[Misc] What The Hell Is A Gammon?

[Pretty pink fairy]

A sub set of white men, usually, but Anne Widicombe is close to being a female Gammon, she just does not redden quite enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGTUm0Sh-30
regards
DF

 

[LlcoolJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9GRo-H_1Sc

 

[Machiavelli]

I can't believe you think it's ok to sneer at people just because you think they've become irrelevant.

And yes, the Boomers have 'done their bit'. The social changes we've experienced since the 1960s wouldn't have happened without the protests and the action, any more than women wouldn't have the vote if it hadn't been for the Suffragettes. And workers wouldn't have any rights if it hadn't been for Trade Unions. The ruling elites never willingly surrender power, you have to prise it off them and each generation has to build on the one before.

I hope that's still the case, but if all we're going to do is insult each other I fear we're going backwards.

I agree with most of what you've said in this post, but:
1, in the last few decades there has been a plethora of anti-TU legislation and, unsurprisingly, lowered worker income as a share of the national economy
2, the gammons are at the vanguard of equality for women, etc
3, the Boomers have pretty much ignored climate change, biodiversity loss, anthropocene, etc -- although you could level the same accusation at my generation (X).

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Victory, thanks to the alliance of Britain, Belgians, Dutch and Prussians.

still dreaming about that EU ARMY dave
regards
DF

 

[daveinplzen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGTUm0Sh-30
regards
DF

'What people – even, seemingly, the government – did not realise is that, since 2006, the Free Movement Directive (to give it its formal title, EU Directive 2004/38/EC) has given us exactly the control over immigration that voters demanded.'

 

[daveinplzen]

still dreaming about that EU ARMY dave
regards
DF

No, as it has never been a thing, except in the minds of mugs.

 

[Megazone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGTUm0Sh-30
regards
DF

another lunatic who's gone unscreened. Very sad.

 

[The Clamp]

A video worth watching. Lovely stuff. As ever from the peerless JO’B.
(Don’t be scared Das Reich, those are his initials, nobody is trying to make you contribute something worthwhile to society)...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acxCFA8KQco

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

No, as it has never been a thing, except in the minds of mugs.

I REST MY CASE
regards
DF

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

'What people – even, seemingly, the government – did not realise is that, since 2006, the Free Movement Directive (to give it its formal title, EU Directive 2004/38/EC) has given us exactly the control over immigration that voters demanded.'

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:158:0077:0123:en:PDF
have a read dave
regards
DF

 

[daveinplzen]

I REST MY CASE
regards
DF

Admission to being a mug may help you. Its a good start. Well done you!

 

[Timbo]

A lot of people today have a desperate need to try and be as insulting as possible, constantly trying to invent new ways to belittle others who they don’t like/agree with. Gammon I guess falls into that category.

 

[daveinplzen]

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:158:0077:0123:en:PDF
have a read dave
regards
DF

“Where admission is permitted, an EU citizen may remain in the UK for up to three months from the date of entry, provided they do not become a burden on the social assistance system of the UK.
If an EU citizen does not meet one of the requirements for residence set out in the Directive [employed, self-employed, self-sufficient, student] then they will not have a right to reside in the UK and may be removed.”

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I agree with most of what you've said in this post, but:
1, in the last few decades there has been a plethora of anti-TU legislation and, unsurprisingly, lowered worker income as a share of the national economy
2, the gammons are at the vanguard of equality for women, etc
3, the Boomers have pretty much ignored climate change, biodiversity loss, anthropocene, etc -- although you could level the same accusation at my generation (X).

The trade unions brought the anti -TU legislation upon themselves by their behaviour in the 70s and were rightly brought to order. They were making lives a misery.

 

[Wilko]

Marvellous scenes

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I take great joy in those that retweeted this without understanding the joke.

 

[The Clamp]

More gammony goodness

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6W60KjydI4k

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

“Where admission is permitted, an EU citizen may remain in the UK for up to three months from the date of entry, provided they do not become a burden on the social assistance system of the UK.
If an EU citizen does not meet one of the requirements for residence set out in the Directive [employed, self-employed, self-sufficient, student] then they will not have a right to reside in the UK and may be removed.”

sounds great but in reality stinks , that's why the UK have left the EU
regards
DF

 

[Wilko]

but they are not judged on their gender or race, or even their politics, for example Mark Francois holds largely the same political views as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Mogg is not Gammon though, and it is not because he is upper class, it is because he states his nasty views calmly.

Have any POC be deemed a gammon then? Out of interest?

 

[daveinplzen]

sounds great but in reality stinks , that's why the UK have left the EU
regards
DF

It stinks? What? The British government for not employing the tools other EU countries implemented?
Youre starting to give the term 'mug' new meaning.

 

[nicko31]

Never liked the term, when comes down to it. Its no way to describe gaslighting victims...