[Ankou]

"what I would love to know is what do the girls do with their dresses after the big day"

glenis, most of the time they are given to a local charity shop. shocking really when you think that they probably cost upwards of 5 grand!

[flip_flop]

"are you his accountant then or do you work for hmrc? "

No, I just simply use a modicum of common sense. You should try it sometime.

[flip_flop]

My personal experience of these people is the opposite of yours NOX - I can only speak from experience, and my experience is that they are a very nasty bunch.

You've obviously met only the nice fluffy ones - which is great - I'd hate anybody to meet the ones I've met and had to deal with.

Most people in this country are in gainful, legal, employment and pay their taxes. Most gipsies do not.

[NOX]

I don't think there are any 'nice fluffy travellers' to be honest flip-flop, and I certainly have had run ins with travellers and a physical fight with two individuals, however the same can be said of non travellers, and it's not that anyone here is suggesting that they're all the romanticised Mills and Boon version of gypsies that you seem to think we are, but niehter is it fair to generalise in the way that you have been doing.
' Most' is the word here that is the problem since you have no knowledge of 'most' settled people or 'most' gypsies, just as I haven't and niether has anyone else, unless they are a professional statistician.

[Brenden]

I thought I heard the grandmother state that she was not allowed to dress (or half dress) in her young days, so that means it isn't part of their culture - doesn't it?

[mccfluff]

or their culture is evolving...

gypsies/travellers to me, mean fights, purely because i worked in a pub and when ever they came in much drunkeness would ensure and fights would start, then it would be a nightmare to sort it out. but i woudln't say it was all the gypsies fault, the locals would often start it

but when it was all calm i've sat and had a right good laugh with P & C, no probs

on another note just out of curiosity more than anythign else does anyone know that they don;t pay their taxes?

[ummmm]

Some gypsies held a wedding reception in my local. The bride bottled the groom....

Some are rough, some are not.

There used to be a meet up of gypsies where I live. The used to drink in our pub. One year one of the children got knocked over so they stayed about for a few weeks. Never took so much money over the bar. Not one bit of trouble.