Saturday, April 9, 2011

Carole Middleton: Future Grandmother of a Potential Heir to English Throne Badly Hit with 15/50 Syndrome


15/50 is a phenomenon recently coined because many mothers are now trying hard or unconsciously dressing like their young daughters.
 Nothing actually morally bad with that. It’s just that it becomes quite hilariously funny for anyone who would see a trim and/or fashionably young figure from the back only to be surprised, frightened or plainly head-scratchingly-disappointed to see upfront a 50+-year-old woman who, in spite of all the best cosmetics, toiletries and even surgery done to her face, still looks old.
Not that am even suggesting that Carole Middleton, Catherine Middleton’s (future wife of Prince William) mother, had anything done to her face.
 Instead Carole Middleton is a glaring example of how one who was monetarily deprived in her youth (or plainly never got attention and is still trying hard for attention now) is making up through the dresses and/or shoes she wears. In result she looks like she is dressing like her daughter. However which way Carole Middleton was a flight attendant before she became a millionaire when she and husband Michael Middleton set up Party Pieces – an online mailing company of children’s party accessories. She definitely has more money now enough to qualify them as millionaires.
Not that aquiring things now when one was deprived of them then is bad. One needs therapies in forms like these every now and then. But when a woman is dressing up like one of her daughters it either is a sign of being hardheaded in accepting her age (in spite of the wrinkly skin, cellulite, sagging arms and thighs and lack of figure and all) or just being plain uneducated in how one, six years past the half century mark, should dress.
Middle-aged women should not, on the other hand, look frumpy. They should look like human beings blessed with the wisdom of their years. They should look respectable enough that their experiences and stature as mothers (way past half the century mark) should look.
Royal followers are aware that snobbish noses turned up the very first time Carole Middleton caught the spotlight as one of Prince William’s guests in his Sandhurst graduation chewing gum. “So this gum-chewing-woman is the potential mother-in-law of the future king of England?” they thought. “Not only was being a former flight attendant quite unimaginable for the possibility of this woman being a mother-in-law to Prince William but to chew gum on his graduation? No class at all.”
In the pictures below spot where Carole Middleton got it wrong. Below are proofs detailing where she and many other women in her age range get it wrong. Note that Carole Middleton still dresses the conservative English way (though it’s the conservative yound adult English way) compared to other women hit with the 15/50 phenomenon.
 At 56 years of age and wearing short skirts, flat boots and navy jacket. Forget even her well-toned body. Old is old. No offense but if looks betray a mature woman’s age men and women still know that other parts of her anatony would still give her away.
 The picture of Kate Middleton’s parents after her engagement announcement. Carole Middleton turned up for the world press in tight skinny jeans and high heeled boots with a cropped zipper jacket that looked like it was from Topshop. The thing that glaringly shows how Carole Middleton refuses to dress her age is that Topshop is for the young market. Even Kate Moss, the somewhat old supermodel now, who was in charge for some years of the clothes from Topshop, was around 36 years old when she got that job. How young is 36 compared to 56? One is a mother to a six-year-old child and the other is a mother to a 29-year-old-daughter.
  Trying to look young makes a woman look old. Tangerine cocktail dress even more revealing than that of her daughter’s. Too young, too tight, too bright. Too trying hard. Too bad taste. Too needy to be educated on how to dress her age. Too many like these happening these days.
Here is a bright shining example of how women of Carole Middleton’s age and stature should dress. Princess Michael of Kent may be 10 years older that Mrs. Middleton but she definitely looks younger, more cultured, wiser and more in command of the respect women way past the century mark deserve.
      


