to think that just because i'm irish, people should not keep asking me if i am a traveller???

[maggottinfestedbodybag]

wtf

what people? where? when?

Are you serious?

YANBU.

Nothing wrong with being a traveller.

But not an assumption I would instantly make on the basis that someone was Irish.

I know a lot of Irish people, southern and northern and it would never cross my mind to assume that they are travellers. So if people do ask I dont think you are being at all unreasonable, I think they are being very rude

we need to know more.

Seriously?
Who are these people?

It could be on official forms, I have noticed questions like that on those bits of forms where you have to tick boxes to record your ethnic group

people i meet in allsorts of places.

Do you have big gold earrings and keep trying to sell people a sofa out of the back of a lorry?

What sort of places do you go?
I'd never ask that
Dp is from a large Irish family and I'm sure they've never been asked that.
That's really shocking!

gracey i'm reporting you thats really offensive.

All sorts of places eh? So does that mean you travel a bit then?

Sorry, couldn't resist. Think they are being a tad rude though.

shops, parks swimming etc

It's a bloody joke. IT WAS A JOKE.

But are they asking just because you are Irish?

I bet Gloria Huniford has never been asked if she's a traveller.

not sure why people would assume you are a traveller unless you also look like you live in a trailer. An Irish accent certainly wouldn't be the only factor for most people, I'm sure. Unless you just know a lot of very rude people or live in an area where the only other Irish people are travellers, of course.

gracie it wasn't funny.

maggot where do you live? why are they asking this?

Or Terry Wogan!

Half my family is Irish, they've never been taken for travellers.

What an odd OP

I got it, gracie.

Is there something wrong with being a traveller, magot?

i think maggot is a troll

I bet Gloria Humiford and Terry Wogan do travel quite a lot though.

Do you talk about your caravan a lot?

Whereabouts do you live (ish)? Are there a lot of travellers there?

I get asked if I'm a traveller/weed dealer fairly often just because I have dreadlocks It is a little annoying, but I don't generally get offended by it unless they are asking in an 'oh-god-I-hope-not' way.

Then I glare at them and mutter rude things.

Again??? Don't you get bored Bodybag?

You've asked for advice on how to kill hedgehogs.

You've gone on about your fat SIL breaking your child's £100 rocking horse.

You've moaned about someome woman taking maternity leaves too close together.

Now another post that's inflammatory and probably has less factual basis than Jeffery Archer's Autobiography.

I'm a northerner so people often accuse me of being a car

thief. bastards.

I can't usually hear them that well though cos I'm

5 miles down the M6 with their Vauxhall Nova by then.

VVVVV

(THIS IS A JOKE DON'T REPORT ME)