Gammon TV launch tomorrow

[NilSatisOptimum]

Happened to come across Talk RadioTV this morning, for younger gammon type, so pork loin TV.

 

[magicjuan]

And bread rolls in a basket?

Yes and white or brown, none of these knots, seeds or pumpkinny-wumpkinny things

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[verreauxi]

 

[aazak]

Multiple brands have pulled advertising from GB News, the upstart UK news channel promising to take on so-called cancel culture.

Ikea, cider firm Kopparberg and Octopus Energy have withdrawn their adverts on the network following its launch on Sunday.

GB News, positioned as a rival to the news and current affairs offerings of the likes of BBC and Sky, is fronted by veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil.

He said the channel would not be "another echo chamber for the metropolitan mindset that already dominates so much of the media".

However, GB News has faced accusations it will be broadcasting US-style partisan news shows in the UK and campaign group Stop Funding Hate challenged advertisers on social media.

Swedish furniture giant Ikea said it had "not knowingly" advertised on GB News.

It added: "We are in the process of investigating how this may have occurred to ensure it won't happen again in future, and have suspended paid display advertising in the meantime."


In its statement, Kopparberg also said it was unaware its adverts were running on the channel and said they had been suspended "pending further review of its content".

Octopus said it would only advertise with GB News if it proved to be "genuinely balanced".

The Open University also paused its advertising.



Mr Neil, responding to Ikea, shared a story about the company's French arm being fined and its CEO handed a two-year suspended sentence after it spied on employees for three years.

Piers Morgan, who has been linked to GB News following his departure from Good Morning Britain, also responded to Ikea and said: "Oh shut up, you pathetic virtue-signalling twerps. I'm now boycotting IKEA."

GB News captured a host of high-profile signings, including former Sky Sports presenter Kirsty Gallacher, ex-BBC presenter Simon McCoy and former ITV presenter Alastair Stewart.

In his opening monologue, Mr Neil, a former BBC political interviewer, said the channel will "puncture the pomposity of our elites in politics, business, media and academia and expose the growing promotion of cancel culture for the threat to free speech and democracy that it is".

GB News will broadcast seven days a week across the UK and Ireland.

 

[Terrarian]

Can someone explain to me what a gammon is, it's a fairly new term but seems to be used a lot but who is it directed at?

 

[LostLegend]

Can someone explain to me what a gammon is, it's a fairly new term but seems to be used a lot but who is it directed at?

Angry right wingers. Usually ones that bemoan the left being triggered by everything whilst simultaneously being outraged themselves by the most trivial things, such as shouting angrily at Tea Bags for supporting BLM

 

[dublinbluenose]

Can someone explain to me what a gammon is, it's a fairly new term but seems to be used a lot but who is it directed at?

People who's face goes red with anger over a black player taking the knee or taking a statue of a slave trader down.

 

[dublinbluenose]

GB News will broadcast seven days a week across the UK and Ireland.

Oh ffs

 

[Terrarian]

People who's face goes red with anger over a black player taking the knee or taking a statue of a slave trader down.

Angry right wingers. Usually ones that bemoan the left being triggered by everything whilst simultaneously being outraged themselves by the most trivial things, such as shouting angrily at Tea Bags for supporting BLM

Ah ok thanks. Been doing my head in for ages that.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Ah ok thanks. Been doing my head in for ages that.

Mark Francois is your average Gammon.

 

[kev]

Can someone explain to me what a gammon is, it's a fairly new term but seems to be used a lot but who is it directed at?

In 1838, Charles Dickens used the word in his 1838 novel, Nicholas Nickleby:

The time had been, when this burst of enthusiasm would have been cheered to the very echo; but now, the deputation received it with chilling coldness. The general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr. Gregsbury’s political conduct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gentleman in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that, for his purpose, it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency.


The meaning of that term—gammon,' said Mr. Gregsbury, 'is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark. I am proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.[25]

 

[Yarrgh]

Can someone explain to me what a gammon is, it's a fairly new term but seems to be used a lot but who is it directed at?

Imagine a piece of gammon all succulent and awaiting your consumption.

Now imagine that particular species of indignant white male (and even a few of the females too!) and how their complexion changes to the same of the afore imagined gammon, when they are apoplectic with impotent rage over some slight to how they think things should be, because that way benefits them completely at the disadvantage to anyone not like them, without any coherent argument as to why things should not be beneficial to all or the greater good.

Hence the term.

Also they should be served with an fried egg on their heads.