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Celerity

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4. a classic use from 5 years ago

Mon May 2, 2022, 03:38 AM

May 2022

Link to tweet

also:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gammon-left-wing-political-insult-twitter-racism-debate-right-charles-dickens-a8352281.html

Matt Zarb-Cousin, a former spokesman to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has also been credited with kickstarting the row after labelling a Jacob Rees-Mogg supporter “a gammon” following a brawl at the University of the West of England in Bristol in February.

He subsequently wrote an article exploring the significance of the phrase for Huck magazine in which he anatomised the gammon as a baby boomer typically found among the BBC Question Time audience with “high blood pressure and a red meat complexion” prone to wearing “boot-cut jeans, loafers and an open-collared white polyester shirt” and displaying a marked preference for warm ale.

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The internet has already been won for today. [View all] Soph0571 May 2022 OP

masterclass gammon trolling Celerity May 2022 #1

Had to look up "gammon"....... RussellCattle May 2022 #3

a classic use from 5 years ago Celerity May 2022 #4

Thank you so much. Truly classic. "Displaying a marked preference for warm ale" - Perfect, just so. RussellCattle May 2022 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity May 2022 #2

Would love to hear this guy's take on red don and his dumbass followers not fooled May 2022 #5

Me too! panchobarnz May 2022 #6

what a jerk! SleeplessinSoCal May 2022 #7

He probably got that from our former dillwad president, 3Hotdogs May 2022 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author 3Hotdogs May 2022 #10

It's written by @Hackneycyclist, who lives in the UK muriel_volestrangler May 2022 #11

thank you for explaining this to others, I was ready to pull my hair out at some of the replies here Celerity May 2022 #13

It's a British person who made this geardaddy May 2022 #14

Maybe he is trying to appeal to jerks? SleeplessinSoCal May 2022 #15

elections have consequences gibraltar72 May 2022 #8