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Scottish Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
We're identical twins and we're BOTH called Marie – people say it shouldn't be legal but we love confusing people
Plus, the pranks they pull on people who don't know they are twins SEEING DOUBLE We're identical twins and we're BOTH called Marie – people say it shouldn't be legal but we love confusing people Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) BEING an identical twin can be confusing - but imagine how it feels when you also share the same name. This is the case for twin sisters Marie and Marie, who have been confusing internet users with their posts. 2 A set of identical twins claim to have been given the same name by their mum and are both called 'Marie' Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk On their @doublemaries account, the German sisters shared snaps of them together, and said: 'Told him I have a twin. 'We are named the same.' The blonde sisters document their travels and life together online, where they call themselves 'twin explorers' and 'double the fun, double the adventure.' Many people were baffled at their claim they were given the same name by their mum. One wrote: 'Is it allowed to be called the same? Like being twins.' Another added: 'God really said copy and paste.' And a third commented: 'Your poor partners gotta be soooo careful.' And one queried: 'I thought this is illegal.' In a video they joked that being a twin with the same name has some benefits, including the option of taking exams for one another. They are also able to prank people - including dates - who have no idea that they are twins. 'Want to tan' - Haley and Hanna Cavinder go full Baywatch in stunning red skintight one-piece bikinis on beach However, there are a number of drawbacks. Marie explained: "The problem is we have the same picture, name, date of birth and address. 'You don't even wanna know how many problems come up.' Not only have they had issues with post arriving for one another, but also in school, where teachers had to call them 'Marie 1' and 'Marie 2' to differentiate them. 2 The identical twins share their travel pictures online Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk One person asked if they had ever shared their frustration with their mum for giving them the same name. Marie said: 'Nope, we're actually thankful for the name.' They added that their mum also has no regrets about the name choice, but they said that it can be hard to feel like they have their own identities. One person replied: 'This would be the worst thing ever if one of you ever committed a crime.' The twins said in response: 'No it wasn't me.. it was Marie!!' Another pointed out: 'So you can take each other's driving test??' to which the girls joked: 'Maybe.'
The Irish Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
We're identical twins and we're BOTH called Marie – people say it shouldn't be legal but we love confusing people
BEING an identical twin can be confusing - but imagine how it feels when you also share the same name. This is the case for Advertisement 2 A set of identical twins claim to have been given the same name by their mum and are both called 'Marie' Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk On their 'We are named the same.' The blonde sisters document their travels and life together online, where they call themselves 'twin explorers' and 'double the fun, double the adventure.' Many people were baffled at their claim they were given the same name by their mum. Advertisement More on twins One wrote: 'Is it allowed to be called the same? Like being twins.' Another added: 'God really said copy and paste.' And a third commented: 'Your poor partners gotta be soooo careful.' And one queried: 'I thought this is illegal.' Advertisement Most read in Fabulous In a video they joked that being a twin with the same name has some benefits , including the option of taking exams for one another. They are also able to prank people - including dates - who have no idea that they are twins. 'Want to tan' - Haley and Hanna Cavinder go full Baywatch in stunning red skintight one-piece bikinis on beach However, there are a number of drawbacks. Marie explained: "The problem is we have the same picture, name, date of birth and address. Advertisement 'You don't even wanna know how many problems come up.' Not only have they had issues with post arriving for one another, but also in school, where teachers had to call them 'Marie 1' and 'Marie 2' to differentiate them. 2 The identical twins share their travel pictures online Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk One person asked if they had ever shared their frustration with their mum for giving them the same name. Advertisement Marie said: 'Nope, we're actually thankful for the name.' They added that their mum also has no regrets about the name choice, but they said that it can be hard to feel like they have their own identities. One person replied: 'This would be the worst thing ever if one of you ever committed a crime .' The twins said in response: 'No it wasn't me.. it was Marie!!' Advertisement Another pointed out: 'So you can take each other's driving test??' to which the girls joked: 'Maybe.' What are the different types of twins? TWINS are when two children are produced in the same pregnancy. They can be identical or different, and two boys, two girls, or a girl and a boy. Twins are quite rare, but are usually born completely healthy What are the different types of twins? Monozygotic – identical twins ('one cell' twins) Dizygotic – also known as 'fraternal', non identical twins. Babies are no more alike than siblings born at separate times, and they can be the same or different sexes Conjoined twins – identical twins that are joined together. They are extremely rare, and it's estimated they range from one in 49,000 to 189,000 births, although around half are stillborn, and one third die within 24 hours. Can identical twins be two different sexes? Identical twins are always of the same sex because they form from the same fertilised egg that contains either female or male chromosomes. The single egg is divided into two separate embryos, and they occur in about three in every 1000 deliveries worldwide. Therefore, boy/girl twins are always fraternal (or dizygotic), as their chromosomes are either XY (male) or XX (female). What are Di Di twins? Di Di stands for Dichronic Diamniotic, and they are the common type of twins. They have their own amniotic sacs and placenta, so are just sharing the womb of the mother, and are therefore not identical. There are few complications with Di Di twins, so have a good chance of being born completely healthy without intervention from your doctor. Di di twins are more likely to be non-identical than identical.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Social prescribing growing in popularity in the South
