Right, I was watching the television box t’other night, when I managed to accidentally catch about 3 minutes of some show called My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
Firstly, I was appalled at the misleading title - yeah, there were a few verging on the chunky monkey end of the svelte spectrometer, but no Big Fat Gypsies.
Second - there's no gypsies in it! Ne'er a sign of a colourful caravan, a roaring campfire or a lanky gyspy king offering his 12yr old daughter to the king of a relative tribe.
Instead of the promised curse-hexing, heather selling, peg thieving Romany/Szgany/Gypsy thralls of lore, we get 'travellers' - them what use up all our petrol in caravans instead of traditional horse drawn curtain-doored carriages!
But what confused me most of all, was the voice over stating "Like most modern travellers, Xxxxxx lives in a house instead of a caravan". Not only that – some of them have jobs! It's like me saying I'm a roving minstrel. Except I don't roam, don't play the lute, nor sing in taverns or royal courts coz I lives in a house and has a job. Now, I was under the impression that Travellers were, well, Travellers, travelling around and getting moved on when too many doorsteps of Daily Fail readers are relieved of their daily organic skimmed pinta and Yakult.
I reckons this show should be called "My Bog Standard Chavscum Wedding", as I couldn't see the difference between these alleged "Free As A Bird Gypsies" and stereotypical chavyobs of the Shameless variety.
Maybe I can get a telly documentary also! My Big Fat Roaming Minstrel Weeding*, showing the ancient art of singing for my supper from town to town, by working in IT afore returning home to play on the PS3.
* ALTHOUGH I CAN'T BE BOTHERED WITH GARDENING. I MIGHT RUN A HOOVER OVER THE GRASS ONCE IN A WHILE THOUGH!
¹ THIS WAS ORIGINALLY A TEST BLOG TO SEE IF:
a. I COULD BLOG VIA FACEBOOK (DIDN'T WORK) AND
b. RESTARTING THE BLOG AFTER A 6 MONTH HIATUS WOULD BE VIABLE
I KNOW THE REWORKED, PROPER ONE WAS POSTED PROPERLY AS ONE OF MY FIRST ON BLOGGER, BUT I'VE COPIED THIS OVER ANYWAYS FOR THE SAKE OF COMPLETENESS.
