Recent content by ApplebyLover

I know, I know, - but they are like children. If nobody puts them right they will grow up to be nasty people....forgive them, for they know not what they do. :)

Wrong. Fact: Gypsies and Travellers are minority ethnic groups and legally protected under the Race Relations Act, so discrimination against them is unlawful. English Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers have the same rights to race relations protection as other recognised ethnic minority...

OK, maybe, but my definition of racism is this: (OED) • the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races • prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism...

Thanks JackAT - at last a voice of reason. I can't argue with any of that. In particular I agree that there certainly is some anti-social behaviour at Appleby, which seems to be on the increase in almost all sections of society. Maybe the older generation can bring it round - I know that they...

Fair point - I was not directing my replies at anyone in particular, but at the tone of the whole thread. The word scum and dregs was used by two people, but not you.

Correct - in so far as I am trying to point out that anyone reading this thread who had no been to Apply Fair would be given a prejudiced view of it. "We have been taken over by the absolute dregs of society." Prejudice. There are a majority of highly moral and respectable people attend...

Yea, pretty vile at 2.59.... reminds me of the Grand National...

You missed the point BobsGalore - by about 180 degrees.

As to the fair being left 'churned up and filthy' let me enlighten you about Appleby Fair. The Market Field is a bit of private enterprise by a local farmer who has tuned one of his fields into a gigantic car boot sale, purely for profit. The Gypsies have no control over it - some of them pay...

So, because someone was shot in the head at Wickham, that makes people who go to Appleby scum does it? Because someone was shot in the head in Glasgow that makes all Scotsmen gangsters does it? Because you witnessed someone mistreating a horse that justifies a scatter-gun condemnation of...

I am not sure if I have ever read a more prejudiced, snobbish, ill-informed, biased, nasty, unsupported, hate-filled garbage account of Appleby Fair and Gypsies as appears in this forum. The words 'It must be awful' appear half a dozen times, demonstrating that those writers at last have...