Gypsies - Roma People

[Gladys]

Does anyone know how many Pikies/Gypsies are living on the Island and if so where?

I heard some had moved onto a piece of land up North but i would'nt know a Pikey/Gypsy if i fell over one!

My mum was great friends with a lady who was genuine romany, complete with being brought up in a caravan and burning her father's caravan when he died, I seem to recall. She had settled here a very long time ago (at least in the 1940's because mum knew her from secondary school), marrying a local, I think, and taking up a more conventional lifestyle. She was not what anyone would describe as a Pikey, however.

[gazza]

After watching that documentary, why would anybody be surprised that this bunch of thieving bastards are discriminated against - they revel in their criminal lifestyles.

Yes it's much easier to let someone else tell you how think that have to deal with the uncomfortable problem of having to: (1) do research yourself; and, (2) consider more than one opposing viewpoint.

 

but most of them are thieving basterds pikeys that is,

[fubar]

I only caught the end of it, but was interested in the Romanian Gypsy King's view of how his clan had moved in recent years. He wanted to see less involvement in organised crime and more education because they would bascially run out of places to go. The change in the shanty town was quite gob smacking really, loads of ostentatious wealth on display in what were still very humble surroundings (i.e. the new villas sprung up with no infrastructure around them) . Bit like many of the more permanent settlements in England, very neatly presented homes on dust roads, but there is always the best static on the lot with landscaped gardens.

 

...and not a wooden clothes peg or piece of lucky heather anywhere!

[Jimcalagon]

Yes it's much easier to let someone else tell you how think that have to deal with the uncomfortable problem of having to: (1) do research yourself; and, (2) consider more than one opposing viewpoint.

 

I am actually related by marriage to a large British Romany family and they are, by-and-large, decent people. I have seen the Romanian Gypsies' activities in other countries at first hand and have been less than impressed. The documentary in question was actually made by a Romanian Gypsy and painted them in a very poor light. What do you think I should do before I am allowed to have a viewpoint on this - emigrate to Romania and live in a gypsy encampment? Tit.

[gazza]

After watching that documentary, why would anybody be surprised that this bunch of thieving bastards are discriminated against - they revel in their criminal lifestyles.

Yes it's much easier to let someone else tell you how think that have to deal with the uncomfortable problem of having to: (1) do research yourself; and, (2) consider more than one opposing viewpoint.

 

or u could go and spend a week at appleby fair and see for yourself.

 

yes its much easier for u to sit there and defend them when 1. u prob never seen them first hand, 2 decide to defend them with only one view

[Snaipyr]

I've been robbed by gypsies in Spain and in Ireland, but bear no resentment at all. They've been harassed and discriminated against for centuries so why should they give a shit for 'normal' values?

[wazir]

yes its much easier for u to sit there and defend them when 1. u prob never seen them first hand, 2 decide to defend them with only one view

 

I am not defending, I was pointing out that "it's much easier to let someone else tell you how think that have to deal with the uncomfortable problem of having to: (1) do research yourself; and, (2) consider more than one opposing viewpoint."

 

And yes I have 'seen them first hand' (Jeeezers).