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I don’t think this is the time for snarky comments about his politics. He’s in intensive care and his wife is pregnant. I hope he gets better soon and I hope h

by agd 7y ago

I don’t think this is the time for snarky comments about his politics. He’s in intensive care and his wife is pregnant. I hope he gets better soon and I hope his family are doing ok at this difficult time.

ColinWright 7y ago
> ... his wife is pregnant. Prime Minister Johnson is not married. In 1987, he married Allegra Mostyn-Owen. That was annulled in 1993. Twelve days later he married Marina Wheeler. Johnson and Wheeler finalised their divorce in February 2020. On February 29th Johnson announced his engagement to Carrie Symonds. He is engaged to be married, and his fiancée is expecting. But he is not currently married. More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Relationships
- mprev 7y ago
  Any time someone gives the guy’s full name it’s a clear indicator of a certain agenda. Give it a rest. Dredge it up when he’s recovered or maybe, if he doesn’t survive this, after a respectful interval following his death.
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  - ColinWright 7y ago
    I have edited my comment. It now no longer gives his full name, nor mentions all of the documented relationships.
    - Bnshsysjab 7y ago
      I don’t think it’s the full names the parent comment is taking issues with here.
- deanmoriarty 7y ago
  Out of my pure curiosity for the mind of some HN commenters, why in the world would you go through the effort of writing such a detailed and pedantic comment focusing on a small irrelevant detail like that, about an hospitalized man who is expecting a child? In case it’s not clear, I am not being snarky in any way and respect you, I just find your comment so out of touch that I genuinely wanted to understand the reasons for you writing it.
  - ColinWright 7y ago
    As fate would have it, I had been discussing a closely related issue with someone else, and the section from the wikipedia page was immediately to hand. In a sense, I was in "transfer information mode" and had the source material there in my editor and ready to go. So in response to a factually incorrect piece of text I dropped in the source material that served as a correction. <fx: shrug /> It happens to me that sometimes I'm focused on something to the extent that I don't always see the bigger picture. I don't wish the man harm, I do hope he makes a complete recovery.
    - deanmoriarty 7y ago
      Thank you, that was a gentleman’s reply.

by agd 7y ago

ColinWright 7y ago

> ... his wife is pregnant. Prime Minister Johnson is not married. In 1987, he married Allegra Mostyn-Owen. That was annulled in 1993. Twelve days later he married Marina Wheeler. Johnson and Wheeler finalised their divorce in February 2020. On February 29th Johnson announced his engagement to Carrie Symonds. He is engaged to be married, and his fiancée is expecting. But he is not currently married. More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Relationships

mprev 7y ago
Any time someone gives the guy’s full name it’s a clear indicator of a certain agenda. Give it a rest. Dredge it up when he’s recovered or maybe, if he doesn’t survive this, after a respectful interval following his death.
- deleted 7y ago
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- ColinWright 7y ago
  I have edited my comment. It now no longer gives his full name, nor mentions all of the documented relationships.
  - Bnshsysjab 7y ago
    I don’t think it’s the full names the parent comment is taking issues with here.
deanmoriarty 7y ago
Out of my pure curiosity for the mind of some HN commenters, why in the world would you go through the effort of writing such a detailed and pedantic comment focusing on a small irrelevant detail like that, about an hospitalized man who is expecting a child? In case it’s not clear, I am not being snarky in any way and respect you, I just find your comment so out of touch that I genuinely wanted to understand the reasons for you writing it.
- ColinWright 7y ago
  As fate would have it, I had been discussing a closely related issue with someone else, and the section from the wikipedia page was immediately to hand. In a sense, I was in "transfer information mode" and had the source material there in my editor and ready to go. So in response to a factually incorrect piece of text I dropped in the source material that served as a correction. <fx: shrug /> It happens to me that sometimes I'm focused on something to the extent that I don't always see the bigger picture. I don't wish the man harm, I do hope he makes a complete recovery.
  - deanmoriarty 7y ago
    Thank you, that was a gentleman’s reply.