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Nearly Sane

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Is 'gammon' racist?
« on: May 14, 2018, 08:36:41 PM »
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2018, 09:48:43 PM »

Racist? No, I don't think so.

Stupid? Yes. What is it with the moden screaming necessity to label everything and everyone as offensive to someone else? What was wrong woth the older generation's version of calling people (and cops, of course) pigs?
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2018, 08:50:51 AM »
I'm sure I've never called anyone a pig. Why would I?

Neither have I been called a gammon and the only thing I can think of regarding white people is very deep pink with blonde toppings, due to being out in the sun too long. That happens.

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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2018, 09:17:48 AM »
I have never heard the word 'gammon' used as a term of abuse.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2018, 09:20:46 AM »
Aren't these 'Gammon's' the people who popularised the term Snowflakes.

I suspect that I fit the visual profile of 'a Gammon' but a mature person should laugh it off.

It was nice for them when they were Bwexiteers, being called Gammons takes them down a peg or two.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2018, 09:26:56 AM »
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2018, 09:50:04 AM »
Anger all round.
The Gammon affair reminds me of Shakespeare and Henry V's rejection of Falstaff

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream’d of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell’d, so old and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2018, 12:28:56 PM »
Is this a satirical website?
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2018, 12:34:58 PM »
Quote from: The poster formerly known as.... on May 15, 2018, 09:20:46 AM
a mature person should laugh it off.
That expresses my thoughts exactly.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2018, 12:50:00 PM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on May 15, 2018, 12:28:56 PM
Is this a satirical website?
I think the article is a bit 'tongue' in cheek but it's an actual ongoing thing


http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/gammon-right-wing-outrage-wrong.html
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2018, 09:23:30 PM »
The word 'gammon' is being used in the context of the above link on 'Have I got news for you' which I have on in the background at the moment, quite witty. "You're all gammons because you have chips on your shoulders", etc. We'll be hearing more of that.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2018, 09:27:10 AM »
Quote from: Robbie on May 18, 2018, 09:23:30 PM
The word 'gammon' is being used in the context of the above link on 'Have I got news for you' which I have on in the background at the moment, quite witty. "You're all gammons because you have chips on your shoulders", etc. We'll be hearing more of that.
Dear dog, I hope not. It was a stupid insult to begin with and becomes more annoying as it spreads.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2018, 09:44:40 AM »
Edward Leigh, Tory MP and hard-Bwrecksiter: the ultimate gammon. Prime candidate for a heart attack, stroke or both, by the look of him.
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2018, 09:57:53 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 19, 2018, 09:27:10 AM
Dear dog, I hope not. It was a stupid insult to begin with and becomes more annoying as it spreads.

Agree very much with this. It’ll be like chav, a stupid fashion that people will grow out of using.

My daughter came up with an interesting way of describing an unbearably rude man yesterday after observing one with a huge sense of entitlement in Carphone Warehouse.

‘Mum, he was so obviously someone who plays golf.’
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Re: Is 'gammon' racist?
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2018, 10:12:40 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on May 19, 2018, 09:44:40 AM
Edward Leigh, Tory MP and hard-Bwrecksiter: the ultimate gammon. Prime candidate for a heart attack, stroke or both, by the look of him.
either that Steve or it's sheer Bwexit anger that is keeping him alive.
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