So 'Pikey' is OK, apparently. Can't say I really understand the rules anymore, tbh.

[Berni]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31922773

[Classic Jorge]

Basically the message I got was "look, we're in enough **** as it is, just leave us alone you f**king gypos"

[Berni]

acceptability, while pretty much all other racist slurs are taboo now.

Is it just because everyone hates them?

[Classic Jorge]

I think Jock, Taff and Frog are also still pretty acceptable too

[Berni]

And I think we're supposed to treat them as a race these days.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I think they have got off lightly.

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

For whatever reason, the word lends itself to being used as an adjective far easier than other pejorative racial terms.

"That's a bit y**dy" just sounds weird.

[Berni]

What would your houseguests of muslims, Ulstermen, Buddhists, Zoroastrians et al have to say about this? Hmm?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What about cats? (And rich white men.)

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

That said, after I had my burglary I popped down to the local tinker town and had a word with them and asked them to keep their ears to the ground.

Lovely chaps, wouldn't let me speak to the ladies, mind.

[Snin]

the Nationalist socialist side imo

[Classic Jorge]

but if ur gay it ur lookout ok

[Berni]

picked it up (which was unfair in my day, since a penny represented a penny chew*).

*NB: This is not rhyming slang for Jew.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

a vigorous stroking of the nose with the hooked forefinger.

I still do this, by the way.

[Berni]

people don't react well to being called them things (unless they're called Paddy or Mick, of course).

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

[Snin]

:hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

girlfriends parents in Finchley. :-(

[Berni]

customs - what else is a race (given that the biological concept of race doesn't actually exist, I mean)?

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66710000/jpg/_66710004_dicanio_afp.jpg

[Snin]

just change the rules as facist j does not like them imo

[redgunamo]

It was all just banter back then.

[Classic Jorge]

See, Roma are a race, they are actual proper Gypsies.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

shops and smelled of curry and black people were probably criminals, but had a great sense of rhythm and big *****es. Everyone knew their place, r. Happier times.

[Berni]

I'm not sure your identity politics stand up, j.

[Ashberto]

angry identity politics we should probably give the nod to their experience and leadership in this area.

FWIW, Ms A is of gipsy descent, and she is the wonderfullest person in the world.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Has she?

[redgunamo]

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

can there.

[Berni]

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

Lovely, dark eyes though :love:

[Snin]

where you each have a 2p , 5 p or 10 or even 50 p coin and stand same distance from wall then throw your coins nearest wall , whoever closest wins all the money.. i made lloads of money from Jew

[Berni]

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

more fun than working in a Yugo factory. We can all see the justice in this, can't we.

[Snin]

[Berni]

Is she like the wons in 'Drag Me To Hell'?

[Ashberto]

New Range Rovers and replica shirts all round! :clap:

[Snin]

[redgunamo]

sons to the cleaners.

[Supermac1976]

[PSRB]

[Berni]

a sticker you needed and he needed one you had. So you'd each flick it against the wall. The winner got to keep both. It added jeopardy to the whole swopsies thing and - crucially - caused loads of fights.

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

clean up so to speak

[Snin]

though some kinds obviously went home potless and no lunch..hence the banning i assume

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

How extraordinary!

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I doubt I've seen her since F's funeral :-(

[Berni]

Thus, if you had a big orange crystal against a smaller rainbow ball bearing, it might be decided that that ball bearing had to hit the crystal a certain number of times full on (tipsies didn't count) in order for the owner of the ball bearing to win the crystal. Conversely, the crystal would only have to hit the ball bearing once from the same given distance.

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

would like to be doing to each other anyway.

[Berni]

[Snin]

or two .. not bad earnings in early 80s when 13 sir c even for an industrialist such as yourselgf

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'd have thought the opposite would be true, though. Surely there's more worth to money earned with your honest toil?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

'KILL THE F.UCKING GOAT!' at that film, haven't I?

[Berni]

Who puts gilt on gingerbread, btw?

[Snin]

thoguh i guess its the taking it off soemone else that makes it seem better..like the feeling you get Sir C when you fleece some punter with some clocked old piece of crap youve flogged them with an extra totally uneccesary guarantee not worth the paper its written on ?

[Ashberto]

Yes, that sad day was back in 2011 :-(

[redgunamo]

http://media.giphy.com/media/YwcVN6An2cYBW/giphy.gif

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Can it really be 4 years already?

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

Earned income is far better than unearned.

[Berni]

'YOU OWE ME MONEY!'

George C Scott :bow:

http://media0.giphy.com/media/EfYrAQiuugFGg/200_s.gif

[Snin]

or a jackpot or something random id agree..but its earnt by skill and nerve if its from a skilled activity ?

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

Do you have any recollection of going to a home game?

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

Or playing football, for instance?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

No, sadly not :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

nothing charitable about it.

[Ashberto]

Setting out your stall might be enough, but putting down a marker is probably insufficient.

[Ashberto]

derives from the creation of value imo. It makes life meaningful in a wider sense beyond having some dosh to spend.

[redgunamo]

Otherwise they're merely shirking, skiving. Running around in the fresh air instead of being stuck inside doing double maths or office menials. Add professional gambling or whatever to that too.

And money itself only has value once you have it, and not before.

[Ashberto]

Whether they get paid in advance or arrears for this is down to their contractual negotiations.

[redgunamo]

We punters don't get that so we must console ourselves with mere money.

Rather like the way wives believes war is all about the lads going off to exotic places together and roaring and gorging and going "Piaw-piaw!" at each other while playing hide and seek.

That is, until their new car arrives.