You in for a curl up and dye? Yeah, looks like the same for this screen in a hairdressers While computers falling over in public may once have been a thing to be mocked, now they are reminders of days gone by and sometimes, just sometimes, have a message for the future. Take this example spotted in the windows of a Toni & Guy hairdressing salon by Register reader Ian Bonham. The picture of the "barnet botherers", …
Careful there, could go back to the 1918 flu. Most of us should be descended from those who survived or were suffiicently immune but maybe not. Ditto if we reset to the Black Death of the Middle Ages or when cholera first arose.
Perhaps back to when measles first spread from cattle to humans and we had absolutely no immunity. That sounds fun, not.
History is replete with pestilences we could go back to. Back when you relied on your local witch doctor/priest/minister. At least in the Middle Ages the medics had some PPE though it is still not sure if the Black Death was breath infectious or not. It might have become so. Which means the getup might have been actually useful and would work for SARS or Covid-19. Though it would require careful removal and hot laundry in between patients and all that hygiene stuff wasn't appreciated back then so like Dr's ties, now ditched for scrubs on the wards the dreads might have spread the contagion.
Folk in the future will doubtless look at even the best (Sth Korea, New Zealand) and sneer at the naiveté and crudeness. We have pcr and antibody tests (I have done lots of pcr for many things) yet rolling it out sufficiently even with Sth Korea's example seems beyond a supposedly advanced country like the UK. But then Sth Korea's democracy is still a work in progress whilst ours is sclerotic. We can't even reform the absurd, ruritanian House of Lords. We share with only Iran the shame of unelected senior clerics sitting in our legislature as of right. Archbishop = Ayatollah, often down to the beards and headgear and robes.
And note NONE of this should apply to Scotland since we Disestablished our Kirk back in the early '70s. Yet it does. Until recently the Episcopal Church in Scotland styled itself The Church In Scotland, the definite article should be emphasised. We staged an armed rebellion over having a prayer book and bishops imposed on the infant Presbyterian Kirk. Historians date the start of what you think of as the English Civil War to the Bishops Wars in Scotland. Scots Covenanter armies even took part south of the Border and remember when Chuck the second took refuge here we took him captive and packed him off for trial.
The 6th of this month marked the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath in which, amongst other fine sentiments we asserted our right to dispense with monarchs who did not measure up. Charles should have taken account of that, but didn't. Post Independence don't assume we will agree to who the English (and Welsh though they won't be consulted) think should be the next monarch. We might insist on a separate coronation again. Outside on Boot Hill at Scone.
I'm a Republican but that would tickle me. Charles might even go for it though he seems sensibly wary of that name as monarch. Such superstition. If we sent him packing I'm sure he wouldn't lose his head over it. Though The Maiden in the Museum of Scotland looks in working order . . .
Please change into supported firmware version.
Into? Into?
Sadly, this is probably some automatic updater bollocks that took a functioning sign and updated the application part to something that requires a more recent version of the firmware than the one installed. Rather than do a logical thing like check before updating, it just went ahead and did it and here's the result...
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