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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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alt: so the gypsies are still camping on park lane. the local council has tried paying for their flights home, evicting them, pleading with romania to take them back, but they're still there. what would you do - help them or get rid of them, and how?
altalt: lunch? i have sushi or sandwiches.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:36, 245 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

But, that said, Al is a cunt.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:36, Reply)

Oh man, I bet he's nearly as good a parent as Sexface.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:43, Reply)

Is Battered's divorce the reason why CHCB no longer posts here?
b3ta.com/questions/morningaftersouvenirs/post1601260
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Its the only way to make sure
AltAlt: Those Warburtons flat things with coronation chicken and spinach
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:37, Reply)

the same way we deal with other illegals, in fact.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:38, Reply)

they get 90 days. so they sleep in hyde park, do whatever they do along park lane and oxford street during the day. on day 89 they go to france, come back 2 days later for a fresh 90 days.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:40, Reply)

to say "if you want to live in our country you have to abide by our rules regardless of your traditions or religion".
Seems to work well enough for France.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:45, Reply)

these people regularly infringe on the rights of landowners and the people that live in the area and it's their rights we should be protecting above those of itinerant thieves.
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they can be dealt with as such. The problem comes when you start bringing their country of origin into it. Why should you treat a Romananian trespasser different from a British one.
And, frankly, you shouldn't be protecting the rights of anyone "above" those of someone else. Unless you're a cunt.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Then I would force them at gunpoint to dig their own mass grave, line them up on the edge of the pit and machine-gun them into it, before filling it with quicklime. I can 100% guarantee that having done this two or three times the 'problem' would go away.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:52, Reply)

The farmer understandably wanted shut of them, but there was nothing he could legally do.
So, after giving them 24 hours notice of intention, he set about muckspreading that field, working his way down to the end where the pikeys were installed.
Hilarity, as I'm sure you could imagine, ensued.
AltAlt: yeah, I should probably eat something before I head out to work. Which reminds me, I haven't had breakfast yet. Ah well, might as well wait for lunch now.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:42, Reply)

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/329776/Roma-gypsies-use-the-law-to-avoid-eviction-from-Park-Lane-squatter-camp
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:43, Reply)

Well, actually, they do - in Hyde Park, the dirty fucking cunts.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:05, Reply)

They are a good source of traditional music, that has virtually died out in the general populace.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:52, Reply)

We've got the Levellers and Mumford and Sons keeping musical traditions alive.
Prick.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:56, Reply)

didgeridoos and tin whistles and nose-flutes and bongos present.
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in a special van with a big ineffectual sign on it saying "Johnny Foreigner GO HOME"
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:49, Reply)

Alt: I think I'd buy them all a pint, as I find the whole thing quite funny, but I expect I'm wrong.
ALtAlt: not sure yet, but the local supermarket it doing those Rustlers BBQ rid burgers for £1 each and that's going to be hard to resist.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:51, Reply)

and seeing a lot of Daily Mail "kick the wogs out" rhetoric. if they've done something illegal, punish them as the law dictates. if they haven't then either leave them be or change the law, either way if they annoy Daily mail readers, good on 'em.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:56, Reply)

con tricks and pickpocketing are all frowned upon in Westminster.
Maybe not true in South London but it is there.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)

if their clientele are put off by it. after all, they are big employers/tax payers/draws for people to come to london and spend money here, and their rights should be protected.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:04, Reply)

being a rich cunt doesn't "earn" you greater rights.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:34, Reply)

the businesses have a right to operate. we should protect that as it's good for the country.
nobody has a "right" to pickpocket, however. so the practice should be stopped.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:56, Reply)

hence a large police operation in London on July 3rd where those caught were charged in accordance with your advice above.
By the way, your rhetoric about "Everyone who disagrees with me is a racist Daily Mail reader." has no validity as an argument.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)

that their way of life is a bit parasitic. it depends on other people having money to give them, buy things off them, or be dumb enough to have their pockets picked. if everyone lived like that, we'd all starve.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:13, Reply)

if you pick a freebie wild flower and then try to flog it to someone, then yes
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:16, Reply)

and pipework and mugged your wife, you'd be ranting along with everyone else. a bleeding heart only bleeds so far, sunshine.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)

becuase I'm not a racist cunt.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)

i'd like to say i agree with this. but the reality is, that if a gypsy encampment moved into the area and suddenly things like copper pipes went missing overnight, i would probably draw assumptions. i blame the media, can't possibly be my own fault for that.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:47, Reply)

