My Big Fat Gypsy Poem.

[Phil]

'Them'? - all of them? Lazy thinking, Swampy.

Never seen it. However, I come from Doncaster. There was, a few years ago, a fly on the wall docusoap about nightlife in the town. If you believed that all Donny folk were the same then I'd have a fight, fall over and land in A&E before my fifth pint. I've not had a fight since I was 14, I've never been to A&E due to drinking and if five pints was my limit, I might just give up on the booze.

'This was intended to be humourous [sic]' - it wasn't. It was cheap, ill-informed and bigoted.

Phil

[Brett]

If 5 pints was your limit it would be a waste of time joining you for a drink. Five days limit, maybe.

Brett

[Keith exD]

Bloody hell Phil, don't you think you've flogged this to death?

I've been away for three weeks and I come back and find you are still going on about it. Booorrrring.

[Phil]

Only just seen it, Keith. Forgive me for boring you.

Flogged to death? No - restrained.

[Brett]

I thought it was the gypos you wanted flogging to death, Keith/Bob!

Humorous? No. Sweeping generalisation, yes.

It is the individual that proves their worth; their background, nationality, religion, ilk however you wish to call them) should not be held account for the whole.
I could state that all southerners are bigotted, racist cunts (in fact I just have) but I know this not to be the case.

[Keith exD]

Ahem Brett..........................:

Hey SB, you certaintly know how to stir up the old tom-tit huh! Having recently been accused of being a Didicoy, I was rather offended. Not because I dislike Didicoys, but because it is a derogatory term, maybe unfairly used.

BUT, having said that, I experienced similar situations where I grew up (not too far from you) in Bexley. There was a particular local family who were well known for their violence and criminality. I won't mention their family name because they have a ligitimate business side in the family and are pretty well connected. Also the same family have a 'maffiosi style' branch. My mother knew them from when she was a youngster and no doubt they are still around, some of them causing problems.

They were connected with a site on an industial estate on the south side of the Thames and were the cause of thievery and, sadly, child related fatal accidents because the kids were allowed to run wild.

However I am not sure Gypsies can be put into the same boat as Didicoys. I only have experience with Didicoys, not genuine Romany Gypsies, who I believe have a very strong culture.

Travellers are I think NOT Didicoys or Romanies. The term travellers makes me think of 'crusties' who, in more precise terms, are aggressive beggars.

I do know Romany Gypsies are descriminated against in the Czech Republic, Spain, Romania itself (due to the Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu). Also thanks to him, Northern Europe is being flooded by under-educated, under-nourished, and pretty effing rough Romanians who have been kicked out of their own land. I admit I don't like them, but I ask myself: is it their fault they have been treated like inferior animals for generations? I suspect if you treat people like animals they will behave like them and even turn it into a culture or way of life.

Regarding your comments about animals taking over your local, I am beginning to think the latest generation of under-educated and morally devoid teenagers are taking the place of 'Gyppos.' And this is REALLY scary. Could it be the new English generation is the "nuevo-gitanos de Inglaterra"?

Finally, I would certainly say old SB is NOT a Hitlerish guy, but just someone who really cares about the sad way his country is going. (I would probably choose a different side of the political scale, but I know about and understand his concerns)

PS: But was it worth all those tax payers millions Basildon Council spent or are there a now a few more millions in the pocket of those Tory councillers for the land they got from the 'dirty illegal gypsy settlers???

[Brett]

Would 'flogging to death' also apply to reposting previous comments?

Ok - this is a writing website after all; my opinion is that the writing stinks and there are many reasons why it does (structure, word choice and such) but most of it stems from lazy thinking and there we go back to this argument of sweeping generalisations.

Brett

[Keith exD]

Maybe, but I don't like the idea of being thought a bigot or lazy thinker. (I must admit when it comes to washing up I can be pretty lazy.)

[Messiah]

A writing community?
Is there no other work here worthy of comment?
Sheeesh! Even the proles have jumped on the bandwagon.
Great Writing?
H’m…!

[Keith exD]

With you there Messie. Am I a prole? Interesting, once a didicoy now a prole. I'm going up in society