tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post320111702033559608..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Gammon - Right Wing Outrage WRONGTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-81044113476474435112018-05-15T13:01:14.186+01:002018-05-15T13:01:14.186+01:00Surprised Farage hasn't come out in a pineappl...Surprised Farage hasn't come out in a pineapple suit.. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10517504017510902155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-17064569493387980332018-05-14T21:31:05.562+01:002018-05-14T21:31:05.562+01:00I'm a white, middle-class (whatever that means...I'm a white, middle-class (whatever that means), slightly overweight male with cash and property assets whose face goes all 'gammon' whenever I hear or read whatever bilge a Tory politico or their good mates in the Press spew. Be kind to 'gammons', Tim. We're not all the same.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-36873091109354964762018-05-14T20:21:02.756+01:002018-05-14T20:21:02.756+01:00This middle-class commenter has seen and eaten gam...This middle-class commenter has seen and eaten gammon at practically every pub and restaurant carvery and countless times for Sunday dinner.<br /><br />This pillock of a Times commenter really has shown herself to be woefully out of touch. So have the weirdos pretending that it is a 'working class meat.' Uhm, no.nparkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-66915337045224458602018-05-14T20:16:43.097+01:002018-05-14T20:16:43.097+01:00PM programme tonight was reporting this (in a jocu...PM programme tonight was reporting this (in a jocular framework) as if her accusations were established fact.Burlington Bertie from Bownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-73540111044484729832018-05-14T20:08:49.104+01:002018-05-14T20:08:49.104+01:00The mainstream media's defence of Gammon as bl...The mainstream media's defence of Gammon as blue collar voters is also a bit off.<br /><br />The classic Gammon is the typical golf club bore.<br />Wears a blazer when it's 25 in the shade, affects a military looking moustache, and gives you the benefit of his opinion whether you want it or not.<br /><br />Add a bit of finger jabbing to that angry visage and you have the face to accompany the talking book version of every day's "The Sun Says".<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-488214914261762892018-05-14T18:11:20.255+01:002018-05-14T18:11:20.255+01:00It's as it ever was.
I engage in the boister...It's as it ever was. <br /><br />I engage in the boisterous rough and tumble of political verbal jousting, and if you can't stand the heat etc. <br /><br />They hurl vile verbal abuse.Andy McDonaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-28473238144823167082018-05-14T17:46:23.971+01:002018-05-14T17:46:23.971+01:00Gammons? Favouring the meat eaters again you will ...Gammons? Favouring the meat eaters again you will have the veggies up in arms. They should be called Turnips or at the very least Swedes! or maybe 'meat and 2 veg?Pavihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933222751081516306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-71666779659315331572018-05-14T17:12:00.885+01:002018-05-14T17:12:00.885+01:00I've only ever seen centrist dad used as a sel...I've only ever seen centrist dad used as a self-description. <br /><br />(That Dickens quote is great, Anon)Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698850550636271224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-79467392248499872552018-05-14T16:37:43.242+01:002018-05-14T16:37:43.242+01:00Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 16
&#...Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 16<br /><br />'I am very sorry to be here, sir,' said Mr Pugstyles; 'but your<br />conduct, Mr Gregsbury, has rendered this deputation from your<br />constituents imperatively necessary.'<br /><br />'My conduct, Pugstyles,' said Mr Gregsbury, looking round upon the<br />deputation with gracious magnanimity--'my conduct has been, and ever<br />will be, regulated by a sincere regard for the true and real<br />interests of this great and happy country. Whether I look at home,<br />or abroad; whether I behold the peaceful industrious communities of<br />our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with<br />locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies with balloons of a<br />power and magnitude hitherto unknown in the history of aeronautics<br />in this or any other nation--I say, whether I look merely at home,<br />or, stretching my eyes farther, contemplate the boundless prospect<br />of conquest and possession--achieved by British perseverance and<br />British valour--which is outspread before me, I clasp my hands, and<br />turning my eyes to the broad expanse above my head, exclaim, "Thank<br />Heaven, I am a Briton!"'<br /><br />The time had been, when this burst of enthusiasm would have been<br />cheered to the very echo; but now, the deputation received it with<br />chilling coldness. The general impression seemed to be, that as an<br />explanation of Mr Gregsbury's political conduct, it did not enter<br />quite enough into detail; and one gentleman in the rear did not<br />scruple to remark aloud, that, for his purpose, it savoured rather<br />too much of a 'gammon' tendency.<br /><br />'The meaning of that term--gammon,' said Mr Gregsbury, 'is unknown<br />to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even<br />hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice<br />of the remark. I AM proud of this free and happy country. My form<br />dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my<br />bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.'<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-36126162577914694912018-05-14T16:36:56.584+01:002018-05-14T16:36:56.584+01:00The first time I saw the word “gammon” to describe...The first time I saw the word “gammon” to describe a plump, pompous, red faced, middle aged white man was when The Times tweeted this quote from one of their columns in 2012:<br /><br />'David Cameron's resemblance to a slightly camp gammon robot is extraordinary. He's a C-3PO made of ham' thetim.es/SCX37I #CaitlinWeek<br /><br />That’s the same Times which allowed its political correspondent to write a load of tosh this morning..Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12951378878776571504noreply@blogger.com