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Do you have trailer parks there?
http://greenehouse.net/img/trailer_park.jpg http://www.celinaonline.com/gallery/centreville/centreville-shady-rest-trailer-park-1_medium.jpg
Not like trailers, the kind you travel in, but like the "houses" shown
http://greenehouse.net/img/trailer_park.jpg http://www.celinaonline.com/gallery/centreville/centreville-shady-rest-trailer-park-1_medium.jpg
Not like trailers, the kind you travel in, but like the "houses" shown
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That's not where Chav comes from.
And we do have 'trailer trash' here - but they're called Gypsies - where the word Chav did come from. .
I'm just trying to broaden my cultural knowledge
So would your "gypsie" be similar to the inhabantants of our trailer parks such as this lovely couple
or maybe more well known...
Here's a local one...
Definition of the word "chav" ---- a young person, often without a high level of education, who follows a particular fashion; Chavs usually wear designer labels including the chav favourite 'Burberry', caps, lacoste trainers and if they’re girls, very short skirts, large hoop earrings and stilettos.
OR
Picture this a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, cigarette in one hand jewellery all over the over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like an American Football player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says “Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling” when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad pisses himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out.
There you go my_name quick run down of a chav. So not really complete trailer trash. Gypsies are near to trailer trash as in they live in caravans. Maybe if you mix gypsies and chavs you'd get trailer trash?
There really isn't much difference between the two types of travellers. One has Irish origins, the other Romany!
The word Chav and Chavi means mate or young boy in Romany (gypsy) language.
And the word Pikey is offensive.
Oh god thats too funny. I'll have to ask gurlinthecurl cuz I cannot think of a widely used name for them... other than plain trashy, as not all of them are white. I've not really seen anybody in the same attire though (well girls, yes, but they are usually of hispanic background so I just thought maybe thats what they like)
oh thanks though.
He doesnt live in a trailer.
hes white trash
Maybe, he's a yokal (sp?) but he doesnt live in a trailer, as can be seen in the episode when Marge sets up business making pretzels.
I just thought he was a good example to see what your version of white trash would be. Trailer Trash always is white trash but white trash is not always trailer trash
Well if you're going to use him as an example you should know whether he actually lives in a trailer.
for it being early evening there I'd thougt it would be late enough to have a joke... (the joke being in the previous post that i did not know where he lived, not that he in fact does not live in a trailer park. i'm sure it would have needed explaining to you anyways)
16:00 is not early evening. Most people still havn't finished work. and bong is joking.
guys on the run ...down on their luck etc. whole familes.
just outside wilmslow in manchester is a huge one.
people live their permanently.
not gypsie or travelers.
mostly manchesters failures or victims.
but failures who have dropped completely off the radar. clean place considering.
on the outskirts of every city theres one tucked away.
the one in wilmslow is about a thousand trailers.
Thats what you call cackers.
yea, that sounds familiar!
Do gypsies not have jobs or claim benifits?
But your right gypsies proper i.e Romany gypsies are a race.
last time i went to the wilmslow one was to purchase a collection of knuckle dusters.
Nah, sometimes the boards just go down for a bit.
http://www.voiceofthevictims.com/
http://www.voiceofthevictims.blogspot.com/
...still work.
Although there is/ was an old British law that said if you squat on the same piece of land for long enough you get the right to own it (or something like that) and there were some gypsies back home who did exactly that and managed to turn there lives around. The two daughters went to my old school. Okay, so one of them did spit on my foot once, but at least they got a basic education.
There are plenty of permament Romany sites round here - put up by the council. They're not all thieves, I went to school with many of them and many of them hold down legitimate jobs.
Yes they do dodge taxes. There's no doubt about that.
And they're all seem to be tree surgeons and gardeners.