QV Blacks, Jews, "Yardies", "Pakis", women can't (your gripe here).
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:49, Reply)

i wouldn't normally draw assumptions. if you live in london you see so much cuntery from so many different people that all your assumptions tend to fly out of the window
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:52, Reply)

So you'd just assume it's the blacks, then?
Or the Jews?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:54, Reply)

Don't you project yourself onto me. I merely questioned why you felt that on the one hand " they are big employers/tax payers/draws for people to come to london and spend money here, and their rights should be protected" and yet on the other hand you say that people who sell things to other people are parasites.
Can't you see the huge inconsistency in what you've written?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:41, Reply)

i can see you doing what you do, trying to read between the lines to be "clever" or "edgy" or "funny".
of course there is a difference between manufacturing something, and employing people to do it, and paying rent, and wages, and hiring outsourcing companies, etc etc. even if you make it yourself from scratch, if you buy the equipment, you are adding to the economy.
nicking stuff and selling it with the whole cash going in your back pocket not the same. you know that and i know that.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:43, Reply)

depends which bit of the plant you pick, blah blah. i suspect the flower beds in hyde park belong to the crown, but don't know that for a fact.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:48, Reply)

You've said that a business should have the right over a person simply because it makes more money.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:48, Reply)

I mean - it's an absolutely petty point, but you did say "it depends on other people having money to ... buy things off them".
Which is, er ... capitalism. Lowest possible outlay, highest possible price.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:51, Reply)

if they were camping on his street. Guildford regularly used to get gypsies squatting on commons and parks when I was growing up and the crime rate used to rocket.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:13, Reply)

apart from al, he probably gives them wing mirror kicking lessons
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:17, Reply)

This time if year there are loads, clearly taking advantage of the influx of rich tourists on university conferences and stuff.
When oxford hosted a TED thing last year there were gypo everywhere, and it's clear they're here to scalp and steal. It shouldn't be allowed.
The police told all the pubs on cowley road to shut when there was a bug gypsy funeral at the church. These are not nice people and I can't see how you're going to fundamentally change an ingrained culture without something drastic.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:21, Reply)

but not necessarily against gypsies. there are lots of people i would burn, including:
stupid people
chavs
people who've been caught stealing more than 3 times
the cunt who broke into my car
hot women
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:29, Reply)

somehow i doubt that. i think they are endemic everywhere.
well, apart from the car thief.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:36, Reply)

you left the door open, you daft apath.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)

but even if i did, i should be able to do that without fear of some cunt rummaging through it looking for stuff to nick. i hate thievery, i hate it so much.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:41, Reply)

nobody picks locks on modern cars as they are impossible to start. If someone is going to rummage through a car they break a window.
You left your car unlocked.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:44, Reply)

it is possible. but i'm not sure.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:51, Reply)

The self locking feature will only work if you unlock the doors then don't open them after two minutes. If you jsut turn off your engine and get out of the car, it would be a stupid system indeed that simply locked your doors after two minutes.
What if you jsut popped into a shop and left your keys behind?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:00, Reply)

The pub over the road from it tried to stay open but failed, then when it closed the building was trashed and anything of value was stripped from the place and the car park became their dumping ground.
*Yeah, I know - irony.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:26, Reply)

it is not a way of life that makes for nice people, i think.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:29, Reply)

Ah, no. that other thing. We'd all starve too.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:54, Reply)

... and dramaticly increasing their crime rates of their local area.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:02, Reply)

A related point was made last week about the self-funded Jewish 'learn English and integrate' schools which were opened in the last century.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23600037
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:57, Reply)

alt. 90 days is a long time for a holiday visa. I reckon people would be lessed fussed if there wasn't trouble with the minority. As is the basis for every form of bigotry.
Still, what's wrong with travelling round Romania in caravans?
altalt. Im eating fruit all week for lunch and cooking a meal when I get in. I had best shift some beer podge or I won't be happy.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 11:58, Reply)

