Posts Tagged ‘France’
Steve Cohen arrested for dancing with a chicken tied to his cock at the Eiffel Tower
TO the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where Steve Cohen, dressed in platform heels, a garter, long, gloves and tights has a rooster tied to his penis with a long ribbon.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
1944 in photos: French shave heads of women who collaborated with the Germans
AFTER the Second World War, the French shaved the heads of women who collaborated with the Germans. Men were shot.
A woman collaborator holding a German baby is led back to her home by a jeering crowd after having her hair shaved off. Date: 26/08/1944.
Two French patriots drag Grande Guillotte from her home in Normandy, France on July 10, 1944. After she was discovered to be collaboration with the enemy. Date: 10/07/1944.
Two Paris women collaborators, partially stripped and their hair cropped, are marked on the foreheads with the Nazi sign and marched by armed patriots through the streets of the French capital of France on Sept. 1, 1944. Date: 01/09/1944
Members of the French resistance party deal out punishment to all known Axis collaborationists, on the morning of Bastille Day. Housemaids, servants, etc., of the Germans were gathered together, shorn of all their hair, and paraded through the streets of Cherbourg, France on July 17, 1944, their hairless heads the emblem of their violations of the rules of the party. Date: 17/07/1944.
French bus drivers trike over too-tight trousers
BUS DRIVERS in Marseille do not like “the quality, the colour or the fit” of their new trousers. Workers with RTM, (Régie des transports de Marseille), are making ready for a day if industrial action on June 3rd.
Says CGT union leader Bernard Gargiolo:
“I won’t be wearing them. The shirts are alright, but these pants are far too tight. We reject the bottom half of this uniform, which has the same colour as the Gendarmerie National.”
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France bans lights at night
THE Dark Ages are returning to France. French environment minister Delphine Batho says that from July 1, all non-residential buildings will have to switch off interior lights one hour after the last worker leaves the premises. The outside lights must all be extinguished by 1 am.
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Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: Technology | Comments (2)
France smells of sweat, garlic and bd eggs
A CLOUD of gas has hit Kent. It’s source: France. It’s methyl mercaptan, a gas added to natural gas to make it detectable at even minute concentrations. It makes it easy to spot a gas leak. So. What does it smell like? The Prefect of Police, Prefect of the Zone Defense and Security of Paris, issues a press release:
During the morning of 21 January, a leak occurred in the company Lubrizol in Seine-Maritime. Disengagement of a MERCAPTAN diffuses into the atmosphere and the smell is felt in several departments… The MERCAPTAN is a compound giving sulfur odors of sweat, garlic or rotten egg. It is associated with town gas to help detect a gas leak.It presents no inhalation toxicity and presents no risk.
French cloud smells of bad eggs, garlic and sweat. Who knew..?
ArcelorMittal: Another majestic French misunderstanding of economics
SO. The French are threatening to nationalise a steel plant to stop the eeeevil capitalist bastards closing it down. And even I would agree that there are times that governments should prevent capitalists from doing certain things. But it would help if the government understood even the first thing about what it is doing: something which isn’t true for the French government in this case:
Francois Hollande has threatened to nationalise a plant owned by steelmaker ArcelorMittal in an increasingly heated dispute in which a minister has said the multinational is no longer welcome in the country.
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French want Google to pay to link to websites
THE latest installment of the Gallic incomprehension of the most basic pieces of economics is that they want to charge Google for indexing the French newspapers. Something that is really very absurd indeed.
France’s new government has been making noise about forcing Google to pay for the privilege of linking to French news sites.
Erm, what?
Google responded by threatening to remove all French news sites from its index, which would presumably eliminate the 4 billion clicks it sends to those sites every year.
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Posted: 27th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment
Only 18% of French are Nazis – France election shocker!
QUELLE surprise in France where only 18% are rabid Nazis. In the race for the French Presidency, 18.12 per cent of French voters opted for the National Front in the first round of the presidential elections.
When the Germans last collaborated closely with France for a united Europe, the figure was as high as 50%. Some work to go, then, for Marine Le Pen as she seeks to free the country from the yoke of EU imperialism by selling Spain and Greece to China in a 2-4-1 deal and taking out an option on Belgium.
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Posted: 23rd, April 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
So Is It Going To Be France Next To Go Bust After Greece?
SO. Is France alls et to follow Greece? Well, no, obviously it’s not going to be France going bust next: we’ve Spain Italy and Portugal to get through first. But the markets are moving to the point where France might well start to look like it’s in trouble.
Yields on French 10-year government bonds just exploded, now up over 6% on the day to 3.14%.
The spread between French 10-year bonds and German bunds is up even more dramatically — more than 10 bps or a full 9% on the day.
You need another little bit of information to understand this:
Casualty of “market conditions” on Wednesday – the EFSF’s latest bond issue.
The EFSF had mandated Barclays Capital, Credit Agricole and JP Morgan on Monday to price off a ‘no-grow’ €3bn 10 year deal to finance Ireland’s next bailout loan tranche, due in November.
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Saving the Euro Could Bankrupt France
THIS saving the euro thing is decidedly difficult you know. The latest news is that if France does what might be necessary to save it, then France itself might go bust.
The U.S. ratings agency said late on Monday it may slap a negative outlook on France’s Aaa rating in the next three months if the costs for helping bail out banks and other euro zone members stretch its budget too much.
The warning, which sent the risk premium on French government bonds shooting up to a euro lifetime high, came as European Union leaders are preparing measures to protect the region’s financial system from a potential Greek debt default.
