No I believe they’re considered “travelers” and have Irish or Western European ancestors where as the Romani are from Southern Asia. I think the term “gypsy” has just come to entail groups of people who have nomadic type of lifestyles and not just mean the Romani.
Hispanic families go all out for first communion. They do a truck parade before the Spanish mass first communion at the parish here with a large Hispanic population.
Right, he was an Irish/Scottish/whatever traveler but they’re referred to as gypsies but they’re actually not.
This scene is honestly the only time I’ve ever heard that song. Some of us were too busy being bad asses wearing girl jeans and piercing our eyebrows to worry about break up songs.
I know nothing about Travelers/Gypsies/Roma culture (PNW born and raised, we are super white up here), so it’s all very fascinating to me.
Travelers: Irish, English, Scotts Rom:Yugoslavia, Hungarian, Polish, Russian all thought to come from a wandering group out of India that made its way into Europe
I have a bunch of gypsies encounters from my childhood/teen years. They had a compound right over the Arkansas border in Oklahoma and would come into town just in full swing.
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Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders are boxers who are travelers/gypsies and they're two of the biggest tools on the planet.
yeah well in the south our wives dress our boys like weird little sailor men until they are 4 so what are you gonna do (this is not as common in Texas)
A block over from my childhood apartment, there was a "social hall" owned by connected people where multiple events could go on simultaneously under one roof. A typical weekend night would see a retirement, anniversary, and baby shower all going on simultaneously. It was run by younger connected guys and it was well-known in the neighborhood that you didn't fuck around at this place. One Saturday a Roma-variety gypsy group rented the whole thing for a dance party and sold tickets. The issue was they sold too many tickets for the available space and also did not cut in the owner on the take at the door. The old man who watched over the place closed the door when they reached the limit of people. When the upset party goers who didn't get in started acting up, the neighborhood network activated. The gypsies tried to push around the old man, and that's when it went south. Rather than sneaking out the back with their money, the gypsies tried to make a stand. By the time the old man called the "owners" of the place and their back-up, and the young troublemakers in the neighborhood arrived, it looked grim pretty quickly for the gypsies. Somebody pulled the box on the corner for help and the local fire trucks rolled in. The firemen started wading through the wounded when they realized there wasn't a fire. By the time the cops and ambulances got there, there were gypsies lined up on the curb with "turbans" (bandaged heads) all the way up the block. Apparently that ticket scam got run on people all over the outer boroughs, so they gave this place a shot. We never saw them in the neighborhood again.
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It’s weirding me out because it looks like she’s looking/aiming at the sideline but the ball doesn’t go that direction.
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one of my best friends and his family own a catering business and convention venue. used to hang out there a lot. I’ve had a lot of leftover prime rib in the back. many years ago they had an event for the “queen of the gypsies” who had died. they had your conventional large folding tables placed two wide and in the shape of a cross from one end to the other and across in the large main room. the tables were stacked with all sorts of food. I mean STACKED. some of the food supplied by my friends and plenty of other that people brought. the idea was to consume the food and eat the sins of the queen to help get her to wherever. they invited everyone to pig out. and they did. it was undoubtedly a different looking bunch. I’ll be damned if I knew where they all came from. never seen so many black cadillacs and lincolns. It looked like a mafia event. there were some menacing looking characters to say the least but the ladies dressed to kill looked pretty good. lotsa black hair. I didn’t know what the queen had done over the years. I’ve got enough sins of my own. I didn’t eat anything and got out alive.