Important news of the day thread

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A German teenager fled from her own birthday party after more than 1,500 guests turned up, shortly followed by 100 police officers.
The girl, identified only as Thessa, went into hiding after forgetting to set her party as 'private' on Facebook meaning she got a lot more than she bargained for.
Eleven people were temporarily detained by officers and one policeman was injured.

I don't know if the story is nonsense, or just all the people involved. Perhaps both.

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Shocking stuff this morning.

 

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Wayne Rooney today admitted he has had a hair transplant.

 

The footballer has splashed out thousands of pounds at a top London clinic in a bid to restore his receding locks to their former glory.

The England and Manchester United striker was spotted wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie despite the heat on Thursday when he left Queen Anne Street Medical Centre in Central London.

Transplant patients often wear headgear to hide specks of blood left behind during the early stages of the procedure.

Rooney, 25, later posted confirmation via his Twitter account that he had indeed undergone treatment to grow his hair back.

 

Their former glory?!!

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I'm jolly glad that he confirmed it via his Twitter account quickly though. I would have been quite sceptical and waiting for that confirmation if he hadn't.

 

Does this mean he is "metrosexual"?

[best skier in hakuba 5]

 

No, it just means he's bald.

[best skier in hakuba 5]

Going to be 90 this week. Pretty good going.

 

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver

the only Royal worth listening to....just what will he say next? 90 best Quotes of Greece's favourite son

 

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1. "Ghastly." Prince Philip's opinion of Beijing, during a 1986 tour of China.

 

2. "Ghastly." Prince Philip's opinion of Stoke-on-Trent, as offered to the city's Labour MP Joan Walley at Buckingham Palace in 1997.

 

3. "Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf." Said to a group of deaf children standing near a Caribbean steel drum band in 2000

 

4. "If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes." To 21-year-old British student Simon Kerby during a visit to China in 1986.

 

5. "You managed not to get eaten then?" To a British student who had trekked in Papua New Guinea, during an official visit in 1998.

 

6. "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." To a British tourist during a tour of Budapest in Hungary. 1993.

 

7. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

 

8. "Damn fool question!" To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

 

9. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." The Prince's verdict of a fuse box during a tour of a Scottish factory in August 1999. He later clarified his comment: "I meant to say cowboys. "I just got my cowboys and Indians mixed up."

 

10. "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle." To survivors of the Lockerbie bombings in 1993.

 

11. "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves." During a trip to Canada in 1976.

 

12. "A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now that everybody's got more leisure time they are complaining they are unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want." A man of the people shares insight into the recession that gripped Britain in 1981.

 

13. "British women can't cook." Winning the hearts of the Scottish Women's Institute in 1961.

 

14. "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it!" On the issue of stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary marking the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day in 1995.

 

15. "What do you gargle with – pebbles?" To Tom Jones, after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969. He added the following day: "It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs."

 

16. "It's a vast waste of space." Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

 

17. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.

 

18. "If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

 

19. "You ARE a woman, aren't you?" To a woman in Kenya in 1984, after accepting a gift.

 

20. "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" To a wheelchair-bound Susan Edwards, and her guide dog Natalie in 2002.

 

21. "Get me a beer. I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!" On being offered the finest Italian wines by PM Giuliano Amato at a dinner in Rome in 2000.

 

22. "I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family." In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

 

23. "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" In a Radio 4 interview shortly after the Dunblane shootings in 1996. He said to the interviewer off-air afterwards: "That will really set the cat among the pigeons, won't it?"

 

24. "Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle." To neighbour Elton John after hearing he had sold his Watford FC-themed Aston Martin in 2001.

 

25. "The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion." At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

 

26. "A pissometer?" The Prince sees the renames the piezometer water gauge demonstrated by Australian farmer Steve Filelti in 2000.

 

27. "Don't feed your rabbits pawpaw fruit – it acts as a contraceptive. Then again, it might not work on rabbits." Giving advice to a Caribbean rabbit breeder in Anguilla in 1994.

 

28. "You must be out of your minds." To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

 

29. "Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant." At the 50th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme.

 

30. "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species." Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

 

31. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" In the Cayman Islands, 1994.

 

32. "You bloody silly fool!" To an elderly car park attendant who made the mistake of not recognising him at Cambridge University in 1997.

