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Calling Someone A Gypsy Is A Bad Thing
I really don't know what to think of this. I know someone that always calls me a gypsy and a jew. Especially when I kill them at Halo. Lol. I'm not even good.
 gottfried  28 Aug 2009 07:12
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I would probably drop them.
 
 Genkaku  29 Aug 2009 17:15
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Calling someone a Christian can be an insult if they aren't and choose to view it as an insult. Personally being called Christian or a Gypsy would not insult me though I am neither. But the gypsies were viewed as thieves and grifters, and their ways were thought to be unclean and wanton by bigoted villagers who townspeople who bought their wares and services with one hand yet persecuted them with the other. To be fair they kept themselves always separate from others which always propagate fear and they weren’t particularly above a con job or a little thieving.
 
 finsch  28 Aug 2009 13:43
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It's so good to be a Bohemian gott!...;-)
 
 LordDaniel  28 Aug 2009 10:31
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Calling anyone anything these days is seen as an insult.
 
 maugatar  30 Aug 2009 12:36
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I think gypsy is ok...
But stringing it together with tramp and thief isn't too nice.
 
 justsumguy  29 Aug 2009 18:34
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 like stringing people up maybe if not together then separately, lol.
by  GrcFrsqrCh
 30 Aug 2009 04:26
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I wouldn't be offended if people called me Gypsy, especially if they crossed my palm with silver first(oO)
 
 Lionheart  29 Aug 2009 06:53
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 well, as long as they don't cross your palm with a sword first, righto? ha ha.
by  GrcFrsqrCh
 30 Aug 2009 04:29
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Not 100% sure either way, but from what I heard from someone one time is that "gypsy" is just a nickname from the word "Egyptian", some type of a derrivitive if it, so maybe it is not that much of an insult as it is just a shortened form.
(although I may be incorrect on this, as I said).

Anyway, hope this helps.

Also? A "gypsy" might be slang for someone who likes to travel alot, or has itchy-feet to move around alot.....
Either way, it does not seem so bad.
 
 GrcFrsqrCh  28 Aug 2009 23:36
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