I love how they have to subtitle them.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:04, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

The grabbing was really weird and horrible

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:08, Reply)

??!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:09, Reply)

Gypsy girl ritual
where a boy grabs a girl and tries to force her to kiss him. It can apparantly get very violent, but she has to resist because if she gives in then her reputation is ruined
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:12, Reply)

that's kinda scary
what if you are clearly harder than he is?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:14, Reply)

judging by the program
and other gypsies I've seen that doesn't often happen. The men do a lot of manual labouring and the girls are all really really slim
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:15, Reply)

They do manual labouring
because none of them go to school so they can't get jobs that involve being able to read or write.

Shocking Racism
(Bazongaloid, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:19, Reply)

I saw a documentary
on travellers in Ireland once. The level of disease because they don't trust outside doctors, child abuse and illiteracy was actually shocking.

It's something that has to be carefully considered though. You can't kick people out of their homes
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:21, Reply)

Don't you criticise them
it's their culture innit. If they want to be violent misogynistic criminals then what right have you got to point that out.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:15, Reply)

You're right Al
we've got to accept other cultures and love them all equally as human beings
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:17, Reply)

Unless they're brown.
Or Catholic.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:18, Reply)

In which case
kill the fucking bastards
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:19, Reply)

What about a brown Catholic?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:22, Reply)

some kind of pacific islander converted by a missionary?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:23, Reply)

Or possibly intensive sunbed treatment

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:26, Reply)

My great uncle was a Jesuit who went to china to convert the heathens.
Trufax.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:27, Reply)

exciting stuff
I have bugger all idea what any of my relatives did that was interesting other than my grandfather flying the big gliders in WWII
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:32, Reply)

pretty shocking stuff
I was surprised by their moral code to be honest.

Funny thing was that they were saying that girls can't drink before they are married. Well duh, that's because they get married at 16.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:15, Reply)

Bizarrely in Ireland
there is a town which is about 50% Traveller thanks to it being some place of significance to them, and the local church has real trouble because all the gypsy girls turn up for mass but fifteen minutes late so they make a proper entrance so everyone can see what they're wearing, and it's pretty much a competition amongst them over who can wear the least clothing- bikini tops as standard that kind of thing, even in winter.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:19, Reply)

that was the weird thing
they aren't allowed to pursue guys or do anything with them and yet all the ones I've seen dress like the worst kind of slags.

also, the girl last week who was going on about her dress saying it had a slit up the front, but was tasteful like, and it was worse than the wedding dress in the Guns and Roses November Rain video, which is the benchmark for slutty wedding dresses.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:20, Reply)

I love the communions.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:13, Reply)

I felt sorry for them
they looked so ridiculous, but the little girl was hilarious when her brother said she looked like a princess 'but you usually say I look like a rat'
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:14, Reply)

I love Catholicism SO MUCH.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:22, Reply)