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Corbyn can’t be a gammon, gammon are apparently angry middle aged right wingers and brexiters.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a20680090/gammo...
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a20680090/gammo...
article said:
Being afflicted with a touch of the gammon is a condition that transcends class. What pumps scarlet blood into the cheeks of gammon is an indiscriminate, impenetrable rage that affects swathes of flushed men, from rich Eurosceptic Tories in Sussex to struggling, Corbyn-loathing UKippers in Sunderland.
Rage at unelected elites in Brussels, rage at the will of the people being subverted, rage at gender neutral bathrooms and halal meat in the Torquay Pizza Express. A rage at How Things Used To Be fading away, and - as happened to the humble gammon - being replaced by new-fangled ideas, like streaky bacon.
The insult could have been drawn on any number of glowing cuts of meats. And yet there's something so antiquated and depressing about the brined hind leg of a pig that fits the job so perfectly. If a cut of meat was going to question climate change or campaign to bring back the death penalty or just be forgotten, forever, it would almost certainly be gammon. That's probably why it's causing such a lot of fuss. Until the next thing.
Rage at unelected elites in Brussels, rage at the will of the people being subverted, rage at gender neutral bathrooms and halal meat in the Torquay Pizza Express. A rage at How Things Used To Be fading away, and - as happened to the humble gammon - being replaced by new-fangled ideas, like streaky bacon.
The insult could have been drawn on any number of glowing cuts of meats. And yet there's something so antiquated and depressing about the brined hind leg of a pig that fits the job so perfectly. If a cut of meat was going to question climate change or campaign to bring back the death penalty or just be forgotten, forever, it would almost certainly be gammon. That's probably why it's causing such a lot of fuss. Until the next thing.
It's the smug, right ons way of denigrating a very specific group of people based on their skin tone and gender alone.
There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
gooner1 said:
Roman Rhodes said:
Does that happen much - people blurting “racist” for no reason - like someone with Tourette’s?
Yes, it's one particular posters stock in trade termfor those that disagree with him/her.
Roman Rhodes said:
gooner1 said:
Roman Rhodes said:
Does that happen much - people blurting “racist” for no reason - like someone with Tourette’s?
Yes, it's one particular posters stock in trade termfor those that disagree with him/her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld said:
It's the smug, right ons way of denigrating a very specific group of people based on their skin tone and gender alone.
There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
I'd gave thought they would also need to have gammony opinions to be considered gammon.There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
So the denigration is based on their opinions.
We need a Dickens scholar to advise on whether he meant to be racist or not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld said:
It's the smug, right ons way of denigrating a very specific group of people based on their skin tone and gender alone.
There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
And I thought this thread couldn't get any sillier! Well done!! There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
Supercilious Sid said:
Roman Rhodes said:
gooner1 said:
Roman Rhodes said:
Does that happen much - people blurting “racist” for no reason - like someone with Tourette’s?
Yes, it's one particular posters stock in trade termfor those that disagree with him/her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld said:
It's the smug, right ons way of denigrating a very specific group of people based on their skin tone and gender alone.
There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
Calling someone gammon is literally, LITERALLY, the same as setting fire to a cross on a black family’s front lawn. Literally.There isn't a dark face or women in the meme doing the rounds. It's little different from antisemites using triple parentheses in discussion or putting a dozen middle aged black men in a collage and calling them all monkeys.
The Poke have provided some handy tips:
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/05/14/gammon-people...
I think it is quite carefully defined as a way to describe a very particular set of opinions - seen widely here.
Those opinions are often quite unpleasant so there is something appropriate about it as a descriptive term.
Its use on the RNLI thread was entirely justified, as I'm sure several posters would agree. Of course the gammon wouldn't, but that's kind of the point.
PS you can be right wing and not want to associate with gammony views.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/05/14/gammon-people...
I think it is quite carefully defined as a way to describe a very particular set of opinions - seen widely here.
Those opinions are often quite unpleasant so there is something appropriate about it as a descriptive term.
Its use on the RNLI thread was entirely justified, as I'm sure several posters would agree. Of course the gammon wouldn't, but that's kind of the point.
PS you can be right wing and not want to associate with gammony views.
Bill said:
alfie2244 said:
Gammon & onion suet pudding steamed in a cloth bag. 
That's the way to deal with it. Claim it as your own. I can see you strolling into the snug of the George and Dragon, flat cap on backwards and nod to your homeys "Wassup, gammon?" 
El stovey said:
Bill said:
alfie2244 said:
Gammon & onion suet pudding steamed in a cloth bag.
That's the way to deal with it. Claim it as your own. I can see you strolling into the snug of the George and Dragon, flat cap on backwards and nod to your homeys "Wassup, gammon?" Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff