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I will see about that book, yea the Roman's are a tribe from what is now called Romania/Moldova. I wonder if anyone ever did a lineage/dna trace on them to see who's DNA they carry and when exactly did they split living with society and become a "cult" per se. What was the turning point to where they decided to live like this? Was there a major natural disaster? Plague? Diseases?
They are interesting people, they remind me of Indian's somehow, just looking at their face. Gonna see if I can find their lineage to see how they progressed and from where.
They are not from Romania, they originated from India, and the word "Romani" is simply derived from the fact that in their language the word "rom" means "man". They migrated to almost every country in Europe from India in the 11th century.
Their lifestyle originated from the fact that they migrated to Europe to escape persecution and from the fact that they have also been persecuted in every European country in which they have settled.
And yes, their DNA has been tested and confirms their Indian origins, as do their language and their music, which both have strong Indian influences.
The Wikipedia article on their history is pretty good.
forget the traveler ****......this guy is only irish when he wants to be.i hope he makes britan happy and stays over there cause we dont give a f##k about him over here in ireland
Are you really Irish? If so, if you have parents or uncles who are interested in boxing, if they ever remember Martin Thornton Of Spiddal, Sligo. The Bowld "Martcheen" we used to call him. When I went to study in a village in the Gaelteacht out that way, I used to pass by his little sheebeen and sometimes see him standing at his doorway with a drink in his hand, and maybe a little clay pipe in thhe other. I think he always had a drink (dhrinkh) in his paw. He billed himself as The Champion of Ireland, and was able to wangle himself a fight with Bruce Woodcock, the British Heavyweight Champ, who, I think, around that same year (not certain of date) had fought Lee Savold for the World title (British Version) Freddie Mills fought Gus Lesnevitch for the Lt. heavy title. Don't know if Thornton had ever been in the ring before although he'd had oadsof "fights". You know what I mean.
Annyway... The Bowld Martcheen swaggered into the ring, and was carried out stiff, about 4 minutes after, and we never heard another word from him. heard he went back to Spiddal.
By the way, I agree with you, I think Fury feels that if he talks like Haye, he can make some money and being a tinker,he uses 4 letter words to say the same things. Hasn't much to recommend himself except size as far as I can see. He couldn't be very good, although might be a bit of "blood and thunder for a round or two. I've never seen him..
Just a matter of interest to an Irish boxing fan.
lol, Fury is silly. Wladimir would turn him inside out.
I guess I wouldnt mind seeing a pretty brutal KO. itll be fun to see Wladimir beat up someone thats substantially taller than him too. why not? make it happen
I will see about that book, yea the Roman's are a tribe from what is now called Romania/Moldova. I wonder if anyone ever did a lineage/dna trace on them to see who's DNA they carry and when exactly did they split living with society and become a "cult" per se. What was the turning point to where they decided to live like this? Was there a major natural disaster? Plague? Diseases?
They are interesting people, they remind me of Indian's somehow, just looking at their face. Gonna see if I can find their lineage to see how they progressed and from where.
That's the way a modern mind thinks. I never thought of that. I'd like to know what you find out.
MEDVED hope you don't mind my butting in to thank you for your kind words. The Roman people-the Gypsies- are not connected with Rome, more likely Romania, but they call themselves the Romany. There were a couple of good books about Gypsy life written by a mid 19th cent writer called George Borrow, which I have somewhere. They were "Romany Rye" and "Lavengro". "Rye" meant "nice young man". Even read them in school.
Some thought they originated in Egypt, hence "Gypsies". No one really knows where they come from, they had/have their own language and hated Catholics, particularly priests. I read these books long ago so I could be wrong, but they were very famous, and made Borrow's reputation as a major writer. Gypsies are in most major countries, and keep in touch with each other. I often used to see adverts in the Sunday papers, for racing forecasts and fortune telling by "Gypsy Petulengro" whom I'm sure some older posters will recollect.
Generally "diddling" the public, which was, everyone except themselves.
Tinkers (travellers) were/are on a much lower level in Ireland than in England, and led a wretched life. But it was a huge task to break them of it, and I don't even know how successful that has been.. We used to say that England was 50 years behind the US and Ireland (although right next door) was 100 years behind England.
I will see about that book, yea the Roman's are a tribe from what is now called Romania/Moldova. I wonder if anyone ever did a lineage/dna trace on them to see who's DNA they carry and when exactly did they split living with society and become a "cult" per se. What was the turning point to where they decided to live like this? Was there a major natural disaster? Plague? Diseases?
