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Pyramid*
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this week they showed many of the travellers all congregating at the burial spot of a one of the sons - paying homage and respect on the boy's anniversary.
My initial reaction watching this was seeing them all there, sitting about and around the grave, complete with cans of booze, sitting, standing around drinking out of cans as they paid their respects - and to be perfectly honest, I was pretty appalled. I understand the parents, immediate family etc, close friends wishing to visit - but I couldn't help but think of that them all standing around slugging beer and cider - how totally disrespectful to those who may be attending the burial of their own loved ones, in services which are naturally sad and sombre in nature and that as much I found it touching that so many of the travellers had actually gone to visit the graveside - I was equally as disgusted that they felt it was more than fine to sit there and have their own quiet but boozy party going on. Far as I can see, in the main, those who have taken part in this documentary surely to christ cannot honestly think that it will show travellers in a good light or reflect well upon them? How anyone could think that a large squad of people, swigging booze at a graveside would be a positive image of their culture/tradition etc, totally dumbfounds me. ![]() If you were burying a loved one of your own or attending a funeral at the same time and saw this: how do you think you would feel about it? Last edited by Pyramid*; 11-02-2011 at 08:39 PM. |
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I was uncomfortable watching it. Especially as I was quite sure I saw some of them casually sitting on other gravestones slugging lager. It'd certainly piss me off if I was visiting my loved ones graves but travellers tend not to be people to be reasoned with.....
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I'd be disgusted if my brothers grave was there and I was visiting on his birthday or something such selfish scumbags |
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As I say, from the pov that many wanted to be there to 'show there respect' to the dead son - the manner in which they did it, with total disregard to the significance of the place, of the quiet, peaceful, serene nature of a place of rest that is not theirs soley - I thought they showed complete selfishness in their own needs/wants with no regard at all for others. Unsurprising that Travellers get so much grief from so many if this is typical of what goes on and what they think is acceptable - given that they are part of society. |
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Without a word of a lie - it wasn't even surrepticious. All very open, cans in hand, passing out the 'carry out' etc, standing, sitting, lying around the gravestones, grass area, seating area and footpath. Discreet it was not.
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Not to mention the music blaring from the car
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Oh I did see it. Just couldnt believe it was allowed.
this show aint winning them fans |
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I can't recall hearing that tbf, but in saying that - I think I was stunned from taking in what I was seeing that it possibly never registered.
The one other image sticking in my mind is the father in his white vest top, kissing the photo of the son that was on the headstone, and seeing it look as though he'd spat on it (not deliberately, it just sort of looked like it happened accidentally) - whilst he had his can of beer in hand and raised the can to the gravestone to signify 'toasting'. The trailer (no pun intended) for next week's show, highlighted a traveller saying that they were proud and honourable people. I didn't see much honour being bestowed to those who may have been sharing the cemetery that day to visit their own loved ones buried there. |
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Certainly things can be edited and misrepresented / manipulated:- but there needs to be core activity to work on - and they were most certainly all there, behaving in this way - and I wouldn't be surprised if there was editing on that footage - I have a feeling that what we saw was the tamer, more 'palatable' viewer friendly version. |
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I thought it was a nice way to celebrate someone's life. Shame they don't do it for girl gypsies who die.
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You seriously think it was nice to see a large group of adults hanging around a grave, doing nothing much other than standing about, slugging booze, passing cans around each other and not respecting the other burial grounds of others non travellers? Words fail me.
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filthy mudblood
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And it's good to see people going to one and having a sort of celebration. Also I don't think they were disrespecting other peoples grave. Plus it was their custom, and I didn't see anyone complaining. |
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Actually, a thoughts just crossed my mind.... they slug beers by the graveside. I dread to think where they relieve themselves
![]() ![]() No, it's not respectful in the slightest and I'd actually wonder if many of the dead would want to be 'worshipped' that way I've no problem with how people wish to live their lives but if they want respect from 'outsiders' they need to be respectful of them too. Travellers (many, not all) simply are not Remember that student pissing up a war memorial? How the nation hated him? Well, think about it........ |
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Because people daren't. Ever encountered a travellers threat? It's not pretty. Usually involves at the very slightest a brick though your window
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That hardly makes it ok. I've still not watched the programme in question, but this thread has finally inspired me to do just that now.
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You think standing around en masse drinking cans of booze at a graveyard can be classed as an appropriate place to celebrate anything? What about the time old tradition and custom of graveyards being places of peace, of calm, respectful, reflective dignity or doesn't that count? |
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Nice touch are the boxes of booze lying around at the gravesides. In fact, at the end, pause and you'll see 2 men, sitting on someone else's headrest, being used as a seat, talking and drinking, with one of them with their feet inside the little brick boundary that's been laid. Yep, this is really respectful stuff. Last edited by Pyramid*; 12-02-2011 at 12:51 AM. |
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A lot of the time the police daren't touch them either. Is it even legal to drink there? And who's driving the car? Aren't they causing a nuisance? They get away with alsorts as people are sh!t scared of their reputation
On the plus side they do seem to be moving on by the generation...... (slightly) |
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Having watched the 'Cemetery' scene again, I didn't quite fully appreicate how many were there, how spread out over the area they were, or quite how many other people's graves they were trampling around. As for the girl dressed in the pink shorts, demin boots.... can you imagine some other funeral party arriving, to bury their child and being met with that lot, with music belting out of car stereo, imagine a priest trying to say service with all that going on around. |
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All hail the Moyesiah
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All hail the Moyesiah
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