Boris

[Pixxie7]

Does anyone else wish that the PM would stop turning up at vaccine centres, where he probably gets in the way, instead of concentrating on his own job and start solving the many problems facing this country?

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

Can we just agree that the use of first names is basically to make it easiers for editors when writing headlines?

No because it didn’t happen to the last five Prime Ministers.

@Sparklingbrook

I had no idea 'what Wee Nippy' was. I assume Nicola can't do anything right either though?

Not on Scotsnet, no. She singlehandedly caused the pandemic, and hates the hopsitality sector so much she wants to see it gone forever.

Yes it did @LittleBearPad

Maggie
Tony
John Major was I think usually 'Major' because John's a common name so not great for clarity
Gordon Brown would have been Brown because it's shorter than Gordon.
David Cameron might be an outlier actually.

Boris is an insult though, it's not affable, it mean utterly cock wobble cunt

To you and many others. To some people however it means that funny slightly scruffy man ‘who’s doing his best and the press are being mean to’

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

Yes it did *@LittleBearPad*

Maggie
Tony
John Major was I think usually 'Major' because John's a common name so not great for clarity
Gordon Brown would have been Brown because it's shorter than Gordon.
David Cameron might be an outlier actually.

Blair wasn’t called Tony is the headlines. And you’ve forgotten Teresa May.

I wasn’t including Thatcher as she’s number 6

Maybe 'Fucking Boris', it's apt in more than one way.

I have this idea that, if I was ever in a room with him (obviously never IRL), I could shout ALEXANDAAAAR! in a very loud, posh voice, and he would shit himself.

oh well, if he is bumbling round at vaccine centres/tractor plants/any other photo opportunity it keeps him away from anything more serious that he could fuck up.

Yes, May would have been May for brevity!

I don't know what point you think I'm trying to make...it's just that brevity is easier for journalists .

I agree though that Boris is often used as more of a dig than in the sense of 'oh good old affable lovable Boris'.

@noworklifebalance

YANBU

But YABU to call him Boris. Just like his scruffy look, referring to him as Boris, BoJo etc just plays into his hands.
It wasn’t Teresa, David, Nick, Gordon, Tony etc.
Boris Johnson is not a man of the people - he is odious, self serving, culpable, evades personal and professional responsibility but is seemingly totally unaccountable.

It's his name.

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

Yes, May would have been May for brevity!

I don't know what point you think I'm trying to make...it's just that brevity is easier for journalists .

I agree though that Boris is often used as more of a dig than in the sense of 'oh good old affable lovable Boris'.

Well I’m not sure because you haven’t made a point - all the examples you gave didn’t support it.

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"Its his name"

No his stage name. He goes by Alex to friends and family.

What, that the shorter name that can be used the better when you've got, say, 38 characters for a headline? Think that's pretty obvious, and logical.

Yes, I’d like him to FOTTFSOF and not get paid for the privilege. Personally I prefer the name Bozo.

Tbh in Scotland everyone I know calls Sturgeon "Nicola".
I'm not sure what this means.

@noworklifebalance

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Out! Out! Out!

She definitely wasn’t always Margaret Thatcher or Thatcher

I can see how that would work in protest but don’t recall her being referred to as Maggie in general chat esp when referring to her policies in the same way as Johnson is but, as mentioned, I was a child.

As I said, calling him Boris is in the context of his affable persona that he has curated. Maggie and Tony didn’t do that - agree with them or not, they at least presented themselves and conducted themselves professionally.

Thatcher was always called Thatcher in my family home, never Maggie.

Although she was often called a lot worse than "Thatcher" too.

*Hahahahahahaha 🤣

I’m not sure he’s the paternal type though the 7, 8 or 9 children he has should give him practice.

The question is where - in the Uk or in the Caribbean?*

He said he'd been in the UK, but given his mendacity, that probably means he was abroad somewhere.

@noworklifebalance

YANBU

But YABU to call him Boris. Just like his scruffy look, referring to him as Boris, BoJo etc just plays into his hands.
It wasn’t Teresa, David, Nick, Gordon, Tony etc.
Boris Johnson is not a man of the people - he is odious, self serving, culpable, evades personal and professional responsibility but is seemingly totally unaccountable.

Amen

@noworklifebalance

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Out! Out! Out!

She definitely wasn’t always Margaret Thatcher or Thatcher

I can see how that would work in protest but don’t recall her being referred to as Maggie in general chat esp when referring to her policies in the same way as Johnson is but, as mentioned, I was a child.

As I said, calling him Boris is in the context of his affable persona that he has curated. Maggie and Tony didn’t do that - agree with them or not, they at least presented themselves and conducted themselves professionally.

I remember references to "Mrs Thatcher"

@JohnHuffam1812

I just think it plays into his purpose for the persona.

Apparently that getting caught on the zip wire at the Olympics was staged for example.

Really???

That wouldn't surprise me.

Yup it was staged.

He is a very odd man.

Boris Boris Boris
OUT OUT OUT

I think it has a nice ring to it.