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The History of the Gypsies (Roma)
Living Ironically in Europe ^
| 29/3/24
Posted on 04/11/2024 3:28:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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Weird visuals, good narrative.
To: Eleutheria5
I had read 2 books on the Gypsies within about a year of each other and not much longer afterward got picked up by a gypsy in California as I was hitch-hiking to Houston, the conversation probably surprised him.
I love it when books come into use like that.
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:34:03 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Eleutheria5
Everyone I have ever know who has had dealings with them don’t like them for good reason.
To: Tom Tetroxide
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
That was a chorus from a popular song of the 70s. I don't remember the name of the song, but I think it was sung by Cher.
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:41:28 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Vigilanteman
That was the name of the song, and you’re right - it was sung by Cher.
To: Vigilanteman
The name was…Gypsies, Tramps and Theives.
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:52:36 PM PDT
by
jdsteel
(PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
To: Eleutheria5
Gypsies seem to be the one group that even politically correct Europeans are allowed to hate openly.
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:54:02 PM PDT
by
jimwatx
To: Eleutheria5
My maternal grandmother was likely Gypsy, Jew or both.
Sent to America at 14 on her own as it was safer for an orphan to do that rather than stay in Asto-Hungary at that pre-WWII time.
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:54:06 PM PDT
by
jdsteel
(PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
To: Vigilanteman
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:56:12 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: Eleutheria5
The two groups Hitler wanted to completely eliminate were Jews and the Roma (previously called “Gypsies”).
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posted on
04/11/2024 3:59:25 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
He was willing to tolerate Slavs as slaves, though.
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posted on
04/11/2024 4:03:29 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: jdsteel
Charlie Chaplin’s mother, it turns out, was a Gypsy. He was born in a caravan in the Black Patch area outside London.
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posted on
04/11/2024 4:05:26 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: Tom Tetroxide
I was in Colombia and was told the same from a cop. Trouble is their middle name.
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posted on
04/11/2024 4:19:08 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(6)
To: Eleutheria5
I met my first Gypsy last week. I'm still kicking myself for somewhat falling for his phony sob story, but I was exhausted from prolonged lack of sleep, and it was not much money. His entire family was in his car, trying to participate in the scam.
I expect Gypsies to be picking pockets in France, not conning Americans in a Walmart parking lot.
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posted on
04/11/2024 4:32:56 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: Vigilanteman
That was the title of the song and yes it was sung by Cher.
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posted on
04/11/2024 5:45:37 PM PDT
by
redangus
( )
To: Eleutheria5
the more colloquial word for Gypsies in Eastern Europe, "cigan, cigány, țigan", it comes from the Greek "antsigan" which means untouchable. That's probably the root of the German word for Gypsy, "Zigeuner." When I was in Germany, I had plenty of Zigeunerschnitzel, a veal cutlet smothered in a gravy comprising tomatoes, onions, other vegetables, and spices.
To: Eleutheria5
There is a movie, King of the Gypsies, with Sterling Hayden in one of his last roles. It makes a case that here in the US, their style was starting to fall apart back in the '70s.
Oddly, I saw it again, just last week. It's on Kanopy, a movie site run by the library.
By the way, if some stranger knocks on your door and offers to resurface your driveway for a ridiculously low price, DON'T DO IT!
They slosh a pail of used motor oil on your drive way, and it will look good until the next time it rains and washes into the sewer. It was a scam in Central Illinois, years back, and the local popo accused a Gypsie family operating in the area. They seem to go for the Short Con.
True? Hellifino.
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posted on
04/11/2024 6:13:22 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Eleutheria5
the more colloquial word for Gypsies in Eastern Europe, "cigan, cigány, țigan".... Italian = zingari
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posted on
04/11/2024 6:19:24 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
To: Tom Tetroxide
My parents rented a house to gypsies. They stripped it clean.
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posted on
04/11/2024 6:20:04 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Eleutheria5
French = gitans
Spanish = gitanos
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posted on
04/11/2024 6:21:12 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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