Comments on: Everything I know about Gypsies I learned from reality TV shows and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

By: J.D

J.D — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:33:26 +0000

Knitting helped my desire to stab people on a regular basis and actually helped a little with my arthritis…plus you can make embarrassing things like penis cozies It probably doesn’t help that I work in an adult store so I send them viking midget adult films either…

By: Bobby Pfeiffer

Bobby Pfeiffer — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:13:52 +0000

* better way
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By: Bobby Pfeiffer

Bobby Pfeiffer — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:11:14 +0000

Knitting is rather incidental to Romani people, at least where I come from. Pick-pocketing, on the other hand…much more popular nowadays. I have the feeling, though, that pick-pocketing wouldn’t be as calming as knitting. However, neither can be learned via telepathy (or whatever goddamn magic technology they use in the Matrix to upload the knowledge into their brains). You need practice. Now that I think about it, both choices are much better to waste your fuckin’ time than Girls.
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By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:03:58 +0000

I’LL TEACH YOU HOW TO KNIT VAGINAS!

By: Scar

Scar — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:47:28 +0000

I’m Romany and I knit. I also own a tambourine. You’re not far off

By: Soxanne

Soxanne — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:24:49 +0000

I knit; it’s cheaper than therapy.
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By: Kolchak, Felix & Jodi

Kolchak, Felix & Jodi — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:08:45 +0000

OK, well if THAT isn’t weird as heck, I don’t know what is. 5 – 10 times a week, I get crappy marketing pitches that aren’t even addressed to me. I (of course) reply with a link to an awesome photo of Wil Wheaton collating paper.

Just who are these crappy marketing pitches addressed to you ask? Laura and thequeso.com! I kid you not!

Also – knitting is SO OVERRATED. It takes like 19 000 hours and all you end up with is this weird knobbly scarf that you’d be too embarrassed to even let a dead weasel wear…or maybe that’s just me. I don’t know.
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By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:06:05 +0000

Speaking of Flintstones vitamins.. I have one when I was a kid!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:47:53 +0000

I totally want to teach you how to knit. Get in touch!

By: Maggie Mason

Maggie Mason — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:39:47 +0000

“Thinnnner.”

That was me whispering and caressing your cheek.
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By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:54:16 +0000

Please, please make up a snarky, sweetly condescending descriptor for humor deprived political correctors who think we are unaware of our own insensitivity. Like when southerners say “Bless her heart”, but these people go to so much trouble to air their superiority that they really deserve their own term for all that effort. I would soo like to express my appreciation for their concern.

Unless the pearl clutchers are actually being sarcastic and facetious, and do it so well it’s not even obvious, maybe not even to themselves, in which case they deserve their own honorific. And a margarita.

By: Les

Les — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:19:15 +0000

This is funny except for the part where it veers into stereotypes about an opressed minority group.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:47:09 +0000

I looove the show Girls, and the thought of learning how to knit, and the thought of being a gypsy. You are hilarious btw.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:14:38 +0000

Knitting has come back among the 20-somethings. Or at least it had a few years ago when I was a 20-something learning to knit. The Girls characters may be a little cooler than both me and the knitting set though…

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:12:50 +0000

Knitting is da BOMB – I learned how to knit 4 years ago from two ladies that I work with. If you are seriously interested in learning I can give you my Knitting Guru’s name and email (she lives in Austin) and she would LOVE to have someone else to teach. Plus one of knitting’s mecca’s is in Austin on South Congress, Hill Country Weavers (I miss it so much). I am a little high strung, for example I would wake up at 2 am to vacuum because I couldn’t sleep due to the dust bunnies (they stare at me in my sleep, I just know it). But this has totally replaced that urge to be obsessive about cleaning, well that and the occasional valium. But I was always so tense and during one of my first knitting lessons my shoulders were up around my ears and The Guru came over and laid hands on my shoulders and said “don’t strangle the bunny”, my shoulders immediately dropped and it was like a flood gate opened and all this pent up stuff left my body. I then knit non stop for over a year (knitting can’t cure OCD) and my family and friends are warmer and fully stocked with hats, gloves, scarves, socks, toys, baby blankets, sweaters and wash cloths. I even made a boobie wash cloth for my husbands aunt when she was getting radiation for breast cancer, which was all the rage when she went in and all the ladies were asking her to have me knit them all one (I don’t have that kind of time). But knitting is a wonderful gift not only for your sanity but you can also make beautiful gifts for people (beware of making stuff for folks who don’t appreciate time and effort of hand made gifts because it will just piss you off when they don’t appreciate it) but beyond the ability to give a gift that was made personally for someone the best part for me is picking the pattern and finding the perfect yarn and there is SO MUCH WONDERFUL yarn to be had. I am a self proclaimed yarn snob and I already had an obsession with goats, but now I can add sheep, llama, alpaca, dogs, rabbits, yak, camel, and muskoxen to my list of favorite animals to get fiber from. Oh and check out Raverly.com they have all the free patterns you could ever want and some you could purchase. But the best is to see how other people have done that project – ideas are endless. And you always knit teeny, tiny sweaters for your “animals” and I think Beyonce needs a scarf.