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Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by dtf »

playpause wrote: post #89
dtf wrote: post #48

This is just silly. The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. It would be like searching for info about (UK supreme court president) Lady Hale by Googling “barmaid”. Try instead searching for “Boris Johnson technology lessons”, or indeed “Boris Johnson thigh”. Has his team SEO’d that yet?

> The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. Sky News: "Boris Johnson: 'No interest to declare' over links with former model Jennifer Arcuri" The Mirror: "Boris Johnson 'had affair with ex-model Jennifer Arcuri while London mayor'" The Sun: "Who is Jennifer Arcuri? Model connected to Boris Johnson" The Independent: "Jennifer Arcuri: Boris Johnson repeatedly refuses to deny aff…

Fair point. Looks like I read the wrong newspapers!

Anyway... BREAKING: this particular ex-model's just had her laptop stolen while she was in the UK... containing 6 years of emails, documents, photos and personal who-knows-what from the time when she was reportedly giving technology lessons to our now Prime Minister.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7522877/Jennifer-Ar...

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by verbify »

drcongo wrote: post #84
verbify wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The news story that really made me believe that the bumbling fool shtick is real and not just an act was when he went to a buddhist temple in Myanmar and started reciting a colonial-era Kipling poem about a British soldier reminiscing about a Burmese girl that he kissed - until the ambassador intervened and told him it wasn't appropriate. If he understood the context of the poem (a lack of sensitivity to the three wa…

> If he understood the context of the poem (a lack of sensitivity to the three wars the British fought to suppress Burmese independence) then he would've never recited the poem. That's exactly why he did it. He's a nasty, vindictive, racist colonialist.

I'm not saying he's not racist/colonialist. You only have to read his article about 'flag-waving piccaninnies... tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief...' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3571742/If.... Or his argument that Obama hated the UK because he was Kenyan and had an 'ancestral dislike of the British empire'. Or any of the other dozens examples.

I'm just saying that if he's as smart as people claim, if the whole bumbling idiot is a calculated act, then there's not much to benefit from idiotically reciting that poem, it's not like there's some vast constituency in the British public who love The Road to Mandalay. It's an obscure reference, most British people have never heard of the poem... He seemed genuinely surprised that he shouldn't recite the poem.

I think the bumbling idiot thing is genuine. That doesn't also exclude him from being a nasty vindictive racist colonialist.

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by jacquesm »

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #33
AznHisoka wrote: post #29

My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)

Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.

If his aim is to come across as a lovable bumbling fool then he's failing, he comes across as a malicious pompous ass who will happily wreck his country for minimal personal gain.

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by verbify »

fiala__ wrote: post #82
verbify wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The news story that really made me believe that the bumbling fool shtick is real and not just an act was when he went to a buddhist temple in Myanmar and started reciting a colonial-era Kipling poem about a British soldier reminiscing about a Burmese girl that he kissed - until the ambassador intervened and told him it wasn't appropriate. If he understood the context of the poem (a lack of sensitivity to the three wa…

"A Well-trained Idiot" describes the British Etonian elite so concisely I think it should become a technical term. Well done.

I've borrowed it from someone else (who was actually educated in Oxford, but not Eton), wish it were my own though.

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by vfc1 »

This sounds like another silly conspiracy theory to me, what is most likely happening is the exact opposite.

These cheap news websites will take some term relating to Boris Johnson, like Bus or Model, and engineer articles that will get clicks in order to generate advertising revenue.

It's the cheap websites doing SEO based on popular Boris Johnson terms, and not Boris Johnson's team.

I mean the risk of someone in his staff of multiple people that would have to know about this to leak that he was doing it to the press just to push down on google searches unfavorable news would be huge.

One leak and his career would be over, I mean come on it does not make any sense.

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by HenryBemis »

John Oliver mentioned this in his show, Last Week Tonight a couple of months ago [0]. Boris is a snake with a smart team behind him. He wants to divide and he creates more tension and hatred instead of providing solutions. He follows the steps of the Oompa Loompa across the pond.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyO_MC9g3k

Edit: this post will be sooooo bad for the "karma points" but it's 100% accurate on BoJo the Bozo.

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by [deleted] »

dtf wrote: post #48

This is just silly. The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. It would be like searching for info about (UK supreme court president) Lady Hale by Googling “barmaid”. Try instead searching for “Boris Johnson technology lessons”, or indeed “Boris Johnson thigh”. Has his team SEO’d that yet?

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Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by vfc1 »

sincerely wrote: post #3

This is actually fascinating (even if it may not be the behavior we expect from our elected leaders). He did the same thing in June where he gave a completely baffling interview [1] about how his hobby was painting models of buses out of used fruit crates. But people suspected [2] then that it might be a similar strategy, to monopolize the results for "boris johnson bus" searches. I wonder why nobody else is willing…

There is a much simpler explanation. It's actually these cheap news websites engineering articles targetting Boris Johnson popular terms (like Model or Bus), in order to generate clicks and advertising revenue.

Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

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Post by nbevans »

scarygliders wrote: post #95
nbevans wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't "spiritually" true. It is factually true to the extent that the High Court ruled 350m was approximately the correct gross figure. Indeed some say that figure is conservative because it was based on projections from an official figure dated from 2014 that put the gross at closer to 450m. I'm guessing 2014 was high because of financial bailouts still being paid into the EU coffers. From the ruling statement: “…

Isn't it strange that any and all seemingly pro-Brexit posts here are being downvoted. What you posted is factually correct. From observation, HN has turned into just another Slashdot, unfortunately. I came here to escape from Slashdot's obvious liberal-biased bubble, but the infestation has happened here too. No doubt this post will be downvoted into oblivion as well, including the other replie(s) I've made on this…

What is pro-Brexit about my post though? :~)
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