Is Britain about to leave the EU?

[Takhisis]

Ultimately [wiki=Boris_(given_name)]Turkic[/wiki], though. Via the Bulgars.

 

[Arakhor]

Boris is clearly angling to be Prime Minister next, so he's trying to be The Main Man of the Leave campaign and therefore the only sensible replacement when Cameron goes.

 

[Borachio]

Behold your future leader! Madder than Trump, and twice as dangerous.

But what about Nige? Not a force to underestimate, imo.

Despite the fact that he'd be out of a job in the European Parliament if successful in his campaign for Brexit.

 

[Arakhor]

You'd think that people who really, really want to be out of Europe wouldn't take jobs in European government, but hey, expecting them not to be self-serving hypocrites would probably be asking too much.

 

[Borachio]

It's too good a job to pass up though. What is it? £250,000 a year? Plus expenses.

Even I'd be tempted, and I'm notoriously work-shy.

 

[Takhisis]

Enough to support any interested young ladyfriend of, say, 65-75 yrs of age.

 

[really]

UK must leave European convention on human rights, says Theresa May
The woman responsible for snooping justice in the UK doesn't think she should be bound by the ECHR.

Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? - video

 

[Kyriakos]

UK must leave European convention on human rights, says Theresa May
The woman responsible for snooping justice in the UK doesn't think she should be bound by the ECHR.

Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? - video

Awesome video!!!

 

[Arakhor]

Silly double-posting.

 

[Arakhor]

What a shock: Theresa May disliking that whole "human rights" thing. She's a walking example of why it would be a bad idea to pull out of Europe.

That sketch is quite amusing. Sadly, it also shows that it takes less than 50 years for people to forget what the previous generation did.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a natural born American so he should know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

Boris de Pfeffel?
Is he the product of serial incest in the provincial court of OPM Ulm?

 

[Arakhor]

No, he's just an overbred aristocrat without a title. The Byzantines were good at that too.

 

[Kyriakos]

Pfef! no Byzantine would have such a ridiculous surname

Most would not manage to be stuck in mid-air either:

He's just another idiot

 

[Arakhor]

What, Johnson? It's better than "Old Word", "Angel" or "General"!

 

[Kyriakos]

That is Son-of-general, actually, if you mean Strategopoulos

Doubt that Palaiologos means 'old word' either. More likely 'of the old word', itself being dubious (i don't think it has to do with scripture at all).

 

[Borachio]

Apparently, Boris's ambitions don't stop with the UK Premiership.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/its-boris-lite-a-pale-and-predictable-imitation-xj5tn2lwc

 

[Arakhor]

I was thinking more of Doukas, but meh. We all know that the most preposterous Greek surname is "Son of the Bearer of He who is God".

 

[Kyriakos]

I was thinking more of Doukas, but meh. We all know that the most preposterous Greek surname is "Son of the Bearer of He who is God".

El Greco (Dominikos - Kyriakos is far cooler- Theotokopoulos) likely has a surname survive more as a metaphor (as in christian thoughts etc being the barer of god), cause even emperors abbreviated their names to make them distinct from actual words tied to christian god (eg Emmanuel became Manuel, the name Christos is written with an Heta in the non-deity tied version, and a Iota when about Jesus, and so on)

Re Doukas, it probably is latinate (? seems latinate anyway). Afaik it was a military title, but not really a general. The term for that always was Strategos in the greek world. Strategos meaning Army leader (Stratos=army and Hegoumai= to lead).

Trivia: Strategos Autokrator just means General given the power to act without consulting any other power of his state. Autokrator later became in tautology to Emperor, cause they do what they want anyway. Kratos by themselves.

 

[Takhisis]

Roman DVX becomes ΔΟΥΞ (a loanword) then ΔΟΥΚΑΣ is formed from the accusative, ΔΟΥΚΑ.
The same goes for ΠΑΤΗΡ → ΠΑΤΗΡΑ → ΠΑΤΗΡΑΣ

 

[Agent327]

El Greco (Dominikos - Kyriakos is far cooler- Theotokopoulos) likely has a surname survive more as a metaphor (as in christian thoughts etc being the barer of god), cause even emperors abbreviated their names to make them distinct from actual words tied to christian god (eg Emmanuel became Manuel

Immanuel is a Jewish name. As plenty of Christian names actually are. Which, interestingly, brings us back to Boris, who also has Jewish and Turkish ancestry. Among many others.