im a traveller AMA

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irish traveller ama

there is gender divide i agree but not bad
that was defo just her family!!
yep men work most women stay at home but alot work nower days propper jobs and some selling stuff online or some thing small
we all have a fixed adress wether it be on a site or a house theres always somewhere we spend the winter

tjzmummabear get followed alot in shops and shopping center i usually let them know i can see them following me

Good grief
I lived on a farm till i was 18, every bike we left in the yard got stolen, gates got removed from fields, cattle got out. Ill dogs were dumped on us (tied to gate posts). Milk was stolen out of the tank, diesel from tractors, their rubbish inc dirty nappies left in ditches etc, i could go on but you get the gist

Why are travellers like this?

What on Earth possessed you to type this @Myotherusernameisbest?

Would you say all black people are drug dealers or all men rapists?

Not all travellers are the same.

funnyeddie where you post will be like somewhere i live the man owns the ground and you deliver to his house he is working in the day so she will take the post no body is in charge really obviously where i live its the mans ground dont destroy it dont do any harm ect ect

fluffypinkpjs are you saying im not a traveller erm ok

missbehaving i got a full liscence full insurance tax and mot i dont know many who dont - why would we want to be pulled over

brizzledrizzle i like that onegrin

MNHQ didn't.

Zampa Don't be ridiculous. Every single one I've encountered without fail was behaving appallingly. There were upwards of 200 on that site and I've since had the misfortune to encounter other groups bahaving in exactly the same way. So yes I'm generalising because out of all the travellers I have encountered 100% behaved like this.

I have also met lots of men. 0% were rapists (as far as I know) and I've met lots of black people and 0% of those were drug dealers (as far as i know) so what a stupid comparison.

People make judgements based on their own experience.

this is my veiw atm

Fluffypinkpyjamas

Since when is keeping a dog outside such a terrible cruel thing? I love dogs but some people are OTT

Do you think enough is being done about male suicide. I know this is a huge problem within the travelling community?

fluffypinkpyjamas just went over your question
if i posted tell me everything about non travellers alot would have differant ways/veiws on things... i am AMA about me / my ways / my veiws im not answering for the full population of travellers?

how is keeping a dog in a DOG box so cruel? what are they made for? i wouldnt allow it in my home because eprsonally i think they smell of piss so wouldnt want kt stinking my place out.. it would be fed right and my daughter would be doing the playing with it not me its her dog and shed be walking it around the site but its all beside the point because im not getting one

That's true Coyoacan. My mum's side of the family are all Scottish country folk - and that's born and bred, not just moved there because they wanted to live somewhere pretty. The older generation never have dogs in houses - just wouldn't happen - and think that people who do are filthy. They are absolutely horrified at dogs on sofas and beds. Same as most people in most other countries. It's a peculiarly English and peculiarly rural incomer thing to do, this anthropomorphism.

notquiteagandt
No! suicide in our community has shot up in the past few months! its horrible for anyone to experiece it my heart breaks for everyone who feels so low to not be able to talk to someone that is there only way! but with male travellers alot wont show emotion they wont cry or show there hurt they try to be a man - my husband included! he suffered depression over it but my veiw as a christian is that the devil will do anything to steal us! is we kill our self traveller or non traveller obviously we are dying in sin

And actually I share their view! Dogs are dirty. Why would you want one in your house?!

I think that's because you quoted Waitrose's deleted comment Bizzle rather than anything you said.

I’m the sort of person who likes maybe routines, like to know where I stand, what’s happening next week etc. From what I’ve seen on TV the traveler way if life seems quite disorganised (sorry if that offends you’ve OP, I dont mean if to) and a bit chaotic. It seems like, grin the women and kids anyway, they get little choice in wherever they go or when they go and little notice if they’re moving. Do you find it difficult to manage things like bills and schools and stuff like that when you don’t know where you’re going to be?

awomanisanadulthumanfemale
well if my husband just told me were going tommorow id love it - but it just doesnt happen like that
things are planned schools are given notice its a joint desision if i didnt want to pull somewhere we wouldnt be vice versa also hed make sure give me notice so i could wash my trailer down and clean it out
its like that if your travelling full time (which doesnt happen anymore) but only because of the police moving them on like i mentioned theres transit sites now where we are allowed for 2 weeks which most pull onto so they have a planned route for the summer

That’s good to know that you have a fair say. I have to say part of me would love to have my life contained to one spotless caravan but I don’t think I would cope well full time!

How many of your friends or relatives went on to university?

awomanisaadultfemale
its easier than you thing our caravans are big i did move in a house shorlty after getting married and it was like a mansion then back into a trailer and didnt think i was going to co pe lol

pallisers truthfully none