big fat gypsy weddings

[flapjackdavey]

has anyone noticed that since the tv series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings , everything is Big Fat feckin this and Big Fat feckin that , everywhere you look.?

[katie1997]

flapjackdavey Wrote:

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> has anyone noticed that since the tv series Big

> Fat Gypsy Weddings , everything is Big Fat feckin

> this and Big Fat feckin that , everywhere you

> look.?

Absolutely! :))

PS It was only a few days ago that I overheard my neighbour talking about what a great bargain he'd got (false teeth btw) on the "big, fat, feckin' East Dulwich Forum" ...

[Annette Curtain]

filmmaker Wrote:

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> Hi All

> I read his thread with interest and so felt I

> should add my comment / observation. I actually

> live opppostie a gypsy site (they prefer to be

> called gypsies rather than travellers) and quite

> recently there was a 'big fat gypsy' wedding which

> went on for 2 and a half days. The dresses were

> pretty much as they are in the documentary and the

> bride is 16 yrs old.

>

> so far that much of the documentary seems to be

> true however, having lived oppostie the site for

> many years, i don't think the women are

> disrespected by the men, as portrayed in the prog.

> form where I sit, and i think i have a pretty

> good view point, from my living room window, it

> seems to be a matriarchal culture. The women seem

> to give as good as they get.

>

> As a documentary maker, I know that showing them

> as people who just happen to live in caravans is

> pretty dull, it just wouldn't make a programme. I

> do however think there is a socio-anthropological

> prog there to be made.

It's good to read your own observations of the gypsy community , careful though it might upset some of the other views on here.

Nette.;-)

[DJKillaQueen]

PS It was only a few days ago that I overheard my neighbour talking about what a great bargain he'd got (false teeth btw) on the "big, fat, feckin' East Dulwich Forum" ...

That is the best post of today so far....made me chuckle.....!

[Tarot]

Gary Glitters favourite programme I bet.

If you go to Appleby fair, you,ll change your tune,what do you think happens to those girls when they are grabbed or

chosen,they get a kiss,oh dear,they made sure that wasnt revealed didnt they.

It would have to be a brave filmaker to ask such questions.

Even the police dread entering their camps.

They are not Gypsies.travellers with feelings of grandeur.

[Annette Curtain]

http://www.shop4scouts.com/catalog/images/PLS%20014.JPG Tarot

Vs.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/W_Nuss_Gr_99.jpg Any logical discussion about Gypsies

[Ann]

I've watched with interest as have others. My overall impression from the series is that the women aren't that happy. Sorry I can't remember names but the first of the brides last night would win my award for the most miserable bride ever. The lovely young woman (second bride) who had had to give her job and comfortable family home to live in a caravan with her new husband was a pitiful sight and I admired her honesty.

Can a single person on this forum truly want that for their daughter? Of course they woudn't!

The bare knuckle fight was shocking but preferable surely to the horrible incidents seen so recently in our midst. Perhaps we shouldn't be too quick to condemn elements of our society, Gypsies do seem to have a code of conduct that seems to work well for them. Britains's inner cities arguably don't.

[Emerson Crane]

Ann Wrote:

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Perhaps we shouldn't be too quick

> to condemn elements of our society,

I thought that by definition gypsies aren't part of "our society", as they've chosen to live outside of the rules and constraints of society. I'd be surprised if many of them would class themselves as being part of "our society". I find the phrease "travellers" amusing. Most of these people live in static sites, like the one near Millwall. Not much travelling going on there. The only time they seem to buy in to "our society" is when they line up for benefits taken from a purse that they haven't contributed to. Also aren't true gypsies meant to hail from Romania and not Southern Ireland?

[Jeremy]

Emerson Crane Wrote:

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> aren't true gypsies meant to hail from Romania and not Southern Ireland?

Gypsies are not necessarily Romani, no.

[Emerson Crane]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Emerson Crane Wrote:

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> > aren't true gypsies meant to hail from Romania

> and not Southern Ireland?

>

> Gypsies are not necessarily Romani, no.

ok, so where do they hail from?

[oilworker]

Why dont you just look on Wikipedia - it's all explained there.

[Ridgley]

I am just thinking, do they have big fat Gypsies civil partnership as the culture seems to be very headrosexual and quite sexiest?

[Emerson Crane]

oilworker Wrote:

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> Why dont you just look on Wikipedia - it's all

> explained there.

Thanks for your helpful input.

[Emerson Crane]

Well according to wikipedia, the Irish have "travellers" as opposed to gypsies. Strnage that as thay all seem to inhabit static sites.

[oilworker]

So what did you find out Emerson - please explain as I couldn't be bothered reading the whole article..

[Emerson Crane]

oilworker Wrote:

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> So what did you find out Emerson - please explain

> as I couldn't be bothered reading the whole

> article..

Try reading it like I did.

[oilworker]

I'm surprised given the nature of this thread that no one has mentioned (for the sake of comparitive background) the "thieving gyspy bastards" thing that used to be in Viz...(where's whatshername when you need her - the one with the top tips...)

[Tarot]

Nice nuts Anette curtain.L.O.L

[Captain Scarlet]

I ve heard Gary glitter as pre -ordered the dvd box set of the series!