They are interesting people, they remind me of Indian's somehow, just looking at their face. Gonna see if I can find their lineage to see how they progressed and from where.
I did enjoy the word 'gaol'.
Damning you to eternal anonymity sounds pretty positive. To have your anonymity outlast you and live on for all eternity is quite something.
Well, we all have our "buzz words".....
:omfg:Gee, I love it when you talk dirty.
Chop, I suppose that ridicule is really the best way to handle such as he. But he's such a downright liar, and a supporter of terrorism, that I sort of, let myself go a little. I'm personally involved...sort of.
His history isn't comprehensive of anything. He has some specific areas of incomplete knowledge, but he's far from any kind of oracle. More of a dilettante.
I'm not questioning his "history", anyway, I'm questioning his insouciantly maniacal worldview, which he likes to blandly twitter about as if it's the most natural, inoffensive thing in the world to support a state which exacts a program of persecution and genocide upon innocent people, while objecting to even the smallest challenge of said murderous state like it was a grave offence against his mother's name and crying like a b*tch about the holocaust at any given opportunity. Because he does it all with that ostensibly polite, genteel verbosity, it's only a small few of us who actually pick up on it.
Nope, humble Jews are just fine by me. Those who are desirous for the extermination of my brethren are not.
I stopped there, didn't even read the rest of your dribbling Crhapsody In Spew. So quit wasting your time, old man.
Konitz, you have a diseased mind. No Jew is desirous of exterminating anyone, Your Barbarian Islamist 7th century ideas of what Jews and Israel are, are completely warped and skewed beyond reach. Even Nazis are given fair trials, and Islamic terrorists, like the 2-18 year olds who cut the throats of the Fogel family in Israel a few weeks ago even the little kids ,11, 3 and 6 months old (proudly shouting they "did it for Allah") will get fair court trials with appeals to the supreme Court etc. Those damned terrorist murderers who left bombs in crowded reataurants and coffee bars, now in Israeli prisons, get conjugal visits... CONJUGAL VISITS... computers, cell phones and lots more. All this whilst their pals are sending over dozens of rockets into peoples homes daily, weekly and monthly. I'd put them all on bread and water, and very little of that, but Israel, even surrounded by slaughterers,........far too liberal for it's own good.
Adolph Eichman, the Mass Nazi murderer responsible for at least 2 million victims, was caught, put on trial in Israel lasting for months, and TO THIS VERY DAY, is the ONLY person EVER hanged in Israel. To THIS VERY DAY.
Me, I'm against that sort of overliberal treatment of barbarians who slaughter without compunction and glory in it. I'd burn the lot of them. And I'm a peaceful guy.
You have been brought up I suppose with bomb belts around your 3 year old belly, and taught in school that you must be a "shaheed" (martyr) and blow up Jews when you can. You support hiding explosives under pregnant womens dresses, inambulances, and using kids as human shields etc.atc. Also digging up old corpses and showing them as the result as "Israeli terror". No depravity is too low for a terrorist Islamist. He has NO HONOUR..and that means YOU. So, again I say, just bugger off.
There's no use in going on. Your mind is PERMANENTLY POISONED and you are now CRAZY.
Don't answer me, don't PM or VM or whatever you do, just shrivel up and blow away.
I did enjoy the word 'gaol'.
Damning you to eternal anonymity sounds pretty positive. To have your anonymity outlast you and live on for all eternity is quite something.
edgard knows his stuff Adam Kontz. Dude is probably older than me + you combined, dont question him on history.
He's one of best posters here! Thanks I didnt know there was a diffirence between the Gypsies/Travelers and the Irish ones, most of my info comes from the BBC/iTV/Channel 4 documentaries they have on the.
I always thought the Gypsies are Roman people? Didnt realize there were Irish Gypsies too
a recently funny documentary was the "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding". they live 20 people in 1 house and have rubbish everywhere but spend huge money on a dress? What the fark? Talk about priorities.
Its a crazy lifestyle, get married at a young age, live on the road all your life.
MEDVED hope you don't mind my butting in to thank you for your kind words. The Roman people-the Gypsies- are not connected with Rome, more likely Romania, but they call themselves the Romany. There were a couple of good books about Gypsy life written by a mid 19th cent writer called George Borrow, which I have somewhere. They were "Romany Rye" and "Lavengro". "Rye" meant "nice young man". Even read them in school.
