Now I’ve annoyed the Gypsies
You may remember when my car was stolen from the Hillcroft garage in Langstone, Newport, I put up a post calling the garage ‘thieving gypsy bastards‘. It was a comical post highlighting my anger at the garage and how my car was stolen from them, with the keys, and their ‘end of year accounts’, making the whole thing look very suspicious.
Very suspicious indeed.
Well, I’ve now had a complaint for my use of the term ‘thieving gypsy bastards’, from the Thames Valley Gypsy Association. The complaint reads:
From: Joseph G. Jones [info@gypsy-association.com]
Subject: Unpleasant remarkPlease remove the term “Thieving gypsy bastards” from your website, as a community we find the term offensive.
If you wish to call the garage names feel free, but please leave us out of it.
Besides which it makes you seem like a racist.
Reagrds
Joseph G. Jones
Thames Valley Gypsy Association
Joseph found my website because I rank on the first page of Google for the term ‘Thieving Gypsy Bastards’. This site tends to rank for most phrases it uses, and will no doubt rank again for the term for this particular blog post.
However, as you can see while the original post does rank for ‘thieving gypsy bastards’ it doesn’t actually have a go at gypsies at all. It’s referencing the garage and the fact that my car was stolen from there. If I were to remove the post, my site would no longer rank for the term and more, anti-gypsy posts would rank in Google in its place.
Therefor, my post being there is helping.
Plus, the term ‘thieving gypsy bastards’ doesn’t reference gypsies at all, it’s a reference to a comic strip in Viz, which is infamous and even has its own Wikipedia page. An extract from the page reads:
The comic got in trouble with the United Nations after featuring a strip called ‘The Thieving Gypsy Bastards’; unbeknownst to the Viz editorial team at the time, Gypsies are regarded as a race under UK law and thus the comic was guilty of racism. During the resultant court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for, and was later found guilty of, handling stolen property.
Hilarious!
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I think your term ‘Thieving Gypsy Bastards’ is seriously offensive.
‘Robbing Gypsy Bastards’ is much better
“I’m also victim to some of the worst luck in the world, and I tend to Blog about all of it here.”
It seems to me you get the luck you deserve. The letter the gypsy group wrote to you was extremely polite and reasonable and you responded like an arsehole. (No offence intended towards arseholes of course).
FKIN GORJA SKUM, I DNT FUCKIN STEAL ! GO SHAVE YOUR TEETH!