i could go to a council estate called Marsh Farm in Luton and seen worse than that.
yet another sweeping bigoted generalisation
Before you go calling bigotry, learn to write correctly, then read what I said
again and you will see a related experience tempered with what is generally held as common knowledge. It's unfortunate that some travelling groups have a certain reputation, but there you go. They have it none the less and for good reason. I don't generally go out of my way to cause other people trouble, even for those who I might hold less a than positive opinion of - that goes for
everyone and while we all indulge in stereotyping, these stereotypes are based on a certain amount of truth; in this case, one which is backed up (amongst other events) by the large number of drain and man-hole covers removed from a long stretch of the A447, creating a danger to drivers and a substantial cost to the local highways authority to replace the missing covers.
Calling thieving, violent scum, thieving and violent is not bigoted. It's a simple statement of fact. Were there no incidents of stealing and criminal damage and such as I have already described, there would be no need for me to hold any negative preconception (prejudice, if you like) regarding any communities, either diverse or related to 'travellers' as they are regarded in modern parlance.
I'd agree with that, and I like how you differentiated between ****** and gypsies. Where abouts in the Mids are you from dude?. I'm from Dudley, we have quite a few gypsy communities scattered about.
I'm leicester based myself, but out in the sticks where most of the negative events transpired is hinkley & bosworth/coalville/tamworth area.
Sadly you have to differentiate the good from the bad as it were, leaving generalising prejudice aside. But what can you do? There's a long and respected tradition of itinerant and semi-nomadic peoples throughout europe (some of these rent fields for their ponies from the locals with little or no trouble, to add a little balance to all this), but then there's also the aforementioned scum. I've met both. But I don't mean to lecture you on this, I'm just thinking aloud
Some of this reminds me of the
two lurcher dogs hung from bridge **graphic image link** I remember at the time there was a lot of local speculation that it was ****** who were responsible, also that it was just some local yobs, or even farmers who may have been responsible. I can't say who is, but it reminded me of the sort of local disgust for the incident that parallels some of the talk here.
So the guys bigoted for sharing experiences that his family and locals have experienced? Jesus Christ man!
Often the opposite end of the daily fail thinking is just as blinkered... it's why I picked at his retort in the way I did above because he only read what he wanted to read in what I said, at least I acknowledged my generalisation raised by this incident with the ponies could be wrong, amongst other things - that's the irony of stereotyping for you
we all do it, justified or not.
