Did anyone watch My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding? I totally missed it and wanted to see it.
I used to live in Augusta, GA and in N. Augusta across the river there was a huge commune of people who lived like this. A lot of the girls get pregnant by age 15 and they go to the 3D ultrasound place in town to find out if they are having a boy or girl so they know whether or not to have an abortion. They don't like having baby boys. They dress up their little girls like hookers and walk them around town. I also know they really like sushi b/c they were ALWAYS packing out the sushi restaurant. The commercial looks bizarre, but this is seriously how they dress every day.
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Yeah, we watched this.
You must be thinking of something different. The people in the show are UK and Irish "travelers," not really gypsies. They are strict Catholics and part of the reason they marry so young, I'm sure, is because premarital sex is strictly forbidden. The girls aren't even allowed to leave the house alone.
Its disgusting. I would strangle my daughter for dancing like any of those girls. I like how its not a cultural thing either. The guy asked where they learned to dance like that and the little girls said, Beyonce. SERIOUSLY?
You can't cuss in front of a man, but you can dress like a total whore and dance like a stripper? Interesting.
PURE TRASH, but yet I am still going to DVR the series!
Oh really? I didn't know the people on the show were British. Just from what I saw on the commercials they looked exactly like the folks I lived by. But the people in my town did call themselves "Irish Travelers" and not gypsies, they must be related somehow. The word gypsy is a very broad term. The Irish Tinkers are another group of "gypsies" that come from Ireland... but they don't act like that. They are really poor, and don't have flashy things.
Tinker is a slang for Traveler, they are the same. Yes, the series is completely based in the UK.
This was a little confusing to me because from what I saw in both episodes, they referred to themselves as both terms. I just assumed "traveler" was another term for gypsy and vise versa.
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Travelers do refer to themselves as gypsies.
I think gypsies were traditionally an ethnic group (I think) but I did hear them refer to themselves that way, too.
When we were in Ireland several years ago we saw some of their caravans outside of Derry and MIL (who is from Ireland) warned us they were generally known to be theives and to be extra careful that we didn't get pickpocketed while in that area.
HAHAHAHA I love messy TV!
Darn. Now I have something else to add to my "need to watch" list.
I never saw them in London when I lived there but saw them outside of London (quite a bit outside) when we would travel to Newcastle. Pikey is a very derogatory term for them. And my British dh has no respect for them, like almost all Brits, since they don't pay taxes and are know for their theft.