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To think we need to stop calling him Boris

185 replies

Earnsomething · 29/05/2020 09:22

He's not a loveable buffoon, there for our entertainment, he's an important man, with an incredibly serious job to do. He's Mr Johnson or the Prime Minister, Boris isn't even his actual name!

I feel like the more we call him Boris the more we excuse/allow the nonsense.

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Destroyedpeople · 29/05/2020 10:11

Was it supporters who called her maggie? I thought it was detractors.
As in maggie! Maggie! Maggie!
OUT! OUT! OUT!

Megatron · 29/05/2020 10:11

I'll call him what I like. Usually a giant wandering cock.

Destroyedpeople · 29/05/2020 10:12

High five max one bitch!

Pleasenodont · 29/05/2020 10:12

I call him Bojo the clown personally. Nothing loveable about the nickname or about him.

cookiemon666 · 29/05/2020 10:14

I call him BloJo.

middleager · 29/05/2020 10:14

@Destroyedpeople

Was it supporters who called her maggie? I thought it was detractors. As in maggie! Maggie! Maggie! OUT! OUT! OUT!
Ah that's right. Scrap my earlier post Blush
RenegadeMrs · 29/05/2020 10:15

@peperethecat I promise you that you would not infer he was my friend if you were to hear me talking about him!

Iwalkinmyclothing · 29/05/2020 10:16

I never refer to him as Boris. I always use the surname when I talk about PMs. Who was saying Theresa, David, Gordon instead of May, Cameron, Brown? It would seem weird. And I certainly don't want to play into his fucking act. If I were to call him by a first name it would be Al.

AristotlesTrousers · 29/05/2020 10:17

I call Johnson too - I don't want to perpetuate the loveable buffoon image that calling him 'Boris' adheres to.

maxonebitch · 29/05/2020 10:17

@Destroyedpeople

High five max one bitch!
right back at you Grin
Miriel · 29/05/2020 10:18

This is odd. I've realised there's no consistency with how I refer to them.

Blair
Gordon Brown
Cameron
Theresa May
Boris

It doesn't correlate with my opinion of them or anything like that. Maybe it's thst 'Brown' and 'May' are also words so adding the first name prevents ambiguity.

AristotlesTrousers · 29/05/2020 10:18

*him

ComDummings · 29/05/2020 10:18

BoJo the prick

Serin · 29/05/2020 10:18

We call him the gibbon.

maxonebitch · 29/05/2020 10:19

@Megatron

I'll call him what I like. Usually a giant wandering cock.
I think you are mistaken. The use of giant is surely an exaggeration?
Hepte · 29/05/2020 10:19

I call him bojo because he's a joke and I role my eyes whenever I'm talking about him. My kids know him as Boris Johnson or the prime minister.

IncrediblySadToo · 29/05/2020 10:19

@Earnsomething

Actually I think the last PM was referred to as Mrs May much more often than the previous one had been called Mr Cameron, I remember thinking it was odd no one seemed to know how to refer to a woman.
I think some of that was sexist, but I also think a lot of it was because if her actual surname being May - a coming my used word in every day language

Boris Is fine. BJ spoils other things. Johnson

Prime Minister both afford him more respect that he's earned.

I do not use Boris to convey he's a loveable buffoon. It's more along the lines of a short way to say 'the complete Idiot that ended up 'running the country (in name anyway) but isn't fit to to run a bath'

I understand your point, but I don't agree with it.

maxonebitch · 29/05/2020 10:21
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3LittleMonkeyz · 29/05/2020 10:22

I call him Boris Johnson.

Because it is his name.

Because Mr Johnson sounds like anybody.

Because "the prime minister" is his role, not his name. And we have had and will have other prime ministers.

Because I always call the prime minister their name whoever it is

HesterShaw1 · 29/05/2020 10:24

I call him the PM when I remember to.

Occasionally a 'Boris' slips out and I get cross with myself!

This is something HIGNFY cultivated a few years ago when he was the hilarious posh buffoon Hmm They regret that I imagine...

MouthBreathingRage · 29/05/2020 10:24

'Boris' is more than his name. It's a carefully cultivated personality he's made for himself over many, many years. When we think 'Boris', it's synonymous with the floppy blonde hair funny-man, the guy who whizzes down zipline, hosts popular comedy shows on the BBC, who talks in a funny way only dizzy poshos do.

'Boris' is harmless, 'Boris' would be a laugh down the pub, 'Boris' is Tim-Nice-But-Dim's jollier cousin.

Mr Johnson is our PM though, and he's not a funny buffon. He's the man who push through Brexit by any means necessary, has lied over and over, hides from the public when things get tough and ultimately has allowed the deaths of thousands of people as he tried to put the wealth of his business mates first before the health of the country. That's who we have today, not 'Boris' the media clown but Mr Johnson, one of the worst PMs in living memory

AdalindMeisner · 29/05/2020 10:27

You are totally right we shouldn't call him Boris..

We should call him that stupid bastard in downing street...that any better? Grin

evilharpy · 29/05/2020 10:29

I call him Boris. It's a good name for spitting out in a contemptuous manner, accompanied by a snarl.

redcarbluecar · 29/05/2020 10:29

I agree actually. I try to call him Johnson, but it's easy to slip into saying Boris. I suppose it's an unusual name (we probably wouldn't refer to him as just 'David' if that was his name) so that might have something to do with it.