Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s supporter Christopher Bouzy has doubled down on a bizarre conspiracy theory about the Princess of Wales, claiming that she hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas Day.

The Tech CEO, 48, from New York, who appeared in the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary, took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his doubts about the recent sighting of Kate Middleton and Prince William shopping at a farm shop in Windsor.

‘Serious question: Has any reporter taken the time to go to Windsor Farm and ask the staff if William and Kate were there over the weekend? Besides the man who was paid for the video, has anyone else gone on the record about seeing William and Kate at the farm?,’ he wrote.

He added in a second tweet: ‘So, let me see if I understand this correctly. Kate’s video is one of the biggest stories of 2024, and not a single person who works at the farm/store has gone on the record about seeing William and Kate? So, just some random guy is the primary source of the story? Sounds legit.’

Earlier this week, he shared a compilation of clips of the royal couple walking to compare it to their recent sighting at the Windsor Farm Shop on Saturday. 

He claims the clips show that the video of two people walking in Windsor isn’t the royal couple, joining a chorus of outlandish conspiracy theorists online.

‘I’ve compiled a few older videos of William and Kate walking together, as well as the recent video from Windsor Farm. Take a look and decide for yourself if it’s Kate or not. In my opinion, we still haven’t seen Kate in public,’ he wrote on X.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief when they saw ‘happy, relaxed and healthy’ Kate smiling as she briskly walked away from the store holding onto a full shopping bag on Saturday.

But others on social media have continued to push crazed claims – including that the woman in the video was not the royal but in fact a body double. 

Mr Bouzy appeared in Harry and Meghan’s Netflix doc after his company BotSentinel issued a report saying the couple was on the receiving end of millions of trolls.

But Mr Bouzy, who previously tweeted that he thought that the Prince and Princess of Wales were ageing in ‘banana years’, has been accused of being a troll himself over a series of nasty posts.

In April 2023, he said the portrait released to mark what would have been Queen Elizabeth’s 97th birthday was photoshopped.

The image, which shows the late monarch posing with eight of her 12 great-grandchildren and two of her grandchidren at Balmoral, was taken just weeks before her death by the Princess of Wales.

This week, global picture agency Getty Images said the heartwarming image was ‘digitally enhanced at source’ having undertaken a review following the recent fallout from the Princess of Wales editing a Mother’s Day photo of herself with her three children.

He described the photograph as ‘beautiful’ on X.

Calling on people to ‘stop criticising’ snap, he added: ‘Yes, they Photoshopped it, and so what? It isn’t easy to get the perfect photo with 10 children. It appears they took multiple shots and then edited the photo to make it perfect. I would’ve done the same.’

In a later tweet about the snap, which was shared on the official social media accounts of The Prince and Princess of Wales, he wrote: ‘You can literally see where two sides of the sofa were spliced together, and there are pixels on the face that were not properly edited.

‘As I stated in my original tweet, I don’t see anything wrong with it. But to claim it’s not Photoshopped is false. It’s been edited.’

He also added: ‘Also, the Queen was probably exhausted and didn’t want to sit through a long photoshoot.’

The late monarch appeared in her element with Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, James, Earl of Wessex, Lena Tindall, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Isla Phillips, Prince Louis, Mia Tindall, Lucas Tindall and Savannah Phillips.

Mr Bouzy’s claims come as the shopper who filmed the royal’s first public appearance since undergoing abdominal surgery has slammed cruel conspiracy theory trolls as ‘delusional’.

Nelson Silva, 40, said he saw the Princess of Wales ‘with his own eyes’ on Saturday as she popped down to her local farm shop.

BBC sports reporter Sonja McLaughlan appeared to be amongst those fuelling the bizarre suggestion when she told her followers on X that it was ‘obviously not Kate’ in the clip. In a now deleted tweet, she even suggested the heir to the throne could have been replaced by an actor. 

Speaking for the first time since he encountered the Princess of Wales in the meat section of the farm shop, Mr Silva told the Sun: ‘I’m not so much shocked that these comments have continued, I’m just confused how exactly they can continue.

‘This is a video clearly showing her and William. I saw them with my own eyes. It was a completely relaxed situation.

‘What more do you need to lay off her? I thought after this was released they’d go quiet. But these people are so invested in the drama now.’ 

