French magazine Closer just published some photos of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless while “staying at the French chateau of the Queen‘s nephew, Lord Linley — making it now two royal nudie picture scandals in three weeks. Click though for some NSFW scans.
On the magazine’s website, it says the pictures are of the couple “like you have never seen them before. Gone are the fixed smiles and the demure dresses. On holiday Kate forgets everything.”
The latest case made headlines in September of this year as the first Irish case of spontaneous human combustion. People found the burned body of an elderly man lying with his head near the furnace of his apartment. Coroners determined, though, that the furnace was not the source of the conflagration, nor was there any accelerant on the body, nor was there any evidence of foul play. This case was typical of spontaneous human combustion in that there were burn marks on the floor and ceiling directly below and above the body, but no other burn marks anywhere in the room.
9. The First Case
The first mention of spontaneous human combustion in the history books is Polonus Vorstius. Polonus was just a regular Italian knight in the late 1400s who liked wine, women, and song. He consumed ‘two ladles’ of very strong wine one night, and it disagreed with him. People say that he immediately vomited flame, and then burst into flames entirely. No one else seemed to have any problem with the wine, and people were baffled as to how this happened. They’re still baffled now.
8. The Gruesome Details
Spontaneous human combustion has claimed the life at least one member of the nobility; Countess Cornelia Di Bandi. The Countess, who lived in the 1700s, was found half way between her bed and her window one morning, with everything except her lower legs and three fingers burned. She had apparently calmly risen from her bed to open the window in the middle of the night, but combusted before she could reach the window. In the room, two candles had been burned – or at least the tallow had been burned. The wicks were left, completely unburned. Soot covered the room, including some bread on a plate that she had left on a table. Just as a indication of how strange the 1700s were; the bread was taken from the plate and offered to a dog. The dog refused to eat it, making it the most sensible player in that incident.
7. Two Disappearances
Ginette Kazmierczak lived with her husband and son in France in the 1970s. When her husband disappeared mysteriously, Ginette contacted the authorities to try to find them. They couldn’t find anything. A few days later, while her son was out with some friends, a neighbor found Ginette’s body, except for her legs, reduced to ash in an otherwise undisturbed apartment.
6. The Fire Inside
In 1967, a passenger on a bus in England noticed blue flames in the window of an apartment building hallway. She thought it was a gas jet and called the fire brigade. When they got to the place, they supposedly found the body of Robert Francis Bailey, a homeless man. A fireman reported seeing a slit in the man’s abdomen from which blue flames were issuing.”
This is an advanced country with a social commitment!
“Sweden‘s Euro 2012 squad playing England tomorrow have been rapped by their country’s prime minister for conducting a bizarre bare-bottomed training session.
A hugely embarrassing film shows reserve goalkeeper Johan Wiland on all fours with his shorts lowered, as players fire off shots at his exposed buttocks.
Sweden Keeper Johan Wiland Uses BUM for Target Practice
The team were playing a game called ‘the pig’ in which players volley the ball to each other.
As ‘punishment’ for letting the ball drop, Wiland was made to get on his hands and knees for the humiliating naked ritual.
Sweden were defeated by Ukraine on Monday and must beat England in Kiev on Friday to stand a chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals.
But instead of a rigorous practice session at their training ground, they were caught playing the oddball game popular in school playgrounds.
Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt today lashed out at the national team that now has the hopes of the country on its shoulders.
He told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper: ‘People who carry expectations should be aware of that and act accordingly.
‘It’s important to reflect on how what one does in order to meet expectations.’
Centre Party leader Annie Loof described the game as ‘tasteless’, adding to the paper: ‘They are really not being good role models.’
And Goran Hagglund, leader of the Christian Democrat party, said: ‘I do not think they should be engaging in these types of games.’
The head of Sweden’s anti-bullying group Friends also told Expressen: “They have shown unbelievably poor judgment.
hey are heroes for thousands of boys and girls across Sweden and I don’t think they should send signals that this is okay.
