Loo

Scatter :*)

retired_musiclova31

what?

retired_sherie

yeah LOL

coz they all alike, innit? </BLOCKQUOTE>

I don't know. I am talking from my own experience.

retired_jabda

My favourite Roma story is being in a taxi and driving past a gypsy wedding. The taxi driver slowed right down, and opened his window and roared abuse to the wedding while they were getting their photos done.

Then he drove on and calmly said to me 'Gyspies', like that made it all better

Loo

Damn right so he was.

retired_olechka

scum of the earth the ones begging in Dublin city centre. I really don't hate anybody but it's borderline with these folks. Can't even relax with a meal now without them coming into the pub/restaurant pointing at your food asking for some. Their new trick is for 20 or so of them to ambush small shops and make off with as much cash and goods as they can carry.

There's actually women begging on the streets and they're wearing expensive Irish gold jewellery. Saw 2 of them being lifted last week for begging with their kids in their arm, good enough for them.

Loo

It ain't a new trick. Tried it on us a good few years ago.

retired_ks reddy

My favourite was when a young man came to our table in a restaurant and placed a card on it. I had a read:

"I am a Romanian refugee, and have _ brothers and sisters to support. Please give money"

The card was pre-printed and he'd biro'ed in the number '6' for his deserving brothers and sisters. I burnt the card in front of him, then stood up as he began getting humpy and he thought better of it.

As I understand it Romanians with a legal work contract and an address are not being deported, am I right? That's the problem with such a collective punishment though - I doubt it'll be practical for the good ones to stay either.

retired_kswelker

When I was a kid, about 8, my family was walking beside the Colosseum and these gypsy women with babies surrounded us and forced their children into my parents' arms or else they would fall on the ground while little boys and girls reached for their pockets. My father placed the baby hanging precariously on the head of one of the boys (the baby almost fell to the ground but one of the women reached for it just in time) and started violently slapping the women and children around my mother. They quickly dispersed, evidently. Not a memorable occasion.

retired_ks reddy

I felt sorry for some of the local gypsies here, they had a stepladder, an accordion and a goat. The trick was that mum played the squeeze-box while dad made the goat climb the ladder and the kids went round with hats collecting the tin.

Problem was dads method of getting the goat up the ladder was to whale the granny out of it with a stick, and as all the English turned their heads from the kids and spurned the offered hats you could clearly see the utter incomprehension in the father's face. The trick had made him a living 10 years back and now all he got was abuse, and he obviously was painfully unable to get to grips with it.

Less interesting were the ones who'd take a dog to the beach and begin to drown it, until the tourists started remonstrating with them. They'd be like "my dog, so I'll do what I like with it - unless you want to buy it off me for a tenner?".