Traveller Weddings

What about the girl who didnt get married until she was 22, because she stayed on to finish school and had a job in a call center? She was marrying the guy from Ireland who was a labourer, poor girl it sounded like she had a good life in front of her Ihope that it is not ruined by him and having to move to ireland.

[L3nny]

Originally Posted by cuffy

Very good programme i thought.
Ok, dresses were a bit on the extravagant side and a tad loud but i was very surprised at the way the young girls conducted themselves.
How many teenagers these days have the same morals as these girls?
No clubbing, drinking or frolicking with the other sex before marriage.
Our society could actually learn alot from that.
How many virgin brides were there on here?
Respect to them i say!

Complete rubbish. The only reason the women don't go out is because they are seen as property and are threatened with violence if they did.

The men go out just as much as any other young folk. I know cause the pubs where I used to live were full of them.

The best bit of thet program was the convoy of transit vans with ladders on the roof leaving the church.

While I'm sure there are some nice law-abiding travellers (and some in the porgramme came across as being OK), I find it baffling why they seem so outraged at the rest of the country's attitude towards them. There is a reason that people are wary about them, and that is generally personal experience of local trouble and thefts wherever they go. If they are all so nice how come these 'coincidences' keep happening???

A few settled in a house down my street last year, and the elderly lady who lives next door has had no end of grief and is really scared of them. Last thing I heard she'd found out they were tapping into her phone line...

TBH I was surprised about the focus on morals and religion, I hadn't realised that about travellers. But if it is such a tight and religious community why aren't they policing their own? But TBH if you have no education or career prospects and don't try and integrate, there isn't much work out there for you, so stealing becomes one of the few options left.

And anyway how else are you going to fund those wedding dresses??!

What's the chances the hotel that cancelled the wedding reception has since suffered an arson attack? The woman made it very clear they wouldn't get away with it.

Lozzo - what is the difference between a gypsy, a pikey and a traveller?

My only experience of what I will call pikeys is the people who came to my village in North Lanarkshire and camped on a piece of common ground, stayed for about six weeks, and ran a fairground on the site for one week each summer.

They bought a local crime wave to a village where most of the people were already scum, but didn't s**t on their own doorstep because they were all inbred so would be stealing from a cousin and their uncle would kick their head in, OK a bit of exaggeration, but that was a realistic scenario, everyone knew everyone so you could leave you car keys in the ignition overnight and nobody would touch it.

Every time they came a number of local caravans were stolen and an equal number of their caravans, would be left burned out on the site when they left, along with burnt grass from a hundred open fires, and so much rubbish it took the council a day with a JCB to clean it up.

These guys did come across as the cleanest living on the planet on the show, but knuckle fighters and "they won't get away with it" kind of give the game away, Pete's been to one of the sites shown to recover stolen vehicles several times, so were these guys on the programme gypsies, pikeys, or travellers?

[timwilky]

My neighbour used to bare knuckle fight, but said it was hard against the gypos as they would scarper before paying up. Yet if you lost they were straight on you for the money.

Round here, they invade private and public property, treat it as a toilet, and dump. moan like hell in the press and rob every house/car they go near.

The are now getting naughtier, buy a bit of land, apply for planning permission for "stables" and build storage/toilet blocks attempting to convert green fields into permanent gypo camp.

They also tend to do it at times when they know they are going to be undisturbed. good friday was when they took over one field in Longridge, knowing they would have at least 5 days to get their work done before the council could react. Then put in retrospective planning and refuse to move as they own the land etc.

My missus comes froma travelling family ( couple of generations back ), and even a generation after they stopped travelling they still stick to some of the same attitudes
Her mother was made told to give up work by her grandmother once she'd gotten married as she was now to be looked after and her job was the house and pop out kids
Her mother had been encoraged to marry her 2nd cousin

when she refused she was shipped to Australia so as not to shame the family anyfurther
Her grandfather moved onto his daughters once the wife was not interested in sex any more ( and the whole community knew this)
when he retired he sold everything and went back to ireland to live
When he died the extended family allowed his wife and kids to go into the van take 1 thing of sentimental value and then burnt it out

This guy had traveller values but had a proper job ( english teacher in a catholic school ) so the worst of both worlds

A few years ago, they invaded a local industrial park opposite one of the biggest loyalist housing estates in NI and refused to move unless they were "paid" for their trouble. The RUC is it was then said they couldn't do anything as it was a civil matter. One of the local paramilitaries went over, and had a word, they were gone in 15 minutes.

From my own personal experiences, they steal anything that isn't nailed down and think the world owes then a living.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Bedhead

it was a civil matter. .

Pikeys are anything but civilised lol

^ we had a load of pikeys by my old school field, and im not kidding you there were young young girls flashing the school kids on the other side of the school fence dirty dirty people ...

ohh and im part gyipo lol my grandads was/is a gypsy

[Skip]

Originally Posted by timwilky

The are now getting naughtier, buy a bit of land, apply for planning permission for "stables" and build storage/toilet blocks attempting to convert green fields into permanent gypo camp.

They also tend to do it at times when they know they are going to be undisturbed. good friday was when they took over one field in Longridge, knowing they would have at least 5 days to get their work done before the council could react. Then put in retrospective planning and refuse to move as they own the land etc.

That has happened not far from me - havent heard of any trouble (yet) but I noticed more and more buildings going up near to the "stables". Blooming cheek