Or a poll about swimwear and your only like is from Jimmy Savile.
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[Politics] OUT OF 10 how woke is NSC
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Or a poll about swimwear and your only like is from Jimmy Savile.
wuntbedruv
Imagine
On a similar theme, I was amazed to read the term "Gammon" to describe someone red faced with unjustified and indignant anger in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.
Foolishly I assumed it was a modern term
Foolishly I assumed it was a modern term
Out of TEN how well thought through was this thread?
1- Very well indeed. Sydney has scored another goal.
2- I've seen better
3- Has he had a bump on the head?
4 - Wibble
R. Slicker
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Not a word I use. May as well ask how speng or superfly we are
This. Don’t even know what it means really. Every time I hear it, it’s some kind of absolute ******* using it.
Previously known as 'pulling no punches', which itself replaced 'saying it how it is' by 'the voice of reason'
I presume these goons read 1984 and thought 'I'm having some of that (newspeak)'.
Pretty pink fairy
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7 at best
hart's shirt
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If you have an agenda it often helps to have a plan
There seems to be some unhappiness and unease.
It's probably a case of agenda dysphoria.
Keep them coming Harry.
Or a poll about strikers and your only like is from b.w.2.
I thought 14
Or, if you want to be woke about it, agenda non-binary.
Fair point, well made
Pretty pink fairy
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Well Sydney you've stirred up the Hornets nest with this one they're falling over themselves now
Regards
DF
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Hate to be a pedant but Mr Dickens used the term specifically to describe someone who had no understanding of the political situation, but tried to use faux patriotism to try to cover his ignorance
The time had been, when this burst of enthusiasm would have been cheered to the very echo; but now, the deputation received it with chilling coldness. The general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr. Gregsbury’s political conduct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gentleman in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that, for his purpose, it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency.
The meaning of that term—gammon,' said Mr. Gregsbury, 'is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark. I am proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.
I really can't imagine why the term has made such a comeback in recent years
Well Sydney you've stirred up the Hornets nest with this one they're falling over themselves now
Regards
DF
Are you enjoying your little trip out of the Bear Pit? Make sure they have you back for tea-time. It's hoops tonight and you know how heightened you get when you miss supper, it throws you.
Pretty pink fairy
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I'm not sure I've ever "tampled" over anyone in my life. I'll be sure to wipe it up.
Bold Seagull
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Hilarious. What a joke figure. Utter shambles.