Boris Johnson says Biden administration is "a big breath of fresh air", adding after first bilateral meeting with the president: "It's new, it's interesting."
— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) June 10, 2021
After all the ‘two bros together’ japery between Johnson & TFG over the last few years, it might’ve been considered unseemly for him to scramble like this…
“Wait a minute, wait a minute,” Biden said, dodging a handshake from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to greet his new wife Carrie first. https://t.co/PuWthIU239
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 10, 2021
“I told the prime minister we have something in common. We both married way above our station,” @POTUS said at Boris Johnson bilat.
“I’m not going to dissent from that one,” @BorisJohnson said.
“I’m not going to disagree with you on that. Or indeed on anything else.” pic.twitter.com/drPmUXPV4o
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 10, 2021
But maybe (I’m told the British upper classes are sensitive about some things) he was just embarrassed he’d undercalculated on the traditional goodwill gift exchange:
"As a gesture of friendship and in recognition of their shared interest in cycling," @POTUS gave @BorisJohnson a touring bicycle and bike helmet custom-made by @bilenkycycles, a small family business in Philadelphia that crafts American bicycles, says a @WhiteHouse official.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) June 10, 2021
good grief pic.twitter.com/jN2s0RCJP5
— Benjamin Freed (@brfreed) June 11, 2021
Not quite Wikipedia-printout bad, apparently, but hardly in the same category as a custom bike…
PM Boris Johnson gifts photo of Edinburgh anti-slavery mural to US President Joe Biden https://t.co/5W4GjHG5zt
— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) June 11, 2021
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
You know TFG is stewing in impotent rage over what BoJo said about Biden and I’m totally here for it.
Baud
I wonder if BoJo gave Trump a photo of Jefferson Davis.
Chetan Murthy
Tony Jay to the Batphone!
NotMax
FYI. Horrible, horrible.
Muslim family killed in terror attack in London, Ontario: Islamophobic violence surfaces once again in Canada
Catherine D.
Haha, BoJo was outclassed by an Irish American Catlick. My ancestors are pleased.
trollhattan
Heh, let’s revel in BoJo trying to have it boff ways. Even I can see through it and I didn’t go to sodding Eaton.
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: Eton.
Alison Rose
Speaking of old men, my dad did that adorable old person thing of writing his entire email to me in the subject line. Thankfully it was only a few sentences. Made me laugh a little…..
Oh and BoJo is still a douche.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
That’s pretty damned cute.
On a nice Friday note, my guitar lessons are yielding fruit. My strumming snow include Midnight Rider (Allman Bros.), Long Haired Country Boy (Charlie Daniels – I know, but love the older tunes), Pink Houses (Mellencamp), Night Moves (Seger).
I’m guessing I’m about two months from springing for an electric, for fun.
Spanky
@Omnes Omnibus: Neither, probably.
Another Scott
My God – [/dick_nixon]
Cheers,
Scott.
Tony Jay
@Chetan Murthy:
Surrounded by actual politicians with allies and influence who don’t give a single, solitary fuckoid what the mighty muses of the British Media say about them, the Bumbling Bunter of Bullingdon South does what he always (All – fucking – Ways) does when in a ‘situation’. He lies. He blathers. He spaffs out meaningless soundbites and he looks for the nearest camera with which to immortalise his moment of ‘getting away with it’.
He’ll say whatever the person he’s talking to wants to hear. Then he’ll forget he said it, and if it’s ever brought up again he’ll claim he never said it and/or he actually said whatever the person he’s currently talking to wants to hear.
Only works if your national media goes along with the narrative. Doesn’t apply when in violation of binding international treaties.
Witness! Witness the virile leader! Look at him dance.
I hate these fucking people.
StringOnAStick
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You’ll love having an electric guitar, mainly because they have much nicer action for the money than an equally priced acoustic. Plus you can rage into a set of headphones and not terrorize your pets.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@StringOnAStick:
He hands me his every so often, and I’m in awe as to how it feels.
