Is 'gammon' racist?

[Nearly Sane]

Or just idiocy?


http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/defence-calling-people-gammo

[Owlswing]

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?

[Robbie]

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.

[floo]

I have never heard the word 'gammon' used as a term of abuse.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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.

[Rhiannon]

Or just idiocy?


http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/defence-calling-people-gammo

Boring, unimaginative idiocy at that.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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.

[Aruntraveller]

Is this a satirical website?

[jeremyp]

a mature person should laugh it off.

That expresses my thoughts exactly.

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Robbie]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

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.

[SteveH]

Edward Leigh, Tory MP and hard-Bwrecksiter: the ultimate gammon. Prime candidate for a heart attack, stroke or both, by the look of him.

[Rhiannon]

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.’

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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.