the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

I occasionally worked with someone who was in his late 30's but destined to be classic Gammon. He had a Range Rover, did dry stone walling, all types of groundworks and owned 2 Aberdeen Angus cows. He used to earn extra "going out killing things at night" and keep a photographic record of everything he shot on his phone, because he earned a bit from the National Trust for this. He was tea-total but had a very ruddy complexion from the amount of red meat he ate. He showed me his Xmas FB pic once of him posing with a severed deer's head with a "one of santa's reindeers is missing" caption. He was very funny tbh, but loved the Tories and racism.

I like gammon.

contemplated spending the evening mocking up a gammoned version of the poster for Jamón Jamón but what's the point, we're all gonna die

pls to see the collected twitter ouevre of barry stanton

how likely do you think it is he'll end up being arrested for committing a string of murders across yr local area xp to cal

quick google reveals that my "whatever happened to Bigas Luna?" thought has a grim answer

I like gammon

Had some on Tuesday tbh.

contemplated spending the evening mocking up a gammoned version of the poster for Jamón Jamón but what's the point, we're all gonna die

now imagining javier bardem getting all gammoned up for a role as a straight-talking yorkshireman with a curious accent

he has the hair

oh god he could play Boris couldn't he

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBWcJ97VoAEVA4L.jpg

oddly not tbh BG, he was very conventional and calm really. He just loved hunting and dry-stone stone walling!

Nick Knowles biopic, BBC4.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY1NTc4NTYzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDIwOTY1NA@@._V1_UX214_CR0,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

yeah like there's none of them look like they'd be any fun, maybe top left but I'm stretching

we all have our peccadilloes i suppose xxp

oh god he could play Boris couldn't he

boris fuckin wishes

Oh I guess the pic was discussed already, didn't scroll up far enough

a nice home made Yorkshire peccadilloe is great on a gammon sandwich

I've just found an awesome website of UK after dinner comedians to make a poll with but it's too late on a Friday afternoon, will have to save it

booooo

maybe we shd have a gammon poll but widen it out from the original nine

it'd be like choosing your favourite internal organ, i dunno if i could part with any of them let alone pick just one

remember remember the WALL OF GAMMON

http://s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/46786/1516031093/WallofGammon.jpg

the wallogina we deserve

walloangina MORELIKE

^^^am deaded tbh, LOL

that were good, that

A+

:D

thread delivers

I occasionally worked with someone who was in his late 30's but destined to be classic Gammon. He had a Range Rover, did dry stone walling, all types of groundworks and owned 2 Aberdeen Angus cows. He used to earn extra "going out killing things at night" and keep a photographic record of everything he shot on his phone, because he earned a bit from the National Trust for this. He was tea-total but had a very ruddy complexion from the amount of red meat he ate. He showed me his Xmas FB pic once of him posing with a severed deer's head with a "one of santa's reindeers is missing" caption. He was very funny tbh, but loved the Tories and racism.

― calzino, Friday, February 2, 2018 10:13 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post makes me extremely homesick

God, it was from Grantham last night, it was as bad as Yorkshire. There seem to be a hella lot of shouty Tory wankers around these days.

There are 11 constituencies in Lincolnshire and 8 of those are Tory. wiki notes that “The rural part of the seat and the historical town of Stamford outweigh any Labour votes in Grantham and it is normally a safely Conservative seat.”

Before the boundaries were redrawn, they had never elected a single Labour MP. Looking at the electoral history, the seat got more BNP votes than UKIP in 2010, ugh.

He used to earn extra "going out killing things at night" and keep a photographic record of everything he shot on his phone, because he earned a bit from the National Trust for this

???

I think he shot lots of foxes mainly, and said the NT paid him on a price work basis. He might have been making that bit up tho, and just loved shooting beasts. I didn't think of questioning his integrity, when you are out on the Marsden Moors and he's got a stonemason's hammer in his hand, you keep it polite!

Some men just enjoy hunting and killing things, I knew a guy whose Dad was like that - this was in Paisley mind you, not Idaho.

Well, this fellow used to hunt deers in Scotland for his holidays, that was like his equivalent of Ibiza or Newquay.

was the equivalent of Nookie

several harrowell blogposts leading to a danger (with luck) averted:

https://t.co/IWdTxCqmL7 > might be time to declare victory on this after @SadiqKhan's announcement the other day. Back in 2013 I blogged about the frankly dodgy team behind estate regeneration

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

https://t.co/L6Mubyn2oV > in January 2014 I fleshed out how it was going to work and why tenants should be terrified

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

https://t.co/1hQKB8hWRS > their spokesman, an ex-Conservative Central Office staffer, said I was an "obsessive" for saying they were a bunch of Tories

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

https://t.co/pP8iUTQFtZ > in the 2015 election campaign, I was after them again

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

Now there are decent safeguards in place against this scheme I can stop caring what Nicholas Boys-Smith thinks about anything.

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

Claire Kober will be on Marr tomorrow, explaining why she isn't a Tory and the tragic lack of "sensible politics" that brought her down.

it's sort of amazing how she genuinely doesn't appear to get it

I think she will say that the hard left is full of sexists and misogynists and this sends a worrying message to women thinking of going into politics.

I think she will be right that there are loads of "leftist" misogynists but I can't help but wonder if she's maybe diverting attention

i don't actually feel she's going to be in it for the long haul (ie i think the outlets currently embracing her to make a point will cast her aside really quite quickly)

She’s been in the Times today on those same points. Strange how all of the people rushing to amplify her opinion don’t seen keen to hear from Aditya Chakrabortty, David Lammy or any of the would-be affected tenants though. Just something about it...

50/50 on Kober being cast aside or being given her own LBC show.

We saw her Decca Aitkenhead interview today, right? DA is far from my favourite journalist but she made shot shrift of the idea that Kober had been the victim of sexist bullying.

While a controversial ex-council leader can expect to be the subject of coverage and interviews, this is extremely orchestrated and it would be very interesting to see who’s helping out with publicity and access here.

Might be a clue:

The corporate lobbyists are terrified of a Labour Party that can’t be bought pic.twitter.com/PIMI9lwDx4

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) February 3, 2018

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/43avj3/the-london-lobbyist-with-ties-to-billions-of-pounds-of-gentrification

quelle surprise

terrapins are usually good.

I will die of shock if Marr asks her about Terrapin.