Did you know Boris wrote a thriller back in 2004? I wish I didn’t.
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32 Comments
My favorite thing about Boris Johnson as a American is how close he looks to a used wet napkin
Just FYI: it's id-yllic, not eye-dyllic
No offence to you, but I'm not watching it to the end. What I've seen so far demonstrates exactly what I expected: if Boris Johnson wrote a novel, he would put the smallest possible amount of effort into it.
Pretty sure the bikes idea was Ken Livingston.
Not that this brings anything to this😶
Prior to just now, I was not aware that this man has authored a book. And now, my life is substantively worse. Thank you for the suffering!
thanks Shammy! 👍
oof yor gens a lost cause i mean nvm the warmongering mass theft he's a racist because he didn't follow our new made up rules…
TBH I'd like to see the words prangmeister and smegmatic become part of the popular lexicon.
I didn't know the British were into speaking in tongues…or does Boris have a tumor pressing on his language center 🧠?
Wow! Johnson the educated …
Re the use of the term "half caste", that's what my mum said I was, but it wasn't meant in a derogatory way.
How many copies did he sell? I can imagine sales being propped up by old etonians, same as L Ron Hubbard and the glassy eyed acolytes of Scientology
His novel sounds exactly what I'd have thought it was like judging by the title and – er – Boris. What's his history-writing like, though?
… tsk saurian is really not that big a word. everyone of us had a saurian phase righ. yer an owl, birds are like closely related to saurians (bird, aves, aves are part of the clade dinosauria. so saurian. like dinos. well today the last survivors are the lizard and the birds)
sorry bio geek here. lets get back to b johnsons weird n word fixation… i wonder if hes into cockoo prn with how weird he is about black people
Yowk.
Is Boris Bizzaro Donald Trump, or is Donald Bizzaro Boris?
Author? 🤔 He'd be hard pressed to write a shopping list.
Nice Brian Butterfield reference at 21:56 😂
Boris Jonson was given a simple take. DESTROY THE TORY PARTY.
He succeeded.
The FASCISTS took over the party.
To be Putin's useful idiot, one must be an idiot in the first place.
32:09 this is just… plain cursed.
19:03
It feels like he’s showing off his knowledge of fancy words and slurs to the classes below him with some discrimination thrown in for fun
British English does not include the word 'dove' as a past tense of 'dive'. 🙄
Who let boris into the kitchen
Boris Johnson is the kind of person that should definitely not be let within 15 feet of writing a book.
Weetabices, surely, like appendix/ appendices.
BJ is too smart to realize how dumb he is.
That was spectacularly boring. The book is horrendous, as is his writer. He can talk funny, but he can not write something worth reading. He is racist and an out of touch snob. There, that's all you ever get from this.
The Eulalie bit is, of course, a skanked riff from P.G.Wodehouse.
y'know i dont ussualy like to yell racism or other csim's at things but fuck man this was written not only by a politician but a british nobleman and primeminister of one of the most powerfull countries in the western world and the racism isnt even funny like at least that would be some sort of excuse. and jeez i thought i was a sexist dickhead but he's literaly got worse ideas of woman than a fucking 14 year old in the rust belt
ironicaly the guy who's name is bomb is byfar the funniest character