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Thread #102423   Message #2078692
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
16-Jun-07 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Appleby Horse Fair: A Tradition Too Far?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Appleby Horse Fair: A Tradition Too Far?
Anonymous pest of a Guest

If it involves ranting to see off a waste-of-space pseudo-West Country troll, I'll do it.
Again and again. Until she stops insulting and damaging my friends and dispensing her customary damaging drivel.
And the same applies to a sloganising, patronising, pompous git from Berkshire.
If different.

One must not say that such and such an institution or event should be shut down

I didn't. Nor did the OP.
madlizzie did, I think.
'Take the fair off them', or some such draconian, uninformed sanction.
I actually come from close to Appleby (not Pinner or Reading), and know this tradition.
And as long as no cruelty is involved it needs be left alone as a mark of respect to the travelling community.
Monitored, yes, by those specifically qualified to do so but is is highly, and offensively, insensitive to label the participants as 'pikeys' and try to tell them what to do.
Just as it is to steal from containers washed ashore while the rightful owners watch aghast on television.
Even if Richard Bridge thinks it's blue-sky thinking on recycling policy.