 

33. "Oh! You are the people ruining the rivers and the environment." To three young employees of a Scottish fish farm at Holyrood Palace in 1999.

 

34. "If you travel as much as we do you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly." To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002.

 

35. "The French don't know how to cook breakfast." After a breakfast of bacon, eggs, smoked salmon, kedgeree, croissants and pain au chocolat – from Gallic chef Regis Crépy – in 2002.

 

36. "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?" Asked in 1999 of Tory politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose parents are Jamaican. He replied: "Birmingham."

 

37. "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." On a visit to Australia in 1992, when asked if he wanted to stroke a koala bear.

 

38. "It doesn't look like much work goes on at this University." Overheard at Bristol University's engineering facility. It had been closed so that he and the Queen could officially open it in 2005.

 

39. "I wish he'd turn the microphone off!" The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John's performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

 

40. "Do you still throw spears at each other?" Prince Philip shocks Aboriginal leader William Brin at the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland, 2002.

 

41. "Where's the Southern Comfort?" On being presented with a hamper of southern goods by the American ambassador in London in 1999.

 

42. "Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!" To parents during a visit to Fir Vale Comprehensive School in Sheffield, which had suffered poor academic reputation.

 

43. "Ah you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? Ha, ha! Well done." Meeting 14-year old George Barlow, whose invited to the Queen to visit Romford, Essex, in 2003.

 

44. "So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs." To a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.

 

45. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight." To hopeful astronaut, 13-year-old Andrew Adams.

 

46. "You have mosquitoes. I have the Press." To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean in 1966.

 

47. "The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined." While hosts made effort to greet a state visit to Brazil, 1968.

 

48. "During the Blitz a lot of shops had their windows blown in and sometimes they put up notices saying, 'More open than usual.' I now declare this place more open than usual." Unveiling a plaque at the University of Hertfordshire's new Hatfield campus in November 2003.

 

49. Philip: "Who are you?"

 

Simon Kelner: "I'm the editor-in-chief of The Independent, Sir."

 

Philip: "What are you doing here?"

 

Kelner: "You invited me."

 

Philip: "Well, you didn't have to come!"

 

An exchange at a press reception to mark the Golden Jubilee in 2002.

 

50. "No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody." Prince Philip declines the offer of some fish from Rick Stein's seafood deli in 2000.

 

51. "Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy." Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

 

52. "Holidays are curious things, aren't they? You send children to school to get them out of your hair. Then they come back and make life difficult for parents. That is why holidays are set so they are just about the limit of your endurance." At the opening of a school in 2000.

 

53. "People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans." In 2000.

 

54. "Can you tell the difference between them?" On being told by President Obama that he'd had breakfast with the leaders of the UK, China and Russia.

 

55. "I don't know how they are going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield." After meeting students from Brunei coming to Britain to study in 1998.

 

56. "Do people trip over you?" Meeting a wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident in 2002.

 

57. "That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?" Discussing the tartan designed for the Papal visit with then-Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie last year.

 

58. "I have never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing." Addressing a group of industrialists in 1961.

 

59. "It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!" Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

 

60. "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard." To a young fashion designer at a Buckingham Palace in 2009.

 

61. "So you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962.

 

62. "Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practiced for a good many years." Address to the General Dental Council, quoted in Time in 1960.

 

63. "Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance." Advice for a successful marriage in 1997.

 

64. "I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff." Commiserating about the standard of Buckingham Palace cuisine in 1962.

 

65. "I suppose I would get in a lot of trouble if I were to melt them down." On being shown Nottingham Forest FC's trophy collection in 1999.

 

66. "It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!" To pupils at Queen Anne's School in Reading, who wear blood-red uniforms, in 1998.

 

67. "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing." Dismissing claims that those who sell slaughtered meat have greater moral authority than those who participate in blood sports, in 1988.

 

68. "Ah, so this is feminist corner then." Joining a group of female Labour MPs, who were wearing name badges reading "Ms", at a Buckingham Palace drinks party in 2000.

 

69. "Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'" On being told of a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965.

 

70. "All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury." Bemoaning the rate of British tax in 1963.

 

71. "It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on." Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.

 

72. "Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?" Asked of a penniless student.

 

73. "In education, if in nothing else, the Scotsman knows what is best for him. Indeed, only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education." Said when he was made Chancellor of Edinburgh University in November 1953.