The father, who ran into the royals around lunchtime on Saturday at the Windsor Farm Shop, believed releasing the footage would put an abrupt end to the wild rumours surrounding Kate’s health but fears it did the opposite.

After the clip emerged people suggested Kate was too tall in the video for it to be her, while another crazy theory claimed the footage had been recorded in December because ‘Christmas decorations’ were in the background.

In under 24 hours the rumours about body doubles gained more than 12 millions views on X and more than 11 million on TikTok. 

The Windsor local said he was ‘shocked’ and ‘confused’ as to why the conspiracy theories have continued. He said he saw the future King and Queen with his own eyes and ‘it was a completely relaxed situation’. 

‘Even famous people are guilty,’ Mr Silva added. ‘People with a large platform online — they can’t admit they are wrong now because they look so delusional.’ 

He called for those pushing claims online to ‘lay off’ the Princess and stop plugging their baseless ‘rumours and lies’.

The father, who lives in the town with his wife and daughter, had recorded the couple to send back to his family Portugal.

He first saw Will and Kate inside the store, where they had been ‘talking to staff and laughing’, before watching them walk back into some fields to head towards their home Adelaide Cottage.

Kate’s weekend appearance marked the first time she had been seen out and about in public since undergoing planned abdominal surgery in January.

Despite Kensington Palace setting out a clear timeline for the Princess’ recovery – with her return to the public spotlight expected after the Easter Holidays conclude – online trolls have sparked bizarre theories. 

Baseless and hurtful conspiracy theories being spread about her online included that she is dead, has been replaced by a body double or the Wales’ marriage is in trouble. 

One royal source told the Telegraph: ‘Finally everyone can calm down’.

Yet BBC freelance reporter Ms McLaughlan came under fire for appearing to fan the flames of conspiracy theorists. 

Ms McLaughlan wrote: ‘Disturbing that newspapers like The Times are reporting this as fact. Headline ‘Kate seen in public for the first time’ when it’s clearly not her. As someone has said. Could be a couple of lookalikes making mischief.’ 

Commenting on a video which compared the Princess in the footage to other past photos of herself, she added: ‘It’s so obviously not Kate. Some newspaper are reporting it as fact. But it’s not her. No conspiracy theorist but all very odd.’

The BBC declined to comment on the matter.

The body double claims led Britain’s ‘most realistic’ Kate Middleton lookalike to shut down the ‘crazy’ conspiracy theories that it is her in the farm shop video instead of the real Princess of Wales. 

Heidi Agan, 43, who has made an income from impersonating the royal for more than a decade, said she ‘100 per cent’ believes it is Kate and William in the footage.

‘There has obviously been some speculation about whether it was Kate and William in that footage and stills,’ she told The Mirror.

‘In fact, my own social media has gone crazy as people think it is me, but I know it is not. I was at work at the time so I know that is not me. I 100 per cent believe that it is Kate Middleton and William in that video.’

‘So she is alive, and we can be sure about it. It has all gone too far now,’ she added.

By Ashleigh Gray for Dailymail.Com

Published: 00:02 EDT, March 20, 2024 | Updated: 00:03 EDT, March 20, 2024

By Ashleigh Gray for Dailymail.Com

Published: 10:58 PM EDT, March 19, 2024 | Updated: 11:07 PM EDT, March 19, 2024

Jake Gyllenhaal looked handsome while attending a GMA interview.

The handsome 43-year-old – who recently spoke about potentially playing Batman – arrived at the New York City studio on Tuesday morning to promote his upcoming reboot of the classic 1989 Patrick Swayze action film Road House.

Since he’s starring in the retelling of the ’80s classic, he undoubtedly took some fashion notes from the era when he wore a gray double-breasted pinstripe blazer with a huge lapel.

He added even more retro flare when he paired the outerwear with light blue jeans, a light blue shirt and black leather dress shoes.

His short brown locks were combed to the side and elegantly tousled, while he sported a full beard.

On the program, he was asked by host Michael Strahan if he felt pressure to fill the shoes of the late great Swayze.

Jake responded, “I mean, I knew Patrick, I worked with him on the movie Donnie Darko. He was always so kind and loving to me. From the very beginning, he and his wife Lisa were always so supportive and so I didn’t feel any pressure, but I felt a responsibility to him.

