#bargee

[thunderstruck9]

David Bomberg (British, 1890-1957), Bargees, c.1920. Gouache and chalk on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 in.

[oledavyjones]

A bargee sits on the stern of his barge waiting for the London fog to lift before he can start work. Summer and winter smogs of the 1900s caused huge disruption to the shipping industry which relied on good visibility.

from ; dailymail.co.uk

[kalronae]

here's stuff from last month that I forgot to post here!  christ I'm so sorry for neglecting you guys If you have a twitter you should follow me (@disgraceshields) because that's where I post my art first and foremost

[whenwewerecool]

Harry H Corbett as Hemel Pike, with Ronnie Barker and Eric Sykes in The Bargee (1964)

[aj-rromale]

A NEW film gives a chilling insight into the bloody battles fought between feuding gypsy families.

Director Ian Palmer spent more than a decade filming Irish traveller James Quinn McDonagh — nicknamed King of the Gypsies — and his family.

The filmmaker even lived with the secretive gypsies for months on end to be able to capture the shocking footage for his ground-breaking documentary, Knuckle.

Firstly, just because it's a documentary, doesn't mean it's the "real truth"...

Secondly, as I've mentioned a bajillion times, these are the SAME "gypsies" of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding--they're not Romani (probably not even distant Romanichal)... they're a travelling community who are self-styled gypsies who will do anything for attention. 

Thirdly, secretive gypsies? Really? I don't think so--they've been all over the TV for months in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.... and "shocking footage"? It's two bullish men fighting. I can see than any night on UFC or MMA. 

Footage includes a clash between McDonagh, who has been shot TWICE, and a man in a farm yard.

McDonagh can be seen brutally battering his opponent, with his knuckles tightly bound in bandages.

The King of the Gypsies said: "It's not that I'm proud of the title, but because I've always won my bare knuckle fights, the other clans put me on that pedestal and keep sending fighters for me.

"I was forced into this life, I was asked to take on every fight. And if someone wants to fight for family pride, you've gotta do it.

"When money comes into it, it changes from family pride to a business. One fight I've witnessed was for £180,000 - there are people who make all their money from these fights.

"People will go out and put 30, even £40,000 on themselves, winner takes all.

"The Quinn McDonaghs are just in it not to lose though."

Ian, who became friendly with two other gypsy clans, The Joyces and The Nevins, during filming, added: "I was asked to film a gypsy wedding for James' brother, Michael Quinn McDonagh.

"The family liked my wedding filming and asked me to film a fight James had coming up and it spiralled from there."

Knuckle is in cinemas now with the DVD being released on September 5.

The Quinn McDonagh are actually from Irish stock. Not Pavee, but the much maligned Irish Travellers (who are similar to English Travellers in that they have not a drop of Romani blood). The Joyces and Nevins are also the same kind of traveller. In England there are many different kinds of 'gypsy'. There are the original Romani (who seem to be fewer and fewer) and then Romanichal (who came through France and have heavily intermarried with local populations--so they're much lighter, and they speak Anglo-Romani, which is a para (or creole) language), Pavee (who speak shelta or gammen),  and then there are Irish and Scottish travellers, English Travellers, New Gypsies, show-people (carnies), and Bargees (boat people), who are not Romani/Romanichal AT ALL.

It's confusing. But the gadje (or settled people) have labeled anyone who doesn't follow their lifestyle as "gypsy"... which has led now to this problem. Even those who are NOT Romani/Romanichal, but who live a self-styled itinerant lifestyle have been labeled this way.

This creates a stereotype for ALL gypsies. These TV shows and movies are casting a negative light on ALL of us, because they're NOT explaining the differences between clans and groups of people. They're just keeping us all lumped under the same heading.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding already caused a lot of problems--and these are the SAME people--just a different movie.

[Source: The Sun]