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Jehannum

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Well, we found the forum jippo
nah new age travellers and gypsy communities don't mix AT ALL mate, sworn enemies.

I remember one time a gypsy van drove on to our site and before they'd done a full circuit the travellers were pouring out of their homes with weapons, shovels, hammers, lumps of wood etc and swarmed towards the van from every direction. They got the hell out of there quicker than they came in :D wasn't a rallying cry or nothing, they just saw em and knew what time it was haha

I got so many stories of encounters with them from the 6yrs or so we travelled.
 

silentsinger

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We all want to call them it but no it's never "allowed" :cool: I have a bit if history with their communities as a former new age traveller.
You were not. Surely. A prev mod was convinced I was one and grew up in a commune but couldn't have been further from the truth.
 

Jehannum

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You were not. Surely. A prev mod was convinced I was one and grew up in a commune but couldn't have been further from the truth.
We needed to get out of Blackburn so my dad kitted out a coach and we left :) we had a cousin on a site in north Wales so we went there and began our adventure. We all settled down again after spending most of that 6yr period travelling around sussex. It was kinda funny because the first week we lived in the bus just below the council estate we lived on years earlier and they treat us like scum even though we fucking knew them :D traveller scum to them and still townies to the travellers, couldn't fucken win.
 

silentsinger

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We needed to get out of Blackburn so my dad kitted out a coach and we left :) we had a cousin on a site in north Wales so we went there and began our adventure. We all settled down again after spending most of that 6yr period travelling around sussex. It was kinda funny because the first week we lived in the bus just below the council estate we lived on years earlier and they treat us like scum even though we fucking knew them :D traveller scum to them and still townies to the travellers, couldn't fucken win.
How old were you?
 

silentsinger

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from 14yrs old to 20 :) but it did play a big part in my development, I was still into pop music when I arrived in Wales lol.
That's brilliant though, what a great experience. How did it affect schooling?

Me saying about the pikeys at my school I think we sort of kept ourselves separate thing about like an unwritten rule.
 

HEATH VON DOOM

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nah new age travellers and gypsy communities don't mix AT ALL mate, sworn enemies.

I remember one time a gypsy van drove on to our site and before they'd done a full circuit the travellers were pouring out of their homes with weapons, shovels, hammers, lumps of wood etc and swarmed towards the van from every direction. They got the hell out of there quicker than they came in :D wasn't a rallying cry or nothing, they just saw em and knew what time it was haha

I got so many stories of encounters with them from the 6yrs or so we travelled.
Hold on, I was joking about you being a jippo but you are some kind of wanderer? Interesting
 

Jehannum

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That's brilliant though, what a great experience. How did it affect schooling?

Me saying about the pikeys at my school I think we sort of kept ourselves separate thing about like an unwritten rule.
I'd already quit after the first year of high school and was doing home education for a year while the bus was being outfitted. It stopped once we reached site though, I took drugs and basically did whatever I wanted. Got my own caravan about a month after we landed in Wales and just upgraded to a better trailer every now and then.

We lived in a "fake" castle, it's called a folly and is basically a mansion that looks like a castle from the front. They'd just finished filming Prince Valiant there and left when we arrived, a bunch of travellers we met there were hired as extras.

It wasn't quite as overgrown at the time, they fenced it off and bricked up windows in this photo
 

silentsinger

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I'd already quit after the first year of high school and was doing home education for a year while the bus was being outfitted. It stopped once we reached site though, I took drugs and basically did whatever I wanted. Got my own caravan about a month after we landed in Wales and just upgraded to a better trailer every now and then.

We lived in a "fake" castle, it's called a folly and is basically a mansion that looks like a castle from the front. They'd just finished filming Prince Valiant there and left when we arrived, a bunch of travellers we met there were hired as extras.

It wasn't quite as overgrown at the time, they fenced it off and bricked up windows in this photo
This is so interesting, bud! Make a thread about your experiences...it won't be all self involved if you thought about it like that considering I just asked.
You're pretty well put together so it obviously didn't do any harm.
 

Jehannum

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Gwrych Castle ^^

this is just below my turret to the left, the walls off screen to the right where the goats ate were significantly higher.




omg just found this! I sat outside this caravan and read a red dwarf novel :D

 

Jehannum

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Jan 26, 2016
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This is so interesting, bud! Make a thread about your experiences...it won't be all self involved if you thought about it like that considering I just asked.
You're pretty well put together so it obviously didn't do any harm.
Idgaf about hijacking threads to talk about me :D maybe someday I will make my own though
 

Jehannum

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I used to go to quite a few spiral tribe raves.

And others.
ah I know of them, they were a big deal at castle morton common, I met a lot of people that lived on that site when the festival was underway

that place looked crazy AF, I never lived anywhere with that many travellers

 

Leigh

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I have Irish travellers at my gym. They're decent people. Calling them pikeys or gypos is very offensive. You'll get banged out saying that to their faces.

When I was growing up, I hated travellers. Yes, the ones who move into a field in caravans often cause a mess and steal stuff. But not all travellers are the same, some are very decent people, more decent that the people who generalise and discriminate against them.

Informative:
"A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society."
 
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I have Irish travellers at my gym. They're decent people. Calling them pikeys or gypos is very offensive. You'll get banged out saying that to their faces.

When I was growing up, I hated travellers. Yes, the ones who move into a field in caravans often cause a mess and steal stuff. But not all travellers are the same, some are very decent people, more decent that the people who generalise and discriminate against them.

Informative:
"A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society."
When I moved to Kent at 16 to do the cable installations a bunch of them tried to steal my rings I was wearing...I stood up for myself and they didn't back down but showed me enough respect to let it go...I walked away with my shit without a punch being thrown.

They are not all bad.