It's not massive but I would be conscious!
Also, fearing the impending heart attack
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)

Just go running - it'll soon deflate*
* just like your heart
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)

( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23597233
I suspect this has been broached already.
Bongo bongo land is such an old man expression.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)

I thought the idea of 'travelling' was that you would travel the length and breadth of the country, spending a night here and a night there.
So why do they insist on setting up camp somewhere and wanting to stay? Wouldn't that make them 'stayers'?
EDIT: three times I've tried that now, and it's still in the wrong place.
I should just give up and go home.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)

They were ostensibly gathering for a 'Christian festival of light'.
Everyone knew it was a cover up for a two-family punch up. There was apparently a £1m prize on the head of the head of one of the families.
Read that carefully - it does make sense, honestly.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:08, Reply)

I'd pay to watch that.
Then shoot the cunts dead.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:13, Reply)

i brought sushi, but now i have a meeting which will provide sandwiches
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:13, Reply)

What sort of sushi is it? It better not be that shite people buy in supermarkets.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:15, Reply)

i like it because they use wholegrain rice
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:18, Reply)

Where should we take it back to?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:10, Reply)

I am assuming you're having a troll, but in case you're not, you really need to dial down on the hyperbolic straw man.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:14, Reply)

not sure when they moved over here. does ireland count?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:19, Reply)

The closest we've got to true Britons are the Welsh, Cornish and Irish.
And they all travelled up from Ethiopia at some point.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:21, Reply)

The English are genetically just as Celtic as the Welsh.
It's all pointless talking about this. The problem is in itinerant squatters shooting the crime rate up, not settled immigrant communities. If this wasn't so painfully typical of the usually middle-class hemp wearers that romanticise gypsies and druids and all the rest of it I wouldn't be bothering to comment at all.
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a tiny minority of people that absolutely refuse to respect the laws of the land. It wouldn't be put up with in any other group of people, so why this lot?
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:36, Reply)

so you must have an example of another group of people who "refuse to respect the laws of the land" and haven't been put up with.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)

Fair enough, I guess the last lot would have been the Nazis.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:42, Reply)

I think you probably do see mine, though. A specific group of people are utterly refusing to live by British law and for some reason are having a blind eye turned so long as they don't take the piss. I genuinely don't believe that would be happening if they weren't using the "oh it's our culture to wander" as a cover for an insitutionally criminal lifestyle.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:45, Reply)

Or are you proposing the latter be criminalised as well?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:48, Reply)

that would be a crime, yes. Two, actually.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:52, Reply)

but, no-one (well, I'm not) is disputing your point.
What I am fucking strongly disputing is the argument this lot haven't been nicked because of some "cultural" or ethnicity thing. That's utter horseshit. They haven't been nicked for the same reason anyone else isn't nicked. Not enough evidence, not enough police time and not worth the bother.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:56, Reply)

I'm saying that they're using their culture as an excuse to move around and rob people.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:00, Reply)

They might or might not be robbing people.
they are using their culture as reason to move around.
these two things are not the same.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:10, Reply)

then you've read too much fucking Daily Mail and there's little hope for you.
Organised criminal begging, trespass, pickpocketing has been going on in London with limited police interference for hundreds of fucking years. This lot are not have "a blind eye" turned to them any more than any other beggars or petty theives are. You've just been listening to too much xenophobic rhetoric.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:50, Reply)

Yes, crime of all sorts has been going on for years. The fact remains that it spikes when a particular community arrives, suggesting that they operate with an institutional disregard for the law.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:53, Reply)

it spikes when a group of people who happen to be criminals arrive. you want to judge a whole ethnic community by the actions of those people, you're a racist. And an idiot. "institutional disregard for the law" my arse. Are you writing speeches for UKIP now?
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:03, Reply)

I haven't looked into it
But I certainly wouldn't just assume it was the case without thinking. Just like I don't assume that all young black men are drug dealing murderers. But, hey, whatever keeps you feeling liberal, my man.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:05, Reply)