Some thought they originated in Egypt, hence "Gypsies". No one really knows where they come from, they had/have their own language and hated Catholics, particularly priests. I read these books long ago so I could be wrong, but they were very famous, and made Borrow's reputation as a major writer. Gypsies are in most major countries, and keep in touch with each other. I often used to see adverts in the Sunday papers, for racing forecasts and fortune telling by "Gypsy Petulengro" whom I'm sure some older posters will recollect.
Generally "diddling" the public, which was, everyone except themselves.
Tinkers (travellers) were/are on a much lower level in Ireland than in England, and led a wretched life. But it was a huge task to break them of it, and I don't even know how successful that has been.. We used to say that England was 50 years behind the US and Ireland (although right next door) was 100 years behind England.
Gosh.
'drek' (when well-used that really is a withering insult) 'genteel verbosity' 'insouciantly'
We've hit some kind of high watermark here for intellectual flaming.
Congratulations to both of you - for being both illuminating and a bit strange.
It was a VM attack, scumbag.
And it was clearly because you're an insidiously hateful old creep, that's why. You despise Arabs and all Muslims and feel that their lives are worth inherently less than the lives of your own 'race' of 'chosen people' and that acts of genocide against their number are just and right.
And I'm going nowhere. You'll leave before I do, because you'll be dead soon, thankfully.
And here's a clue - nobody cares about your memoirs, weirdo.
Ah I see now, it's because I Jew that you are so aggravated. Don't you know that Anti-Semitism is a medically recognised mental disease, an irrational hatred of a particular religious group. {who never did them any harm, only good....}
{Well, I can't stop being a Jew, can't even reverse my circumcision}....
Oh...you don't know about this disease... Well.. No matter. In your future you'll likely have other diseases to contend with.....
I wouldn't be too sure that I'll be "gone soon", At the risk of offending you about my personal family matters, My late father died from an accident at 86, his mother died at 94, 3 of his 4 uncles lived to be over 100, one to 105, All without the benefits of modern medicine. I have an older sister already aged well over 90, (she won't tell) and so on........ So I may be here to send YOU flowers. And what matters if i amn't?? This is life.
As for you "going nowhere" I quite agree, you won't. Your whole life will be spent in mediocrity and anonymity. That part of it, anyway, which won't be spent in gaol.
And, a little secret, only for you. There are some on this site who actually LIKE my posts, enough to write and tell me so. And in the nicest terms. Before kids like you came along with your foulnesses, this was the best site in boxing. Drek like you drag it down, maybe more to your comfort level. So why dont you just MOVE ON.... like the tinkers ponies.
edgard knows his stuff Adam Kontz. Dude is probably older than me + you combined, dont question him on history.
He's one of best posters here! Thanks I didnt know there was a diffirence between the Gypsies/Travelers and the Irish ones, most of my info comes from the BBC/iTV/Channel 4 documentaries they have on the.
I always thought the Gypsies are Roman people? Didnt realize there were Irish Gypsies too
a recently funny documentary was the "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding". they live 20 people in 1 house and have rubbish everywhere but spend huge money on a dress? What the fark? Talk about priorities.
Its a crazy lifestyle, get married at a young age, live on the road all your life.
It was a VM attack, scumbag.
And it was clearly because you're an insidiously hateful old creep, that's why. You despise Arabs and all Muslims and feel that their lives are worth inherently less than the lives of your own 'race' of 'chosen people' and that acts of genocide against their number are just and right.
And I'm going nowhere. You'll leave before I do, because you'll be dead soon, thankfully.
And here's a clue - nobody cares about your memoirs, weirdo.
Why not explain what VM means, I am too old , as you so rightly say to know about all this modern stuff. As for "creep" yes, I could be, but YOU...you are a "creeper", a very different thing. You know (or maybe you don't) that whilst ignorance can be cured, STUPIDITY is forever. So you may not really to blame, not being able to help it.
By the way, what was it I posted which so fired up your "rightous" anger?? I may be old but
I'm always curious.
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH, you're an ignorant retard.
Anyone who knows the first thing about pikey travellers knows they are notoriously devout in general. Some (many) may also have criminal tendencies and be villainous, but, call it a form of moral schizophrenia if you like, it doesn't stop them talking about their devoutness at any given opportunity.
Just, y'know, take your head out of your anus, Edgar, and step into the real world.
