"Why am i seeing people described as Gammons on social media these days? What does it mean?"
I believe it is used to describe people getting red faced with rage over current political issues. Normally used by trendy left wingers to describe right wingers. |
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"Why am i seeing people described as Gammons on social media these days? What does it mean?
I believe it is used to describe people getting red faced with rage over current political issues. Normally used by trendy left wingers to describe right wingers."
like a counter to snowflake? |
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"It's a word used by hipsters and other ridiculous self-obsessed characters to insult their older and betters.
(Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool!  )"
Betters?  |
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"It's a word used by hipsters and other ridiculous self-obsessed characters to insult their older and betters.
(Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool! )"
FOUND ONE! |
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"Why am i seeing people described as Gammons on social media these days? What does it mean?"
It’s what the left call anyone who voted Brexit, so it’s anyone who has a difference of opinion to them. I know, the hypocrisy of it all! |
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"Why am i seeing people described as Gammons on social media these days? What does it mean?
It’s what the left call anyone who voted Brexit, so it’s anyone who has a difference of opinion to them. I know, the hypocrisy of it all! "
How dare people have an opinion that differs with these people  |
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"Can I have mine with chips? And a pineapple ring on top? And a fried Egg ??
If that's the way you like it, but the simple pineapple is my limit Up my way its law to have a fried Egg with Gammon  "
Heathens!! hehe |
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"Can I have mine with chips? And a pineapple ring on top? And a fried Egg ??
If that's the way you like it, but the simple pineapple is my limit Up my way its law to have a fried Egg with Gammon
Heathens!! hehe"
Haha . I'm a butcher so I'm old school . Fruit with any meat is sacrilege |
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"Why can't people speak properly and use language we all understand 
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But a strong language never rests, new (or re-assigned) words and phrases become common, old ones die out.
It's one of the reasons English is used so widely. |
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gammon
/'gam?n/
noun - British
Someone prepared to take a massive cut in personal and national wealth in the eroneous belief that all the brown people will move "back home"; that Brittania will once again "rule the waves"; that England will win the World Cup every 4 years; and that we'll all waltz around manufacturing things like we're in some sort of 1950s Pathé film. |
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"It's a word used by hipsters and other ridiculous self-obsessed characters to insult their older and betters.
(Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool! )"
Darn, I'm a middle aged woman and I use it to describe whiny men who don't like meetoo or feminism.
Does one have to become a hipster to use it? If so I'll just go back to my old word again  |
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"It's a word used by hipsters and other ridiculous self-obsessed characters to insult their older and betters.
(Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool! )
Betters? "
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"It's a word used by hipsters and other ridiculous self-obsessed characters to insult their older and betters.
(Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool! )
FOUND ONE!"
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?"
Why would you assume that? Do you assume black, mixed race, Asian, Arabic, middle eastern, Native American, South American, latino, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Inuit, Filipino, Indonesian, Kazakhstani, Mongolian, Aboriginal, Maori, Samoan, or any other number of non-white people don't go red in the face when they're angry?
Fascinating. |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
Why would you assume that? Do you assume black, mixed race, Asian, Arabic, middle eastern, Native American, South American, latino, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Inuit, Filipino, Indonesian, Kazakhstani, Mongolian, Aboriginal, Maori, Samoan, or any other number of non-white people don't go red in the face when they're angry?
Fascinating. "
He said Mongolian  him |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
Why would you assume that? Do you assume black, mixed race, Asian, Arabic, middle eastern, Native American, South American, latino, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Inuit, Filipino, Indonesian, Kazakhstani, Mongolian, Aboriginal, Maori, Samoan, or any other number of non-white people don't go red in the face when they're angry?
Fascinating. "
Well i haven't seen it used to describe anyone non white yet. |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
Why would you assume that? Do you assume black, mixed race, Asian, Arabic, middle eastern, Native American, South American, latino, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Inuit, Filipino, Indonesian, Kazakhstani, Mongolian, Aboriginal, Maori, Samoan, or any other number of non-white people don't go red in the face when they're angry?
