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Post by everso on Jan 25, 2011 23:50:08 GMT
Please please please please someone else tell me you've been watching it as well. It's the funniest thing on t.v. at the moment. But at the same time very interesting too. A friend of mine knows one of the little girls that appeared on one of the programmes in the series. The dresses the brides have made for them are unbelievable, and tonight's programme had my jaw dropping at one point. www.channel4.com/programmes/my-big-fat-gypsy-wedding |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 26, 2011 10:21:32 GMT
I've been paying a little bit of attention to it - What's almost as funny is seeing people's increasingly incredulous reactions on Twitter as the programme progresses. "That dress" last night and Grandma's enormous bosom were two things of note last night. Somebody suggested that Kate Middleton ought to get onto the dress designer for April.  |
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Post by jean on Jan 26, 2011 10:44:34 GMT
The dresses the brides have made for them are unbelievable... And who makes them? A woman from Liverpool. |
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Post by jean on Jan 26, 2011 10:45:44 GMT
Somebody suggested that Kate Middleton ought to get onto the dress designer for April. Princess Diana's dress wasn't all that different. |
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Post by everso on Jan 26, 2011 15:21:59 GMT
Except for the wonderful shade of strawberry yogurt pink and the fairy lights. And the fact that Princess Diana was at least able to walk in her dress, rather than have to kick out the hem with every footstep.
Oh man, I can't stop thinking about it. How CAN they think they look the business?
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Post by everso on Jan 26, 2011 15:26:19 GMT
And, more to the point, how do they manage to afford something that, for all its lack of taste (IMHO of course), must cost a fortune, owing to the amount of time spent on it (and the fairy lights and batteries).
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Post by aubrey on Jan 27, 2011 11:20:51 GMT
How does anyone afford a wedding, come to that.
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Post by trubble on Jan 27, 2011 11:28:12 GMT
Good point.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 27, 2011 11:30:29 GMT
What astonishes me is the sexism, the patriarchy.
Have always thought that travelling people are variously;
1 - an ancient peoples with their traditions that should be respected, BUT
2 - needing to fit in with modern planning laws and the like a bit more.
Now that I've seen the reality of life for travelling women, I see little to protect and retain about this wonderful and 'unique culture'.
Integration now.
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Post by jean on Jan 27, 2011 13:43:07 GMT
Where's Ladylinda when you need her?
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 27, 2011 14:04:16 GMT
Where's Ladylinda when you need her? Actually, I would love BigLin's take on this programme. I'm not a member of Bitbot any more (the final straw was when a poster started boasting about gay-bashing), but maybe someone who is could pop her a PM over there and ask her over to join in? I would be genuinely interested in her take. |
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Post by jean on Jan 27, 2011 15:00:09 GMT
I've PM'd her there.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 27, 2011 15:05:22 GMT
How they've edited it would be interesting too. TV companies always like to give their programmes a 'slant' one way or t'other.
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Post by everso on Jan 27, 2011 16:43:08 GMT
How they've edited it would be interesting too. TV companies always like to give their programmes a 'slant' one way or t'other. I think it is slanted somewhat towards the Travellers. I have to agree with what Riot has said. My friend, who I mentioned above, has had a bit of contact with travellers (she works in a school) and she told me that the girls are all required to marry very young. They go to lots of these weddings for the chance to meet a future husband. It's understood that they dress extremely provocatively (presumably on purpose?), but they never ever have sex before marriage. Seems once they're married they don't work and never divorce. I'd be interested to read what Lin has to say, but I think she's more Romany gypsy rather than a Traveller. |
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Post by everso on Jan 27, 2011 16:44:38 GMT
How does anyone afford a wedding, come to that. I'll say. Mr. E. is still recovering from our daughter's wedding over 5 years ago. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 27, 2011 19:56:38 GMT
How does anyone afford a wedding, come to that. I'll say. Mr. E. is still recovering from our daughter's wedding over 5 years ago. Thank God my daughters are amoral hoors. |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 27, 2011 20:57:42 GMT
Thank God my daughters are amoral hoors.  Swings and roundabouts. Be proud. You've brought them up as nature intended. So rare these days. The Dutch word for hoor/whore is hoer. Rhymes with fewer. As does hoor, which is the Geordie word. Do you pronounce it like that, Riot? Enquiring minds want to know. [The word tart means girl in Geordie. No other connotation in Standard Received Geordie. Scotch means a kind of beer. No need to thank me.] |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 27, 2011 22:03:10 GMT
Yup, I pronounce it 'hoor' as in Miss Jean Brodie.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jan 28, 2011 8:13:40 GMT
..and down here in Middle Earth..it's plain old 'Slapper'
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Post by everso on Jan 28, 2011 9:49:36 GMT
True in the south-east as well. I pronounce 'whore' as 'hoare'. Except that I usually say 'slapper' or 'old bag'. Funny how we're discussing this. What do we call a man of loose morals?
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