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I should put this on the JOKE thread............................................ ............Violent protests outside French Embassies after Middleton pictures published




The French Embassy in South Kensington was in flames last night after being overrun by English protesters unhappy with the treatment of Kate Middleton, a public figure venerated locally as a saint.



Burning French flags and effigies of President François Hollande, protesters chanted ‘There is no Queen but Elizabeth’ and threw bricks through the windows of nearby crêperies and charcuteries.



The monarchists were incensed by pictures that had appeared in the French magazine ‘Closeur’ which defamed the Duchess, revered by many in the UK as ‘such a nice girl’.



Said one protester, ‘The French government claims it can’t stop the publication of the pictures because of ‘freedom of speech’, when it’s clear that the whole thing’s a perfidious plot to desecrate the ancient and outmoded system of beliefs that we English hold dear.’ He then continued stamping on an assortment of croissants and warm patisseries, while others poured a rather special 1990 Chateau Margaux down the drain.



There have also been reports of demonstrations outside French missions in other monarchist nations, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and The Solomon Islands.



The protests began peacefully, but around nightfall a number of extremist monarchists reportedly joined the fray. Armed with hundreds of years of tradition and a sense of fair play, they set about breaching the embassy’s defences. Gendarmes on duty inside the building initially repelled those attempting to scale the walls, but it wasn’t long before they surrendered.



http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/09/1...res-published/

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That'll show them frog eating, snail eating, sons of bitches ! :rofl:

Italians and Irish are next on the hit list apparently, according to latest reports. :cool:

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Will you Please not do that again....I just had breakfast, looked at the link and nearly had it reappear... there is only one thing to be said there.... looking at that lot...can you find a better excuse for condoms:o:o

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More shocking revelations to come apparently, from the French magazine I mean, ........not HBG.


.......there again,on second thoughts I wouldn't rule that out either. :blink:

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I'm not a celebrity though. Sadly what William and Kate need to realise is that nowhere is private because of who they are. They would like to be considered ordinary people but they are not. If they were no-one would be interested in the pictures.

Yesterday an Irish paper said that outside the UK they were just like 'any other celebrity'. In the UK being royal apparently gives them some kind of status and no UK publication would print the pictures but outside the UK they are fair game. So they need to learn fast that if they don't want to be photographed doing something they had better not do it. Otherwise they are going to have a miserable future.

I'm not saying I agree with this it's just how things are. Personally I think this is one of the problems of having a Monarchy. They may be priviledged in some senses but its a rotten life I wouldn't wish on anyone. Time it was abolished.

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I'd agree with most of that apart from the last sentence.
I imagine there's many millions who would be happy to swap places with them.
It's mainly a matter of common sense.
Liz has got by for all these years without any major problems.

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I expect you are right - millions would be happy to swap but if they could they might be surprised at the downside of the so called priviledged life. You see it all the time with people who become famous and/or rich (lottery winners). I wonder how many of them are genuinely happy.

Liz has done well but she's from a different era when 'doing your duty' was more the norm than it is today. Even I admire the way she's soldiered on but to me her life looks mindnumbingly boring. At least they are passing more of the 'duties' down the line to Charles and Co. but if she was anyone elses granny she would have earned putting her feet up. Instead she has to stand for hours in the pouring rain as a 'celebration' of 60 years of meeting people she isn't interested in* and going to endless formal banquets. No wonder she is said to eat her breakfast out of tupperware!

* OK - she's probably interested in some of them but half the time it looks like she doesn't even know who they are.

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So what? So you are entitled to your privacy but celebrities (or famous people} are not?
What if Nelson Mandela or a similar icon was photographed in an unflattering way (eg being fed) in private and those photographs were published.
Is that also OK?

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Don't suppose I would either at her age and likewise probably couldn't care less.

No denying she's done fairly well over the years, but I don't think the Royals lifestyle is the hell that some make it out to be.
Vague rumours have seeped out over the years that they're not so straight laced in their private lives as many think.
The vast majority of their time is their own to do as they please in private and no worries about what it cost.
Even on official functions and trips it's normally only a few hours a day for a short spell only and they are pretty well wet nursed for the rest of the time.

No doubt her and old Phil are finding it a bit of a struggle now but it's only to be expected.
Just hope she lasts long enough to hand the job on to Will, rather than that stuffed suit goon Charlie, who probably belongs on another planet.

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Not in a million years would I want their lifestyle, and I can't imagine that many would. Talk about a poisoned chalice, what on earth is there of their lifestyle to be envied? You or I can pop down the pub to relax, have a few extra marital affairs if we are lucky enough, go to Africa with our mistress and shoot a few elephants, there's a million things we can do and nobody would turn a hair. Well, maybe the wife! We won't have thousands of camera recording our every move, we are free to go where we like when we want, totally unhindered. We can retire at 60 odd, put our feet up, I think Phil did about 300 odd gigs last year, he's 91, no way would I want to swap with him.

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Well it might not be for me either but I'm sure there's lots of folk who would revel in all the razzmatazz and attention.
There's plenty of celebs around who can't get enough of it and those of them who want a private life are able to do so.
The Royals can go out and enjoy their sports on their own private estates without any hindrance and generally enjoy as much privacy in their private lives as they wish.
They are well mollycoddled during their travels with not a single detail or expense to worry about, whilst you and me are subject to the daily whims and desires of such as airport authorities and Michael O Leary, yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir, or "else we can bugger off".
The Kate and Harry instances were exceptions and largely down to their own naivity.
It's a way of life they've been brought up with and come to accept as the norm anyway. Maybe a case of swings and rbts with many pluses and some minuses.

As for being filmed and recorded in public, well aren't we all virtually every day once out in public places in the UK ?
It's amazing how we've almost all come to accept it as the norm and not give it a second thought.
Why ever should we worry about it unless committing a criminal act or making total Rsoles of ourselves ?

No, possibly not for you or I, but I'm sure there are plenty who would happily lap it all up and put up with the odd inconvenience or two.

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Aren't we missing the point here? The Royals of the world, not that there are that many left of them, are born and bred to be Royals, their sole purpose in life. They don't know anything else.

Like the rest of us, I don't envy them, not at all.

The Royal line has been corrupted by the odd bastards along the way, the family trees are not accurate because of them, but the training they receive qualifies all of them to rule over us peasants.

We need figures to look up to in life, Jesus Christ and Mohamed have been invented just for that purpose; it's human nature. Some rebellious people hug trees or live in caves, but they're in the minority. The rest of us need heroes.

I'm struggling to think of mine and I don't fancy hugging trees. All right then, Elvis and Harry Rednapp.

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Christians will now shrug whilst the Islamists will be hunting you down HBG

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Well, I feel brave because I'm in cyberspace?

Seriously though, I've noticed that the lookie-lookie men are getting more threatening and people hardly buy from them any more. Can you bring religious intolerance down to that level?

Although I had a beard for a brief time, I now dislike beards, they are an easy way to identify the enemy though and if I was a Christian with a beard, I would shave it off in case of mistakes once our brave BNP people get on the case.

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Spot on and personally I think its borderline cruelty expecting others to live like that because its their so called 'duty'. To my mind a 'duty' is something you would rather not do but feel obliged to. So when they talk about 'Royal duties' it gives you a clue how they feel.

William in particular clearly wishes he hadn't been born royal. The other day when he was asked by a child what superpower he would choose he said 'invisibility'. If the press harass Kate they way they did his mother it wouldn't surprise me if he decided to opt out of the whole business. King Harry anyone? :rofl::rofl::rofl: