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La La said:i used to want to be a traveller when i was little. cos they had those deadly wagons and horses.
anyway, roisin, to go back to your first comment - does the fact that the people who parked in the disabled spot turned out to be travellers bother you more than the actual parking in the disabled space?
like, if it had been some rich investment wanker would it have bothered you less?? just wonderin'.
I wish......motoko said:Sociology lesson over![]()
ah they're not completely useless like. what if you wanted a ton of rubbish and some burnt out barrels at the end of your road. who would you call? i know i couldn't do it, not on me tobler in anyways.motoko said:Irish (assuming no one meant Roma during the thread?).
They've been around forever, used to have a useful role in society, travelling around rural ireland selling stuff, doing odd jobs, fixing pots and pans (hence the term 'tinker' which was acceptable enough til fairly recently). Of course now that our modern society has no need for their services (when you can go out and buy a new teflon pan for a few euro in tesco, who the hell would pay a tinker to fix it with scrap metal?) they have no useful way of making a living, hence they're now stuck on the edge of society.
Sociology lesson over![]()
motoko said:Hmm, just realised I used the word 'hence' twice in that last post. That can't be good.
motoko said:my mum gave them tea and biscuits, and the cups were politely returned to us when they'd finished.
La La said:anyway, roisin, to go back to your first comment - does the fact that the people who parked in the disabled spot turned out to be travellers bother you more than the actual parking in the disabled space?
like, if it had been some rich investment wanker would it have bothered you less?? just wonderin'.
ha.c0De_n1NjA said:"some rich investment wanker". the ironing is delicious.
Hector Grey said:can we at least agree on that?
motoko said:Sociology lesson over![]()
aoifed said:Language
Travellers inhabit two worlds - the settled world and the Traveller world. Traveller culture reflects this. Although little spoken today, an important part of Traveller heritage is their own language - Cant.
La La said:i used to want to be a traveller when i was little. cos they had those deadly wagons and horses.
anyway, roisin, to go back to your first comment - does the fact that the people who parked in the disabled spot turned out to be travellers bother you more than the actual parking in the disabled space?
like, if it had been some rich investment wanker would it have bothered you less?? just wonderin'.
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