It's a shame that all the right wingers on here are capable of is taking issue with the word gammon rather than engaging in the "meat" of the issue.

I've lived on 4 continents (yes, indeed beyond your beloved EU fortress), and I have come across plenty of people that like and indeed indulge in this kind of humour. Mexico: "working like a China" with the associated noises not entirely unlike those in the video. Australia - love a ribbing of the "Asians" (I remember the stand-up in Melbourne when I lived there). The Swiss - love taking the piss out of the German accent. Argentina - good friend of mine loves the way South Park makes fun of the Mexican accent.

Meanwhile, where they have had prior exposure to British comedy, they almost universally enjoyed (in some cases revere) the often self-deprecating, frequently parroted work of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses etc.

But, for all those citizens in all those "nationalities involved", I'd like to thank you for taking offense on their behalf. I don't doubt they are eternally grateful.

You are not the all-knowing widely-traveled oracle you think you are. The constant attempts to paint the UK and British as racist backwater bigots is a tedious trope that merely highlights your ethnomasochism. I'm sure those of us with an "inferiority complex" see right through it when they consider the provenance of the accusation.

So you don't believe in free speech then. Make up your mind, you're all over the place!

I'm not het up about gammom whatsoever, but was simply pointing out your hypocrisy.

Edited by Penge Eagle (08 Aug 2018 5.32pm)

Us brits have a unique humour it's what makes us , us.
I find you insulting.
Enjoy.

Yep there are idiots in every country but when it comes to insulting other nationalities based on their mother tongue, the UK is the big, big winner. Really, you just don't see it because you're immersed in it.

Edited by europalace (08 Aug 2018 5.39pm)

It's pretty clear to see the left wingers agenda on this.

Generally you hear pro feminist, anti organised religion claims. However, on this occasion they have the chance to bash a rich tory brexiter, so they have forgotten a lot of their own core values.

I'm with Boris on this one

Let's face it, you can't imagine can't imagine a god creating a universe and all of its immense complexity, then on a small, mostly harmless planet millions of years later humans evolve and after a few thousands of years they invent both religion and textiles.

Then someone decided that God decreed that all women have to wear full face veils to comply with a set of values only determined by one species on that obscure planet.

Some women may say they like wearing them. I liked dressing up as a ghost as a kid. But I would suspect that most women don't have a say and their voice on the matter is repressed.

They've only become widely worn in this county in the last decade or so, and as Boris rightly points out, they are "cult"ural rather than a religious origin as there is no scripture that says women are required to wear them.

Boris doesn't say they should be banned outright. Just that people in certain circumstances should be able to state their objection to them.

On a final note, I mostly agree with him because they look f***ing rediculous.