D' ya like Dags???

[Broccers]

We’ve had this conversation before broccers, I don’t smoke weed or drink . Hangover affecting your memory?

I know this may come as a massive shock - I dont give a fvck.

Your vanilla outlook tho - work on it

[ZedLeg]

First time anyone’s ever accused me of being vanilla

[Broccers]

Back on topic as this is boring me

Do people with no fixed abode get away with theft then.

[ZedLeg]

Why would they?

[Broccers]

Why would they?

Must ..... resist .... what? Are you saying theft of say... transit vans goes 100 percent punished?

[ZedLeg]

Oh right, I see what you’re saying now.

Theft being a low priority crime isn’t exclusive to travellers is it?

No one was ever caught when my house got burgled and I’m pretty sure that was just junkies.

[Gavin]

We have a gypsy fair on our village green every year, for the last 399. When I moved into the village a few of the older residents warned me to lock everything cos bla bla bla.

They do get rules to abide by on the green and most do, there is never an upsurge in thefts, unless you count idiots getting their palms read as theft.

Worst we are left with after their three days is a scorched circle or two from their fires and a few bits of litter but certainly no worse than local litter dropping.

I have to say "pikey scum" tends to mean thieving buggers, I am not entirely sure if I had even heard pikey until I saw snatch for the first time (the film for those of you sniggering)

When I worked in retail we did have loads of traveler kids come in and abuse our Pakistani colleague for not fixing a broken TV so it is possible, like in every walk of life, that some people from every group are "good guys" some are "wanks"

[dinny_g]

You know, I don’t recall the term before Snatch either...

[Broccers]

Fuck me pikeys don't steal as said by a man in a flat on the internet

[ZedLeg]

Broccers needs attention again

[Broccers]

Broccers needs attention again

Get help lad.

[ZedLeg]

I’m fine mate, your obsession with other people’s accommodation seems to be getting out of hand though. Maybe you should talk to someone about it.

[Rich B]

No one was ever caught when my house got burgled and I’m pretty sure that was just junkies.

Semi-serious question, but how is calling people junkies and assuming they broke into your house any different to calling people who've illegally set up on someone else's land (and usually followed up with similar crimes) pikeys? Both have chosen crime as a way of life - yet you're fine using an insulting term for one and not the other?

(Other than you've decided that it's just a term for all Irish travellers (which it isn't and everyone has acknowledged that they don't think/use that).)

[ZedLeg]

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[Rich B]

So we need a new specific phrase for the Cunts who pitch up illegally in their caravans on people's land and start a crime spree.

[Jobbo]

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Not exactly a full etymology, that.

The OED defines it as "a lower-class person, regarded as coarse or disreputable."

It seems convenient for whoever it is used against to assert that it’s a racial slur, but we only have their word to go on; it doesn’t have a long history of being used against any single group.

[ZedLeg]

So we need a new specific phrase for the Cunts who pitch up illegally in their caravans on people's land and start a crime spree.

I think criminal fits, no?

[ZedLeg]

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Not exactly a full etymology, that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

[Rich B]

So we need a new specific phrase for the Cunts who pitch up illegally in their caravans on people's land and start a crime spree.

I think criminal fits, no?

why did you use junkie then?

[Jobbo]

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Not exactly a full etymology, that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

Yes, read that and my edit above. I think this is an instance where the non-law abiding types are weaponising the term to their own advantage.