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Let's dedicate a thread to the positive things the traveling community bring to Irela

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  • 17-09-2019 9:26am
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    14dMoney
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭


    It's nearly Culture Night, so let's for once have a thread based on the positive and enriching aspects that the traveling community have had on our culture. Bigots will insist of focusing on the negatives, however there are so much positives which are always overlooked.


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    Salary Negotiator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭Salary Negotiator


    It's fierce quiet round here.


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    73bc61lyohr0mu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭73bc61lyohr0mu


    Name a few so...


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    Uncharted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Uncharted


    Cheap refuse collection at very reasonable prices.



    It's hard to see how they make a profit, when you consider the fee to enter large landfills with a loaded van or truck.

    Maybe they are working at a loss for the good of the enviroment. Fair play to them.


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    blindside88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    There’s already a thread like this running, the only positive thing I’ve seen written is that travelers don’t live near certain posters


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    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    They always have really new tools for sale and don’t bother inconveniencing you with the original packaging or receipts or any of that kind of nonsense.


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    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    They’re very considerate, often dropping in to check in on their elderly rural neighbours, sometimes when they haven’t even been asked to.


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    Uncharted
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    Many the leaky roof or faulty guttering has been replaced or repaired at the drop of a hat,especially for elderly people living alone.

    An excellent service.

    Run of the mill tradesmen would no doubt have to be called on the phone or something ludicrous like that.


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    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,864 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Uncharted wrote: »
    Cheap refuse collection at very reasonable prices.



    It's hard to see how they make a profit, when you consider the fee to enter large landfills with a loaded van or truck.

    Maybe they are working at a loss for the good of the enviroment. Fair play to them.

    If you think they bring them to the landfills then you are living in cloud cuckooland. Ever hear of flytipping...


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    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Yer only man for tarmac. Always laid on a solid hardcore base with the best of materials. No cutting corners with these lads. Honest as the day is long.


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    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    If you think they bring them to the landfills then you are living in cloud cuckooland. Ever hear of flytipping...

    Whoosh


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    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,864 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Whoosh

    ?


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    Uncharted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Uncharted


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    ?

    Wow.


    These cows are small Dougal,but those cows over there are ........... being sarcastic.


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    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    @op, seriously why don't you start off with a few positives rather than just blindly asking the question. Personally I can't think of any, and I'm genuinely curious as to what they could be.


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    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    They cleaned out my shed a few years back. Did a great job. Now I didn’t ask them to do it, and they took a few things they shouldn’t have, but they really are very helpful when it comes to stuff like that.


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    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Snatch? Great film...


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    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    They’ve kept alive the ancient Irish tradition of bare knuckle boxing.


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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Imagine being a young, blameless, Traveller teenager and logging in to see all these constant anti-Traveller diatribes.


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    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Imagine being a young, blameless, Traveller teenager and logging in to see all these constant anti-Traveller diatribes.

    It’s ok, they can’t read


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    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    They eat spicy wedges and chicken rolls, three times a day, supporting local jobs, in filling station delis


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    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,937 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIuR-HjFho


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    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I didn't really need my tv anyway. I'm reading much more now.


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    g6fdyotp5nj2l7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭g6fdyotp5nj2l7


    DellyBelly wrote:
    If you think they bring them to the landfills then you are living in cloud cuckooland. Ever hear of flytipping...


    Ever hear of sarcasm :-)


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Imagine being a young, blameless, Traveller teenager and logging in to see all these constant anti-Traveller diatribes.

    Why are they allowed?
    If nothing else it's been done to death. I believe that's a thing around here?


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    14dMoney
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭14dMoney


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why are they allowed?
    If nothing else it's been done to death. I believe that's a thing around here?

    Read the thread title. I'm trying to have a discussion about the positive aspects of the traveling community. Your comments aren't helping.


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    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    They always have really new tools for sale and don’t bother inconveniencing you with the original packaging or receipts or any of that kind of nonsense.

    Welders with cavity blocks inside. A simple design.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Being honest where I live everything would be better if there wasnt a halting site in the area. Sad but true.

    Can't think of any positives TBH. I have met some very nice and decent individual travellers and my kids have played with a few. It's those people I feel sorry for. The effects of the bad travellers far outweigh the good ones.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    14dMoney wrote: »
    Read the thread title. I'm trying to have a discussion about the positive aspects of the traveling community. Your comments aren't helping.

    Here's somewhere to report racism.
    Dunno who they are though.

    https://www.ireport.ie/report-racist-incidents/


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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    It’s ok, they can’t read
    You should be ****ing ashamed of yourself.


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    RollieFingers
    Registered Users Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Imagine being a young, blameless, Traveller teenager and logging in to see all these constant anti-Traveller diatribes.

    On the phone they stole off someone.


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    14dMoney
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭14dMoney


    RollieFingers wrote: »
    On the phone they stole off someone.

    And you have multi nationals like Apple robbing you and your country blind day by day, yet you choose to focus on something as small as a traveller stealing your phone. Bigotry.


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