Literacy levels are pretty low
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 20 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Also interesting is that despite the sexualization of very young girls (pagent-like clothes/makeup on toddlers and teens wearing insanely skimpy outfits) they supposedly maintain a really strict code of behavior including no sex before marriage. Maybe that's one of the reasons they wed so young? Women are also not allowed to drink though my facebook research last night seemed to indicate that that part might not be that strictly adhered to anymore.
― ENBB, Friday, 20 January 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah cant is still spoken alright
Irish for 'talk' is caint p. conch, maybe where it comes from-
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, there is also "grabbing".
But apparently grabbing might not really be really.
Lots of DV too. It's really pretty grim.
This article is fairly interesting:http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/25/truth-about-gypsy-traveller-life-women
― ENBB, Friday, 20 January 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I was watching some clip from a documentary someone did (not the lolweddding show) and there was a girl who was working and still in school at 16 which is apparently v v rare. For her birthday she and a bunch of friends went paintballing and she had to fill out all the forms for everyone because she was the only one who could read and write well enough to do so.
Pretty sure this was Gypsy Weddings, I remember seeing it.
We had an Irish Traveller girl in our class at school, she was on the register but only actually ever turned up once or twice. I always figured it might be because she was travelling and miles away but I'm not sure.
― Dust, Friday, 20 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
We had a traveller lad at ours. I remember he liked to fight a lot.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
numeracy and literacy are very low, improving rapidly enough in young women, life expectancy, convictions, suicide, addiction all lamentable compared to general population, some of that's improving, employment is non-existent except for self-employment or traveller specific community schemes to improve literacy etc within themselves
Most travellers live in rented accommodation these days, or will have halting sites provided by local councils- the emphasis is on getting them accommodated to a good standard, but often of necessity that means in a settled manner, which is seen as an anti-traveller-lifestyle measure
etc
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - It might have been then. I spent one day watching loads of Youtube clips from various things so I can't remember what was what.
Yeah Darragh from what I understand the actual traveling part is changing a lot because of laws imposed to prevent people from setting up camp on vacant ground so while many still identify as Travellers culturally, they do a lot less actual traveling as whole family units than they did years ago.
― ENBB, Friday, 20 January 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
There was a woman who won a beauty contest in Europe some years ago, whose dad or family leader told her not to take the scholarship and endorsements, so after winning the whole thing, she turned it down to go back to her family. That's all I can remember....
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
why do they travel, whatre they up to, srs question
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 January 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
xxp The whole Dale Farm farago a case in point when it comes to trying to reconcile the Traveller lifestyle and behavioural norms with planning and other council regulations IIRC. Of course all that ties into attitudinal issues and issues to do with prejudice towards travellers.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Is that the big site in Essex?
― ENBB, Friday, 20 January 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
yes, as was. Not heard much about it since the evictions TBH- no longer considered "news" I suppose.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
it's a big change atm, i don't know what internal debate process is taking place but certainly they're settling in growing numbers and leaving camps/caravans/transiency behind
There's been an explosion in traveller population in recent years due to young families returning from england because of housing initiatives available here since 2004 or so, leading to inevitable complaints of queue-skipping etc
Nobody would be too happy to see a traveller family move next door either, it's worth pointing out, and it's be remiss of me to dismiss that as nothing but prejudice, you would have a lot higher instance of antisocial behaviour among traveller familes as opposed to settled tbh
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
neil- many of those families moved to a ?legal? site nearby iirc
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
yes- but more legal shenanigans by the look of it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/19/dale-farm-travellers-eviction-battle?newsfeed=true
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
As far as i know, until the 1990s local authorities in England were forced by law to provide halting sites for nomadic populations. That was abolished, forcing travellers and nomadic Roma groups to settle on private land, which causes all sorts of problems.
At the same time, there's also a responsibility to house them in regular council developments should they wish to take up that option. More and more, in the UK at least, are doing that because it's not worth the hassle of moving from one site to the next, waiting to be evicted.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
heh you wouldn't know by my constant waffling but i'm on a phone so can't access articles in real time, will take a look later
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
srsly tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FeNq73F6jHI
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
2.40, 3.20, 4.15 for the real action moments
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
I just learned Garda is the police? Man, at least one dn makes more sense now.
― mh, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
now i'm watchin fights, can't help it
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
I watched Knuckle the other week. Those fuckin guys.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
Is this what is meant by "I've a horse outside"?
