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kicks off in an hour, just saw a load of them on the news - not one of them without a leather jacket, fingerless gloves and a hat covering unwashed hair - classic.
pepper your angus
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kicks off in an hour, just saw a load of them on the news - not one of them without a leather jacket, fingerless gloves and a hat covering unwashed hair - classic.
pepper your angus
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Pessimistic Optimist
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I don't get it. I admit I had to Google "Pikey" because I had never heard the term, but I see that basically, they are what we sometimes call "squatters" in the US. Pretty much thieves, bums & vagrants that pick a house or piece of land that doesn't belong to them & live there for a while. What I don't get though, is how they can own cars & trailers and such. All those things need to be registered & insured (in the US at least) and from what I read, most of these pikeys don't have permanent addresses. How do they get away with that?
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. — Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
FST Crew
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teflon you've never seen Snatch?
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
Pessimistic Optimist
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No, never got around to seeing it. I looked it up on IMDB, & it looks pretty good. I'll try to check it out later today. Brad Pitt a Pikey I see.
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. — P.J. O'Rourke
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. — Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
Poster
That's not quite accurate. They tend to basically be migrant workers who buy a piece of land and then regardless of its protection status do whatever they like with it. Usually they make small villages on it with some permanent buildings/caravans which you would normally need planning permission for. The stereotype is the Snatch Brad Pitt figure: Irish, loaded with cash through illegal activities, not paying tax, aggressively insular socially, polluting and generally a nuisance.Originally Posted by teflon05
Having said that, maybe these communities where pikeys end up ought to complain a bit more to the selfish arseholes in their midst who sell the land in the first place. Also, it's a bit difficult to keep a place clean and tidy I guess if you don't have the right to rubbish collections (because you couldn't pay for them even if you wanted to). I don't have a massive problem with a traveller lifestyle, but tbh society isn't really set up for them and there's not enough of them to make it worth anyone's while to cater for them.
FST Crew
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Back when I was in Melbourne we called them "Corio people". When you see their place they have about 10 non-worky cars in the backward, a 16 year old mother with a 30 year old husband (has mullet of coarse) and about 20 kids running around like crazy. Drug busts was common and of coarse they were welfare socialists.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
spmado
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The pikeys I've met (and there have been a lot) were mostly scummy cunts who let their kids do what they want no matter how much they annoy everyone else and allow their young lasses to dress like prostitutes while also being very loud and sweary. True story.
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You've got a place to sit
spmado
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To be fair, that was in prison.
As long as I've got a face
You've got a place to sit
mostly harmless
I'm not really understanding what's going on. I thought these people were supposed to be Travellers. So why don't they, you know, travel?
In their so-called "mobile" homes...
I really just don't get it.
Who do I know who's a hippy? Benchez! Explain!
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