I lived the first 27 years of my life where they were as common as flies. My late uncle used to be a carnival booth boxer, and until his late 80's whenever his old pals were in the neighbourhood, he'd be off with them around the cuntry for a few months. He died at 96, from surgical shock, not old age, so at least, for him a dose of the open air life was good. Of course they weren't tinkers, only legit small Carnivals, but they knew all about them, and so did my uncle, and so did I, to a much lesser extent.
As far as I'm concerned KONITZ. you "don't know notthin:". So please go away and don't bother me. Find someone at your own low level to fight with. I have much more on my mind than just BoxingScene, which is only my relaxation from my real work.
Just for your information the last time I was back in Ireland, a good many years ago now, with my wife and children, there had been, and still was then, an INFESTATION of loose tinkers' ponies all over Dublin, (beg your pardon, "travellers'" ponies) on every free, public piece of land, and there was utter chaos about it. There wasn't a single public place within reach, and I had a car, where we could let the children out to run around and play with a ball, kite or other toys. It was like that the whole 15 months we were there.
So unce again KONITZ my dear "pal" (a gypsy word) just bugger off, if you abusively PM me again I'll ban you. But constructive criticism in reasonable language is always welcome.
forget the traveler ****......this guy is only irish when he wants to be.i hope he makes britan happy and stays over there cause we dont give a f##k about him over here in ireland
I was supporting this gypsy but after the religion comments, ahemmmm. I hate religious people.
The worst religious people? The ones who commit crimes / live as criminals and then "thank da lord" .
Yes im looking at you Gypsies + others who rob/steal/shoot then "Thank The Lord" for this money that I was able to steal!
pfft: Religion, the root of evil for the last 3000 years!
Anyone who believes in these fairy tales aint too smart, a reason why Atheists are the only people progressing the human race forward with inventions/science while the Bible humpers live their life on a 2000 year old fictional book that was copied of a 2500 year old Sumerian childrens story.
MEDVED, although I agree with you about a 2000 year old fictional book, (I presume you mean the Gospels and Paul's and other "saints", forged letters) they didn't come from a Sumerian children's fairy talk. They came from the fertile , half-mad minds of recently "converted" religious lunatics. (You may be referring to the Code of Hammurabi, and the Tale of Gilgamesh, which was centuries earlier).
If you mean The Torah, which was begun 3500 years ago, that's a different matter, there I don't agree with you at all. But we don't talk faith or belief, but boxing, and in that we get along fine.
I've just had a PM attack by a crawler named ADAM KONITZ. No idea why. All these abusive crappers should be prominently identified all the time,until they go away and the site becomes again what it used to be, the best site, bar none, in the whole boxing scene.
Ive grown up around travellers my whole life. Religion is indeed more important to them than anything.
Fury is a character. Id like to see him win but i doubt it.
Well I think you may find Irish "Travellers" different, uness they've become "civilised" in the past 50 years.. The name "travellers" was coined in the 1950's when the new Irish Government's belated sense of social responsibility arose, and they tried to get the kids into schools so that they might have a better start in life. Also to medical care. I think it was J.A. Costello's Government. I met Costello at a private hotel in Donegal, where he and his family were having a holiday, and I was playing in the Orchestra, and we had a few chats about it. He was incognito, and they actually refused him admission to the dining room one night because he wasn't in a dinner suit. I saw it, as we were playing dinner music. Around summier of 1952. I was only a kid, but an IRISH politician would talk to ANYBODY.
We always knew them as "Tinkers" ("travellers" was only a euphemism used by themselves only)and you had to lock up your chicken houses and be prepared for call after call to your door from very dirty women in shawls, holding a couple of kids, begging for a little food "for the childer". If you actually gave them some food, say, like bread and cheese, they could be seen to throw it away as they left the front door. I SAW it myself. What they were after was the "easy" thing, a little money instead of the trouble of going to prepare food.
This money went on BOOZE. There were certain places, a bulge off the roadside, a little crossroads, and other places where they ALWAYs camped, with tents and little caravans, an occasional old car, something like gypsy encampments, full of smell, dirt and worse. One was about 150 yards away around the corner from my late brother's upscale home in Templeogue, and the neighbourhood spent years trying to get rid of them, without success. They'd turn their ponies and goats loose to wander around the neighbourhood ruining the gardens etc. The police meant nothing to them.
The governments had failures for many years, they gave them council house, and they kept them full of rubbish, they kept coal and wood in the baths, etc and lived in the front or back garden. They would stink out a whole neighbourhood.
It took many years to civilize them.