I see that LITTLE (brain) & LARGE (racist) are making their usual multiple posts, and can only assume they're up to their usual pathetically low standards?
It's wonderful to not see what drivel it is, anymore.
Turned chilly today, watch out for snowflakes
I'm fine thanks, I don't need 'protection' from any nasty name calling on an internet forum
I'm just a little surprised that two big butch, rough and tumble ex-matelots, who are very proud of the fact that they were bought up before the days of political correctness when men were men, spend so much time whining about being unfairly treated on a football message board.
It's just a little bit .... well, woke, don't you think
That'll be it. I'm so shouty and red faced on here it's a wonder I haven't been banned in 20 years, isn't it
And I hope you're not thinking of the word gammon because as we all know (expect it seems, your friend [MENTION=35289]Baker lite[/MENTION]), it's a term to describe someone who has no understanding of a political situation, using faux patriotism to try to cover that fact. It's most certainly not a description of 'shouty red faced middle aged men'. I can't imagine why the term has come back into fashion
Charles Dickens 1838 in Nicholas Nickleby.
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.
That'll be it. I'm so shouty and red faced on here it's a wonder I haven't been banned in 20 years, isn't it
And I hope you're not thinking of the word gammon because as we all know (expect it seems, your friend [MENTION=35289]Baker lite[/MENTION]), it's a term to describe someone who has no understanding of a political situation, using faux patriotism to try to cover that fact. It's most certainly not a description of 'shouty red faced middle aged men'. I can't imagine why the term has come back into fashion
Charles Dickens 1838 in Nicholas Nickleby.
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.
