Irish Traveler Culture????

[NotAllThere]

..., I wonder if they behave they way they do because we expect them to be scum; Or if it because they are scum to begin with.

They despise the "gentiles", and are fully aware they're behaving according to expectations.

[Doggy Styles]

they are just pikey scum

Fair comment.

We sometimes get them in pubs and restaurants around our way. They are a feckin nuisance.

[minestrone]

Not uncommon for small business premises round here to find their 'yard' laid with tulipe quality tarmac at night by these feckwits. Then they come calling for the bill to be paid.

Rather than deal with the root cause the police usually inform the owner just to pay up to stop the nighttime firebombing.

[Doggy Styles]

Always remember the Viz cartoon "The Thieving ...... ...... "

Later followed up (as a form of an apology) with "Those lovely Romany People"..

They might have got away with it if they'd called it The Thieving Pikey ......".

Pikeys seem to be the ones of Irish descent. Don't know about Romanies, they don't cause any trouble around here.

[MyUserName]

Never had any issues with them where I live but I know that my brother used to have problems with them in Swansea, I think. He warned me that if you floor one of them they will come after you mob handed and do you a serious injury.

If you had an issue with one of them you had to go to see one of their older guys, who was almost always in a certain snooker hall and complain and then he would handle it. It might just have been this group though that fancied themselves as some kind of mafia thing.

And to be fair, my brother was (at the time, he's left now) in the Welsh Fusilers and he and his mates could always find someone to have an issue with.

[hyperD]

Don't know about Romanies, they don't cause any trouble around here.

You should check out some of the remote villages and towns in Hungary - you're lucky if they've just thieved all your home grown veg. They're about as welcome there as a horse in a Findus Crispy Pancake factory.

[BoredBloke]

You should check out some of the remote villages and towns in Hungary - you're lucky if they've just thieved all your home grown veg. They're about as welcome there as a horse in a Findus Crispy Pancake factory.

Surely that's pretty welcome then!

[fullyautomatix]

I was travelling on a train once and there was a bunch of teenage gypos about making a huge ruckus about this and that. They had a stereo system and the music was loud. They had these bizarre clothes which looked fluorescent. Couple of teenagers had small kids too. Anyway, along comes the ticket checker and they have no tickets and dont have money. He tells them they are off at the next station and all hell breaks loose. Some shout at him to go **** himself. A lot of verbal abuse follows and they literally kick the conductor out of his own train !

Next station comes and the conductor with the help of station colleagues dumps them out. The teenage mums then make a huge ruckus about racial discrimination against gypos and that they have a medical appointment for the kids and if they miss the appointment they will complain etc etc etc. Train is held up for 10 minutes and they all pile back in the train and have a free ride.

[NotAllThere]

Which demonstrates that policing only works when we consent. A few people refusing to comply and the system fails.

[vetran]

pretty much normal


Sorry to say don't have much time for Pikeys.


And no now you can't call them that anymore its racist