Tucked away behind Forton medical centre in Gosport is a community garden, which was once a former wasteland but now is filled with beautiful flower beds, fruit trees and raised vegetable has been created by volunteers and patients, with many of them having been "socially prescribed" the patient, Neil was told to come to help him lose weight. Digging out a patch of hard soil with a hoe, he said: "If I'm at home bored, I think of food all the time and when I come here, I'm happy being here and working hard. And I'm burning calories." His sister Marie is also a regular at the Willow Wellies group."It's just socialising, it's quiet and a sense of doing something useful and they're here to help you if you have any other problems," she said. There are now 90 social prescribers working in GP practices in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. They use local services, groups and activities to help people avoid medicine for conditions like diabetes, anxiety, stress or Jackson is a social prescriber working in Eastleigh. She said they had databases of social groups and discounted gym and swim memberships to help people with all sorts of conditions and limitations."It could be Tai-Chi, knitting, painting or a walking group," she said. "Whatever suits the individual we will find and the social prescriber often goes along for the first session to help them get through the door and settle in." It can be hard to quantify the benefit the groups have, but primary care lead Ingrida Lelyte-Merrell said she had seen improvements in said these included people who had reversed their type two diabetes, and others who had stopped needing statins, taken to reduce cholesterol. "There is almost always something that can be done, before people become reliant on medicine," she said. "And tackling stress and loneliness can stop conditions developing." You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'Insecure Tinder date walked out after seeing how tall I am – it was so awkward'
A long-legged woman who makes big money online for height admits that it can often be hard for her to date - and one man walked out of their date after seeing how tall she is A model has opened up about the awkward moment that her Tinder date "shook his head and left" after realising how tall she is - and why the awful experience made her avoid dating for two years. When it comes to dating, we all have our preferences, whether it's hair colour, personality traits, humour and more. And while many people love tall men, one woman, Marie Temara, admits that her long legs have not always worked in her favour. The influencer, who boasts 2.6million Instagram followers, is well known for her 6ft 3in height, with fans frequently worshipping her long legs. However, it seems when it comes to dating, Marie struggles. The influencer has shared how a particular moment with a man shorter than herself ended up affecting her confidence for a long time afterwards. Marie shared: "We'd been chatting online for a while. The conversation flowed and we seemed to have a genuine connection. But when we finally met up for our first date, he was not happy that I was so much taller than him." She explained that his height is around 5ft 9in. She added: "He looked at me, shook his head and told me he had a family emergency – then left." Marie was gutted as the pair had the whole night planned, including a dinner and a movie. "It ended the moment he saw me," Marie added. READ MORE: 'My boyfriend is 28 years my senior – people say I have daddy issues but it's true love' Despite being so confident for long about her height - and making millions every year because of it – the experience hit Marie hard. She admits the rejection brought back insecurities from her teenage years when she was bullied for being tall. Marie said: "It made me feel really insecure again. My height has always been my number one insecurity. After that, I stopped dating for two or three years. "I just couldn't be bothered wasting my time on someone who'd disappear the second they saw how tall I was." While breaking away from going on dates, Marie poured all her energy into building her brand instead and over time. She has had a lot of support from her online fans, plus after getting frequent messages from men who love how tall she is, she saw her confidence return. The model now proudly puts her height front and centre in her dating app bios. And she even admits that she has a soft spot for "short kings". She said: "I've dated guys who were 5ft 8in, 5ft 9in – I don't care about height. But it's still a problem for some of them. I've had to do all the reaching, all the lifting – sometimes I feel like the man in the relationship." Dating is not the only part of everyday life that can be tricky for a tall woman. Marie often takes the back seat on water slides because she is heavier than her date and always has to book aisle seats on planes just to fit her legs. Shopping is a struggle, too; she can't find jeans that fit and gets custom-made clothes for her lengthy frame. She said she gets stared at everywhere she goes, and people often ask to take pictures with her. She added: "Some guys want a photo, others look like they're sizing me up for a fight. But I've learned to own who I am. If someone can't handle my height, it's their loss."