So here’s what the problem is. So Greece defaults, lots of banks lose money. Boo Hoo. But then maybe Ireland, Portugal will default? Still just Boo Hoo really. But, and here’s the biggie, this then puts pressure on Spain and Italy and if they default then the entire banking system goes down in flames.
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We Demand To Pay More Tax Say Rich French People
A SLIGHTLY surprising letter turned up in a French newspaper today. Coming from a bunch of rich French people they demanded that they be taxed more.
We, chairmen of companies and business leaders, business men and women, finance professionals or wealthy citizens, call for an exceptional levy that would target France’s richest taxpayers.
Well, yes, except there’s a number of teenie problems with this whole idea. One of which is that one of the signatories Liliane Betencourt, the L’Oreal heir, has been getting tax rebates for the past few years. If she really wanted to pay more tax then she could have just not cashed those checks.
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Brigitte Bardot Mourns Suicide Ex Husband
REMEMBER when Brigitte Bardot was nothing more than a brilliant nymph who didn’t care much for wearing clothes and ached of Gallic cool? Remember those days? The days before she started being an animal rights activist and… uh… mentalist who said dodgy things about Muslims. Yeah. Those were good days.
Bardot seemingly likes animals more than the world of Islam, criticizing slaughter procedures of sheep while saying things like “…my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims” as well as calling homosexuals “fairground freaks”.
Well, now she’s going to have to mourn a human for a change after reports broke of her ex-husband, Gunther Sachs, killing himself. It has been suggested that he shot himself.
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Posted: 9th, May 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
The Piss Christ Is Dead: Killed By The Catholic Right
THE artwork Immersion, part of the show I Believe in Miracles has been vandalised by Christian fundamentalists against free expression.
Adrian Moran writes:
I wonder if Andres Serrano, the artist who made the original “Piss Christ” installation, has the cojones to make a “Piss Mohammed” artwork.
Richard Bartholomew reports:
Following the vandalism of a print of Immersion (Piss Christ) at the Collection Lambert art gallery in Avignon, Le Monde has some background on the Civitas Institute, the Catholic Right organisation which recently mobilised a protest against the artwork:
Pour le politologue Jean-Yves Camus, le discours qui évoque un traitement différencié des religions en France n’est pas neuf. Mais derrière ce combat, “c’est la soumission de l’ordre politique à l’ordre chrétien qui est l’objectif”. L’institut Civitas est lié, selon ce spécialiste de l’extrême droite, aux catholiques intégristes de la mouvance lefebvriste. Il considère Alain Escada comme “la vitrine, le simple porte-parole” du mouvement. “J’ai connu ce citoyen belge en tant que patron d’une petite librairie d’extrême droite à Bruxelles. C’est un personnage sans grande envergure et l’on peut affirmer sans s’avancer qu’il n’est pas la tête pensante de Civitas”, témoigne Jean-Yves Camus.
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Posted: 20th, April 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Banning ‘Extremists’ From France – What Would Voltaire Say?
AS a believer in ‘the domination of the world by Islam’ and a supporter of capital punishment for ‘whoever insults the message of Mohammed’, Anjem Choudary may not be the kind of guy most of us would have over for dinner. But in banning the so-called ‘preacher of hate’ from entering France, the authorities there must have got Voltaire, that staunch defender of freedom of expression, spinning in his grave.
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Posted: 10th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Britain And France Are One Country: They Win The War And We Get Sex Tips
THE good news is that the Aircraft carrier being built to serve UK forces will have planes: French ones.
But don’t panic because Liam Fox bemoans the “great deal of hysteria” and explains:
“Under the existing Nato system our troops could come under Turkish or Polish command.”
See. No need to panic. And the UK and France will also share nuclear research. But not with Turkey, because that would be madness, wouldn’t it?
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
A Madeleine McCann Found In France
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news – Another Our Maddie is found in France…
The Times: “Girl, 12, abducted by ‘internet stalker’ on family holiday in France”
Kaya Burgess reports:
A 12-year-old British girl was found sobbing in a French airport after a Belgian man abducted her from a holiday villa and tried to take her on a flight to Madrid. The girl from Glasgow had been staying with her family in a villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in the South of France when she was lured away by a 41-year-old man she had met on the internet.
Paedo. Internet. Foreigners. This story has all the elements of a tabloid hit. But one thing is missing…
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Posted: 8th, July 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Photojournalism, Reviews | Comments (3)
French Navy Saves Somali Priates
THE French Navy and the Somali pirates might not be all that different.
Different fish for different folks…
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Posted: 16th, April 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
French Police Stop Joyriders: A Video Guide
HOW do French police stop joyriders? Question asked. Question answered:
Another one for the car-b-cue…
The Top Ten Cars To Burn In Paris
Posted: 10th, February 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Headline Of the Day: German Troops To Serve In France
GET this: “German Troops to Serve in France.”
It’s like those 1940 headlines all over again…
Posted: 2nd, December 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Obama Energises France’s Minorities
OBAMA’S campaign has energised France’s minorities:
Booker Rising notes:
According to the French civil-rights organization CRAN, of the 520,000 municipal councillors elected in 2008, only 2,000 are either black or of North African origin. This represents one-third of 1 per cent of the total – in a country where, according to most estimates, minorities make up 11 to 17 per cent of the population.
Good news, then…
La Marseillaise: Booing The French And Gordon Brown Off
HOW do you stop a football match before it has begun?
Any football match in France before which the country’s national anthem is booed will now be “immediately stopped”, French Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot said Wednesday after meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Anthems are played before the game, right?
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