Eh ? I haven’t given any opinions concerning whether NI is ‘addicted to hatred’.
What is this ? ………..a “let’s decide what ernie_lynch’s opinions are and challenge them” type exercise ?
I’m simply interested in what other people have had to say. Such as Slapper claiming ‘addiction to hatred’ in NI was ‘a sweeping generalisation, and MisterGnar apparently claiming that “Northern Irish are all a shower of racist bastards” wouldn’t be “headline grabbing”.
FYI there really isn’t any need to ‘guess’ my opinions – I’m usually more than happy to give them. Even when they’re not asked for.
And no, sadly I’ve never been anywhere in Ireland. Including the bit partitioned off by the British.
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LOL @ “Can’t imagine those two gypsies bodies would have caused that much distraction or upset to the evenings drinking” !
We’re not talking about ‘upsetting the evening’s drinking’ of a load of piss-heads down the pub here. We’re talking about family groups including kiddies, sunbathing, frolicking, and generally enjoying themselves, on a beach next to a couple of corpses. I don’t remember as a kid on a beach being told by adults, “don’t go touching any corpses now, will you”.
The incident caused an international outcry, and not only from Guardian readers. From the Daily Mail, for Sodafarls :
I was wondering why there were Red Cross workers in the pictures….then I read this:
Extraordinarily, the Red Cross of Italy has been persuaded by Berlusconi to help count gipsy heads and gather data on hundreds of families at 70 camps in Rome, an operation that will last until September.
Surely not! the Red Cross have been co-opted into this? Is there anything that that bastard Berlusconi can’t get away with?
The incident caused an international outcry, and not only from Guardian readers. From the Daily Mail, for Sodafarls :
The world was shocked by Italian sunbathers ignoring dead gipsy girls… But now Italy is showing a chilling interest in Roma children
Unless you can actually prove that the sunbathers were actually Italian (and not tourists from somewhere else) I’d suggest you take your xenophobic accusations somewhere else…
MisterGnar apparently claiming that “Northern Irish are all a shower of racist bastards” wouldn’t be “headline grabbing”.
That’s not what I was “claiming”. My point was that “they are addicted to hate” was just the kind of drippy headline friendly soundbite a media savvy person might come out with. Saying that the irish are racist bastards is something a normal person might come out with were they not calculating it’s impact.
Would anyone here like some romas moving into their street? The Italians hatred for them is not without good reason.
MisterGnar
in your opinion, why do they hate them so much.
Because the romas operate/are a huge criminal gang ferrying coach loads of women and children into Italy each day to aggressively beg, feign disability, steal and generally pester Italians and tourists.
I’d suggest you take your xenophobic accusations somewhere else…
Why ? ……… I reckon STW forum is an excellent place to air my ‘xenophobic accusations’.
Where else would you suggest I do it ?
I’m part Italian btw. The surname “Bruno” has existed in my family.
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“The Italians hatred for them is not without good reason”
He he……… it’s important to have a ‘good reason’ for hating an ethnic group. I mean, hating an ethnic group without good reason would be simply immoral.
MisterGnar –
romani, it would not be a problem
the thieving irish gadjo people that call themselves gypsy…that would be a problem.
proper romani people live by a strict conduct, and we all know how the others live.
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MisterGnar –
romani, it would not be a problem
proper romani people live by a strict conduct.
Can I come and live in your bubble? It would seem that one of us has never met a roma gypsy. And I was under the impression I’d lived in close proximity to them.
the thieving irish gadjo people that call themselves gypsy…that would be a problem.
Well for a start they don’t actually refer to themselves as gypsies, so I have to wonder how much, if anything you actually know about them.
Because the romas operate/are a huge criminal gang ferrying coach loads of women and children into Italy each day to aggressively beg, feign disability, steal and generally pester Italians and tourists.
And I was under the impression I’d lived in close proximity to them.
You live in Italy ? In a place called ‘Ballywoofterton’ ? Cool 8)
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btw …….. have you passed on your substantial evidence of criminal activities to the police ? If you haven’t, I reckon that they would be well interested.
Specially the Italian police. What with them not liking (for good reason) gypsies and all.
MisterGnar –
romani, it would not be a problem
the thieving irish gadjo people that call themselves gypsy…that would be a problem.
proper romani people live by a strict conduct, and we all know how the others live.
Truth! That’s the one subject we can all agree on in N.I. Everyone hates them.
There’s a family I meet here regularly – its always the same crap.They pick on a local who gets sucked into their patter. I caught them with some poor kid recently as it all turned nasty but stepped in by asking in my best Belfast ‘do you come from stab city?’ and ushered the kid out of the chip shop. Now that really is scum…….
Ernie Lynch, you got me. I couldn’t possibly have spent any time in Italy. Nor am I able to read. Or use the internet. I just made it up.
tankslapper
Now that really is scum…
Yeah they are subhuman filth, all of them, not like those lovely hard working, decent romani people – they have brown skin, so to imply they are all scum would be irrational racist hatred. Irish “gypsies” on the other hand are fair game.
MisterGnar –
where have you had the pleasure to meet romani people and to get to know them.
my gran died when i was 11, but i remember her being a gorgeous, friendly helpful person, most peoples grandma’s are probably like this tho…
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my gran died when i was 11, but i remember her being a gorgeous, friendly helpful person, most peoples grandma’s are probably like this tho…
Did she spend her days chasing people down the street wearing nothing but an old rag, dragging a naked toddler with her….occasionally dropping the rag for added pathetic effect?
MisterGnar
where did you meet these roma people…..on holiday…..in rome, pisa, sorrento….
wonder if they are the same people who beg in……..leeds,london, barcelona??????????????? 😀