Cheeky F****r

Lillyella wrote:

Mobile numbers are apparantley the big give-away. I don't care who collects the stuff though, but the fake ones never come on the days they say they do.

If you're really bothered, you're better off dropping them down to your local VdeP

Fake ones = free bin bags.

I have actually bought a painting from one of those 'cheeky ****ers'.

I couldn't help it, it was a painting of a little puppy and my little sister, aged 11, loves animals, especially dogs, and especially puppies!!

bolliwoodi wrote:

but seriously in that situation you would get fairly angry

Errrr no I'd be more pissed off about where the feckin kid came from, I don't have any. Maybe one of those dodgy immigrant types planted their kid in my house......thats it yes it's part of the Freemason Immigrant Conspiracy to infect our bodily fluids !!!!

FYI, it is true that the majority, if not all of the "clothes in a bag" things are scams. If you get one, and feel compassioned to give some of your old clothes - bring them directly to a charity shop.

K, bitches?

Wibbs wrote:

BTW Everybody goes on about "Romanians". They are mostly a section of Roma gypsy that the Romanians themselves take issue with. In fact they hate the association. I even met one Roma gypsy bloke who was well píssed off at being compared to this group of buggers. It's like comparing a really dodgy subsection of traveller society and calling them Irish.

That said I once had a very hot girl of Polish extraction try to sell me "her" paintings. Jeez the temptation to buy was strong in me.:D

I've simply given up making this point on boards. You'll quote an OP's post about the "Romanian beggars/thieves" etc and make a friendly point about the distinction between Romanian and Roma.

In the very next post the OP will say...."Yeah so anyway, those Romanian bastards!......" :rolleyes: and so will most of the following posters:rolleyes:

Most of the "Roma" don't even come from Romania.There are big populations of Roma in most Eastern European countries. The ones we have here are more likely to be Roma from Poland, Czech Rep, Slovakia etc.

And before the PC crowd pile in. I have no doubt that most Roma in Europe are like a lot of our travellers. Unfairly discriminated against because of the actions of a small sub section of their community.

Heres the thing though. The advance guard of Roma that came here in the last few years were obviously almost exclusively of the begging, criminal scam artist variety. I have not met a single Roma here that hasn't tried to beg, steal, scam me.

Everytime time I read a story in the papers warning the elderly to be careful answering the door to beggars because of some "Eastern European" mother begging at the door while the kid sneaks in the back etc.

Its always a fecking Roma not a generic "Eastern European!!

Big gang of "Eastern Europeans" coming into a shop and distracting the shopkeeper while the shelves are emptied or the back stores ransacked?

Its always a fecking Roma not a generic "Eastern European!!

Eastern Europeans begging and selling the big issue?

Its always a fecking Roma not a generic "Eastern European!!

"Eastern European" kid knocking on doors with fake Wheelchair association Sponsorship cards?

Its always a fecking Roma not a generic "Eastern European!!

"Eastern European" skimming or scamming money off people at atms?

Its always a fecking Roma not a generic "Eastern European!!

They're giving eastern Europeans a bad name! because the papers are never more specific than "Eastern European".

That said I do understand why they can't be more specific because I know you can't tar an entire community with the criminality brush. Like I said I don't tar the whole Pan European Roma community with this brush but from personal experience I can't help but tar almost the entire Irish Roma community with that brush in my own head.

At this stage I can read between the lines when reading a news story about Eastern European crime. I know when a story involving Eastern Europeans involves drunken driving or no car insurance or drugs or a stabbing etc that the story probably is refering to a generic Eastern European/Eastern European Gangster/thug. When I read stories like those earlier in my post I know the profile points to a Roma in all likelyhood.

Lazio are just as bad.

I wish I could get my kids to sleep at 7-7:30.....