Political onanism

Bye

Well, I had to Google to find out what it meant.

I didn't think I'd led a sheltered life (not work wise anyway!) but that word passed me by.

GN is a fount of knowledge!

I remember my bible from Sunday school and RE lessons and obviously didn’t realise what it meant until I was an adult. Not sure it’s any more polite a term than the one that rhymes with banker.

Gonegirl, 'prim little old ladies' - there seem to be an awful lot on here!

Well, I had to google it.

All due respect to Boris for knowing what it means.

I probably know more technical terms than many Hetty58, and am certainly not prim (but am old ).
However, I missed that one!

Not that little either!!

Alright! Present company excepted with the "prim little old ladies"!

I'm not sure if the "excellent memory" post was for me?

My memory is reasonable but telling 2 people" to just fuck off the pair of you", somehow lodged itself in there

Yes. I expect it did. It was probably meant to

When I was working, our coded message to each other when we believed someone in the meeting was a 'banker' was to rearrange the letters and somehow incorporate a reference to Newark in our discussion. One colleague, who taught sign language, would just sit there making the sign for 'bullshit'.

Yes, childish I know, but it got us through some very boring and irritating meetings.

How very rude you are.

What gives you the right to come on this forum and behave like this?

I thought your OP was amusingly clever suziewoozie. I am rapidly beginning go think Johnson has been oversold and is neither.

When I said the "Just fuck off the pair of you" I seem to remember it was because two posters were picking quite relentlessly on another poster. I don't like that. I always feel I have to help the picked on one out. Don't know why. No one would ever do it for me.

One of the reasons I am not too keen on Gransnet.

Too many prim little old ladies.
Beyond the pale , sunk to a new low for using a naughty word, shock, horror-NO

And no one ever thanks you for sticking up for them.

Right. Gransnet has lowered me quite enough for one day. Going out now.

The sin of Onan, from the bible.
I doubt that all that many of the general public will even know what it means, far from being offended by it.
Although the term ‘pearl clutchers’ is overused, this is a prime example of it on GN.
Or......just more boring political point scoring ( faux outrage.)

No one would ever do it for me.

Oh, I don't know, Gonegirl. Remember the good old days?

I'm another one who had to google it.

Led a sheltered life!

Well, I did know what it meant - which is not exactly what Boris is using it to mean, so he is not quite as clever as he thinks he is.

I'm sure he didn't mean to inform us that Corbyn uses the withdrawal method of contraception when doing his duty to help a widowed sister-in-law to conceive a child who, under Old Testament tradition, would be considered to be his dead brother's child and thus inherit said brother's estate (rather than it reverting to him)

What is this obsession of his with masturbation, anyway? Spaffing up walls, Onan - did he spend any time actually learning anything at Eton?

lemon the point is not whether many of the public either use the term or know what it means, the point is that a man who wants to become the prime minister uses the term about political opponents.

Bumping along the gutter does not do it for either many voter or the rest of the world. Can you imagine those politicians that are so admired would use such a term?

“When they go low, we go high”

Ivan White
@ivanwhite48
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First a filthy limerick about Erdoğan, then his "spaffing up the wall" remark, and now the childish and immature toff Boris Johnson plunges deeper into the sewer using the term #onanism to attack Jeremy Corbyn. How can anyone seriously believe that Johnson is fit to be PM?

I haven’t heard about the limerick ( was it funny?) also was it a private thing that somebody ‘leaked’?
Spaffing up the wall is a disgusting remark if uttered in public.
‘Political onanism’ doesn’t offend me at all.

Funnily enough, I was idling with the thought that JC must love himself, for surely anyone in his position could see that he personally is damaging the hopes of the LP. Yet still he remains. Total selfishness.