 

74. "If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested." Of his daughter, Princess Anne.

 

75. "They're not mating are they?" Spotting two robots bumping in to one another at the Science Museum in 2000.

 

76. "I must be in the only person in Britain glad to see the back of that plane." Philip did not approve of the noise Concorde made while flying over the Buckingham Palace.

 

77. "The only active sport, which I follow, is polo – and most of the work's done by the pony!" 1965

 

78. "It looks like a tart's bedroom." On seeing plans for the Duke and then Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park.

 

79. "Reichskanzler." Prince Philip used Hitler's title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl during a speech in Hanover in 1997.

 

80. "We go into the red next year... I shall probably have to give up polo." Comment on US television in 1969 about the Royal Family's finances.

 

81. "Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!" Showing his impatience to be fed at a dinner party in 2004.

 

82. "I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor.

 

83. "You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you." Said to Sir Rennie Maudslay, Keeper of the Privy Purse, in the 1970s.

 

84. "What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer." Response to a comment at a small-business lunch about how difficult it is in Britain to get rich.

 

85. "This could only happen in a technical college." On getting stuck in a lift between two floors at the Heriot Watt University, 1958.

 

86. "I'd much rather have stayed in the Navy, frankly." When asked what he felt about his life in 1992.

 

87. "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons" On being shown "primitive" Ethiopian art in 1965.

 

88. "You're not wearing mink knickers, are you?" Philip charms fashion writer Serena French at a World Wildlife Fund gathering in 1993.

 

89. "My son...er...owns them." On being asked on a Canadian tour whether he knew the Scilly Isles.

 

90. "Well, that's more than you know about anything else then." Speaking, a touch condescendingly, to Michael Buerk, after being told by the BBC newsreader that he did know about the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Awards in 2004.

 

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Originally Posted By: brit-gob

Shocking stuff this morning.

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Wayne Rooney today admitted he has had a hair transplant.

The footballer has splashed out thousands of pounds at a top London clinic in a bid to restore his receding locks to their former glory.
The England and Manchester United striker was spotted wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie despite the heat on Thursday when he left Queen Anne Street Medical Centre in Central London.
Transplant patients often wear headgear to hide specks of blood left behind during the early stages of the procedure.
Rooney, 25, later posted confirmation via his Twitter account that he had indeed undergone treatment to grow his hair back.

Their former glory?!!

I'll have a Fabio... looks a bit scouse

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No, I've changed my mind....a Park please!

 

[pie-eater 207]

Hold on no, yappari.... a Tubby Beaver!

 

[pie-eater 207]

But, being scouse he has to go for this

 

[big-will 7]

Time to check some old Harry Enfield clips I think

[grungy-gonads 54]

Originally Posted By: pie-eater

Hold on no, yappari.... a Tubby Beaver!

Mars Attacks!

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Originally Posted By: pie-eater

Hold on no, yappari.... a Tubby Beaver!

I'm bald, not Light-bulb headed!!

[oblivion 5]

[HelperElfMissy 42]

That's a bad head for baldness. If his head really looks like that - then I am glad he is going to the hair magician!

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Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage

 

 

When he took his new 16ft boat out for its maiden voyage, it lived up to its namesake, and sank.

 

 

Mr Wilkinson was left floundering as the vessel sprang a leak and began taking on water before disappearing beneath the waves.

 

 

Holidaymakers looked on while Mr Wilkinson, from Birmingham, was pulled out of the sea by the local harbour master.

 

 

Titanic II was was later towed out of West Bay harbour in Dorset.

 

 

Mr Wilkinson, aged in his 40s, said afterwards: "If it wasn't for the harbour master I would have gone down with the Titanic.

 

 

"It's all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg."

 

He had recently taken ownership of the second hand boat and towed it from his home to the south coast for its first outing.

[TheOrange 0]

He did it for the publicity!

[Tubby Beaver 209]

seems Giggs has been at it again!

 

 

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TREACHEROUS soccer star Ryan Giggs was rocked by a furious ear-bashing yesterday for cheating with his brother's wife.

 

Rhodri Giggs, whose wife Natasha has admitted an eight-year affair with the Manchester United ace, demanded: "How could you do this? You've betrayed me."

 

Rhodri, 34, told Ryan, who also betrayed his wife Stacey: "I trusted you and you've spent years stabbing me in the back."

