Klitschko, Fury, Parker, Takam & Joshua
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Catogrande" data-cid="546463" data-time="1449481652"><p>
That's certainly true for places in both countries where the travelling community make their temporary homes, often returning. Why? Well the old joke goes someway to explain - "What did the traveller kid get for Christmas? - Your bike".<br><br>
Some friends of mine lived in Lingfield (racecourse town) and were visited annually by a large travelling community. Dog thefts went through the roof every year as did petty thefts. One year one local pub that welcomed them just got absolutely trashed the last night they stayed, another pub that refused them entry (helps to have a couple of Rhodesian Ridgebacks) had both dogs poisoned. <br><br>
Do the people of Lingfield hate the travellers? Yes.</p></blockquote>
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Those are the same sort of stories I hear every time the subject of travellers comes up. I worked with a guy in Australia who moved there to get away from his traveller family . Hearing the stories from his perspective was interesting , bloody stoked we don't have them and their associated fuckwittery here, -
Wales' new youngster at tighthead prop - Samson Lee is from a "traveller family", actually lists ferreting as one of his hobbies !
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<p>What is ferreting?</p>
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<p>Catching rabbits by putting a ferret down the rabbit hole. I know people in NZ that do the same thing.</p> -
<p>On Test Match Special, Bumble once referred to a late order batsman as a ferret. When asked why ferret he said "They go in after the rabbits".</p>
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<p>Mentioning to wife that a Traveller has become a heavyweight boxing champion and she says "you mean pikey". I say "I believe they prefer to be called travellers" and she stated that "they don't get to choose".</p>
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Mentioning to wife that a Traveller has become a heavyweight boxing champion and she says "you mean pikey". I say "I believe they prefer to be called travellers" and she stated that "they don't get to choose".</p></blockquote>
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Awesome , she should start posting here.<br><br>
Apparently some of the knackers in Ireland have stopped travelling and settled down , by settled down i mean applied for benefits for them and their dozen or so kids and made life miserable for the locals who move out as more knackers move in.<br><br>
The closest we seem to get is those feral types in house buses , a couple of them moved their shit heap buses onto a block of land near my old bosses yard. Coincidentally a minor crime wave started to happen in the area at the same time . After a couple of confrontations with the locals they moved on to annoy someone else. -
<p>Brad Pitt was superb apparently he lived with Travellers to research what it would be like to live with Angelina Jolie lol</p>
<p>Settled Travellers (in a house) are known as Knackers not a pretty name and I don't think they would appeciate u calling it to them</p>
<p>The old name in Ireland is Tinkers. apparently because they tinkered with metals to make pots to sell which isn't a bad name</p>
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<p>Catching rabbits by putting a ferret down the rabbit hole. I know people in NZ that do the same thing.</p>
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Are those people in NZ who run the Gypsy fairs travelers/gypsies or are they more the hippy type people?</p></blockquote>
Most of them seem to do fruit picking and other seasonal work and crafts too, they have a fair locally when they come to town which is usually pretty good. There's usually some pretty talented metal workers making stuff on forges and paua carving etc.<br>
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<p>I dunno but Brad Pitt played one sensationally in Snatch.</p>
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<p>Not just Ireland. Pretty much Europe wide. <strong>Hitler didn't like them much either.</strong> About 1/4 mill went in the holocaust</p>
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<p>That was more your middle european Roma. He wouldn't have had a go at the UK pikeys as he knew they would have torched his bunker and nicked his dog.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Catogrande" data-cid="546577" data-time="1449563746"><p>Best opening lines in a film ever. "Pikeys. I fucking hate pikeys".</p></blockquote>
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Vastly underrated compared to lock stock.....I think the films are equal all things considered.<br><br>
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They don't just confine their dodgy dealings to the British Isles. A few years ago a couple of them turned up outside my townhouse in Oslo. Was a weird experience to say the least. They were offering to do up my front yard. They showed me an impressive "portfolio" of their work. Having seen Snatch I didn't want to piss them off so told them I was skint.<br><br>
Found out later that they were becoming a serious problem. You pay them up front, they do a shit job and demand more cash to fix. You pay them more and they promptly piss off. Considering Norwegians are the most trusting and naive people on the planet, they probably made a fortune.<br><br>
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<p>They don't just confine their dodgy dealings to the British Isles. A few years ago a couple of them turned up outside my townhouse in Oslo. Was a weird experience to say the least. They were offering to do up my front yard. They showed me an impressive "portfolio" of their work. Having seen Snatch I didn't want to piss them off so told them I was skint.<br><br>
Found out later that they were becoming a serious problem. You pay them up front, they do a shit job and demand more cash to fix. You pay them more and they promptly piss off. Considering Norwegians are the most trusting and naive people on the planet, they probably made a fortune.<br><br>
Can't blame Tyson Fury if he's a little farked in the head.</p>
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<p>On a smaller scale that is happening even in Australia , they come out here , usually targeting the elderly , quite often offering to fix their roof , rip off as many as they can , piss off home with the cash , </p>
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<p>And people here dont know who they are and can be a bit more gullible </p>
