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The French create new word for ‘sexting’

The French create new word for ‘sexting’

LDProd/Getty Images/iStockphoto The French are no longer sexting. Now, when they exchange dirty text messages, it is called ‘textopornographie.’ The language of love now has its own word for sexting: textopornographie. L’Académie française, France’s official language authority, decided that “sexting” needed a French equivalent, Vice Motherboard reported. RELATED: FRENCH IS SEXIEST LANGUAGE: POLL The academy, which was established in 1635 ...

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VIDEO: Trio conquer French mountain on Boris Bike

VIDEO: Trio conquer French mountain on Boris Bike

Cycle-mad Rob Holden cycled up Mount Ventoux on a Boris bike [SWNS] Cycling-mad Rob Holden and pals Ian Laurie and Matthew Winstone hired one of the street bikes in London and put it in a van and then drove onto the Eurostar train. They made their way 800 miles to Mont Ventoux in the south of France where Rob reached ...

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Cops raid exotic French food shop, find porcupine, ‘bush meat’ — ‘unfit for human consumption’

Cops raid exotic French food shop, find porcupine, ‘bush meat’ — ‘unfit for human consumption’

PGile/Getty Images/iStockphoto Frozen porcupines, gazelles, bats and caterpillars were all heading for the dining table. It hardly sounds like a Paris fine dining experience. Police who raided an “exotic food shop” in the French capital this week found it stuffed with gazelles, bats, caterpillars and five frozen porcupines — all destined for the dining table. RELATED: LION TACOS A HIT ...

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