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Re: What is Borisism?

May 29th, 2020, 11:20 pm

Dominic Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight]Dominic Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight

Cummings tested his eyesight on innocent co-drivers and their families to make sure he can safely drive his own family. Can I test Remdesivir on his children, because I'm planning to use it on my cat if she gets corona?
Should've gone to Specsavers

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Re: What is Borisism?

June 5th, 2020, 7:52 am

I think that Boris is pining for the old days when Jeremy was Labour leader. Keir Starmer is a different ball game.,
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

June 18th, 2020, 6:20 pm

Boris et al have done more U-turns in one week than Jeremy Clarkson in the last 10 seasons of Top Gear,
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

June 25th, 2020, 7:09 pm

"Stay alert, go out, wash your hands, save lives"

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Re: What is Borisism?

July 8th, 2020, 3:50 pm

"Diners are to be given a £10-a-meal government discount to eat in restaurants this August, while VAT on the hospitality sector will be slashed from 20% to 5% until next January, chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 07876.html

I wonder if this is their line of though: 1 in 4 adults in the UK struggles more or less to afford food, giving the desperate ones restaurant vouchers will increasing the infection rate in this group, and will slightly reduce the deficit which almost doubled from Covid-benefits (it's now £60 mln, afaik).

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Re: What is Borisism?

July 8th, 2020, 3:52 pm

"Stay alert, go out, wash your hands, save lives"

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Apparently outdoor gatherings are much less of a problem than indoor gatherings.

So beaches OK, pubs not OK.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 8th, 2020, 5:50 pm

I'm not so sure; English skin is so sensitive to the rays of the sun.

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Re: What is Borisism?

July 13th, 2020, 11:13 pm

 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 14th, 2020, 12:43 am

Well, when you have a god to fear, you are supposed to do whatever you’re supposed to do. Whether his name is Demonic, Dominic, Boris or Donald. Killing people is just the cost of fearing your god.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 15th, 2020, 1:06 pm

"The Archbishop of Canterbury was criticised for banning priests from entering their own churches during the lockdown. He replied by saying that “praying in church buildings … could not be considered an essential service”"

I think the guy is an atheist?
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 15th, 2020, 6:52 pm

"The Archbishop of Canterbury was criticised for banning priests from entering their own churches during the lockdown. He replied by saying that “praying in church buildings … could not be considered an essential service”"

I think the guy is an atheist?
Why tempt fate?
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 18th, 2020, 1:23 pm

"The future prime minister argued that the imposition of the ban was "not about cruelty" but "a Marxian attack" by the Labour government on the upper class."
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 18th, 2020, 6:32 pm

Well, he was denied the (legal) sexual pleasures from fox hunting with his horse, so encouraged illegal fox hunts instead. He was an MP at the time.
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 19th, 2020, 8:59 am

Those goons and junkies think of themselves an upper class? They should get down off their high horses :-)
 
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Re: What is Borisism?

July 19th, 2020, 10:54 am

Maybe a reference to 1st Duke of Wellington?

This is the Willingdone on hissame white harse, the Cokenhape. This is the big Sraughter Wil-lingdone, grand and magentic in his goldtin spurs and his ironeddux and his quarterbrass woodyshoes and his magnate's gharters and his bangkok's best and goliar's goloshes and his pullupon-easyan wartrews. This is his big wide harse. Tip. This is the threelipoleum boyne grouching down in the living detch. This is aninimyskilling inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy, stoop-ing. This is the bog lipoleum mordering the lipoleum beg. AGallawghurs argaumunt. This is the petty lipoleum boy thatwas nayther bag nor bug. Assaye, assaye! Touchole Fitz Tuo-mush. Dirty MacDyke. And Hairy O'Hurry. All of themarminus-varminus. This is Delian alps. This is Mont Tivel,this is Mont Tipsey, this is the Grand Mons Injun. This is thecrimealine of the alps hooping to sheltershock the three lipoleums.This is the jinnies with their legahorns feinting to read in theirhandmade's book of stralegy while making their war undisidesthe Willingdone.

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