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Boris and Carrie have had their baby

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boomchikawowwow · 29/04/2020 10:01

I didn't realise she was due already. Baby boy born this morning!

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LifeIsBrutal · 02/05/2020 15:41

I like the name Wilfred.

ShiftyOwl · 02/05/2020 15:56

Young Wilfred certainly has his dad’s hair!!

ducksback · 02/05/2020 15:59

Hitler certainly had them mesmerised as well
Godwin's Law! Grin

1forsorrow · 02/05/2020 17:31

Some people will never admit that certain politicians have charisma if they do not politically align with them - stupid but true I often vote Labour, although I have voted for all 3 of the main parties in England, and I don't think Blair had charisma, he always seemed a bit creepy to me. I don't think Johnson has any charisma, I find him cringey, can hardly bear to listen to him. I am grown up enough to accept that other people have their own opinions.

I think the last British politician I really thought had charisma was Paddy Ashdown, I think they've gone down hill since then. Can't think of one that I'd say has charisma now regardless of the party.

It is so funny that people can't accept you actually have an opinion and have to make up their own reasons for what you say.

If you look at America I am old enough to remember Kennedy as having charisma, although I always preferred his brother Bobby. Obama has charisma in my opinion.

I think charisma is a bit like sex appeal, I don't mean you have to fancy a politician I mean one man's meat is another man's poison. There isn't a science to charisma, it is subjective Boris Johnson has more hair than Dominic Raab, fact, Boris Johnson is more charismatic than Keir Starmer - like beauty it is in the eye of the beholder.

FizzyGreenWater · 02/05/2020 17:37

He has his daddies mad hair

Please stop with lapping up the 'I'm mad, meee!' shit about Johnson - he doesn't 'have' mad hair, he deliberately cultivates a messy hairstyle as part of a horribly deceptive image. Whereas what is presumably his new baby just has baby hair.

ducksback · 02/05/2020 17:40

Please stop with lapping up the 'I'm mad, meee!' shit about Johnson - he doesn't 'have' mad hair, he deliberately cultivates a messy hairstyle as part of a horribly deceptive image. Whereas what is presumably his new baby just has baby hair

In your opinion of course. Wink

Bienentrinkwasser · 02/05/2020 17:44

Not a Boris fan by any stretch but I like his name. Very glad he didn’t use the name we have picked if this baby is a boy though!

ducksback · 02/05/2020 17:50

I rather like Wilf. I know one and he is a delightful little boy!

Raccoon2020vision · 02/05/2020 19:05

@Roussette several as it happens. Plus a few sets of runes and a set of dried chicken entrails. They're a bit difficult to tune in sometimes though.

My political sympathies are green and socialist but I've resigned myself to never seeing either of those groups in power in any meaningful way in England in my lifetime.

Roussette · 02/05/2020 19:19

Raccoon I was told the last time I went to a psychic or similar, I was going to marry someone in the Navy Grin
Not happened haha.

Raccoon2020vision · 03/05/2020 07:44

@Roussette that did make me laugh. One told me in my 30s I was going to have 4 blue eyed sons. 20 years on and I'm still waiting. Unless she meant the various cats when kittens of course. Woo stuff happens a lot around this household but most of the psychics etc I've met have been at worst charlatans and at best counsellors and good at reading people.

I much prefer to "predict" what's ahead by a combination of historical precedent and observation. Have always wished my naths ability was higher! Off at a tangent a little but very interesting today to see what Warren Buffett has been up to investment wise as his track record is astonishing over the years.

Still, must get knitting those baby bootees for wee Wilf now I know it's a true blue yarn, eh!

Roussette · 03/05/2020 08:21

Raccoon Neither predictions for us happened then! I do remember long time ago, my DSis when she went through a messy divorce, got very involved with regular visits to a psychic as a way of trying to predict what was going to happen in her life, it did her no good at all !
Yes, I read about Buffett's actions, the world is going to be a very different place and he can see that.

Smile

Clavinova · 03/05/2020 15:29

It did make me laugh today to see a story in the press about how we would now, apparently, actually quite like to be part of that bit of the EU that alerts governments to things like the spread of infectious diseases....

Haven't read the article but I did read a few months ago that recent measles outbreaks in the UK directly link to Italy and Romania.

Gobbolinocat · 03/05/2020 16:10

I like wilf, not keen on on Wilfred except in the context of Owen.
But he looks so old with a full head of hair and a bowl cut? Like a little-black-book mini me teenager. I wouldn't be surprised if he's in a tweed jacket next week and pink cords.

What a tumultuous time for boris!! Non stop!
And now sleepless nights and a baby on the top Shock

bettybattenburg · 03/05/2020 16:28

He's going to be one of those children who often has his name on the board in school Grin

I'm surprised he's named him after the doctors who looked after him when he was in ICU after all the fuss over the nurses who looked after him. Obviously Jenny would have been a bit 'out there' but Luis could have been a middle name.

1forsorrow · 03/05/2020 16:29

Neither predictions for us happened then! I got dragged to a psychic evening with a group from work, they needed a certain number and someone dropped out. I wasn't interested but went along as they were going to be disappointed if it couldn't go ahead.

I was told someone close to me was getting married, yes my sister. Told it would be hurried and overseas, no it was happening here and I was a bridesmaid. She insisted it wouldn't happen here, no family would attend and it would be very soon, was expected to be several months away. So I thought load of rubbish.

Well a few weeks later my BIL2B was called up in his country due to an emergency. Things settled down but he wasn't allowed to leave his country and DSis had to go out there, wedding went ahead earlier than expected and I wasn't a bridesmaid and didn't even get to go to the wedding.

So I've always been unsure since then, I sort of don't believe in it but on the other hand I don't know. Was weird as it certainly wasn't one of those cases where people say you gave away information, they said something vague could have meant anything.

My woo for the day.

Roussette · 03/05/2020 20:29

1forsorrow

That's uncanny!

Peregrina · 03/05/2020 21:45

1forsorrow - you need to post that on the thread that's running now about unexplained or spooky happenings.

1forsorrow · 03/05/2020 21:50

I'll have a look Peregrina. I've had people try to persuade me that I gave away information, well I suppose I might have been led into the wedding thing, can't remember now but I was telling her she was wrong about the date/place etc. I don't know what to think about it.

Raccoon2020vision · 04/05/2020 17:04

@1forsorrow I"m guessing, as was the case when I too got dragged off to a "psychic party", that most of you there were from a particular group of friends/locale, and highly likely to have relatives or friends in the forces and/or medical field?

And age-wise, you were all sort of late 20s/early 30s ish, so highly likely to be getting married and having kids? I do believe in "woo" as it happens, since stuff takes place round us all the time, but I'm fairly hard to convince on a lot of the, um, pinker and fluffier aspects.

But agree with pp that the "woo'" thread is seriously worth a visit.

1forsorrow · 04/05/2020 19:15

As far as I can remember none of us had friends in the forces or medical field, certainly I didn't and the two women I shared an office with didn't.

Age wise we were between very early 20, 21or 22 I think, up to late 50s. We really a random group working for a large employer in a big city, some of us lived locally and some travelled in from neighbouring county.

The groom to be wasn't medical or in the forces, something happened in his country and it was classed as an emergency but totally unexpected and highly unusual. Truly none of us could have guessed what was going to happen.

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