[JoshBB]

he associated the word with travellers so surely in context that would be racist?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

he associated the word with travellers so surely in context that would be racist?

What race are travellers?

they are mostly irish are they not?

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

What race are travellers?

they are mostly irish are they not?

No, travellers or Gypsies are more likely to have descended from the Romani or Romany/Roma groups who are an ethnicity of Indian origin living mostly in Europe and the Americas.

They are dispersed all over Europe and arrived in mid-west Asia around 1,000 years ago.

The Irish gypsies I think are also included in this group.

The "Pikey" word I'm not sure about don't know where that came from.

[Livia]

Irish travellers tend to devastate an area and leave a trail of filth and rubbish behind them, are above the law, don't pay tax, give a really bad name to real gypsies who are clean and law abiding... and yet they expect preferential treatment. And on top of all that, you have to be really polite when you refer to them or they may get offended.

[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

What race are travellers?

they are mostly irish are they not?

i don't know the official demographic but i would assume so?

Originally Posted by Livia

Irish travellers tend to devastate an area and leave a trail of filth and rubbish behind them, are above the law, don't pay tax, give a really bad name to real gypsies who are clean and law abiding... and yet they expect preferential treatment. And on top of all that, you have to be really polite when you refer to them or they may get offended.

the trouble is that when you refer to 'travellers' or 'gypsies' as a collective term and call them pikeys you are also covering the decent travellers who are clean and go by the law in that stereotype which is unfair.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

i don't know the official demographic but i would assume so?



the trouble is that when you refer to 'travellers' or 'gypsies' as a collective term and call them pikeys you are also covering the decent travellers who are clean and go by the law in that stereotype which is unfair.

No I'm not. I have the greatest respect for proper Gypsies. The ones who steal, dump rubbish, don't pay tax or insure their vehicles... they're the pikeys.

[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by Livia

No I'm not. I have the greatest respect for proper Gypsies. The ones who steal, dump rubbish, don't pay tax or insure their vehicles... they're the pikeys.

sorry I should have clarified that was a general point, not aimed at you.

[Kizzy]

On St Patricks day too..... oof.

[Marsh.]

Gypsies are a race?

[Kizzy]

Some interesting comparisons drawn here.


'On 27 January 2015 we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the day when Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Quite rightly we reflected upon the terrible fact that the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. Yet there was little mention of the hundreds of thousands of Romani Gypsy and Sinti[1] people that were also murdered by the Nazis during World War II in what has become known as the Porrajmos (the ‘Devouring’).
How were the Nazis able to commit these terrible crimes with impunity?

The Nazi propaganda machine played a very significant role by reinforcing age old prejudices. Romani Gypsies and Sinti were made scapegoats, blamed for the ills of society and characterised or stereotyped as anti-social thieves and vagabonds and dehumanised. The propaganda campaign worked; the settled population had been conditioned to believe what they were being told (by what would now clearly be understood as ‘hate speech’[2]) and there was little opposition when Romani Gypsies and Sinti were rounded up before being transported to camps from which they would never return.'


http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blog--...te-Speech.aspx

[Crimson Dynamo]

Youtube video

a travelling gypsy pikey makes an impassioned appeal

[Kizzy]

You can't make offensive comments like that LT....Who do you think you are? The untouchable Jeremy Clarkson?!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

You can't make offensive comments like that LT....Who do you think you are? The untouchable Jeremy Clarkson?!

i love it when you talk dirty

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

i love it when you talk dirty

Ay that's right ye...ye'll be shoiting in a bucket if ye cross me again ye!

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Ay that's right ye...ye'll be shoiting in a bucket if ye cross me again ye!

[Kizzy]

Words like 'p*ki' and 'po*f' are unacceptable as they were made unacceptable by society, not because they were ignored though.
Now it's ignorant, crass and uneducated to refer to people by those terms... I don't see this one any different.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

This ^ I let it wind me up to the point of wanting to leave this site but then, like Angelika says, its only a very small minority.

God dam minorities,Ruining things for everyone.......

[DemolitionRed]

A gypsy is a person who lives off the grid in a nomadic way. Gypsy settlers are no longer seen as gypsies by those who still live the nomadic lifestyle but they are still seen as Romany blood lines.

Pikeys tend to be of Irish descent and are also known as Irish tinkers. The word originated from turnpike travellers who were homeless people that travelled from one place to another to do hop picking.

[Crimson Dynamo]

i preferred gypos

is that now looked down on?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

i preferred gypos

is that now looked down on?

I'm sure some people will be outrageously offended by that. Next time they break into my garage I'll remember to use a more respectful name for them.

[Vicky.]

A pikey to us round here is one of the fairground workers. The ones who try to get you to pay 2 quid to knock down a coconut thats nailed to a post...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

A pikey to us round here is one of the fairground workers. The ones who try to get you to pay 2 quid to knock down a coconut thats nailed to a post...