Can a settled person become a "traveller" ?

Dr Brown · 31-05-2018 01:34PM #1

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfare and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they set me up as one ?

megaten · 31-05-2018 01:36PM

Dr Brown wrote: »

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfate and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they set me up as one ?

Try it out and tell us how you get on OP.

Grayson · 31-05-2018 01:36PM

No. they'd classify you as a dick.

Suckit · 31-05-2018 01:37PM

Strip a length of copper wire with your fingernails in under 30 seconds and you might qualify for the qualifiers.

Seth Brundle · 31-05-2018 01:40PM

Do you fancy your cousin OP?

chrissb8 · 31-05-2018 01:51PM

Send a callout video to the taxman with you punching a bag and talking about how you'll not be paying anymore tax for s**e in a bucket.

JMNolan · 31-05-2018 02:00PM

Are travellers for or against abortion?

sbsquarepants · 31-05-2018 02:04PM

end of the road will be able to hook you up with someone who can sort it for you.
Don't stress OP, in the mean time empty your wheelie bin all over your back garden, put on a vest and drink a few cans, maybe tie up a dog or give your missus a slap or two, you know, get a feel for it.

wexie · 31-05-2018 02:06PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Don't stress OP, in the mean time empty your wheelie bin all over your back garden, .

Wrong!!

OP don't listen to Spongebob.

Set fire to your wheeliebin, it's the proper way

sbsquarepants · 31-05-2018 02:08PM

My bad - it's a steep learning curve:D

Hilly Bill · 31-05-2018 02:13PM

Are travellers unsettled?

Hector Savage · 31-05-2018 03:07PM

Maybe start up your own fly tippin' business, you can collect all your neighbours rubbish for €5 a hosehold and then just dump it on the roadside a few miles away ...

Colonel Claptrap · 31-05-2018 03:10PM

JMNolan wrote: »

Are travellers for or against abortion?

Hugely against.

Newstalk did a piece on it last week. Very interesting interviews.

Traveller devotion to Catholicism is remarkable and a little scary.

Gravelly · 31-05-2018 03:11PM

Dr Brown wrote: »

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfare and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they set me up as one ?

You're doing it all wrong - travellers don't ask, they demand.

Seth Brundle · 31-05-2018 03:14PM

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

Traveller devotion to Catholicism is remarkable and a little scary.

It's selective Catholicism. Many of them tend to ignore the seventh commandment!

Hector Savage · 31-05-2018 03:18PM

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

Hugely against.

Newstalk did a piece on it last week. Very interesting interviews.

Traveller devotion to Catholicism is remarkable and a little scary.

scary yes and unbelievably hypocritical..

Yer Da sells Avon · 31-05-2018 03:22PM

Dr Brown wrote: »

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfare and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they set me up as one ?

Would you be prepared to take the lower life expectancy too?

degsie · 31-05-2018 03:24PM

Not sure if there is a medical procedure to remove the brain part that allows for empathy towards suffering animals, but I'd start there.

Dr Brown · 31-05-2018 03:52PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

It's selective Catholicism. Many of them tend to ignore the seventh commandment!

They are only Cultural Catholics.

I have a relation whos a priest and he said that the traveller kids never turn up for any of preparations for holy communion.

TheValeyard · 31-05-2018 03:53PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Do you fancy your cousin OP?

Well, his cousin is hot

Ipso · 31-05-2018 03:58PM

Dr Brown wrote: »

They are only Cultural Catholics.

I have a relation whos a priest and he said that the traveller kids never turn up for any of preparations for holy communion.

Aren’t most Irish people cultural Catholics?

Also I think travellers are very big into the apparitions (eye issueswhen you stare at the sun for too long)..

Colonel Claptrap · 31-05-2018 04:00PM

D'ya like dags?

Peatys · 31-05-2018 04:00PM

Dr Brown wrote: »

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfare and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they set me up as one ?

Don't go balls deep straight away. Become a "settled traveller" first.

That way you still get all the good bits, (no tax, expectations etc), but you don't have to go camping 12 months of the year.

Peatys · 31-05-2018 04:01PM

JMNolan wrote: »

Are travellers for or against abortion?

Depends on who's doing it

Grayson · 31-05-2018 04:01PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

end of the road will be able to hook you up with someone who can sort it for you.
Don't stress OP, in the mean time empty your wheelie bin all over your back garden, put on a vest and drink a few cans, maybe tie up a dog or give your missus a slap or two, you know, get a feel for it.

He said traveller, not northsider.

sbsquarepants · 31-05-2018 04:02PM

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

Hugely against.

Newstalk did a piece on it last week. Very interesting interviews.

Traveller devotion to Catholicism is remarkable and a little scary.

Eh, Thou shalt NOT steal.

Peatys · 31-05-2018 04:03PM

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

Hugely against.

Newstalk did a piece on it last week. Very interesting interviews.

Traveller devotion to Catholicism is remarkable and a little scary.

They just don't bother with the 'thou shalt not steal/covet thy bothers daughter' part

judeboy101 · 31-05-2018 04:03PM

Dr Brown wrote: »

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfare and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they

Dr Brown wrote: »

I would like to become a "traveller" so that I can become tax exempt and not be subject to the normal rules of society.

If I turned up to social welfare and said that I now consider myself to be a "traveller" would they set me up as one ?

Some kids in my school are registered as travellers, they ain't travellers but we know they are doing it to access HEAR for leaving cert points . For those in the know they are using the 1,2,4 route as 5,6 doesn't apply to our school.

diggerdigger · 31-05-2018 04:05PM

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

Hugely against.

Newstalk did a piece on it last week. Very interesting interviews.

Traveller devotion to Catholicism is remarkable and a little scary.

That is true. A particular devotion to Mary. In the countryside, if you have a statue of the virgin Mary outside your house, you are less likely to get burgled. When i was a kid, the house on the road with no alarm and a virgin mary statue was left alone, and all the houses with dogs and alarms were burgled.

sbsquarepants · 31-05-2018 04:10PM

diggerdigger wrote: »

When i was a kid, the house on the road with no alarm and a virgin mary statue was left alone, and all the houses with dogs and alarms were burgled.

Has it occurred to you that they were probably the ones doing the burgling?:D

goose2005 · 31-05-2018 04:19PM

diggerdigger wrote: »

That is true. A particular devotion to Mary. In the countryside, if you have a statue of the virgin Mary outside your house, you are less likely to get burgled. When i was a kid, the house on the road with no alarm and a virgin mary statue was left alone, and all the houses with dogs and alarms were burgled.

probably because they were poor. The best defence against burglars is rich neighbours

Can a settled person become a "traveller" ?

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