Fascinating.
He said Mongolian him "
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I think perhaps mongoloid would have been more appropriate |
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"Follow this simple flow chart to see if you’re ‘Gammon’.
Are you ‘Woke’?
If yes, you are not a gammon.
If no, you are a gammon.
Simple. "
Another buzzword to hide behind, so you don’t have to debate with someone who holds a different opinion. |
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"Another buzzword to hide behind, so you don’t have to debate with someone who holds a different opinion. "
I've tried to debate with literally hundreds of Brexiters... Not a single one of them has wanted to offer up a tangible benefit for leaving. They sometimes come out with vague soundbites like "taking back control", "sovereignty" or "unelected beaurocrats in Brussels" but as soon as you push them for details of what they actually mean, or what they actually want to change, or what actual benefit there will be, they refuse to debate.
So, when faced with someone like that, I'm afraid there's not much else to do other than call them a gammon! |
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"Another buzzword to hide behind, so you don’t have to debate with someone who holds a different opinion.
I've tried to debate with literally hundreds of Brexiters... Not a single one of them has wanted to offer up a tangible benefit for leaving. They sometimes come out with vague soundbites like "taking back control", "sovereignty" or "unelected beaurocrats in Brussels" but as soon as you push them for details of what they actually mean, or what they actually want to change, or what actual benefit there will be, they refuse to debate.
So, when faced with someone like that, I'm afraid there's not much else to do other than call them a gammon!"
I can see how that would help the debate. It does you credit. |
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"Another buzzword to hide behind, so you don’t have to debate with someone who holds a different opinion.
I've tried to debate with literally hundreds of Brexiters... Not a single one of them has wanted to offer up a tangible benefit for leaving. They sometimes come out with vague soundbites like "taking back control", "sovereignty" or "unelected beaurocrats in Brussels" but as soon as you push them for details of what they actually mean, or what they actually want to change, or what actual benefit there will be, they refuse to debate.
So, when faced with someone like that, I'm afraid there's not much else to do other than call them a gammon!"
Is there a name for people like me who no longer give a crap either way ?? Lamb Chop?? Venison Haunch ?? . Stupid fuckin names we call people  |
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So what do these identitarians call people of colour that voted for brexit and have a right leaning political stance?... i'm sure there are tens of thousands who fit that description... |
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"So what do these identitarians call people of colour that voted for brexit and have a right leaning political stance?... i'm sure there are tens of thousands who fit that description..."
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Now I've actually heard this in real life and believe it or not it's the black slave who served indoors nickname.
They don't stop the name calling just coz yous black y'all. |
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"What is the name for people who use words like gammon and snowflake?"
I am fond of calling them numpties, but then I mostly use that term about myself when I do something stupid. |
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"So what do these identitarians call people of colour that voted for brexit and have a right leaning political stance?... i'm sure there are tens of thousands who fit that description..."
What? People of colour vote! Don't tell the gammons...
Never typed that word before autocarrot correction is amusing... |
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"It's a word used by hipsters and other ridiculous self-obsessed characters to insult their older and betters.
(Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool! )"
Betters? |
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Yes everyone can vote these days and apparently because all the 'old' people who voted for brexit are all dead now there are plans afoot to open the second referendum to pre-natal foetuses to cast a vote for their future! Just to double-down and make sure UK stays in the EU.... |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
I bet white people are the ones calling other white people gammon. stop with the race bait."
This is the issue.Its difficult claiming it's racism if its white people defining other white peoples as slightly pinker and red faced.
Standard modus operandi from the easily offended though. |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
I bet white people are the ones calling other white people gammon. stop with the race bait.
This is the issue.Its difficult claiming it's racism if its white people defining other white peoples as slightly pinker and red faced.
Standard modus operandi from the easily offended though."
Ah, so it's the white man's "N" word. I get it. it's ok if i use it. |
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"Why am i seeing people described as Gammons on social media these days? What does it mean?
