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Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

  • 11-05-2013 09:21PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭


    Why do people find this program so fascinating?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I don't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    It satisfies my big dress fetish


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭HondaSami


    I want to know who pays for the big dresses and the gigantic cakes and why is the price such a secret.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    Who are the people who watch this sh**e? Wanna be Gypsies?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    At least we know they don't get their dresses from Abercrombie and Fitch


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    HondaSami wrote: »
    I want to know who pays for the big dresses and the gigantic cakes and why is the price such a secret.

    Father / parents of the bride I guess?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Father / parents of the bride I guess?


    Yes ok, but where did they get their money?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Voltex wrote: »
    Why do people find this program so fascinating?

    I dunno. Why do people find watching parasitic wasp larvae dig their way out of a still living caterpillar so fascinating?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Some of dem wimmins I'd love to leave with a face like a painters radio.

    That's as close as I would like to get though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭Lisha


    I want to understand the dresses. for instance why anyone would think its a good idea to put a communion child in a dress with no skirt at the front.
    Yes the communion dress had a long train/skirt at the back (think November rain video ) but the front ended at the waist and there was a pair of spangly hot pants on show .

    True story this, seen in ncw this week


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Lisha wrote: »
    Yes ok, but where did they get their money?

    Working, where else?

    You're not trying to suggest that travellers rob, steal, scam and commit crime to pay for such things, are you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Voltex


    In the one episode thats running in the background Iv gathered that the Groom is Mammy'd, the Bride was taken out of school at 14 and became a slave...the groom has been arrested for something but bailed by the parents..then coped off with a stripper on his stag night/first night out of jail.

    Does anyone find the showcasing of a minority group that have Irish accents a tad cringe inducing?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    I mainly watch it for how unsettling it is.

    Same reason I like horror movies and AH.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    "Oh look at those stupid travellers, they're thick as shiit, aren't they? Glad we're not like that."

    That's why.

    Pure exploitation TV like Jerry Springer tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    Lisha wrote: »
    Yes ok, but where did they get their money?

    No idea. Hard work I guess, the same as the rest of us. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    Voltex wrote: »
    In the one episode thats running in the background Iv gathered that the Groom is Mammy'd, the Bride was taken out of school at 14 and became a slave...the groom has been arrested for something but bailed by the parents..then coped off with a stripper on his stag night/first night out of jail.

    Does anyone find the showcasing of a minority group that have Irish accents a tad cringe inducing?

    Was the stripper hot?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    I like watching the various tones of orange that the 'ladies' are morphing into.


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's so I can feel superior in the face of spectacularly crass consumerist vulgarity, believed to be the epitome of good taste by the undiscerning.

    It works.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Voltex wrote: »
    Why do people find this program so fascinating?
    you actually watched it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Because when you watch it you're able to momentarily convince yourself that you might not be as fucked up as you think you are.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Don't think they've done themselves any favours by exposing their culture on TV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭Catphish


    Car crash TV. Few will admit to watching it because there is nothing to gain from it other than satisfying their curiosity. So, I'm going to admit it. I've watched it, and other such documentaries. They are a mysterious bunch.

    I challenge anyone to go up to a lad that soaks his fists in petrol to ask him how he made his money for his daughters wedding. I'll get my popcorn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭up for anything


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Some of dem wimmins I'd love to leave with a face like a painters radio.

    That's as close as I would like to get though.


    This says more about you then it does about them. There is so much wrong with your post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I am waiting for the episode where UK CAB and revenue arrives and demands to know where the money came from to pay for these tacky tasteless freak shows


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    This says more about you then it does about them. There is so much wrong with your post.

    Well like, that's just your opinion. Mine is that some of these ladies are like scooters: fun to ride if no one sees ya! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    kneemos wrote: »
    Don't think they've done themselves any favours by exposing their culture on TV.

    Don't think this is fair - there was a woman on RTE I think it was one evening. I've seen her on a few things speaking about being a member of the travelling community, and she said a lot of this show is not representative of travellers in general, and some of the things (i.e. grabbing) they had never even heard of


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    To feel superior.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭up for anything


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Well like, that's just your opinion. Mine is that some of these ladies are like scooters: fun to ride if no one sees ya! ;)

    Oozing with charm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    HondaSami wrote: »
    I want to know who pays for the big dresses and the gigantic cakes and why is the price such a secret.

    the social welfare office pays for them of course... have you ever met a gyspy that doesn't sign on?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    the social welfare office pays for them of course... have you ever met a gyspy that doesn't sign on?

    Signing on is part of their culture, you can hardly deny them that.


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