Scroll.in
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scroll.in
‘The Use of Photography' by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie: A material representation of lovemaking
More than two decades after two classics on the subject of photography, Susan's Sontag's On Photography (1977), and Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida (1980, in French), the French Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux's The Use of Photography (co-written with the late French photographer and journalist, Marc Marie) was published in the original French in 2005, and in English translation by Alison L Strayer in 2024. Sontag's is a historical and sociological examination of the role played by photography in 1970s America. While Sontag's critical exploration is objective, Barthes' narrative is pensive and personal. There are no photographs in Sontag's book, while Barthes often used photographs to illustrate an argument or reading. After love The Use of Photography introduces interesting departures from Sontag and Barthes. The presence and meaning of the human face are central to Barthes' observations on photography, and the photographs in the book accentuate it. In striking contrast, Eranux's project in collaboration with her lover, Marie, keeps the human body – or the human object in photographs – out of the scene. For Ernaux, the photographs taken by Marie and her were meant to 'preserve images of the devastated landscape that remains after lovemaking.' Annie and her lover were not satisfied with making love and 'needed to preserve a material representation of the act'. They did this by clicking pictures of the accidental mise en scène as a mark of pleasure. The unique architecture of the photographs included hurriedly cast-off clothes, underclothes and shoes lying on the floor, sometimes against a larger background of the room filled with other objects. It was, in Annie's words, 'the objective trace of our pleasure.' This postcoital act of photographing – sometimes immediately, sometimes later – became an obsession for them. The rule they established was simple: to touch nothing till they were photographed, like 'the cops would do after a murder', as Marie put it. If anyone touched anything accidentally, the scene wouldn't be photographed. It was being faithful to the crime, a pact of ritual honesty. Sometimes, Ernaux writes, they struggled to recollect the room and day of lovemaking from the photograph. It was in the course of this newfound passion that the idea of writing separately on the photographs occurred to them. They also made the rule of not showing their drafts to each other until they had finished the project. Eroticism is a game of rules, and erotic photography replicates it by devising a way to deflect the gaze from the obvious object (the naked human body) to objects that suggest the intense act of nakedness. Ernaux and Marie's project can be precisely found in what Barthes says about erotic photography in contrast to pornography: 'The erotic photograph, on the contrary (and this is its very condition), does not make the sexual organs into a central object; it may very well not show them at all; it takes the spectator outside its frame'. Erotic photography, then, is simultaneously about the absence of the body and the reminder of its presence. This creates the necessary space for memory games. Ernaux finds the act of writing on the photographs in relation to the fleeting, sexual memory associated with them 'a sort of new erotic practice.' It meant for her a risky act of transgression that was 'more violent than to open up your sex.' Writing, unlike sex, was a public exposure of a private act. Taking this risk to its extreme has been Ernaux's lifelong occupation. The element of shock in The Use of Photography comes from the revelation that Ernaux has breast cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. Marc was obviously jolted when Ernaux broke the news to him in a matter-of-fact way while they were dining at a place on the cobbled street in Paris named Rue Servandoni. This aspect of their story and relationship adds a poignant and vulnerable layer to their project. Ernaux could lighten the effect by writing, 'Because of my totally smooth body he called me his mermaid-woman. The catheter like a growth protruding from my chest became a 'supernumerary bone''. Marie made it sensual by suggesting a haunting ménage à trois: 'For months, we live together as a threesome: death, A and me. Our companion was intrusive.' Eroticism, as Georges Bataille wrote in the introduction of Eroticism, Death and Sensuality (1962, in English translation by Mary Dalwood), is an affirmation of life to the point of death, which is quoted in the epigraph of Ernaux and Marie's book. But Bataille reads eroticism in a