Read more: http://socyberty.com/people/carole-middleton-future-grandmother-of-a-potential-heir-to-english-throne-badly-hit-with-1550-syndrome/#ixzz1J0cAqHzX

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Kurt Cobain Remembered Seventeen Years After His Death


 Kurt Cobain is known worldwide for his music. Though many probably may not reconcile his name with his face and sound they had been a common fixture everywhere as the presence of the faces on our coins are. Cobain is not something alien to a whole slew of people belonging to Generation X or Gen X (born after the post-World War II baby boom ended which are those born in the 1960s, ’70s and not later than 1982).
 Kurt Donald Cobain, February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994, was remembered by his hometown Aberdeen in Washington on Tuesday, seventeen years after his suicide, with a guitar sculpture memorial located in a park near the Young Street bridge where Nirvana’s frontman spent some of his childhood days. Notably, during the guitar sculpture dedication on Tuesday, many of those who went to the unveiling were born after his death in ‘94.

Nirvana, Cobain’s grunge band, found breakthrough success with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” from their second album Nevermind. As much as they sold millions of albums the success of their impact is really measured when Cobain, a singer-songwriter and frontman of this band, was hailed as the spokesperson of Gen X.
 Before he died Cobain was struggling with heroin addiction, bronchitis and laryngitis, depression, his fame and public image as well as the professional pressures between himself and his wife, musician, Courtney Love. It’s reported that his death was the result of a second suicide attempt.
On April 8, 1994 an electrician, who was supposed to install a security system in Cobain’s Seattle mansion, found him on the floor and thought he was sleeping until he saw the gun pointing to his chin. Apart from the blood that came out of his ears there was no sign of trauma. A suicide note, to his childhood imaginary friend named Boddah, was found paraphrasing, “I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing…for too many years now”. High doses of heroin and Valium was found in his body. He had been dead already for three days before his body was found.
      







His death and life had been explored in films and books.
Cobain’s wife Courtney Love hired a private investigator to look for Cobain after he left rehab, a few days of only being in the program, before his death. On April 5 he barricaded himself in the granny flat behind his mansion and killed himself.
Love was in a hospital in L.A. because of a drug overdose. She was taken there two days after Cobain’s death when his body haven’t been discovered yet. A day after, on April 8 when Cobain’s body had already been found, Love went out of the hospital after a friend informed her of the discovery.
 His daughter with Love, Frances Bean, was just 19 months old.


Read more: http://musicouch.com/genres/rock/kurt-cobain-remembered-seventeen-years-after-his-death/#ixzz1ItdJfdNW

Monday, April 4, 2011

No Wedding Ring for Prince William

There’s still that forthcoming wedding though. England’s second-in-line-to-the-throne decided to forgo the wedding band, the simplest and surest sign that anyone is legally and morally taken. Palace officials confirmed this staggering news with the clarification that this is with William’s future wife, Catherine Middleton’s, blessings. Buckingham Palace clarified that Catherine would be the only one to get to wear the family heirloom Welsh gold band to be given by Queen Elizabeth.



The choice of not wearing a wedding band is one of the accepted modern acts couples exercise these days. This goes alongside a bride’s choice not to take on her husband’s surname coupled with the now most popular separate bank accounts. However Prince William marrying without a wedding band may be considered too drastic as a decision for an heir to an institution steeped with tradition.
Blessed with the wisdom of any couple their age, Catherine is 29 while William a few months younger at 28, Kate and William already know what they can get away with even if they are a young couple of a royal institution.
Reports of a finger food buffet, charitable donations instead of gifts and some emailed invitations are sure signatures of the young, modern couple who had been living in together since their university years albeit reported quiet disapproval from the late Queen Mother and the present Queen. This birth of a new, modern, no nonsense, wise young royal couple had been signaled right from the start when the very first news regarding their wedding is the bride’s limo ride, instead of the usual carriage ride, to Westminster Abbey.
 As much as the only ring that would be visible forever on William’s hand would be the signet ring that men of his position wear there’s no need for any wedding band to ward off any potential, however subtle temptation, as the whole world would be watching and reading about his wedding to the incomparably beautiful, statuesque, patient and understanding Kate Middleton on April 29.