I believe it is used to describe people getting red faced with rage over current political issues. Normally used by trendy left wingers to describe right wingers.
like a counter to snowflake? "
The irony being the right get more snowflakey than any one |
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"What is the name for people who use words like gammon and snowflake?"
Both are the same type of people on either side of the political spectrum, lazy, blinkered in their beliefs and unable of self reflection. |
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"What is the name for people who use words like gammon and snowflake?
Both are the same type of people on either side of the political spectrum, lazy, blinkered in their beliefs and unable of self reflection. "
Can we give them an appropriate name? Sloths? |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
I bet white people are the ones calling other white people gammon. stop with the race bait.
This is the issue.Its difficult claiming it's racism if its white people defining other white peoples as slightly pinker and red faced.
Standard modus operandi from the easily offended though.
Ah, so it's the white man's "N" word. I get it. it's ok if i use it."
You must be bored clem with such a ridiculous statement comparing the two words without context and history.
But feel free to claim the word "Gammon" back if you want to own it.I doubt anyone will be offended.
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
I bet white people are the ones calling other white people gammon. stop with the race bait.
This is the issue.Its difficult claiming it's racism if its white people defining other white peoples as slightly pinker and red faced.
Standard modus operandi from the easily offended though.
Ah, so it's the white man's "N" word. I get it. it's ok if i use it.
You must be bored clem with such a ridiculous statement comparing the two words without context and history.
But feel free to claim the word "Gammon" back if you want to own it.I doubt anyone will be offended.
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So is it ok for non whites to label white people Gammons then? Is it ok if it's assumed that they voted "leave"? Does that justify commentary on their skin colour? |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
I bet white people are the ones calling other white people gammon. stop with the race bait.
This is the issue.Its difficult claiming it's racism if its white people defining other white peoples as slightly pinker and red faced. It's
Standard modus operandi from the easily offended though.
Ah, so it's the white man's "N" word. I get it. it's ok if i use it.
You must be bored clem with such a ridiculous statement comparing the two words without context and history.
But feel free to claim the word "Gammon" back if you want to own it.I doubt anyone will be offended.
So is it ok for non whites to label white people Gammons then? Is it ok if it's assumed that they voted "leave"? Does that justify commentary on their skin colour?"
The term as far as I know was created by a white person to describe a red faced angry white person .Non whites never created the word or can be accused of being complicit in its creation .Which you have to agree it's a very different origin to the N word and it's context and history .
Your beef should be with the lefty white journalists who created the word and use it today . |
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"So it's essentially reserved for describing white people i assume?
I bet white people are the ones calling other white people gammon. stop with the race bait.
This is the issue.Its difficult claiming it's racism if its white people defining other white peoples as slightly pinker and red faced. It's
Standard modus operandi from the easily offended though.
Ah, so it's the white man's "N" word. I get it. it's ok if i use it.
You must be bored clem with such a ridiculous statement comparing the two words without context and history.
But feel free to claim the word "Gammon" back if you want to own it.I doubt anyone will be offended.
So is it ok for non whites to label white people Gammons then? Is it ok if it's assumed that they voted "leave"? Does that justify commentary on their skin colour?
The term as far as I know was created by a white person to describe a red faced angry white person .Non whites never created the word or can be accused of being complicit in its creation .Which you have to agree it's a very different origin to the N word and it's context and history .
Your beef should be with the lefty white journalists who created the word and use it today . "
As long as we're all on a level playing field im not too concerned. |
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"So what do these identitarians call people of colour that voted for brexit and have a right leaning political stance?... i'm sure there are tens of thousands who fit that description..."
We call them Tories usually. |
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"gammon
/'gam?n/
noun - British
Someone prepared to take a massive cut in personal and national wealth in the eroneous belief that all the brown people will move "back home"; that Brittania will once again "rule the waves"; that England will win the World Cup every 4 years; and that we'll all waltz around manufacturing things like we're in some sort of 1950s Pathé film."
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