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# Fuck em right off!!! That's what I say...

Either that or teach them one word of English.. Traveller: Commonly refers to one who travels, especially to distant lands.

If you wanted to stay in one place PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND CALL YOURSELVES 'STATIONARIES'!!!

* This rattles me... Sorry b3ta
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:57, archived)
# I bet theyre stalling so they can collect enough fuel to power the flying caravan they have secretly built underneath one of their shacks.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:00, archived)
# Pisses me off too
Either travel or stay put (applying for planning permission etc), but if you're going to stay put DON'T say you're a traveller! The whole point is that travellers aren't supposed to be able to bear living in a permanent structure: SO STOP BUILDING THEM THEN!
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:02, archived)
# ^ THIS!!!!!
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:35, archived)
# Yeah I don't understand this either
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:03, archived)
# they aren't all bad...
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:13, archived)
# Also, it's not a race.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:14, archived)
# Trouble is, all the common land they used to stay on isn't there any more
so travelling is nigh on impossible as nobody wants them hanging about. So they get moved on by the coppers and end up overnighting in lay-bys, where they generally get moved on again by the coppers.

Nobody wants travellers camping nearby, spoiling the view, leaving a mess, robbing and generally selling pegs and cursing. Once upon a time they would have followed the harvest work getting jobs on farms and the like, but in an increasingly industrialised society they have become an anachronism. You can't deny them the right to their lifestyle, but there doesn't seem much point to it any more. Other than going on channel 4 and generally making life difficult for themselves.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:17, archived)
# perhaps Endemol could knock up a Traveller/Big Brother/Truman Show type thing
Travellers: This is Davina!
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:20, archived)
#
"your live on channel 4, please don't say fuck or bugger"
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:26, archived)
# feck or booger
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:27, archived)
# Actually, they have, in Holland
or was it SBS?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:32, archived)
# Perhaps we could find them a new country with plenty of space to move around in
I think there's a lot of room in the middle of Australia. No police to enforce the laws, either.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:30, archived)
# ^ and this...
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:38, archived)
# I don't know, I think wherever they went they'd be bothered by the authorities,
it seems to be part of their nature to be (or be seen to appear to be) put upon.

Edit: Australia doesn't have the best of records when it comes to dealing with ethnic groups.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, archived)
# yeah but the aussie police would have a hell of a drive into the middle of the outback
in all seriousness i've no idea what the solution is, but strings of travellers fouling up a site and leaving without cleaning it is both unpleasant and expensive for the taxpayer - quite besides any other issue. that doesn't justify victimising them, but it does justify finding a way of passing on the expense, or preventing it in the first place.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:46, archived)
# Make caravans illegal.
This would be immensely popular with everyone except a tiny belligerent minority in the population. And the travellers.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:50, archived)
# I bet if Jeremy Clarkson stood for MP on a manifesto of banning caravans
he'd get in on a landslide.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:52, archived)
# But then we'd have to elect someone opposed to the wearing of slip-ons
and long hair on middle aged men who should know better. It's a slippery slope.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:59, archived)
# That's democracy, my friend
a never-ending slippery slope leading straight to hell. Or perhaps to 70s rock played overloud in cars we'll never be able to afford.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:04, archived)
# It's a price I'm willing to pay.
LET'S ROCK!

/puts foot down in slightly crap car, accelerating sedately to 31 mph.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:23, archived)
# FAT BOTTOMED GIRLS MAKE MY ROCKING WORLD GO ROUND
Not sure if that was what I wanted on the radio, but never mind.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 15:00, archived)
# Oh no, it's a perfectly valid argument. I'm pissed off too.
They stole my contingency plan and made it look shit.

A bit too much of a Mad Max vibe.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:57, archived)
# one 'run-in' I had with travellers was some years ago when some managed to move onto a section of a local cycle track
I'd forgotten they were there one day and cycled home along that track

as I was nearing the caravans suddenly a load of dogs appeared from nowhere and started attacking & chasing me, got quite a few marks on my ankles as I pedalled as fast as I could to get away

fuckers
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:59, archived)