It's a shameful thing...

/too many limes

I am Jack's complete lack of sympathy

On the eve of the adjudicator's arrival, some travellers moved into Callaghan Park. Before you could say 'gypsy scum' we were knee-deep in dog muck, thieving kids and crusty jugglers. We lost the title. And Irene lost her mind. She drove her Datsun Cherry into Sandford Gorge. From that moment on, I swore that I would do her proud.

This will be a great DNRTFA thread.

I don't want him dribblin on the upholstery.

With all the money you blew on that Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, you could have gotten a nice house.

dannit724: [i56.tinypic.com image 319x225]

In unrelated news, I'd hit that

/doesnt mind the sharp knees

Set her on fire and watch how fast she unlocks that thing.

What in the fark is a "greenbelt land"? Is that some crazy Brit thing where they get to decide your land is worthless unless you buy a few MPs off?

cscanlon7: Why do they call him the Bullet-Dodger?

"'Cause he dodges bullets, Avi."

/Absolutely love that movie.

This may seem optimistic of me, but I'm glad I live where I do and was born where I was. This seems horrifically unfair, wrong, wrong, wrong, and frankly, evil.

dannit724: FTA - "...where they have lived illegally for a decade. [snip] The conflict over the settlement has simmered since 2001, when Travelers bought and settled on a former scrap yard next to a legal Travelers' site."

wait... they even own the property? Why are they being evicted?

TFA says zoning laws. They're using commercial property as residential. They still own the land & can sell it, but nobody can live on it. We can only guess that they spent the past 10 years trying to get the zoning law changed but ultimately failed. I don't know a lot about Travelers, only the stereotypes & the dim view they're held in, but I'm also guessing that the local authorities were in no rush to change the zoning laws to allow them to stay.

I feel bad for them. My paternal grandmother was Roma & fled to America when the Nazis started hunting them down. She and a few other Roma groups found refuge outside of Storrs, CT (near UConn). They were occasionally harassed by locals & cops for the first few years they were there. When my grandmother's older sister, Great Aunt Josie, learned English, she became the de facto liaison between the camp & the police and things calmed down. Biggest difference between my relatives & Travelers now is that, even with the negative stereotypes Gypsies had, my relatives could rely on sympathy (nobody was about to send them back to Hungary to face certain death). Travelers don't get a lot of sympathy. I believe theirs is a culture in its own right but I understand I would be a minority opinion in the UK.

Damn you people, now I have to watch "Snatch", like tonight.

C'mon down to Murphy Village in South Carolina.

They like degs.

Snatch is pretty much a perfect movie, I think I'll watch it again tonight.