Read more: http://socyberty.com/people/no-wedding-ring-for-prince-william/#ixzz1IYE8Wdpt

Friday, April 1, 2011

April Fools’ Day: Some of The Best Known World Class Pranks

Expect anything and everything on April Fools’ Day.
Though April Fools’ Day is celebrated around the world it is not a national holiday. All kinds of jokes and foolishness abound on this day. Jokes ranging from being simply good-humoured or simply funny to hoaxes definitely serve as a test of one’s imagination and the recipient’s good naturedness and/or imagination or lack of one or both.
Various countries have their own variation on how they celebrate April Fools. People in New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, Australia, and South Africa have their April Fools’ Day jokes last only until noon. UK papers even only have their morning edition print their April Fools’ Day prank.
Anywhere else in the world April Fools’ Day goes on entirely on April 1st’s 24 hours.
April Fools’ Day is not for everyone to have some laughs. Some of the well-known world-class hoaxes had a dramatically funny or dramatically catastrophic effect on the public which sometimes involve countries.
Here are some of history’s world class renowned pranks:
 Liberty Bell: In 1996 Taco Bell had a full-page advertisement in the 104-times-Pulitzer-Prize winner The New York Times announcing that they had bought the historic Liberty Bell. Taco Bell said they did this to help reduce America’s debt . Thus they were renaming Liberty Bell “Taco Liberty Bell”. When the White House was asked then-press secretary Mike McCurry replied affirmatively and pulled another April Fools’ Day prank regarding the Lincoln Memorial.
 Lincoln Memorial: White House announced the memorial to America’s 16th President sold with the new name Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
 Iceberg Towed: In 1983 Australian millionaire Dick Smith said he towed an iceberg from Antarctica to Sydney Harbour with the help of a barge covered in white plastic and a fire extinguisher foam.
Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect: In 1976 British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore said that at 9:47 a.m. of April 1st a unique alignment of two planets would make people lighter because of its effect on earth’s gravity. Dozens phoned in after 9:47 of that morning to affirm the “strange floating sensation”.
 Nelson Mandela: One of the world’s beloved presidents, President Nelson Mandela, was even a victim of a prank when a UK radio presenter named Nic Tuff pretended to be Prime Minister Tony Blair and called the South African President. Before Tuff literally hanged up Tuff gave President Mandela a hint of his April Fools’ Day prank by asking President Mandela what he’s planning for April Fools.
 Instant Color TV: In 1962 a Swedish television did a 5-minute special announcement on how to have instant color TV. The Swedish network said this can be achieved by simply placing a nylon stocking in front of the then-popular black and white TV and magic – instant colored television!
TV License Fee Evasion Imprisonment: In 1969 a Dutch TV announced a TV license fee evasion imprisonment of the citizens of The Netherlands. When a public servant was asked on how the Dutch people could ever avoid being caught the public servant replied that it is quite impossible since people “would unlikely wrap their TV in aluminum foil”. As a result aluminum foil ran out in many stores within that hour.
 Big Ben Goes Digital: In 1980 BBC reported that there was a proposal to change to digital the 1858-built-clock of London.Diet Tap Water: In 2004 a British breakfast show announced a successful “diet tap water” that helped one customer lose a stone and a half in four months. Ten thousand inquiries from viewers then ensued.
SARS Becomes Uncontrollable in Hong Kong: In 2003 when Hong Kong was turbulently hit by SARS (severe accute respiratory syndrome) a student thought of having his April Fools’ Day kick by posting in a website the announcement that SARS in Hong Kong is already uncontrollable and that all immigration ports would be closed for quarantine. He added that the then-Chief Executive of Hong Kong resigned because of this. Unfortunately the conservative people of Hong Kong didn’t take on well his April Fools’ Day prank and the student was eventually charged.
 Bill Gates’ Assasination: Some conservative Asians celebrated one April Fools’ Day with a prank that dramatically backfired on their stock market. Way back then many Chinese and South Korean websites posted that U.S. cable news channel CNN announced the shooting of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. In effect it was their stockmarket that went down.
 NASA Found Water on Mars: NASA’s official website had an April Fools’ Day the out of this world way that only they can do by announcing finding water on Mars. Aware of the dramatic effect of this prank they also accompanied this announcement by realistically having a picture of a glass of water on top of a Mars candy bar.
 Mummified Fairy: In 2007 an illusion designer posted images of what he claimed to be the mummified corpse of a an eight-inch-fairy. He fetched a handsome £280 for this on eBay.


