"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

and you can have middle-class bubbas

i guess the diff is that no one proudly self-IDs as "gammon"

gammon are sort of landed redneck gentry and can be found in pubs and masonic lodges.

Gammons initially were better off and probably owned a set of golf clubs, but the definition has widened to include any reactionary man with a regional accent and an apparent greed for pies.

*gulp*

How similar is it to 'white trash'?

LOOOOL while I’ve got you Calz, I can’t wait to tell my friend from Ossett that he’s posh...

Not at all, you can be a well off and middle class gammon.

So a Republican?

regional accents?

the way forward is definitely revelling in the mockery of those who disagree with us tho, for sure.

They live in places called like Carlton Husthwaite and it is confusing who is the man who is the village

their accents must be eradicated and made non-regional, like the accents of those from my region

Don't think regional accents have much to do with it tbh, just that as question time tours the UK we hear a variety of different accents coming from a remarkably uniform set of ruddy-faced old bigots

I shed a tear of mirth when I first stumbled upon Horton-cum-Studley.

there are probably bigots in every region, of different stripes

xxxp

not always a bad thing suzy. i love wandering through the countryside to horbury (just darn road from ossett) for a few swills in the brewers pride, because it is so damn civilised compared to local options.

the wall of gammon was furious patriots demanding nuclear annihilation, it's a certain sort of middle-aged entitled white british nationalism that cannot handle any challenge to its authority

Nah, the way forward is clearly suddenly jumping onto a long-running politics thread as an apparent hostile newbie and accusing people of making value judgements when they’re just trying to explain a popular demographic term to a trusted, nice US poster.

Don't think regional accents have much to do with it tbh

There is an element of the portly wealthy victorian industrialist at heart though

possibility of first name Titus

XP ogmor is OTM.

Whatever happens, hopefully politicians will start listening to young ppl after this. This Great Wall of gammon has had its way long enough. pic.twitter.com/N0ZWI3wMuM

— Ben Davis (@bendavis_86) June 8, 2017

Only 1 and 9 are true examples (possibly 3 and 7)

1 is the godfather and actually built the village of Kirk Deighton, naming it after himself

sorry didn't realise i need 10,000 posts to be allowed to raise the fact that the term "regional accents" is seldom used except to dismiss people from certain parts of britain.

london is a region too. maybe we should be more precise about the nature of those we oppose lest we alienate others in the process.

there have been more fractious disagreements itt and there will be again.

So this isn't how it was intended here, glad that's been settled and now we can all move on.

i disagree.

but am happy to move on.

Oh stop being a ninny, hardly anyone on this thread is from London and I imagine all of them have regional accents of one kind or another.

everyone not from london does. yorkshiremen. scots. irish etc.

So what?

(If you'd take off the sock for a minute, it would be easier to take you seriously)

LDs have confirmed they won’t support labour in future VONCs

fh clearly not a sock ffs

LDs gonna LD.

Meanwhile:

Theresa May’s spokesman says May is not willing to drop her red lines on the customs union, or seemingly anything else that may win over opposition parties. Talks being set up to fail.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) January 17, 2019

the ladys not for remaining

(If you'd take off the sock for a minute, it would be easier to take you seriously)

are there rules for posting opinions here? it seems strange that a poster's name would be such an influence on the interpretation of what's posted.

Getting called a sock when posting a mildly contrarian opinion in a rolling thread with a recognizable cast of characters that doesn't include you is ILX tradition.

it's a quirk of our region

I guess it might also help if you don’t keep popping up telling g people to take a Xanax or eat cyanide (lols!)

They're clearly familiar with ILX, and I'm pretty certain the manager of the Spanish football team was not previously posting here...?

Alright Corbyn time to out yourself

back in my day not being able to fathom the identity of a sock was a shameful admission that made it hard for ppl to take you seriously

Michael Gove sneaks out the back of ILE, chuckling to himself until he trips on De Subjectivisten and falls right through The Cheese Board

I guess it might also help if you don’t keep popping up telling g people to take a Xanax or eat cyanide (lols!)

i believe in one such incident i just posted a fairly detailed response to an article about civil justice reform itt, which didn't even disagree with another poster, and was randomly attacked for doing so based on the fact i don't post very often and have an id related to a football manager.

can we please, in general, engage with posters' views rather than their ids? it doesn't seem too much to ask on a messageboard.

this derail has gone on long enough, in no way should i have to start talking about myself or my identity to post on ilx, and shame on anyone who attempts to insist otherwise - no wonder there are almost no new posters.

end derail.

ogmor makes a perfectly fair point - I come over here, but I've not really made the effort to integrate, have I?

xp that's nice, but could you also piss off?

OK.

for what reason andrew? i haven't actually attacked you in any way. how is "piss off" a beacon of the civility and sincerity you seem to demand?

What is Theresa Mays plan to come back after the biggest defeat in British history if she isn't willing to compromise? It's like the definition of insanity.

internecine irish squabbling taking over uk politics as usual *vaudevillian eyeroll*