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
broadly yes, tbh
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
connors family convicted of forced labour, nasty fuckin details tbh
― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Friday, 14 December 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Irish Travelers use a secret argot or cant known as Gammon. It is used primarily to conceal meaning from outsiders, especially during business transactions and in the presence of police. Most Gammon utterances are terse and spoken so quickly that a non-Traveler might conclude the words merely had been garbled. Most Gammon words were formed from Irish Gaelic by applying four techniques: reversal, metathesis, affixing, and substitution. In the first, an Irish word is reversed to form a Gammon one - mac, or son, in Irish became kam in Gammon. In the second, consonants or consonant clusters were transposed. Thirdly, a sound or cluster of sounds were either prefixed or suffixed to an Irish word. Some of the more frequently prefixed sounds were s, gr, and g. For example, Obair, work or job, became gruber in Gammon. Lastly, many Gammon words were formed by substituting an arbitrary consonant or consonant cluster in an Irish word. In recent years, modern slang and Romani (the language of the gypsies) words have been incorporated. The grammar and syntax are English. The first vocabulary collected from Irish Travelers was published in 1808, indicating that Gammon dates at least back to the 1700s. But many early Celtic scholars who studied it, including the eminent Kuno Meyer, concluded it was much older.
i was gonna try to learn java or c# or something useful, but doesn't this sound fun?
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds like bullshit.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
I mean more fun, but bullsjit.
when you've heard it spoken it sounds like idk what
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
tbf i could say the same about english as spoken round my way so pinch of salt with yr gammon
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeh for sure. English is one of the most skewed accents I've heered.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
idk the whole secret cant feels too organised a concept. cant/jargon feels like a general language thing.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
dont all languages have thieves cants
― How many of these effluential surveys do you take? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
russian certainly does
lombards probably describe all southern dialects thusly
― How many of these effluential surveys do you take? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
apparently the 'secrecy' aspect is overstressed
xp probably
i remember after moving the 15th or 16th time all the travellers kids in the new town assumed i was one of em and kept addressing me in gammon for like 3-4 months it was weird
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
do you look like your parents? maybe you are secretly a traveller by blood and they knew it
― mh, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
by the time you've moved 15 times the blood kinda starts to become insignificant tbph
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
Cockney rhyming slang and Polari are generally talked about as being "secret" argots as well, i think. idk how true that is in the case of the former.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link
Is Gammon the same as shelta?
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, apparently so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelta
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
that's lightweight gammon
― dog latin, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKkJOGty7Y
listen away to yerman now. you will have noted the earlier known backyard challenge where a buck sounds like a dog straining at a leash. it only comes to mind after i spent a bit of time on the chronic pulmonary/respiratory ward last week where there was an alarmingly high instance of traveller men- i'd read before that they have a very high occurrence of respiratory diseases alright but it didnt hit home until they outnumbered settlers in a setting like that. i wonder the cause, might look it up.
anyways idk was the mcginley called out here anything to the mcginleys here
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0218/681180-barney-mcginley/
but man irish travellers what a life.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Friday, 20 February 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
this fella i mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixFQUpLnr3E
― local eire man (darraghmac), Friday, 20 February 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link
i think ive posted this before- last one tonight i promise and this is a serious thread and all but this is the best thing on the internet obv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXnYG4it8w
― local eire man (darraghmac), Friday, 20 February 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
unpleasant title but i can't believe nobody has posted this yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8C7ZTbsF-E
"WHY DO YOU LIKE RIDIN HIPPOS?"
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 February 2015 08:50 (nine years ago) link
somebody needs to remix that Mullingar lads video with a RZA beat
― english fatuus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
i'm watching that one dmac posted yesterday and i love this:
you fuckin' ring me and you'll apologize to me about what you said on that internet!
you understand that, sausage boy!
a computer champion, yeah
p.s. what is a sausage man, and what are the respiratory problems from? work? smoking? home environment toxins?
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Saturday, 21 February 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PyH0BeckV6E
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 21 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyH0BeckV6E
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 21 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
hi harbl
idk the answer re sausage man could be homophobic or idk what
v quick google suggests genetic predisposition and living conditions and dietary/substance habits all contribute
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 February 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
deems la
― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 February 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/tyson-fury-boxings-new-folk-hero?utm_source=vicetwitteruk
― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 February 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
John Fury is an ex-fighter himself – and a good one, too, going by the moniker "Gipsy" and facing up against English world champ Henry Akinwande in the early-90s. However, in 2011 he was jailed for gouging out the eye of a man named Oathie Sykes at a car auction. John served four years of his 11-year sentence for what he described at the time as "a fair fight between travelling people".
― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 February 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
fairs fair
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 February 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeJoyce12/status/739023028059791360
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
think i'm nearly up to my Irish Traveller fighting weight
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
does he know mickey rourke wasn't really a fighter
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
I'm an auld man 60 years of age, like boxing and horses, I have never taken a shite in a bucket.
― a goon shaped fule (onimo), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link