Read more: http://socyberty.com/holidays/april-fools-day-some-of-the-best-known-world-class-pranks/#ixzz1IJhA4YSs



Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn a Horror Movie May Not Get PG 13


 Breaking Dawn, the short popular title for the upcoming two-part movie of the fourth and final installment of the Twilight Saga series, is being touted a horror film by one of its main stars Robert Pattinson who, together with Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, received $12.5 million (each). This is quite a bummer to their young followers since this upcoming movie might not even get a PG-13 rating. 
   With the official synopsis of a marriage between recent high school grad Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and 100+-year-old vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) cut short by betrayals and misfortunes that threatens their world coupled with Bella’s near-fatal childbirth with the remarkabe girl Renesmee to Bella’s full transformation into a vampire (hence the title Breaking Dawn) either a higher rating is awaiting them or producers are bound to cut essential scenes from the movie.
However Twilight bosses swore that the two-part final installment wouldn’t be given a rating fitted only for adults.

After three years of filming Breaking Dawn, with a reported budget of $1.2 billion, one of the much awaited movies of 2011 is done at last with a scheduled release of its Part 1 on November 18 in IMAX. It’s Part 2 would be on a November 16, 2012 release.
It took months for the people behind this franchise to decide whether to split the final installment into two or let the moviegoers stay in theaters for more than two hours. Since the book where this story was based came with 800 pages and such is the furor over this movie and its stars they all decided to come up with a two-part finale.
This suspenseful but romantic movie would finally see the culmination of the supernatural fantasy and passionate love between a mortal and an immortal, between Bella and Edward, which made The Twilight Saga the phenomenon it is.


Read more: http://cinemaroll.com/horror/twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-a-horror-movie-might-not-get-a-pg-13/#ixzz1I8G9U7br

Monday, March 28, 2011

Megan Fox: No Walkouts on Her Armani Ad



Industry insiders know that the ability to look good in fashion shoots isn’t a guarantee that one has the talent to act in front of the camera for a movie. Few still shots of carefully selected photos or clips that took days to shoot is nothing compared to what a continually filming camera can capture showcasing all the depth and emotion or lack thereof of any actor. That’s why a universally-considered pretty face capable of a hint of emotion goes a long, long way in the modelling world.
Enter Megan Fox. She is currently doing a brilliant job of being the universal female face and body of Emporio Armani – a brand that carries the Armani name sold in 140 stores around the world.

After multiple viewers in Canada walked out on her latest film Passion Play that Megan Fox’s critics branded as“awful”, a “mess”, and “an absolute car wreck” The Fox is steaming up the web in behind the scenes shots of her latest Emporio Armani Lingerie Ad.

Settling on her 5′6” frame the House of Armani didn’t put a foot wrong when they put Megan Fox in a job that usually requires a minimum height of 5′9” (the acceptable minimum height of any model).
However concerns about the standard anorexic look of models didn’t escape Megan Fox. Some shots of the 24-year-old in the Emporio Armani lingerie ad alarmingly shows her protuding rib cage.
 Though Megan Fox had never been considered on the thick side her skinnier than usual frame caused controversy lately so much so when she was pictured a number of times showing a fancy in wearing her eight-year-old stepson’s clothes.
Now how skinny does one have to be at 5′6” to be able to fit in an eight-year-old’s shirt?
Anorexic or not? You tell me.




Read more: http://beyondjane.com/shopping/megan-fox-no-walkouts-on-her-armani-ad/#ixzz1Ht8xLCxK