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Originally Posted by Stuart C
True gypsies (seemingly a dying breed) do try and live in harmony with their neighbours.
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Maybe that's why they don't get much press, then...
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
I am not defending Pikies, I hate them. I just don't like the fact that the media (and therefore most of the population, including, apparently, nearly everyone who has posted in this thread) don't draw a distinction between the two.
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Nicely over-generalised broadside there. I am more than aware of the distinctions, but also quite aware that the travellers/gypsies/pikeys that cause the trouble are all quite happy to call themselves gypsies.
Not all hoovers are made by Hoover, yet you'll find
most of the population quite happy to refer to them as such. Does not mean we don't know the difference.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
I'm from Belfast, Northern Ireland. We gave up on using racist, quasi fascist terms such as "pikey" to describe members of the travelling community many years ago in favour of endeavouring to understand their culture and aspirations.
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What's there to understand about people wanting to freeload off society and furthermore steal whatever they can't get any other way?
The 'travelling community' is, on the whole, mainly represented by pikeys who have nothing to offer except trouble.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Nowadays there is no discernable degree of crime directly attributable to members of the travelling community.
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That must mean that yours are all those honerable gypsies gone home to get away from the pikeys, because the opposite is true in England.
When pikeys turn up, crime goes up.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Indeed the PSNI report of February of this year noted that the one area of crime which showed an alarming increase here in Northern Ireland were those carried out by narrow minded bigots which fall under the term "race / hate crime".
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And here in England there is virtually no bigoted hate crime against pikeys and it's certainly not causing any alarm.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Mind you, don't take that as an invite to move over here.
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I wouldn't dream of it. You want to call me a bigot? That's rich considering that you have the worst bigots of all of the UK! 30 years of virtually nothing but bad news - why should I want to move to NI?