Traveller sites

Annie how nice

annie thinking about it that reminds me of Thrush Green -Miss Read!!

We had travellers living under a near by underpass. Unfortunately they didn't endear themselves to many and quickly became outcasts due to shafting quite a lot of my elderly neighbours with shoddy building works.

They don't endear themselves to farmers around here either.

Also the "traveller culture" is disgustingly male oriented and used by the men to keep women in their place "uneducated and to be sold off/married at the earliest opportunity" This is not in any way acceptable.

No idea what shafted means, at a guess cheated out of money, good grief this happens with vat registered firms

You guessed right Annie. Yes of course it happens with VAT registered companies but just not nearly as much and there is recourse.

Here a farmer gave a field for travellers to park up, respectable semi detachies pour excrement around the field, took us ages to clear the muck. As for male orientated, they are very protective of female members of their family and their community. All the years we have had travellers here not one elderly member has ended up in a care home. And considering two women a week are murdered by partners how many do we read of who are from the travelling community.

Get rid if them all and snuggle up in our little boxes with a garden and room for a pony

Still alive, you have records you can post giving the numbers ?

Why would I have records Annie?

A "culture" depicts a way of life for a group or large mass of people. The Traveller culture is abhorrent where women are concerned. Many a "culture" is wrong and should be abolished and the traveller one is amongst them.

In your opinion

Do you think that the way girls are treated in that "culture" is right Annie? They're given frilly dresses, make up from the age dot and "groomed", do you not think that?

Oh dear, frilly dresses! That's certainly one reason for abolishing a culture

Thinking about it more. Up their arse ones too. Great culture, lets roll it out over Britain.

What? no let's keep our culture, girls rolling out of pubs and vomiting on the streets

I respect all cultures, I do not expect people to live as I do ,their way may not be my way but I accept this and respect it.

Rather the few who do that than being controlled. Yes! any day.

The few? Thst is funny. I am not surprised you have no problem with girls falling around drunk but object to a frilly dress on a child,

Not sure I get what you're saying Annie? I was stating that the traveller culture is based on putting girls in frilly frocks on their wedding day and up their arse skirts and make up most others. It is a culture based on mans desires and keeping women under control.

Men fall about drunk far more than women do. But in saying that girls are free then to do the same in our culture (I'm not an advocate of either). Im an advocate of freedom for women, the gypsy culture is certainly not.

Your knowledge of gypsy culture is very narrow. You assume all women want your life style, they do not. There are women who are content within their own cultures . I wouldn't put a child in s frilly dress but do not condemn mothers who do.

I think it is important that people do not base their judgements on the media - programmes about Traveller culture are unlikely to focus on the positives and will look for things that are "newsworthy" - viz the programme about weddings.

According to the media, all Muslims are terrorists.

I agree Luckygirl, but channel 5 is guilty of this as it is on benefit cheats, very Sun newspaper in my opinion

The Travellers in our area are of Irish descent. People refer to them as. 'Gypos' but, as far as I'm aware, Gypsies are of Romany origin, their culture is different and they have little in common with Irish Travellers.

Please correct me if I'm wrong

One of the settled gypsy families lived behind us. In a very large immaculate house on a very large plot. He built a bungalow in the garden for his mum which she refused to live in and stayed in her caravan in the garden to the end of her days. A good thing really as it was built without planning permission - he claimed it was a dog kennel! They were lovely people (he did a lot to support the local football teams) but was inclined to ignore the rules the rest of us play by. The house wasn't apparently on the mains but it later transpired it was linked through a nearby bngalow owned by his aunt!

I liked living in a community which included integrated gypsies. It meant that keeping a pony in the back garden(as we did) was quite normal!