deeply religious manner. He connects eroticism to the desire to procreate, and finds it fundamentally violent in his imagination of human beings as discontinuous selves forcibly coming together in an act that violates their solitude. Since we die alone, Bataille thinks our attempts at making love are to transgress our existential limits and plunge into an act that borders on death, murder and suicide. Sex is the hastening of death by our attempts to escape it. Bataille hallucinates on sex. He would, however, have countered this by arguing that the briefly transgressive aspect of sex involves an element of hallucination. Octavio Paz appears more persuasive in the crucial distinction he makes between sex and eroticism in The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (1995, translated from Spanish by Helen Lane): 'Eroticism is sex in action, but, because it either diverts it or denies it, it thwarts the goal of the sexual function. In sexuality, pleasure serves procreation; in erotic rituals, pleasure is an end in itself or has ends other than procreation.' Objects of recall The Use of Photography testifies to a double, psychological diversion after sex, through photography and writing. To divert the experience of something with another thing is to create modes of escape and intensification through which one can return – delayed – to what has been lost in time. The erotic nature of photography and writing in this project opens up the possibility to obsessively return to the original moment of desire. The 'use' of photography in that instrumental sense is to ensure that (modern) technology makes the afterlife of sexual memory possible. Here is a sample of Annie describing one of the photographs taken in her living room: 'Of all the things abandoned on the floor after lovemaking, shoes are the most moving – overturned, or upright but heading in opposite directions, or adrift on top of a heap of clothes but still far apart. The distance between them, when it can be seen in the photo, reflects the force with which they were flung off.' This description is reminiscent of André Breton's idea of 'convulsive beauty' in Mad Love (1987, translated from L'Amour Fou by Mary Ann Caws), where a certain art, or experience, involves 'affirming the reciprocal relations linking the object seen in its motion and in its repose.' Breton called it 'veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial'. The fixed image of clothes and shoes flung in haste offers the surreal image of objects that convey both motion and stillness, activating a memory or a perception of time past. There is a moment when Annie makes one of those startling connections between sex, photography and writing and the material trace of life that pervades each act: 'I realise that I am fascinated by photos in the same way I've been fascinated, since childhood, by blood, semen and urine stains on sheets, or old mattresses, discarded on pavements; by the stains of wine and food embedded in the wood of sideboards, the stains of coffee or greasy fingers on old letters… I realise I expect the same thing from writing. I want words to be like stains you cannot tear yourself away from.' Some objects are objects of recall. They initiate the possibility of what Marcel Proust explored in Remembrance of Things Past (originally, 1913) as mémoire involontaire, or involuntary memory. The purely material use of the word 'stain' removes the moral stain attached to that word. Life is a series of fragilities, comprising intimate proofs left behind by vulnerable beings of hunger and pleasure. Those proofs are often discovered in what is no longer useful, in what has been forever discarded, left behind, or expressed in some form or other, as unalterable as a stain on a piece of cloth, a pavement, a sidewalk, a cup, or words in a book. Each trace is a reminder of life, the sign of its inevitable erasure. Close to the finish, Ernaux pauses over the philosophical ache of the project: 'The pain of the photograph. It comes from wanting something other than what is. The boundless meaning of the photograph. A hole through which the fixed light of time, of nothingness is perceived. Every photo is metaphysical.' The essence of the photograph does not lie in what it shows, but in what it hides. The shadow that falls on the page, or the photograph, on what is written or clicked by the human hand, is the imperceptible presence of death. Writing, love making, or photography are hieroglyphic acts of time. The body performs them to enact its pleasures on itself, and lose it forever at the moment of execution. The Use of Photography takes us to the heart of our most delicious crisis. Manash Firag Bhattacharjee's latest book Gandhi: The End of Non-Violence was published earlier this year by Penguin Random House India.
