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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...s-caravan.html
read the article. Explain to me about travellers and living in caravans and how come this girl didn't go to school and how come her mom is wearing a bra to the wedding. and what is a "big white" wedding?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...54_468x714.jpg
What is a caravan?
travelers are here in the US too. here is the wikipedia listing on them, for what that is worth. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller
i had seen this article a couple days ago and cracked up. that is one stylish wedding they have going there. CLASS-Y! ;) nice to see mom and daughter with matching boob jobs!
Edited to remove stereotyping
so they are gypsies? an undermined persecuted ethnic group?
Isn't a caravan in Britain what we Amuricans would call a trailer, RV or mobile home? And it's possible she was home schooled which is legal in Britain. It isn't clear whether the article (or that publication) would have investigated to that extent.
Yeah, I wondered. It fits the profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Possegal
Technically, gpsies are Romanies, a different ethnic group.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_people
hoping someone in G.B. will read this. thanks for your answers.
DH is british, so I'm up on the vernacular. A caravan is usually a towed RV, but can mean a regular has-its-own-engine RV. Travellers are what Americans tend to call gypsies (even when they are non-Romanian) who don't live anywhere for long and usually outside of the law (from not paying taxes level to con-man level). If you've seen the movie Snatch, Brad Pitt was a caravan traveller. And the TV show The Riches was based around the same culture.
As for that wedding, it was just freaky, even for the Brits.
Weird...
So Mayan, where exactly do these people live? do they have Caravan parks, like our motorhome parks? do they live in Walmart parking lots?
and what is a "big white" wedding?
There are caravan parks like we have. I'm not sure if ASDA (the UK Wal-Mart) lets them park there, but RVs are about 1/2 the size they are here mostly. The travellers I don't think use those options tho- they set up in a field somewhere. They must pay off a farmer, used abandoned property, or something like that, since they themselves don't own land.
ETA- the caravan parks are more like KOA RV parks- there aren't very many (if any) 'trailer parks' as in the trailers that sit in the same spot for 20 years type trailers.
Oh, and 'big white wedding' isn't really a slang, they're just alluding to a large traditional wedding. And I think the reason it's news is that it's strange to see these people who usually live rather hand to mouth throwing such a huge extravagant event. Along the same lines as the not paying taxes and/or stealing thing, they tend to be somewhat anarchistic, which usually includes anti- commercial type things- ie, they tend to barter instead of shell out whopping amounts on (tasteless) wedding dresses.
Whoa.....
Travelling people in the UK are a recognised minority under anti-discrimination laws. Like every other group - they are a mixture of good and bad.
Here's an informative briefing from the Scottish parliament web site.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/bu...es/rn00-76.pdf
wow, thanks Bruno, I'm reading it! (I knew you'd know!)