“It’s an honor, it’s a cult classic, so many fans of the film, but we also did it in a very different way.”

Swayze died in 2009 at just 57 years old, less than two years after being diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer.

The remake debuted on March 8 as the opening film at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

This comes as Hollywood writer Lance Hill recently sued Amazon.com to halt the upcoming remake of the 1989 film Road House, arguing that the film infringes on his rights in the original’s screenplay.

Lance, 81, said in the lawsuit in federal court in California that Amazon was never granted a license to remake his screenplay after reclaiming his copyright on it.

He requested an unspecified amount of monetary damages and an injunction to restrain Amazon from distributing the film without a new license.

A spokesperson for Amazon MGM Studios said the lawsuit was “completely without merit.”

Hill’s attorney, Marc Toberoff, said major studios must “respect the fundamental rights and artistry of creators on whose sweat and toil their empires are built.”

According to the lawsuit, Hill wrote the Road House screenplay in 1986 and transferred his rights to the film producer United Artists later that year.

U.S. copyright law allows artists to terminate transfers and reclaim their rights after decades under certain circumstances. Hill told the court that he notified Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, owner of United Artists, in 2021 that he was reclaiming his rights to the screenplay.

MGM reportedly responded that Hill could not reclaim the copyright.

Amazon acquired MGM in March 2022. Hill said he got his copyright back last November and that Amazon set a deadline to finish the film the day before the termination took effect.

Hill said Amazon took “extreme measures” to meet the deadline, including using artificial intelligence to recreate actors’ voices during a Screen Actors Guild strike, but that Amazon did not finish the film until January.

Amazon’s spokesperson denied that the remake uses AI instead of actors’ voices.

Hill frequently used the pseudonym David Lee Henry in Hollywood and is best known for the cult film Road House.

Henry is credited with creating the story for the original Road House and shares co-writing of the screenplay with Hilary Henkin, 71.

Set in the Florida Keys, the remake is directed by Doug Liman, whose filmography includes Swingers, The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith includes.

Road House will debut on Amazon’s Prime Video streaming platform on March 21.

Jennifer Lawrence stayed put as she hit the gym for an afternoon workout in New York on Monday.

The Hunger Games star, 33, dressed in a gray headscarf and a chic oversized brown coat, with a belt cinching in her waist.

Underneath, the Oscar winner wore black athletic leggings. She completed her outfit with navy blue loafers and black socks.

The mother-of-one shielded her eyes with large sunglasses and carried a light blue water bottle in her hand.

The busy beauty – who recently had an awkward moment at the Oscars – held a cell phone with a yellow case in her other hand and had AirPods in her ears.

A few days earlier, Jennifer was spotted taking a bike ride with her husband, art dealer Cooke Maroney.

The couple tied the knot in 2019 and share one child together: their two-year-old son Cy.

The couple was first spotted together in 2018 and married the following year.

In February 2022, Lawrence and her husband welcomed their first child together, named after American artist Cy Twombly.

Earlier this month, the star was elegant as ever as she arrived at the 2024 Academy Awards, marking her grand return to the ceremony for the first time since 2018.

The blonde beauty, who returned to the ceremony to join four other past winners in presenting the Oscar for Best Actress, had all eyes on her in a reserved but beautiful black Dior dress decorated with polka dots.

Jennifer stunned on the red carpet in the off-the-shoulder ensemble, with one half sleeve draped over one shoulder and the other wrapped around her arm.

The luxurious dress featured a flowing skirt that reached the floor and almost covered her black open-toe heels.

Later, Lawrence helped her friend Emma Stone present the Best Actress award for her role in Poor Things, having been a former recipient herself.

However, the moment proved to be an awkward one, with presenter Michelle Yeoh later having to intervene to resolve a miscommunication that occurred when she attempted to present the award to Emma.

The 61-year-old Malaysian actress, who was the previous winner of Best Actress in 2023 for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once, confused viewers and onlookers when she wouldn’t let go of the statue.

The Oscars broadcast showed Emma looking confused and angry as she tried to take her award from Michelle, although the veteran star didn’t let go.

But the Hong Kong action movie legend clarified on Instagram that she was actually trying to get the actress’ good friend Jennifer involved in the action.

