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The 'what have some travellers somewhere done this time? thread

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    You can't judge all Travelers with the same brush all because of a very small minority.
    Seems like Travelers are fair game for openly rasict abuse

    Small minority?


  • Site Banned Posts: 51 ✭✭Brendan Delaney


    Tell that to the white farmers in South Africa

    Tell it to African Americans that white people in Ireland are experiencing racism.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    1 They're not a different race so it's not racism.

    2 It's not a small minority.

    They are a different race the government acknowledged that by bestowing ethnic minorities status on the traveling community.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭pablo128


    They are a different race the government acknowledged that by bestowing ethnic minorities status on the traveling community.

    They 'might' be a different ethnicity, but they are the same race as any Irish person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    They are a different race the government acknowledged that by bestowing ethnic minorities status on the traveling community.
    Race and ethnicity are two very different things. We are the same race as people from Nordic countries but ethnically we are different. The only reason travellers have veered away from us genetically is because they tend to marry cousins. That doesn't make them a separate race though.


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  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You can't judge all Travelers with the same brush all because of a very small minority.
    Seems like Travelers are fair game for openly rasict abuse

    Charles, do you know any traveller families?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Charles, do you know any traveller families?

    Yes lots of them through a coaching role


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Yes lots of them through a coaching role

    Who is coaching who?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Who is coaching who?

    I was for 30 years and tell you 99% of Travelers are lovely people


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes lots of them through a coaching role

    Perfect.

    So let’s test your theory. Give us a surname and location and we can put that into google along with the word “court” or “arrest” and we should return zero results, righ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    I was for 30 years and tell you 99% of Travelers are lovely people

    Well thats your experience and thats great, Im delighted you have had a good experience with them.

    What was the capacity or circumstance? Age range of those you dealt with?

    Unfortunately, my own experiences differ.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Perfect.

    So let’s test your theory. Give us a surname and location and we can put that into google along with the word “court” or “arrest” and we should return zero results, righ?
    So if I googled your surname nobody with the same name has ever commited a crime?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭pablo128


    So if I googled your surname nobody with the same name has ever commited a crime?

    What do you have to worry about? Didn't you just say 99% of travellers don't commit crime?

    Sorry I had to come back and edit this post. You merely said they were lovely people. Apologies. Well played sir.


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So if I googled your surname nobody with the same name has ever commited a crime?

    Surname and address is what would make it distinct to my family and no, you wouldn’t find any results :)


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Surname and address is what would make it distinct to my family and no, you wouldn’t find any results :)

    Actually, I just googled my first and surname and I think I’m the only one in the world. Now that’s unique :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    Is the 'feud' going on in Drogheda traveller related?

    Of course it is ......

    Don't all travellers have a feud ,ya wouldn't want to feel left out now . Daddi can I have a feud for Christmas all my cousins have one.
    Well your 7 years old now son. So here's your first pint as well.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Actually, I just googled my first and surname and I think I’m the only one in the world. Now that’s unique :)

    Sure you are


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,052 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    Actually, I just googled my first and surname and I think I’m the only one in the world. Now that’s unique :)

    Not too many of the Milkshake clan call their kids Strawberry then?


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not too many of the Milkshake clan call their kids Strawberry then?

    My first name has been on the extinct list for years and my surname is not that common.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    Well your 7 years old now son. So here's your first pint as well.

    Jesus thanks daddi all that and on my twin sisters wedding day


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,052 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    My first name has been on the extinct list for years and my surname is not that common.

    Jacob Rees Mogg... Is that you? :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    My first name has been on the extinct list for years and my surname is not that common.

    Very convenient


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ssssshhhhhhh :D


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Very convenient

    Regardless. If I had a popular name you could probably find people with the same name who had criminal records but if you added my address, would come up zilch. Which is why I said for you to give us a traveller surname and location so we can test your 99% are nice theory.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Regardless. If I had a popular name you could probably find people with the same name who had criminal records but if you added my address, would come up zilch. Which is why I said for you to give us a traveller surname and location so we can test your 99% are nice theory.

    I could definitely give you lots of examples I personally know generations of traveling families no criminal convictions what so ever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I could definitely give you lots of examples I personally know generations of traveling families no criminal convictions what so ever

    Where do they live as it must be one of the most crime free towns in Ireland.....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Where do they live as it must be one of the most crime free towns in Ireland.....

    Close to Dublin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    I could definitely give you lots of examples I personally know generations of traveling families no criminal convictions what so ever

    You do in me hole.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Close to Dublin

    Wow I need to visit there.....

    Anywhere else I've lived they've been a menace.


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  • Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    99% of Travelers are lovely people

    I deem you a third-rate provocateur. The schtick has long worn thin.


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