JPL
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: trump only cares what Putin says.
mrmoshpotato
“Happy New Year’s Eve 2121! More crimes uncovered from over 100 years ago! That Soviet shitpile mobster crime family with the orange-faced, fascist traitor was busy fucking this country!”
Catherine D.
@Another Scott: Paging a wafer thin mint!
Roger Moore
@Alison Rose:
I’m glad my parents aren’t like that. My dad worked in tech and has been using computers since the days of punch cards. He bought my family a home computer back in the days when they came from companies like Commodore and Radio Shack. My parents have both been using email since the days of text only, so they know old-fashioned etiquette, like interspersing quoted and and replying text so you can see what they’re responding to.
Minstrel Michael
@StringOnAStick: That’s probably because the electric (for the same price as the acoustic) has lighter gauge strings. Put an .009 high E set on your acoustic and that’ll be easier too, but quieter.
Not valid on classical guitars with nylon strings!
Anne Laurie
@Tony Jay: Needless to add: If/when you can stand to write about this New! Atlantic! Compact!… I’ll be very happy to front-page your comments.
(You have my email.)
RandomMonster
I was going to ask What does Tony Jay have to say about this?! Huh?! EH?! But then I see he said it, soooo…never mind.
Tony Jay
@Anne Laurie:
Drink goes in.
Rant comes out.
Believe me, my liver and I are working up to it.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Baud:
Nah, he gave him framed photo of Kristen Stewart (link)
SiubhanDuinne
@Chetan Murthy:
I can never see Boris Johnson, or even hear his name, without flashing on TJ’s soubriquet Flobalob.
VeniceRiley
@Tony Jay: He’s going to magically deflate the minute they’re all off – when he has to announce the lockdown is extended a month because he wanted to play big cheese for Modi.
Ken
@Another Scott: Is that real? Un-photoshopped, I mean?
If so, what was happening? A microburst or derecho blowing only at Johnson?
Roger Moore
@Tony Jay:
You can’t explain it!
Ken
JOHNSON: So, about my idea for a New Atlantic Compact —
BIDEN: How are the Good Friday Accords holding up?
Alison Rose
@Roger Moore: My mom is reasonably tech-aware, at least for the basics. My dad though…is not. I love him though :)
Roger Moore
@Ken:
It’s shopped, but the original was bad enough.
Steeplejack
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Well done. Keep a’plunkin’!
Mike in NC
@Another Scott: Looks like BoJo and the Orange Clown used the same tailor.
Tony Jay
@VeniceRiley:
But that’s bad news, and something he said he’d never, ever do.
He’ll get Health Secretary Hancock to do it. That seeping gut-wound with legs is getting dumped at the next Cabinet reshuffle anyway.
Tony Jay
@Roger Moore:
Give me enough craft ale and I can explain anything. A case of Bishop’s Finger and I can satisfactorily explain the strategy being employed by Manchin*.
* Not Sinema, though. That takes crack/meth cocktail level famous last words booly-sheet.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
“I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.”
– Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter
;)
Skepticat
@NotMax: I hadn’t heard that, and I have a number of friends who live in London. What an incredible tragedy. If only borders could stop hate …
I’m more concerned about what BoJo has to say than about the pro forma gifts. So far it’s good, and I hope it stays.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
Ha! Excellent.
Comes from being an island, I suppose.
Gin & Tonic
@Roger Moore: RFC822 for the win! None of this fancy HTML stuff.
And now I grind my teeth when somebody says “text me a picture of that.”
Ken
@Gin & Tonic: Could be worse.
Just Chuck
@Roger Moore:
I remember that style, used to use it, but not anymore. Personally I can’t stand that style when it’s applied to individual sentences or otherwise that “point for point” style. It looks and feels exactly like interruption, and I prefer thoughts that are composed of whole paragraphs on each speaker’s part. This might also explain my antipathy toward Twitter.
