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Bongo bongo land

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:48 am
by Bruv
The UK Independence Party has banned its representatives from saying the phrase "Bongo Bongo Land", after an MEP used it to describe countries receiving government aid

He said Bongo Bongo Land was "a figment of people's imagination. It's like Ruritania or the Third World"

Is Bongo Bongo land a general description, or specific to a area where people are known to play bongos?

Bongo bongo land

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 11:32 am
by Bryn Mawr
Bruv;1433235 wrote: The UK Independence Party has banned its representatives from saying the phrase "Bongo Bongo Land", after an MEP used it to describe countries receiving government aid

He said Bongo Bongo Land was "a figment of people's imagination. It's like Ruritania or the Third World"

Is Bongo Bongo land a general description, or specific to a area where people are known to play bongos?


It is an old and well used term of denegration from the jingoistic era.

They're showing their true colours once again.

Bongo bongo land

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:50 pm
by AnneBoleyn
Bongo Bongo Land is where all the citizens look like this, and this, and this:

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