‘Congratulations Emma!! I confused you, but I wanted to share that glorious moment of Oscar being handed to you, along with your best friend Jennifer!!” she explained in her caption.

Next, Lawrence attended the Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2024, where she stunned in a semi-sheer dress covered in a floral pattern.

Relationship experts have spoken out about the new ‘boysober’ trend that has led to it Generation Z will take the vow of celibacy to ‘find themselves’.

Hope Woodward, 27, who grew up in Tennessee, coined the phrase and made the decision to abstain from sex and relationships of any kind for 365 days in an effort to find emotional clarity.

On her TikTok she outlines the rules for becoming a boysober in 2024, including oneo dating apps, no dates, no exes and no situationships.’

“You’re not single if someone is taking up your brain space,” Hope added.

Since her theory, many other women from around the world have followed in her footsteps and said they were also going boysober, with many reporting feeling better than ever before.

Relationship experts have said the trend is positive as online dating can be ‘mentally overwhelming’.

Georgina Sturmer, a consultant and member of the BACP, told us Indy100: ‘The dating scene can be fun and exciting. But it can also feel overwhelming. The choice to become “boy sober” feels like an active choice for women to focus on their own identities and needs.

“Instead of being drawn to please someone else, to care for someone else, or to mold yourself into someone else.”

Another woman who has tried to become a boyober is 28 years old Carly Galluzzo From New York.

She started dating when she was 16, but after hearing about the boysober trend, she decided to give it a try.

Carly said, “I decided to be single for the first time in forever. I didn’t talk to anyone, I broke up with all my situationships.

‘I’m on the other side now, where I actually find relationships and couples… very strange.’ She concluded, “More people should be single.”

Keeley Taverner, an expert on toxic relationships, told the newspaper that this trend has come about due to the fatigue of ‘friends with benefits’ and women being harassed by potential partners.

“Time and energy can be channeled into personal development, without the worries and concerns that can weigh you down when dating in the modern age,” she said.

Another TikTok called Mariana Garrido Costa, from Lisbon, has also jumped on the trend. She shared a clip that read, “POV, you’re living your best life because you’re a boy waiter and there’s absolutely no drama in your life.”

Mariana was on the TV with her friend at the post. She added in the caption, “I’m telling y’all…y’all gotta try it.”

Founder and relationship expert at The Matchmaker UK, Lara Besbrode, told the newspaper that she thinks women increasingly want to focus on their ‘own growth’, rather than that of a relationship.

She said: ‘Women are making a conscious decision to prioritize their well-being and performance, finding joy and fulfillment in their independence and reshaping societal expectations about happiness and relationship status.’

Elsewhere, people have taken to the comments section of Hope’s TikTok to share their thoughts on the trend.

One said: ‘I had a boysober in 2023 and now I don’t know how to let it go because I enjoyed the quiet too much.’

A second added: ‘I did a boy waiter for the whole of 2023 and it was the best decision. I’m slowly dating again now and have such a better attitude.’

“I was boysober this year and it was great. I love spending time with myself and my friends and feel so amazing and grown,” a third wrote.

A fourth added: “It’s been like this for the past year, it’s so liberating.” Similarly, another said, “I’m so ready for my boy’s sober journey.”

Denkt u erover om te jagen vanaf een motorboot in Kansas? Of seks voor het huwelijk hebben in Idaho?

Wees voorzichtig, zodat u niet aan de verkeerde kant van de wet terechtkomt.

Er bestaan ​​nog steeds tientallen archaïsche en bizarre oude wetten in de VS, die veel gedragingen criminaliseren met maanden gevangenisstraf, honderden dollars aan boetes en zelfs dwangarbeid.

Sommige van deze tien jaar oude wetten hebben zelfs nog interessantere verhalen: het werd illegaal om een ​​eland uit een vliegtuig te laten vallen in Alaska nadat een dierenrechtengroep een lokaal spel verkeerd had begrepen.

In andere staten zijn de wetten er niet in geslaagd om met de tijd mee te veranderen en de politie handhaaft ze eenvoudigweg niet – zoals het geval is met de wet van Alabama tegen gamen op zondag.

Hier is een lijst met 13 van de meest bizarre decennia-oude wetten die nog steeds in de boeken staan ​​in de VS.

Arizona: Het is illegaal om nepmedicijnen te bezitten.

