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Can a settled person become a "traveller" ?

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  • 31-05-2018 1:34pm
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    Dr Brown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭


    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 ?


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    megaten
    Registered Users Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭megaten


    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.


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    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,124 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    No. they'd classify you as a dick.


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    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


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


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Do you fancy your cousin OP?


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    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    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.


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    JMNolan
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    Are travellers for or against abortion?


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    sbsquarepants
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    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.


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    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    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


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    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


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


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Are travellers unsettled?


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    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    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 ...


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    Colonel Claptrap
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Colonel Claptrap


    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.


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    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    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.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    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!


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    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    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..


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    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    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?


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,729 ✭✭✭degsie


    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.


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    Dr Brown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭Dr Brown


    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.


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    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Do you fancy your cousin OP?

    Well, his cousin is hot

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    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)..


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    Colonel Claptrap
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Colonel Claptrap


    D'ya like dags?


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    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    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.


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    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    JMNolan wrote: »
    Are travellers for or against abortion?

    Depends on who's doing it


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    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,124 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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.


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    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    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.


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    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    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


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    judeboy101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    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.


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    diggerdigger
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭diggerdigger


    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.


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    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    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


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    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    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


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