Gypsy Blood - Channel 4

[rezzin]

Found it a really good informative watch actually, it paints the picture of the way we live well. Adverts suck ass though


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AuBQcKqJnU

[mistergixer]

I watched it when it was broadcast on the telly - thoroughly enjoyable, and a very interesting insight into a very different way of life.

I found the part about the (stuffed) dog which had been hit by a car both sad and heart-warming at the same time.


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[WannaBeDude]

I found the big 30 year old ' civvy ' fighter to be lol, was clever to stay down after a good punch.

The meat cleevers to the head, was hardly ' fair ' fighting.

Gypos from gloucester they were afaik.
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[Misc]

Is it just me or are young Gypsy males very aggressive? They never seem to mention 'outsiders' in these documentaries but growing up around them, there was countless times people were beaten up for no reason whatsoever.

Everything to them was a challenge to prove themselves. Nothing to do with a family name or resolving issues.

Even the girls are feisty.

[GhostRider]

[Hetzer]

[delsol]

What I mostly observed were uneducated, coarse, boorish people with little or no understanding of societal norms.

The parents came across as being devoid aspirationally of achieving anything other than raising their offspring to be as ill fitting, non-contributory and as unrewarding to human achievement and betterment as themselves.

That they live on the edge of society is not surprising, who the fuck would want to embrace them?

And they 'think' they have a culture worth preserving! I have never heard of any 'outsider' applying for application or marrying into their way of life.

[Nick 50]

[neatbik]

Good post Nick.

Knuckle is also worth a watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606259/

[WannaBeDude]

[D O G]

[Stevie GooGs]

I watched it and was taken back how serious they take their fighting, if they lose a fight what are they going to do? Honestly someone gotta lose so what happens to the ones that lose are they kicked of the sight?

I would like to hear a review of the documentary from a Gypsy point of view, are all Gypsy camps similar ie fighting.
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[WannaBeDude]

Watch the other film Knuckle, is ok to lose a fight, even every fight, as long as you give it your best and don't fight dirty.


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[Misc]

Did anyone find that 'Hughie' looked like a Gypsy version of Tom Cruise?

Apparently, the following post about the above show was made by Johnny Coyle who can be seen 'offering' out any man on Youtube along with Paddy Doherty;

[chris-red]

[Stevie GooGs]

[Misc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQzYnbljZ9Y

Here he is (Johnny Coyle), along with Celeb Big Brother winner Paddy. Strangely, there doesn't seem to be any footage anywhere of either fighting.. Have a search for 'King Of The Gypsies' on Youtube, it's a short documentary about Bartley Gorman.

[delsol]

[Stevie GooGs]

[Misc]

[Simple]

I enjoyed the part where they took the dogs coursing (doubt they had permissions etc) to get a meal from the land; ingredients of this 'meal from the land' included..... gravy granules.

I say no more.
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[WannaBeDude]

tHE MASI MAra use metal cooking pots .....
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[Simple]

I also cant believe that the Top Gear India special got more complaints than Gypsy Blood which featured illegal coursing of deer using dogs, cock fighting and other illegal animal 'sports'

I wonder if it's because people do not know, themselves?

I was confronted last week whilst shooting pigeon that I was shooting illegally because the shooting season had finished. The fact this muppet had wandered over private land where I was shooting to preach 'facts' to me which were, in fact, complete crap.. was shocking.

Whilst I question alot of Gypsy morals, like how vile they actually are to the animals they claim to love... some of the values the instil into their kids and society are probably alot better than some of ours, as mentioned above.

I still hate the buggers when they come round nicking our equipment to go and weigh it in, or when they dump their horses in our fields, thus in the eyes of the law making us responsible for their welfare or when they break in, park up and get to stay for 10 days whilst police sort out paper work to get rid!!
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[WannaBeDude]

They fight chickens 2 ....
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