Het maakt niet uit of je weet dat de drugs echt of nep zijn; het bezit van ‘imitatie’ drugs is dat wel onwettig in Arizona.

Concreet is het illegaal om imitatiemedicijnen te bezitten als je van plan bent deze te gebruiken.

Deze wet, en soortgelijke wetten elders, is gericht op het vervolgen van drugsmisdrijven op laag niveau, zelfs als de verdachte onbewust nepmedicijnen van een dealer heeft gekocht.

In 1907 keurde New York een wet goed die het illegaal maakt om je partner te bedriegen.

Deze wet wordt zelden gehandhaafd, maar een veroordeling kan overtreders 90 dagen gevangenisstraf en $500 aan boetes kosten.

Er is momenteel een wetsvoorstel in de maak bij de wetgevende macht van de staat New York, maar dat zou de wet afschaffen.

Alabama: Het is illegaal om op zondag te kaarten

Volgens Alabama juridische code: ‘Iedereen die… zich op die dag bezighoudt met schieten, jagen, gokken, kaartspelen of racen… krijgt een boete van niet minder dan $ 10. niet meer dan $100, en kan ook worden opgesloten in de gevangenis van de provincie, of veroordeeld tot dwangarbeid voor de provincie, voor niet meer dan drie maanden.’

Dit is een oude wet die erop gericht is religieuze regels af te dwingen rond het vieren van de zondag als rustdag. Het relatief lage boetebedrag geeft een indicatie van hoe oud de wet is.

De regel verbiedt ook auto- en motorraces op zondag, en dwingt een kind om buiten de normale huishoudelijke taken te werken.

Indiana: Het is illegaal om met je blote handen te vissen

De praktijk van het vissen met alleen de handen op grote zoetwatervissen, vaak ‘noodling’ genoemd, is een beetje vreemd, maar niet zo zeldzaam in de VS.

Maar in Indiana is dat wel zo tegen de wet.

In feite wordt het in de wet van Indiana op één hoop gegooid met dynamiet, geweren, gif en elektriciteit als ‘onwettige middelen om vis te vangen’.

Als een persoon wordt beschuldigd van het overtreden van de vis- en natuurregels in Indiana, kan de staat alle apparatuur in beslag nemen als bewijsmateriaal en deze in beslag nemen als de verdachte wordt veroordeeld.

Het is echter niet waarschijnlijk dat de staat iemands handen in beslag zal nemen.

Alaska: Het is illegaal om een ​​eland uit een vliegtuig te laten vallen

In de meeste gevallen stopten staten met de wetten op deze lijst eenvoudigweg met het handhaven van oude wetten waar ooit rationele redenen achter zaten. Deze criminaliseerde echter gedrag dat gebaseerd was op een misverstand.

De inwoners van Talkeetna, Alaska, deden dat vroeger ook een spel spelen met elandenpoep, dat was een variant op bingo.

Elandenpoep met daarop geschilderde cijfers werd uit een vliegtuig gedropt, en als iemand de juiste taart vond, won hij.

Dierenrechtengroep PETA begreep het spel niet en lobbyde bij de deelstaatregering om het illegaal te maken om een ​​eland uit een vliegtuig te duwen.

Missouri: Het is illegaal om de stier van een vreemdeling zonder voorafgaande kennisgeving te castreren

Als een stier losraakt en tekeergaat in Missouri, is het legaal voor buren of andere bezorgde burgers om op humane wijze te handelen castreer het dier om te voorkomen dat hij zich onbeperkt voortplant en in het algemeen grote schade aanricht.

Er is echter één addertje onder het gras: iedereen die de stier van een vreemdeling wil castreren, moet de plaatselijke gemeente hiervan op de hoogte stellen en drie dagen wachten. Anders opereren ze buiten de wet.

De castrerende partij moet ook voorkomen dat het dier onnodig lijden ondervindt, en moet zich houden aan goede praktijken voor het castreren van landbouwhuisdieren. Als de eigenaar het dier echter binnen drie dagen komt ophalen, moet hij de buurman die het dier heeft gevangen één dollar betalen.

Deze wet geldt ook voor zwijnen en rammen.

