Posted on 07/12/2008 7:07:58 AM PDT by yankeedame
My English-born wife has given me a lot of info about the "Irish" gypsies. They are known by the name of "diddycoys" in Britain. On a recent trip to Britain my brother-in-law pointed out an encampment of them close to their home near Norwich. Apparently many town councils are unwilling to deal with them and let them set up their encampments wherever they find open land. Unfortunately the diddycoys never clean up after themselves and leave huge messes when they finally move on. And many times robbing the nearby vicinity blind.
That is an interesting bit of information. “diddycoys” thanks.
Ah jeez - another Chief Diversity Officer. And the taxpayers are having to fund this.
I wish I could come back to earth in a couple hundred years and read the history books' chapters on the "quaint" jobs people worked at during this time in history.
On the other hand, I'd rather know that the Tribulation had come and gone and our Lord was back here and in total control.
A colony of Travellers lives here in Tarrant County, and are well-known for descending upon suburban neighborhoods in our area after every hailstorm and offering their bogus roof-repair services. We just warn them off and call the cops. (I have a steel roof on my house now, God be praised.) Some cultures are dysfunctional and cannot coexist with Judeo-Christian culture. In my opinion, Traveller culture is one such.
Subsequently, they became the first group of people that I acquired a real prejudice against.
They liked conning the elderly, among other despicable cons.
No worse than being required to celebrate the “diversity” and “bless the union of” homosexuals.
Good thinkin’! I would support a day for the Bloods and one for the Crips.
Diversity has become a cuddly, feely for morally relative (criminal) activity and the triumph of the anti-culture. Britain is so screwed. That woman belongs in a straitjacket not a police uniform.
They are called “tinkers” in Ireland. This stemmed from their repair of pots and pans to mask their otherwise criminal (and more lucrative) activities.
Yeah, they do a thriving business in St. Louis with phony driveway paving and sealing. If the Post-Disgrace were less PC and more civic-minded, it would do a better job alerting the populace (especially the elderly) to these vermin.
Her children apparently won’t go hungry.
I was unaware that a cop’s job description now includes “celebrating.” When did that happen?
If you ain’t payin’ me for it, I ain’t doin’ it.
The folk song "Sullivan's John" makes allusions to the criminal side of the tinkers.
Because it’s my understanding that they’ve been traditionally called “travelers” as well as “tinkers”.
Only heard Tinker. Mostly as a perjorative. As for Gypsies, once in Chicago when I was little they were coming up the alley with their cart. My Mother and Grandmother took the clothes off the line, locked the gate and took me into the house because “they steal children”. I wanted an up-close look.
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