Let's just wait to see if anyone posts a positive yarn involving a gypsy job, as per the thread title.I imagine if your brother shares your bigotry, of course he's going to act in the same way as you do and try to generate hate and division.
Let's just wait to see if anyone posts a positive yarn involving a gypsy job, as per the thread title.I imagine if your brother shares your bigotry, of course he's going to act in the same way as you do and try to generate hate and division.
For how long have Romany Gypsies suffered from discrimination and prejudice?Let's just wait to see if anyone posts a positive yarn involving a gypsy job, as per the thread title.
The bill could have been a lot worse. My brother works in Trading Standards. From the horror stories he tells me that £300 would be loose change if the 'work' had been carried out by members of the travelling community. For a simple, basic job carried out whether it was needed or not and usually to abysmal standards - you could add another nought or two to your bill. But most of the people unlucky enough to be pressured into having this work done are old and vulnerable and feel they have to pay up.
I once bought some "lucky heather" from a lovely lady....It was a bargain at just £50.00Let's just wait to see if anyone posts a positive yarn involving a gypsy job, as per the thread title.
I daresay the incidences of such practices by so called High Street operators far outweigh the incidences of the travelling community.Sadly this is not restricted to the "travelling community"
For how long have Romany Gypsies suffered from discrimination and prejudice?
True to form, ReganAndCarter never fails to grasp an opportunity to deprecate a group of people that he harbours hatred towards.
Ppfff, you were conned. It wasn't real heather.I once bought some "lucky heather" from a lovely lady....It was a bargain at just £50.00
How the heck do I disprove what his (probably prejudiced) brother related to him?If Regan was being economical with the truth, you should have no trouble pointing it out.
It didn't work for you. We've left.I once bought some "lucky heather" from a lovely lady....It was a bargain at just £50.00
For as long as they've deserved it.For how long have Romany Gypsies suffered from discrimination and prejudice?
A sizeable part of my brother's work is trying to get travellers to repay large sums of money to often old or vulnerable people who have been intimidated into paying for 'pretend' roofing jobs. When they don't, he takes great delight in prosecuting them. A recent case he had was a retired school teacher in her 90s (their preferred target age range) who had been relieved of £50,000 for gutter cleaning and other spurious, small roofing jobs. They are nearly always very unpleasant people who bully their victims and know how to extort money and leave their victims distressed and ashamed at being duped. You may wish to pretend it's prejudice because of your ignorance and naivety, but it's actually the travellers' MO and the type of activity that large numbers of them are involved in. How else do you think that illiterate people living in a field can afford brand new vehicles and top of the range caravans? Selling pegs and lucky heather?[/QUOTE
this is part of the culture of some travelling communities....and you are right they can be pretty intimidating.
I used to see some "scrap metal collectors" that used to come around to my joinery shop -in the summer when the shutters were open they would just walk straight in, sometimes with their kids who are just really in your face -they would just pick stuff up, one of them even walked up to one of machinists and kicked him.
And it is true, the police want to avoid having to do a raid, it takes up too much manpower. So they do get away with it.
It is not bigotry to point out these things, as long as we acknowledge not all travellers are like it (my mother used to teach some Gypsy children and some are lovely families -I have a fair bit of anecdotal evidence from both sides of the coin).
oh dear Woody the Snowflake is still upset.It didn't work for you. We've left.
What's her refund policy?
A sizeable part of my brother's work is trying to get travellers to repay large sums of money to often old or vulnerable people who have been intimidated into paying for 'pretend' roofing jobs. When they don't, he takes great delight in prosecuting them. A recent case he had was a retired school teacher in her 90s (their preferred target age range) who had been relieved of £50,000 for gutter cleaning and other spurious, small roofing jobs. They are nearly always very unpleasant people who bully their victims and know how to extort money and leave their victims distressed and ashamed at being duped. You may wish to pretend it's prejudice because of your ignorance and naivety, but it's actually the travellers' MO and the type of activity that large numbers of them are involved in. How else do you think that illiterate people living in a field can afford brand new vehicles and top of the range caravans? Selling pegs and lucky heather?