Gypsies here in America

[jagec]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
They do indeed use kids for distraction scams. I was at Notradame in Paris, knelt down to tie my shoe and a Gypsy girl comes up and asks if I speak English. I replied in my best clipped English accent, 'I'm terribly sorry, I am afraid I do not.'. She left.

Heh, funny, I had exactly the same thing happen to me. Notre Dame, the question, me feigning misunderstanding...maybe it was the same person.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: alkemyst

blah blah blah was a misquote.

I said sorry to hear...I was being sarcastic and stating 91TTZ was a roma.

damn, read and try not to just react.

If you like Russia though it'd be pretty easy to move there.

Being PC has nothing to do with being soft, it has to do with not being offensive to a person because of something they can't control

PC doesn't apply to the stupid or idiotic. That's what bleeding hearts are about.

You sound like a sniveling brat to me. You're a delinquent.

So how was prison, anyway? Get raped much?

lolz, you don't give up *ruffle*

take a chill pill dude.

 

[ed21x]

from my understanding in Kyrgyzstan, Gypsies are the American equivalent of travelling hippies... except they steal more and are pretty good at coning you out of money. There are the exceptions, but mainly these are people who have made an art out of being homeless.

 

[mooglemania85]

Originally posted by: manowar821
I love the lady gypsies. They're awesome.

It's a culture of not having a home, really. They're roaming people, and they need to make their living while being on the move. They live for being on the move. I'm not exactly sure where it comes from, but it's usually something to do with either a bad-ass vampire or a coven of werewolves. It's kind of romantic, really.

/fixed

 

[Skeeedunt]

Wow, gypsies sound like assholes. I had always heard the quips about how they were scammers and thieves, but I wasn't sure if it was just over-stereotyped BS or what. I had no idea they were so universally hated. You just made my shitlist gypsies!

 

[imported_Baloo]

gypsies are from europe

 

[imported_Baloo]

Originally posted by: Hlafordlaes
Origin is supposedly a group from India pushed out of their homes by an invader and set to wandering.

I live in a country with quite a number of gypsies and, here at least, they have a bad rep. Two recent events show the twisted idea they have of justice: don't touch or dis me, take all the abuse I give you.
(1) A non-gypsy truck driver bumped and knocked down a gypsy girl who had run into the street. She was unharmed and it was her fault. The driver was dragged from his vehicle and killed by a group of gypsy onloookers.
(2) A gypsy folk singer, while driving without a license, hit and killed a pedestrian and drove off from the scene. When tracked down, the family first alleged a brother, a minor, had been driving to lower any sentencing. When this was uncovered as a ruse and the folk singer was prosecuted instead, there was a gral uproar in the gypsy community about "persecution." First sentence was one to three years in jail, which the victim's family appealed as too lenient. In spite of death threats, this family persevered and the sentence was doubled.

One gypsy woman who comes into the tapas restaurant I own plays the loving and friendly type to ask for constant favors, bums cigarettes off other patrons, and will turn into a cursing foul-mouth beast whenever anyone refuses any of her many claims to "payo" charity (payos are non-gypsies in their lingo). Why not refuse her entry? Well, I need my windows. What I do do is use a bit of subterfuge to get her to move on (she ain't too smart).

Whether or not gypsies are a race, an ethnicity or simply a culture, their meme set is self-serving and unethical. I have no respect at all for professional victims/victimizers. Any culture with this tilt is hardly deserving of anything but scorn. As far as I am concerned, the only good gypsies are on the road and heading in the other direction.

wow Hlafordlaes. harbor much prejudice?

 

[ballmode]

BEST GYPSY EVER!


django reinhardt

 

[DangerAardvark]

Wow, some of you guys really hate gypsies. It's actually hilarious to hear people bashing gypsies in America. It's like someone ranting about how pirates are always pillaging and doing the jig. It's just seems so anachronistic.

Besdies, aren't they called Travellers in America?