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To just leave this video of Boris Johnson dancing here for you?

124 replies

WaitroseWoman · 06/08/2022 00:19

Crisis? What crisis? Boris Johnson dances away the country's heartache.

First dance with Carrie:
twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1555507898763075586

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Karwomannghia · 06/08/2022 08:30

poor Carrie is having a job keeping on her feet when Boris tries to spin her. She’s attempting damage limitation as usual I guess. They must have prepared that first dance for a while- so slick.

Quia · 06/08/2022 08:31

MarshaBradyo · 06/08/2022 08:27

At least when he’s gone he can just do stuff like dance at his wedding without people such as op caring

There’ll be a few people who have to find other stuff (Cummings springs to mind)

You're assuming there will be more weddings, then? I'm sure you're right.

MarshaBradyo · 06/08/2022 08:34

Quia · 06/08/2022 08:31

You're assuming there will be more weddings, then? I'm sure you're right.

I doubt it but who cares

Iusyje · 06/08/2022 08:40

Ok, watched the video. The dancing isn't great but many of us aren't great dancers either so it's funny how everyone is suddenly a dancing judge. One can laugh at them - if that's one wants to do - but isn't this usually done in private? To create a post just so someone and his wife are publicly ridiculed and put down is VERY MEAN and bizarre behaviour. I'm not a fan of either of them, nor am I a Tory but I can imagine their relatives and friends coming across this post and feeling hurt.

VillanellesCoat · 06/08/2022 08:43

Well I can’t un-see any of those clips

@ShirleyJackson Reverse Bungle 🤣🤣🤣

Clymene · 06/08/2022 08:46

Iusyje · 06/08/2022 08:40

Ok, watched the video. The dancing isn't great but many of us aren't great dancers either so it's funny how everyone is suddenly a dancing judge. One can laugh at them - if that's one wants to do - but isn't this usually done in private? To create a post just so someone and his wife are publicly ridiculed and put down is VERY MEAN and bizarre behaviour. I'm not a fan of either of them, nor am I a Tory but I can imagine their relatives and friends coming across this post and feeling hurt.

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Icedbannoffee · 06/08/2022 08:47

It's his wedding day, presumably one of the guests wasn't overly trustworthy and broadcast it to the world- it's not like him and carrie were flaunting it. I'm not a fan of his, at all, but out of everything he's done literally zero fucks about this.

ClaudineClare · 06/08/2022 08:50

Carrie looks lovely.

EntertainingandFactual · 06/08/2022 08:54

ShirleyJackson · 06/08/2022 02:24

He looks a bear in a man suit. A reverse Bungle.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

FinallyHere · 06/08/2022 08:55

can't imagine why any woman would want to talk or sleep with him, let alone marry him

If I had been thrown out of my job in Tory HQ for fiddling my taxi expense account, I can quite see the attraction of returning as the PM's wife.

Not sure Carrie would have been quite the household name she has become without the exposure she has had in No 10.

The question for me is rather why she is happy in that role rather than achieving something of her own.

Idontknowwhattothink · 06/08/2022 09:11

I can't stand the man but this is cute.

Sunnysideup999 · 06/08/2022 09:12

I can’t watch it. It’s making me cringe.
It’s like a scene from The Office…

Poppyseed14 · 06/08/2022 09:27

ShirleyJackson · 06/08/2022 02:24

He looks a bear in a man suit. A reverse Bungle.

@ShirleyJackson 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

StoneofDestiny · 06/08/2022 09:39

Cheers @WaitroseWoman - my pain in complete. A more vomit inducing sight is hard to imagine. (If you exclude him naked in bed 🤮)

StoneofDestiny · 06/08/2022 09:42

I'm not a fan of Boris but this thread is quite distasteful. Laughing at a man who is simply dancing at his own wedding

As disgraceful as him dancing, partying and laughing at us in Number 10 while the rest of us were confined to our homes during the pandemic? Not even close.

MrsOwainGlyndŵr · 06/08/2022 09:43

DrDetriment · 06/08/2022 08:03

I'm not a fan of Boris but this thread is quite distasteful. Laughing at a man who is simply dancing at his own wedding.

I agree. I've seen much worse dancing than that. It's funny, but it's hardly "disgraceful".

I imagine Boris is pretty good company when he's not running the country. He can be very funny.
People who know him who have been interviewed say they like him.

pilates · 06/08/2022 09:46

Oh op fgs it’s his wedding celebration who cares. He’s enjoying himself. We can’t all be great dancers 🙄

Squirrelsnut · 06/08/2022 09:49

@ShirleyJackson Reverse Bungle will live in my head rent free, as the cool kids say. 😀

balalake · 06/08/2022 09:51

Please have some respect for Bungle, and indeed Zippy and George. Who brought happiness to millions of children, and amusement to some adults (especially when you see the rehearsal footage!).

AhaLyn · 06/08/2022 09:51

What a bastard dancing with his wife.

boring.

Giraffesandbottoms · 06/08/2022 10:11

What makes this video embarrassing isn’t Boris’ dancing (it’s just classic boris dancing tbf and plenty of people can’t dance), it’s that they aren’t dancing together cohesively and there is 0 chemistry and, as posters have pointed out, Carrie has to utilise a toddler to stifle the embarrassment. I think it is very cringe inducing to watch.

i don’t think this thread is distasteful - boris is a total prick and serial adulterer who has already cheated on Carrie and I’m not sure why she is with him (I have suspicions but they aren’t pleasant). People are allowed to have opinions about public figures, even at their weddings!

WaitroseWoman · 06/08/2022 12:50

Iusyje · 06/08/2022 08:40

Ok, watched the video. The dancing isn't great but many of us aren't great dancers either so it's funny how everyone is suddenly a dancing judge. One can laugh at them - if that's one wants to do - but isn't this usually done in private? To create a post just so someone and his wife are publicly ridiculed and put down is VERY MEAN and bizarre behaviour. I'm not a fan of either of them, nor am I a Tory but I can imagine their relatives and friends coming across this post and feeling hurt.

VERY MEAN and bizarre behaviour.
distasteful
Boris Johnson said he would 'rather see the bodies pile high in their thousands'. Now, to me, that is mean, bizarre and distasteful.

but I can imagine their relatives and friends coming across this post and feeling hurt.
Are you talking about the bereaved? No? Ah, then I think BJ and CJ's have far more bad press to come across and feel hurt about than one thread on MN.

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WaitroseWoman · 06/08/2022 13:01

Clymene · 06/08/2022 07:25

Last weekend when they got married again a the grace and favour country pad they shouldn't really be using seeing as he's resigned.

It was a party on Tory donor Lord Bamford's country estate. They were intending to hold it at Chequers but there was understandably a bit of an outcry about that and so the venue was changed.

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WaitroseWoman · 06/08/2022 13:07

Sorry, distasteful was from DrDetriment.

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Clymene · 06/08/2022 13:20

Oh well that's one ray of sunshine @WaitroseWoman