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

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  • #32
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    You should be ****ing ashamed of yourself.

    Nah I’m all good


  • #33
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Imagine being a young, blameless, Traveller

    Give me a minute, i'm trying to, but some things are just so rare they are hard to even imagine. Can i be a unicorn who breathes fire and farts rainbows instead?


  • #34
    Uncharted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Uncharted


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    You should be ****ing ashamed of yourself.

    This place is gone to da dags.


  • #35
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    I’ll get lambasted out of it for this, but once upon a time some travellers did useful things. The alternative name tinkers was because some would be able to mend pots and pans, which was a handy skill back in the day.

    Some of them were also quite talented musically, look at the Fureys.

    Very little to none of this exists now. What they are now is beyond a joke, they are a danger to themselves and a danger to others and the position they find themselves in our society is largely down to how they behave and treat others in that society.


  • #36
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    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.
    If you were really bothered about discussing the positive aspects of the traveling community, you would have mentioned a few yourself.

    So...where's your own list of 'positives which are always overlooked'.#?


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  • #37
    14dMoney
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭14dMoney


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    If you were really bothered about discussing the positive aspects of the traveling community, you would have mentioned a few yourself.

    So...where's your own list of 'positives which are always overlooked'.#?

    They provide a rich tapestry of old life in Ireland.

    They preserve a nomadic way of life.


  • #38
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    You should be ****ing ashamed of yourself.

    Resorting to foul language. Tut tut. Probably learned from one of the call-out videos.

    To be fair though, their call-out videos are genuinely hilarious. Sh*te in the Bucket, Kebab Balls and Junkies Bastard are like a Holy Trinity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8cbK67QDhc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQWvwWdo2Qk


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9dLgKK1Y6c


  • #39
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,353 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Welders with cavity blocks inside. A simple design.

    How do you know bout the welders with cavity blocks on them?
    Were ya in the market for a cheap welder ?


  • #40
    Uncharted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Uncharted


    corner of hells wrote: »
    How do you bout the welders with cavity blocks on them?
    Were ya in the market for a cheap welder ?

    Hopefully,they sell dictionarys too.


  • #41
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Here's a real one though, they've won multiple medals for this country in boxing. Olympics medals are a fantastic achievement.


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  • #42
    The Jman
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭The Jman


    They keep security firms in business, that kinda counts as a positive...


  • #43
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭randd1


    - Call out videos
    - Country music festivals
    - Cheap caravans
    - Keeping the fake nail/boobtube/fake rhinestone/fast food industries afloat
    - Regularly test companies/housing security setups for free


  • #44
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    14dMoney wrote: »
    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.

    Howya John.


  • #45
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    They took loads of stuff out my skip last time which was very sound of them as it gave me extra room to pack more in. Didn't even inconvenience me by knocking on the door so I didn't really mind the rubbish strewn about.


  • #46
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


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

    I suppose one positive is, none of the men are Woke. No such thing as, Woke Connors, or Woke Stokes


  • #47
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Do great deals on phonebooks, and provide laptop bags to hide said phonebook so you don't look like a pleb walking around with it in your arms


  • #48
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    They know how to work with copper


  • #49
    Time
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭Time


    14dMoney wrote: »
    They preserve a nomadic way of life.

    What exactly is it about living with no electricity running water or sanitary facilities that is worth preserving?


  • #50
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭randd1


    14dMoney wrote: »

    They preserve a nomadic way of life.

    Then why do they insist on having free houses?


  • #51
    14dMoney
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭14dMoney


    randd1 wrote: »
    Then why do they insist on having free houses?

    There's no such thing as a free house.


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  • #52
    14dMoney
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭14dMoney


    Time wrote: »
    What exactly is it about living with no electricity running water or sanitary facilities that is worth preserving?

    I wouldn't expect racists to understand.


  • #53
    Time
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭Time


    14dMoney wrote: »
    I wouldn't expect racists to understand.

    How exactly is that racist?


  • #54
    Baggly
    Registered Users Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Mod

    Thank you to everyone for any genuine contributions to the thread. There are other threads available for discussion of travellers. Seeing as very few people are paying attention to the op here and making genuine contributions, im closing this one up and you can go to the other threads in the forum, or to CA, instead.

    Thanks


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