When I was a child we'd have frequent traveller camps in my area. They weren't just one ethnic group by any means, but every time they'd turn up the incidents of assault, burglaries, robberies and car theft would spike noticeably.
Perhaps that does make me prejudiced against traveller communities. Frankly, I'm OK with that. What I'm not is racist. Traveller communities come from all different ethnic backgrounds. "Travellers" are not a race.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)

fucking hell.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:14, Reply)

The "it's not racist because Islam isn't a race so THERE" argument is bandied all the time by those fuckwits.
You're prejudiced against a particular group of society. Yes, semantically, it's not racism. Neither is sexism, or homophobia. You reckon they are "better"?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:22, Reply)

The reason for this is that you are judging this whole group of people from Romania as criminals simply by virtue of the fact that they have come from somewhere else and are living in a way you don't like.
Nobody likes the criminal element that is almost certainly present amongst this group, but nobody likes the criminal element anywhere.
But you really can't see just how prejudicial your argument are can you?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:17, Reply)

( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:18, Reply)

Because you've spent a long time arguing here for someone who doesn't know full well that we are discussing a group gypsies who are allegedly form Romania living in Hyde Park, I mean, I'm not suggesting you're clutching at straws here, but you do actually talk about Hyde Park quite specifically in the post below.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:20, Reply)

I was talking about my experience with travellers in general. I've twice referenced it in my posts and specifically stated that I'm not targetting one group of travellers over another.
My problem with travellers, with ALL travellers, is that the crime rate spikes when they arrive somewhere and that my sympathies lie much further towards the lives that are getting disrupted. I don't think a travelling culture is a decent excuse to allow them to spike the crime rate in this way.
I am not the one making this a racial argument.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:24, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2041416
I'm glad you're so happy being prejudiced against groups of people because of the way they lives whilst being blissfully unaware of what sort of person that makes you.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:26, Reply)

I think you're simply making up facts to suit your argument.
I think that if the gypsies on Park Lane, or the Irish Travellers are found to have commited a crime they will be charged in exactly the same way that someone who lives on your street would be.
I also think that you are proposing that these people should be criminalised by virtue of existing and I think you should be honest about that rather than trying to hide it and saying "oh but you know what I mean don't you, it's those types that are doing it"
I think there is far more of a problem with a blind eye being turned to police officers who abuse people in custody, to people who commit large scale business fraud and to the rights of working people not to be forced into zero hours contracts and I happen to think that these issues are actually a lot more damaging to the country than the actions of a few individual petty criminals, much as I dislike anyone who would rather live a life of crime rather than actually working at a legitamate job.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Despite what you clearly seem to believe, I'm pretty liberal about how people choose to live their lives. My problem is that people shouldn't be able to trample on other peoples' rights in the doing of it.
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( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:02, Reply)

nobody is arguing that criminals shouldn't be prosecuted, but you are actually arguing that this cultural group are inherently criminal and you apparently can't see how racist a viewpoint that is.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:04, Reply)

I'll have a dig through and find their rules on camping, should I?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:04, Reply)

I'm sure they're undergoing a huge number of sleepless nights over this and are grateful for your deep concern about their "rights"
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or apparently a fair number of people here.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)

to get on their soapboxes about the dirty forrin criminals whilst still retaining their liberal badge.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:01, Reply)

I don't think the law makes exceptions for anyone though.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:36, Reply)

We should make exceptions for him.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:39, Reply)

His books are excellent.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)

It should be about behaviour, not ethnicity.
Fit in or fuck off seems to work in countries at least as civilised as ours.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:34, Reply)

the problem is that people seem to think the country of origin of said itinerant squatters is somehow relevant to how they should be dealt with.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:45, Reply)

I've said "gypsies", and "squatters" etc. I don't care where they're from, I care about how they behave.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:55, Reply)

why am i as pasty as a fucking onion?
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:27, Reply)

alt: shoot the cunts. Actually shoot them dead.
altalt: Mint Leaf Lounge.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:12, Reply)

Alt: Burn their fucking caravans down.
AltAlt: Home made chicken, sweetcorn and noodle soup.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:26, Reply)

Alt: the usual - a wrap, and a banana.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)

But fuck all that, what are we gonna do about people that eat with their fingers and 'Grantham' them with a great big fuckoff slurp. Dirty fucking cunts.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:32, Reply)

QUEEN OF R HARTS.
( , Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:09, Reply)
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