Conservative vote winner?

[motorbiking]

Yes

because his skin is pink like gammon? get real.

 

[ajohn]

How strange that making fun of someone's skin colour is considered offensive.

Ok what does the term gammon mean when used to describe someone?

 

[motorbiking]

The Swedes believe they face a threat from Russia, this could explain it.
Britain is different, in that Russia has never aspired to invade Britain militarily.
Conflicts with Russia in the past have geopolitical and imperial in nature.

It has threatened to destroy the UK with nuclear missiles and regularly discussing this on state TV.

 

[noseall]

"Frothing at the mouth". It's a turn of phrase. Metaphorical, not literal!

M-itch won't get it.

 

[JonathanM]

because his skin is pink like gammon? get real.

It's nothing to do with skin colour for me. It's about attitude, anger, worldview. That's exactly what I've been saying all along. Right wingers seem to have a much greater tendency to get themselves steamed up.

 

[noseall]

and Indians don't bob their head all the time, so we can laugh at them when they do?

Gammon is a racial insult based on skin colour. Would you call a black man who was angry a gammon?

Gammon is an angry right winger. Fair game to any rational human being.

 

[ajohn]

Small gov got a mention at one point - fewer civil servants. This shows ongoing who ever is in. May bump up for a variety of reasons. Actually more recently it looks like it has

 

[mitch66]

 

"Frothing at the mouth". It's a turn of phrase. Metaphorical, not literal!

Can't see why anyone would get uptight about being called Gammon on here. Those sort of keyboard insults don't carry any weight.

 

[motorbiking]

Gammon is an angry right winger. Fair game to any rational human being.

why gammon though - is it because their skin colour is the same as a gammon? We know it is.

 

[noseall]

 

Those sort of keyboard insults don't carry any weight.

You'd be surprised. There's some very sensitive, easily offended snowflake RWR's on this forum. Pages and pages of snowflakery.

 

[noseall]

why gammon though - is it because their skin colour is the same as a gammon? We know it is.

Gammon pink with anger. Not gammon and pineapple or gammon with egg, no. The bloke is still white at the end of it.

Why 'Karen'?

 

[motorbiking]

Who's Karen, the wife?

 

[ajohn]

It's nothing to do with skin colour for me. It's about attitude, anger, worldview.

Well at least you have it exactly correct. The skin colour is imagined or might be real if high blood pressure.
LOL Eg
In 2010, Caitlin Moran wrote that British Prime Minister David Cameron resembled "a slightly camp gammon robot" and "a C3PO made of ham" in her 13 March column in The Times,[6] later collected in her 2012 anthology Moranthology.

Imagine an angry person to the extent they have a red face.

 

[noseall]

Who's Karen, the wife?

Look it up.

 

[JonathanM]

why gammon though - is it because their skin colour is the same as a gammon? We know it is.

Do you mean people who are always pink? Or those that turn pink when angry?

Whatever the original meaning, these days, to me, it just means any right winger who gets really furious and lathered up. Whatever their skin colour. That's just my take on it.