Florida: Het is illegaal om een ​​dwerg in een bar te gooien

Concreet stelt de wet van Florida dat het illegaal is om dwergen te gooien in een etablissement dat sterke drank verkoopt.

De wet is gericht op het voorkomen van uitbuiting van mensen met de medische aandoening dwerggroei.

Het is dwergen volgens de wet echter niet verboden om deel te nemen aan andere sportevenementen: ‘Niets in dit document mag worden geïnterpreteerd als een verbod voor dwergen om deel te nemen aan niet-uitbuitende sport- of recreatieve evenementen van het type dat wordt beoefend door personen die geen dwergen zijn.’

Minnesota: Illegaal om een ​​varken te smeren

In het Land van 10.000 Meren is het tegen de wet vet een varken in – of boerenhoenders.

In het bijzonder: ‘Niemand mag een wedstrijd, spel of andere soortgelijke activiteit exploiteren, uitvoeren of eraan deelnemen, waarbij een varken, ingevet, geolied of anderszins, wordt losgelaten en waarbij het doel de vangst van het varken is, of waarbij een kip of kalkoen wordt losgelaten of in de lucht gegooid en waarbij het doel het vangen van de kip of kalkoen is.’

Overtredingen van deze wet uit 1971 worden beschouwd als misdrijven, bestraft met een boete of mogelijk gevangenisstraf.

Kansas: Illegaal om te jagen vanaf een motorboot

In de staat Kansas, waar gewilde wilddieren leven, waaronder de Amerikaanse bizon, is dit illegaal jagen vanaf een motorboot.

Jagen vanuit een vliegtuig, auto of ander voertuig is ook illegaal.

Er zijn echter enkele uitzonderingen op deze wet: mensen die jagen met een gehandicaptenvergunning mogen een voertuig gebruiken, en het jagen op watervogels vanaf een boot die niet beweegt, wordt beide als legaal beschouwd.

De jacht op coyotes is ook vrijgesteld van de meeste jachtwetten van Kansas, omdat het dier als een bedreiging voor het vee wordt beschouwd.

Michigan: Illegaal om dronken te zijn in een trein

In de staat Michigan is dat wel het geval tegen de wet om in een trein te rijden ‘terwijl je in een aanstootgevende staat van dronkenschap verkeert’.

Als iemand de wet overtreedt, mag een treinconducteur die persoon arresteren, al dan niet met een bevelschrift.

Van iedereen die betrapt wordt op het drinken van alcohol in de trein, wordt de drank in beslag genomen en aan een stationagent gegeven, die de drinker een ontvangstbewijs overhandigt. Zij kunnen hun alcohol binnen 10 dagen ophalen bij de stationagent, anders wordt deze afgevoerd.

De straf voor het overtreden van deze wetten tegen drinken of dronken zijn in de trein: maximaal 90 dagen gevangenisstraf en $ 100 boete.

Idaho: Het is illegaal om seks te hebben voor het huwelijk

Deze wet nog steeds in de boeken van Idaho bestaat al sinds 1972, toen seks vóór het huwelijk meer werd afgekeurd dan nu het geval is.

De wet bepaalt: ‘Elke ongehuwde persoon die geslachtsgemeenschap heeft met een ongehuwde persoon van het andere geslacht, wordt schuldig bevonden aan hoererij en, bij veroordeling daarvan, gestraft met een boete van niet meer dan $ 300 of met gevangenisstraf wegens het niet meer dan zes maanden of met zowel een dergelijke boete als een gevangenisstraf.’

Naar goeddunken van een rechter kan de straf echter worden opgeschort, of kan een verdachte een proeftijd krijgen in plaats van gevangenisstraf.

Arkansas: Het is illegaal om een ​​flipperkast te bedienen die een speler meer dan 25 gratis spellen kan geven

Deze wet uit Arkansas maakt deel uit van een reeks wetten die gokken beheersen en verbiedt inwoners een flipperkast te bedienen die een speler meer dan 25 gratis spellen kan geven.

Andere wetten in dit gedeelte van de wettelijke code van Arkansas omvatten een wet die spelapparaten met muntinworp verbiedt als het inwerpen van meer munten de winkansen van een speler vergroot.

Overtreding van deze wetten kan u tot een jaar gevangenisstraf opleveren en u opzadelen met een boete van $1.000.

