Please read the beginning halves of sentences, not just the latter halves. As a European, this whole thread reeks _painfully_ American.

I honestly had no idea what the original commenter was even talking about before I started reading replies, which in hindsight was a mistake.

You sound like you may be the right person to ask about European feelings towards gypsies..thoughts? As an American, I don't understand the almost universal contempt held for them by Europeans.