Kinda OT, Gypsy Matchmaker

It's a cultural thing - to us it's insane, but the Gypsy community it's just the way they have always done things.

Honestly, though, most of those girls spend their entire life planning their wedding as it's their day as a princess. Once that is gone, the reality of life sets in, and I do not envy any of them for a second.

This was about Roma gypsies though right? That 'giant princess dress' stereotype is based on Irish travellers. Roma gypsies have a culture of modesty, or that's my experience from being friends with someone from a Roma background.

The only ones I have had contact with are the 'giant princess dress' ones.

Just looked up the program and it is about the Roma rather than the Irish. Might give it a watch, but looking at the blurb - "In Rotherham, Huko is responsible for a large clan, including a pregnant 14-year-old girl living in an unlawful marriage with Huko's nephew. It's not long before the police and social services come knocking at the door with child protection concerns.".

Yeah... I don't think we're looking at anything much more informative than 'Benefits Street' was... ¬_¬ x

Three minutes in and one of the lines was "If I steal, we eat, if I do not steal, we do not eat."

Oh, and the police are looking for the pregnant 14 year old because she hasn't been to health checks - and the family are hiding her.

Yeah..... Impartial.

Yeah, it was the roma gypsies. It was channel 4, never very impartial.

Well, I watched it through - to be frank it's utter tosh.

Maybe they should have concentrated more on the family that REFUSED to marry off their teenage daughter because they want her to have an education. That is the kind of story I want to see!

Yeah, that was good to see. A few hundred years ago we used to marry young and die young, we don't need to do that anymore. Kids should be allowed to have a childhood