Nevada: Het is illegaal om klanten schoenen te passen met een röntgenapparaat

In de jaren dertig werd een machine uitgevonden die schoenpasfluoroscoop wordt genoemd.

En in 1960 werd dat het geval illegaal in Nevada om er een te gebruiken om klanten schoenen te passen.

Het had de vorm van een houten kast met zoekers aan de bovenkant en maakte gebruik van röntgenfoto’s om de voeten van een schoenenwinkelaar in beeld te brengen – in de overtuiging dat het zien van de voetbeenderen van een persoon een nauwkeurigere schoenmaat zou opleveren.

Röntgenstraling is veilig in kleine doses, maar kan bij hoge doses in verband worden gebracht met stralingsvergiftiging.

Hoewel fluoroscopen voor het passen van schoenen niet meer bestaan, en deze wet dus nu waarschijnlijk niet meer nodig is, heeft deze wel de volksgezondheid gediend.

As I took my seat at a women’s networking luncheon, it quickly became apparent that the guests at my table more than matched the cost of the event.

There was the corporate lawyer in a sharply tailored suit; the top bank manager with a scary haircut; the woman who ran a recruiting firm and placed people in six-figure salary jobs, and another who did something inexplicably complex in the tech sector: a formidable group of women making great strides in their professional lives.

So, given the origins of my fellow diners, you might imagine that the possibilities for absorbing conversations about, say, politics, work, travel or books would be limitless. But when the waiters poured glasses of crisp Chablis and offered hors d’oeuvres with round smoked salmon, it quickly became clear that there would be no side dish to accompany a lively conversation.

Not because these women didn’t have a lot to say. Quite the opposite. In fact, they didn’t keep their mouths shut. The problem was that all these well-groomed, accomplished career women were all focused on one topic: their children.

The barrister to my right gave a particularly bleak account of her daughter’s problems choosing GCSE subjects.

Meanwhile, the tech guru to my left was blabbering on about how her son – ‘he’s very smart’ – was preparing for a Duke of Edinburgh Award.

They just kept going, no detail was too nonsensical or boring to remove from their monologues, so any idea of ​​making new business contacts (my whole reason for attending) was shot to pieces. All I left with was a steaming pile of parental anecdotes.

Not that this was an isolated incident by any means. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve found myself among groups of women—at dinner parties, work dates, or social gatherings—who have found themselves unable to talk about anything other than their children.

They are self-absorbed and puffed up by the certainty that their children’s every breath is making headlines, and they have no idea how to take their conversation beyond the confines of their children’s lives. Don’t they worry about the cost of living, the Oscars or the upcoming elections in the US and Britain?

Now I have nothing against children; I am truly blessed to have four of my own children. I adore their bones, and as their mother, I am absolutely captivated by their daily lives.

Yet I am acutely aware that while all this is a source of endless fascination and pride for me, the outside world is not equally fascinated. Unfortunately, many women do not understand this.

In this age of groundbreaking female achievement, how did it get to this point? Have we forgotten that we had to break the glass ceiling, fight for elections and fight for equal pay?

Do you really imagine men indulging in introspective conversations about their children while strolling the golf course or networking over a beer? Of course not. They enjoy the freedom of their child-free free time.

One woman, high up in the financial world, has the gift of always directing conversations back to her children. She recently managed to hijack an impassioned group chat about whether Trump could become US president for a second time into an exhausting monologue about her son’s first trip to New York. Who cares?

Is there a way to capitalize on these often brain-numbing scenarios? Believe me, I tried it. I remember at a birthday lunch, encouraged by a G&T on an empty stomach, declaring that all talk of children should be banned.

“It’s boring, boring, boring,” I stormed. “Do you really think that when our children get together, they waste time talking about their parents? So why on earth are we doing the same thing?’

It worked – for a while. By the time dessert arrived, like dieters, they fell off the wagon and back into the world of school uniforms, exams and college applications.

On another occasion, in almost absolute desperation from boredom, I found myself declaring, “Is anyone else using the bobbin here?” I’m sure it’s time for mine to come out.” Getting the other women away from the obsessive, child-oriented chatter was the first thing I could think of.

So if you’re one of those women who thinks everyone is fascinated by your child, take it from me: they’re not. A good conversation between intelligent, committed women should be as simple as child’s play, and not about it.

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