 

Love rat Giggs DENIED having an affair with his brother's wife during the furious phone call, The Sun can reveal.

 

He insisted Rhodri's missus Natasha had "made up" claims they had a relationship spanning eight years.

 

But heartbroken Rhodri told the footie star he was a "pathetic liar".

 

Natasha told at the weekend how she cheated on Rhodri with his brother. It followed a failed legal bid by Giggs to hide romps with Big Brother beauty Imogen Thomas - leaving him battling to save his marriage to wife Stacey.

 

A source close to the warring brothers told The Sun: "Ryan and Rhodri have finally spoken on the telephone. Let's just say it was a frank exchange of views.

 

"Ryan tried to tell Rhodri that the whole thing was rubbish and not true.

 

"But Rhodri snapped back, 'I don't believe a word of what you're saying to me. You're just a liar'. Rhodri went on, 'How can anyone believe what you say ever again after all this? Why would Natasha make all of this up? It doesn't make any sense. It's just pathetic to deny it'.

 

"Eventually Stacey grabbed the phone off Ryan and started shouting, 'Look, Rhodri, if it's not true, it's just not true. We don't believe Natasha'. She then hung up."

 

Giggs, 37, appeared to have convinced Stacey, 32, with whom he has two young children, that Natasha's story is untrue.

 

 

Rhodri's only warning of the bombshell he was about to face came in a "Dear John" note Natasha left at their £165,000 home in Bolton on Saturday.

 

Pals said she wrote: "You'll be reading something about me tomorrow" - and then fled to Spain.

 

Rhodri cut a forlorn figure yesterday as he arrived at the home he used to share with Natasha, 28, their son and his stepson.

 

He revealed the brothers could be set for a face-to-face showdown. The heartbroken delivery van driver said: "I'm going away to Spain to be with my family."

 

Brother Ryan is also in Spain with Stacey and their kids.

 

Rhodri spent the day being comforted by TV actor Will Mellor - Gaz in the sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - who was best man at his wedding to Natasha last September.

 

The pair visited the home of the Giggs brothers' mum Lynne in Worsley, Greater Manchester - the village where Ryan lives.

 

Rhodri was not wearing a wedding ring when Will later drove him away.

 

 

Meanwhile it emerged Ryan called off a romantic holiday with Stacey at their favourite hotel as his affair with his sister-in-law was exposed.

 

They had planned to stay at the plush Marbella Club in Spain, hoping to repair the damage caused by his fling with Imogen, 28.

 

They are now believed to have switched to a more private villa, where devastated Stacey can confront the star over his betrayal.

 

A source at the exclusive resort said: "Their booking was suddenly cancelled. It's a shock to hear of the trouble in their marriage."

 

Giggs has seen his valuable squeaky-clean public image disintegrate since The Sun discovered he had a six-month affair with former Miss Wales Imogen.

 

He was granted a High Court injunction which prevented us from naming him - but he was unmasked in Parliament.

 

Natasha told pals that Giggs, awarded an OBE in 2007, denied to her that he was the player in the injunction.

 

She decided to tell her story when she later learnt the truth.

 

She revealed they met in 2003 - the same year she met Rhodri - and had secret sex sessions at hotels and properties she was selling in her job as an estate agent.

 

Despite marrying Rhodri last September, Natasha said the affair with his brother continued until this April.

 

 

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If this is try, he's a right royster-doyster isn't he.

Not expected.

Still a legend* though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(*Note to stemik - at football. Silly tart as far as this goes).

[loaf of bread 0]

Doing what young lads half his age dream of both on and off the pitch!

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The usual suspects going bonkers over a third claim to shagging Sir Giggs.

[brit-gob 9]

Breaking:

 

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson shows off her new nose for first time as she emerges from home a week after operation.

 

It was her first public appearance since a three-hour operation last Wednesday in Harley Street, when cartilage from one of her ribs was used to rebuild the nose, which collapsed following years of cocaine abuse.

[brit-gob 9]

 

I think that is a rather 'enhanced' Obertan

 

[brit-gob 9]

Or maybe not so enhanced!

[brit-gob 9]

Here's the "former glory" of his "locks" that the original article was going on about Mamabear. Hardly flowing were they, these locks.

 

[grungy-gonads 54]

Flowing.

Obertan. He has really made a lot of impact. Not.