Wow literally that got waaaay off topic, ihavenoidea i understand your frustration with the gypsies my bf used to tell me his grandmother used to hire them for work and they would steal all her chickens ad goats and cattle and hang her dog's from the clothes line...etc..etc..
I kno you heard story's and enjoyed things and places and the era long ago or before communism ended. But i think its safe to say that nothing lasts forever, sometimes for the best, sometimes for the worst.- this is just life. Its not airways the people's intrests that get chosen over what happens when politics are in play. Theirs ghettos in ever country, even in the glorious "USA" . Their are people who will abuse power and what's given to them from the state when ever they can get a chance to, and most people look they other way. I kno plenty of places where i grew up that were beautiful when i was younger and as times went on it is now become the ghetto for the poor and the state Paid housing community's, we once had a very beautiful and serine heritage of polish and Italian people who lived in that same area and now it looks like a desecrated city somewhere I've never been. Theirs trash, drug dealers, smashed and destroyed houses, stray animals, hungry children, drug addicts and homeless that run the streets. God forbid you're a woman walking home late at night you could be robbed,raped or killed and no matter how loud you scream no one will care what is ghappening to you, people mind their own buisness to keep themselves sane. I rememberan xbf of mine Got stabbed 5 times returning to a friend's house to get my sweater on Halloween night, a 6 guys just decided that they wanted to stab and kill someone because they thought it would be fun and they choose him, he survived...barely. they kids never got caught - one man died when he tried to help get the kids off of him when he saw what was going on outside his house. They were in a gang, and they didn't care about his life or anyone else's, it's very sad. I teach kids down their the joys of growing plant's and gardening and it keeps them off the streets to become people that would do things like that. The gypsies in your city are just like those people. They get every opportunity from the state to live comfortably but choose to spend their lives doing things that cause harm, some cause they want to, others cause that's ALL they really know how to do. Most of the children i teach don't kno or see anything else from the people around them in there community then the people who do the horrible things they do, and in a weird way these kids look up to them because their is no one else to look up to as a roll model, not even their own parents and siblings. They see the drug dealers and the robbers and gangsters with there expensive cars and think "that's what i want to be when i grow up, so i can have those things" and thenthey become another Stereotypical" gangster, hoodlum" from the ghetto.
The gypsies in your community steal and beg and do the things they do because that's all they are used to seeing, and when they see something they want they will steal it so they can have it instead of working to buy it, because to them it seems like the natural thing to do.
I would like to say they don't know any better, but they do, sadly they just don't think the consequences are that bad and its worth the risk.
The world is becoming a CRAZY place, i don't agree with everything that's going on. But I'm not gonna kick rocks at it especially if it's something i can't change alone. Racism is everywhere and discrimination, im called a cracker or wh*re or freak everyday i don't like it but people will always have their opinions of who and what people are and have no remorse for the person's feelings. This is because nowadayswslander and slurs are becoming more and more acceptable to use and most people take back the meaning so that it's no longer an offensive word. I have children in my growing program that cell either the N-word every other sentence with no complaints, but if i ever called one of them that i would be a racist. I was brought up white pride - white pride isn't about hating other races its about loving your own, yet most people don't kno the difference between being proud of my race and heritage and being a racist.
Most of the black people in my neighborhood blame white people for things and like to bring up slavery but many of them have never even had a member of their family ever been in slavery and some of us have never even had a member own a slave yet we still get that thrown in our faces. How we can be blamed for something that's happened hundreds of years ago that we had no control of makes no sence to me, i didn't personally start or stop slavery so i hate when ib get that thrown in my face, but they have no idea what it was like to be Irish a long time ago and how they wouldn't even give us jobs and if they did they would give us jobs that they would never give an African American inn fear that it was crule and unreasonable. They don't teach children in school about the Armenian genocide yet they will teach about world war 2 and the genocide of Jews and forget to mention that the concentration camps were originally made for polish prisoner's nor do the mention that more Russians and polish we killed then many Jews, but history books tell one sided stories but most of us were never there toeven see what went on, and the ones who were are just grateful that they are alive and lived to see such a thing and learn from the mistakes that our world has gone thru over the years.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion towards whatever they want to talk about but i don't think we should be calling either derogatory names when expressing those opinions. There is a time and a place for everything and this isn't the place to do that. We all come from all over the world and are gathered HERE because of our love in plants and growing and just want to share our love of these things and lend a hand to those who need it, it doesnt and shouldn't matter who is sitting on they other side of the computer or where they are just that they are hear to share this common intrest and their own knowledge.
We can't forget what's going on in the world around us or what happened in the package, but we can all try and make it a better place if we just live with each other in harmony and find positive ways to overcome the problems we are all individually dealing with in our own country's. I'm not saying it's not important I'm just saying we should spend time on the things that we enjoy and that make us happy instea. Of letting it seep into our sanctuary that is Cactguide.com - we all live in a place where things aren't always the best every minute of everyday, but when i come on this site, this is my escape from the world around ME. And i really don't want to hear about people getting bullied or upset with each other for misunderstandings and their own opinions. We need to just agree to disagree and go on to what makes us happy and leave the rest behind. I'm sorry if i personally offended anyone it wasn't intended to do so, but sometimes we all have our own opinions or some of us aren't very good at explaining them and they don't come out as intended.
Lets all enjoy our plant, life's to short to be in hell 24/7.