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Friday Feel Good! Open Your Wine Bottle With Your Shoe!
It's no wonder the French make the top-10 list of countries that consume the most alcohol per capita — they appear to have a special talent for opening wine bottles, without a corkscrew, even when they're totally plastered! Well at least one Frenchman can do such a thing. To get in the happy hour spirit, let the French teach you how to open a wine bottle with your shoe.
Top Official: Burqa Not Part of France's "National Identity"
Cheese. Wine. Baguettes.
Say What? The Brits Know the Truth About Beauty
“The English at heart know that beauty is a cheat; it is an unfair advantage, a distraction from the real qualities that you want in a girl: the ability to fry a breakfast with a hangover, have sex in the rain without complaining, flatten an intruder with a left hook, sink a pint, tell a joke, take a joke, be a brick, be a mate, be a mum."
— Reporting from the south of France, British columnist AA Gill explains that while French women might have the chic, unattainable beauty thing down, English women know that a free spirit is a beautiful thing, too. Perhaps the male writer's extensive musings on the differences between women is just another way to say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Oh Snap! Up, Up, and Awaaaay
Balloons take off at the international air balloon meeting in Eastern France. This year, a record-breaking total of 326 balloons lined up yesterday to take off at dusk.
Front Page: France Says Au Revoir to Topless Sunbathing
- The French media is mourning the end of topless sunbathing, as younger women have become more modest about their bathing suit choices. — The Times
- North Korea's foreign minister has called Hillary Clinton vulgar and unintelligent. — Washington Post
- President Obama gave a prime time press conference on health care reform last night.
Do, Dump, or Marry? Nicolas Sarkozy
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is quite the ladies' man. He's been married to two different women since becoming president in 2007 and got caught checking out a young woman at the last G8 conference in Italy. (Was he or wasn't he?!).
Happy Bastille Day!
Seeing as our moniker is part-French, we think it's only appropriate that we wish you a très, très wonderful Bastille Day! Let's all raise our imaginary glasses of Cotes du Rhone to the folks who brought you baguettes, stinky cheese, and the awesome term jolie laide!
Front Page: France Celebrates Bastille Day
- France held its annual military parade to mark Bastille Day, the country's national holiday. This year the parade honored India, as prime minister Manmohan Singh was in town meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. — AFP
- Microsoft has plans for a free, online version of Office.
Some Churches Have Stopped Marrying People
Some religious clergy in America are refusing to oversee the legal union of couples until same-sex couples have the same right. The national movement has the goal of making clear a distinction between the obligation of the state to grant people equal rights and a church's role in the sacrament of marriage.
Clergy are allowed to act as agents of the state by performing marriages.
Should France Ban the Burqa?
The French love their fashion, but when clothes are used to oppress women, the government is not on board.
France has announced that it may soon ban women from wearing the burqa outside the home. A burqa, worn by some Muslim women, is the head-to-toe garment that typically has only a small opening at the eyes.
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