Various traveller peoples refer to themselves as gypsies though. This isnt as straightforward as some other slurs that I’m sure you can think of

This! All day this. I can piss in a urinal without issue, but if someone’s stood next to me i can forget about it. And then i wonder about what the other person is thinking ..., why’s the tall chap next next to me holding his dick, but not pissing? At which point, I’m definitely not comfortable enough to piss.

Austerity may increase homeless levels, but it’s got fuck all to do with travellers. Theyre not typically part of any ‘traditional’ workforce...

Have you ever encountered Romany gypsies or Irish travellers? The former in European cities aren't poor and the latter have little regard for the law. I think your spirited defence is misplaced? If you were in power and held a seat of responsibility, how would you deal with their communities? Serious question.

I was there in December and it's so aggressive and commonplace i was genuinely shocked.

Whilst I don’t condone what those PSV fans are doing, people need to understand what the situation is like there. I was in Madrid in December and I’ve never seen such aggressive begging before. I dont know if they’re native to Spain but I’ve seen similar groups starting to appear in England too. I’m well versed in the…

Fuck me, I’m sorry mate. Quite understandable that you’d want to avoid drinking-holes after that. I guess there’s something in the drunken psyche of women that reminds them that men shouldn’t fight back (or they think they shouldn’t); I’ve seen them hitting bouncers that are bigger than rugby players.

It can mean that, but that’s not what he’s really referring to here. There is fisticuffs, as in actual fist-fighting but I wouldn’t normally expect someone to mean a punch if you give someone a cuff. It’s a bit like ‘clip’... you can clip someone in the UFC, but a mum can give her kid a clip-round-the-ear on the High…

My pleasure, chum.

It’s cuff around the lug-hole. Cuff being a hit/slap and lug-hole being your ear.

Bigger numbers than the IQs on display at least....

There’s pretty decent Scrabble scores on those two jerseys....

I’m actually surprised that she didn’t escalate at that point. The amount of nightclub brawls I’ve seen go nuclear because of women steaming in like the Tasmanian Devil is sadly quite high.

It goes beyond bad luck for me. There's something wrong with training, the medical team, the scouting team and their over-confidence in yet another injury to the same player not meaning that he's inherently broken.

I think Arsenal should look at moving Per along now, rather than in a couple of years...

I think there is something wrong within the training element of Arsenal’s set up, but I also think it's due to their scouting team and the kind of players they buy. You can't have a fleet of Alfa Romeos and not expect to deal with repairs....

Haha, i guess it’s only acceptable because people are normally polite and these religions have been around a long time so they’re ‘legitimate’. When scrutinised, religious statements like those are little different to saying:

It doesn’t particularly bother me on the rare occasions that I hear it but it does jar me, probably more out of British sensibilities of trying not to offend but wondering if there’s a special, mystery response to a religious well-wish.

Ohhh, I know that, don’t worry :) To a degree, it’s completely understandable from a historical perspective (the Puritans, frontier life, etc.).

As an outsider (Brit) looking in, it always amazes me just how openly religious a lot of Americans are. Openly is actually wrong; forcefully Christian would be more accurate. Everyone should be able to do what they want but the British attitude is very much a ‘keep your religion as a personal, non-public’ thing, like…