Big fat gypsy christmas last night. .

[NecklessMumster]

Did anyone see this last night ? I was half watching but saw a bit when the newly married woman went back home to give Christmas presents, 2 little girls were watching and one said she'd had no presents and the other said she'd had an egg (?).I can't get the face of the first one out of my head, the hurt in her eyes when she said she'd had nothing
And every one else seemed to have lots, I didn't understand.

I missed the bit where they said the children got presents from santa so I found it really sad. When did they say they got presents from santa?

I think they got presents from Santa but none from mammy and daddy.

I don't watch it.
I believe they have lots of disposable income.
Do they pay income tax ?

Maybe they give alot of titwanks and plastic seat covers are easy to wipe clean.

Babygirl and youngun got me in stitches have they had so many kids they ran out of names and no my last comment wasnt insulting them or making out we are better than them just pointing out she read it wrong yet thinks she is a million times better than anyone else and they genuinely believe that

Oh my God the gum chewing bride. I couldn't get over that! I clearly need to get out more

I assumed that Babbygirl and Young'un were nicknames.

Having suffered a bereavement recently, I found the comment about how 'country people' don't care about their loved ones who have passed on.

I am usually anti stereotype, tolerant, liberal etc but I just despise the adults shown in these programs. Yes there are probably lovely kind intelligent travellers who care about people other than themselves, but they don't seem to be the norm.

The people featured are always so thick and backwards in their attitudes, so insular and brainwashed, so selfish and nasty about 'country people'. The comment about them not caring about their dead was a good example. The way they treat their children ('I'll knock you out', letting the little girl run off) and animals is vile. The stupid girl driving when she couldn't see and endangering other people, and treating the hairdressers like crap. How arrogant.

They really seem to prize their 'designer' goods - do they realise they are fakes I wonder? Just cheap crap with names on? I've never understood why people would want a counterfeit anything though.

I would like to see an episode where the travellers shown are not so hateful. There was a girl in one episode who was working and wasn't going to marry young, I'd like to see more of that. I don't like being the type of person who dislikes an entire community of people but that's how I feel after watching!

Remember that it is ch4. They dont do balance and transparency. They do shocking one liners, cutting to suit their agenda, handpicked participants to show exactly they programme they want to make. What you are seeing is what CH4 have decided you will see. Only a fool would take that as a true representation of any type of community.

Watched this on demand TV last night.

Oh let me see what things bothered me:

The odd statement about 'pavement' even though the note on the door stated the word 'bereavement' meaning the hairdresser was not able to do the bride's hair....

The Shetland pony being abused by the child riding her like a f*cking toy.

The materalistic 'want want want' nature of the children, especially the 17 year old.

The two small girls, one saying she got nothing for Christmas, the other saying 'an egg'. An egg from a chicken? An Easter egg? What kind of egg? Totally shan, not getting any presents whilst other children were opening loads and bragging about how many they got. Very sad scene.

The anorexic looking dog (had to rewind this part because I wondered if having a glass of wine had distorted my vision).