‘These sorts of games happen at schools and at sports clubs, but there are also children who end up vulnerable in these situations.’
But the team’s press spokesman Hans Hultman refused to apologise for the incident, describing it as ‘no big deal’.
He said last night: ‘It’s a game the players play in different ways. There’s nothing else to it.’
The vehemence of hatred has not dimmed with the passing of centuries.
I was talking to a colleague of my son who is Welsh.
Queen Elizabeth.
He was saying the Welsh also hate the British.
Surprising how the nation has remained and how they ruled the world!
“If the Queen of England were an elected position, Elizabeth II would have been forced out long ago,
Her sixty-year reign has coincided with the total loss of the British Empire and a deeply reduced place for Britain in the world.
Just consider 1953, the year she came to the throne.
It was still the aftermath of the Second World War and Britain was first among all countries in Europe.
The detested Germans were defeated and partitioned and their economy and country seemingly in ruins.
Fast forward 60 years and the Germans are running Europe again and Britain is back to being sick man of Europe along with Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Ireland of course.
They hardly have a voice in European affairs which are now basically overseen by France and Germany.
Back in 1953 the new Queen oversaw an empire that governed vast tracts of land in Africa, Asia, Europe and elsewhere on the globe.
During her reign the British were reduced to fighting Argentina over an utterly nondescript island called Malvinas/Falklands and playing second fiddle to American forces just about everywhere.
Indeed, like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, there would have been cries of “Off with her head.”
(Many of her predecessors were topped for far less. See Anne Boleyn etc.)
Instead, she is becoming more beloved as she gets older; the sheer longevity of the woman and her ability to carry out her duties at the age of 86 is impressive even to the most avid Republican.
But she must wake up and wonder sometimes where it all went wrong, She came into office as a hugely significant figure on the world stage, with giants like Churchill in her government.
Now it’s the nondescript David Cameron she meets and now the monarchy may even lose Australia and Canada at some point in the near future – not to mention Northern Ireland given the shifting demographics there.
She has become a symbolic figure, which she always was to some extent, but she no longer wields true power.
Unlike the fall of the Roman Empire, it was not the Barbarians at the gate, rather it was the enemy within, as the British simply lost out to Germany in Europe and the US in the world in terms of the scope of their power and influence in the post industrial revolution age.
Rule Britannia, indeed, but nowadays only on a small sliver of the earth, unlike when Elizabeth came to reign in 1953.
Royalty’s new reality was summed up wonderfully by the Guardian editorial writer describing the celebration on The Thames on Sunday as a flotilla of ships and boats honored the Queen;
“Sunday was a day for dressing up. But it was hard to watch the royal men in their sometimes preposterously over decorated uniforms — lord high admirals of ever-declining fleets, commanders of air forces whose future effectiveness hangs in the balance, fighters of wars about which middle Britain has deeply mixed feelings — and take any of it too seriously.
“From testicle-biting police dogs to sonic cannons capable of inducing involuntary urination, Polish anti-hooligan squads have an array of weapons ready to deal with any troublesome England fans at Euro 2012.
“The Polish police are going to come down on troublemakers like a bag full of anvils and you don’t want to be there when it happens,” the paper warned.
“Krakow has a long history of hooligan violence — the local police have seen it all before and they will ruin your day if you try it on.
“These lads’ mums and dads rioted under Soviet machine guns — a few chairs thrown by beered-up fans is not going to intimidate them.
“Do not expect softly, softly police tactics.
“Poland’s anti-hooligan squads are armed with: Shotguns firing baton rounds that probably won’t kill you as long as you’re 30m away, a truck-mounted water cannon affectionately known as ?the typhoon’, a high-tech sonic cannon that can make you wet yourself on its lowest setting, dogs trained to bite you directly in the testicles.”
English fans are not expected to arrive in Krakow in significant numbers, with England’s Group D games all taking place in Ukraine.
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