Poll: Who is more Gypsy, Mortimer or a typical Irish traveller?

[Rumata]

Inspired by this thread:
Britain's Gypsy Kids: What It's Like Growing Up As A Traveller Where Childhood Is Short
and Mortimer's post in it:

interesting, gypsy and travellers marry young and become adults young. interesting is that i never grew up like that, growing up i did everything like any other person. i went to school, i went to university etc. no one told me to get married, my sister neither. i know many other roma like that, i had problems because of my skin colour/blood/ancestry but not because of my lifestyle.

So, all in all, who is more Gypsy to you?

[RN97]

Mortimer

[crazyladybutterfly]

mortimer because he feels closer to roma. the irish are just travellers

[Antimage]

Irish travellers are more gypsy than mortimer. The term "Gypsy" refers to the lifestyle, in terms of lifestyle Mortimer is assimilated.

Ignorant people will vote Mortimer because they think roma =gypsy.

[Szegedist]

Mortimer is not just a gypsy, he is the gypsy vajda of all internet gypsies.



Mortimer inspecting his e-troops

[Rumata]

mortimer because he feels closer to roma. the irish are just travellers

But the lifestyle of Irish travellers is typical Gypsy, while Mortimer's isn't at all.

[crazyladybutterfly]

But the lifestyle of Irish travellers is typical Gypsy, while Mortimer's isn't at all.

being a nomad isn't a requirement.. they re kicked out most of the time.. am i wrong?

[Porn Master]

Who is more gypsy? Mortimer traveller

[Rumata]

being a nomad isn't a requirement.. they re kicked out most of the time.. am i wrong?

Who is kicked out and where from?
To me a true Gypsy is a nomad. I know about too few non-nomads.

[Smitty]

Irish travellers are more gypsy than mortimer. The term "Gypsy" refers to the lifestyle, in terms of lifestyle Mortimer is assimilated.

Ignorant people will vote Mortimer because they think roma =gypsy.

From Merriam-Webster: "In the early years of the 16th century there began to appear in Britain some members of a wandering race of people who were ultimately of Hindu origin and who called themselves and their language Romany. In Britain, however, it was popularly believed that they came from Egypt, so they were called Egipcyans or Egyptians. This was soon shortened to Gipcyan, and by 1600 the further altered form Gipsy, Gypsey, began to appear in print. By later in the 1600s the verb gypsy, meaning 'to live like a Gypsy' began to be used."