Amir Khalid
@Minstrel Michael:
Actually, StringOnAStick was talking about the action: how far the strings sit above the fretboard. Electric guitars typically have a much lower action than acoustics — it’s less work to push the strings down to the fretboard. That and the typically lighter-gauge electric-guitar strings can make electrics easier and more fun to play.
Gin & Tonic
@Ken: Like the man said, “messages consist of lines of text.”
Major Major Major Major
Hello, hive mind. I see that Fallout 76 is heavily discounted on Steam and apparently doesn’t suck now. Should I get it?
Searcher
Are we sure BoJo didn’t give Biden an NFT of a picture of a mural?
Searcher
@Major Major Major Major: You can only like 80% ignore the existence of other players in Fallout 76.
So if that’s ignoring-enough or if you actually like interacting with randos on the internet it’s as good as any other Fallout.
Jeffro
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: that’s very cool!
Let me know if you need a really bad drummer to accompany you, and I’ll work on upgrading my skills to ‘very bad’ ;)
Major Major Major Major
@Searcher: You’d be forgiven for thinking I hate all strangers on the internet if you only know me from this blog :P
Actually it looks like it’s free to play this weekend on Steam. What an interesting promotion. No time like the present to give it a shot! Looks like the fixed the most awful bits.
sab
Our new cat adopted from my granddaughter is scary. He is only two weeks here, so I suppose we can give him time. He is okay with the two dogs (mutual caution.) He seems to be getting along okay with the other five cats. He just hates amd fears humans.
Nighttime is wildly active, with all the cats awake and interacting. He has a weird trilling yowl, kind of like the maine coon cat does, but at siamese volume.
I tried to get friendly a week ago. He was willing to sniff my hand. He let me scratch his head for a second, then I jumped back when the claws came out, so he missed that then bit me on the ankle on my way up the basement stairs. My husband was less lucky. Cats usually love him, so husband was counting on his cat charisma. The cat got a full five claw slash to the bone in on husband’s hand.
Cat comes to the basement stairs and looks up at us winsomely. He is so cute and so small, with big round eyes.
My favorite cat (who beat up rottweilers) sleeps on the bedroom chair now so he can keep an eye on the stairs and new guy at night.
I cannot believe I am being protected in my sleep by a fifteen pound cat.
I am back to calling the meankitty Shadow. She was an amateur at meankittiness. She is quite friendly now. Busy protecting the husband, so no time to be jealous of me
ETA: Shadow loves the new pitbull. She was desolated when the rottmix died. She shows signs of being as close to the pitbull as she was to the rottmix. They rub noses a lot. Very cute.
Another Scott
@Ken:
It looks like someone was mean to poor BoJo.
As usual, one cannot trust anything on Twitter to be real. Even if it is funny.
Cheers,
Scott.
TomatoQueen
@Another Scott: Tony Jay forced BoJo to put his pants on backward.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: same!
Lyrebird
@Another Scott:
Good line! But they didn’t need an altered photograph. I’m a lousy judge of fashion, but if you look at some of the photos of the leaders, , there’s only one wearing a suit that doesn’t fit.
Sad! Esp because I bet there are some pretty excellent tailors in London. Anyhow, I agree with Joy Reid , people at G7 look happy and relaxed, like “whew, we get to do this without that dangerous b–tard here!”
prostratedragon
@Another Scott: Oooowee!
Jay
@NotMax:
@Skepticat:
yeah, between London and T’kumloops, we are pretty gutted up here, lot’s of people rethinking things here.
Matt
If he’s so worried about ’em, he can HAVE ’em. Seize all their assets, cancel their passports, and dump them on the tarmac in Moscow.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Matt: lavrov is wirried about the roi for russian intelligence.
who do you think paid for jake angeli’s pre-insurrection all natural foods diet?
opiejeanne
@Matt: That would solve some of our problems, sending them to Russia like that.