A talk given by The Inquisition at Defuse, on Wednesday 7th November 2012, as part of Designweek in Dublin, Ireland
Nürnburg got ripped to shreds by Bomber Harris’ boys. By how much appears to be open to debate.
The preface to HLA Hart’s publication of his 1961 lecture series on the meeting of law and morality is as prevalent today as it ever was.
There are people out there who pretend to like coffee. Coffee Haters – you have been warned.
False flag, covert ops by Americans against Americans? Sounds crazy, and so it was deemed.
55 years ago Roland Barthes considered the importance of plastic and what it meant, as a substance and a symbol.
Marriage is thought by many to be a fixed rite, one which is immovable and inflexible. The truth is that it has not always seemed so…
The world was shocked when a victim of torture started blinking morse. The story of a US aviator captured in Vietnam.
Earth has had a recent fly past by the mysterious alien probe, 1991 VG. And it’s coming back. We’re screwed. Maybe.
Horace De Vere Cole was the major protagonist and originator of the Dreadnought Hoax. Who was he? What was the Hoax?
Public lice, herpes sores and syphilitic pustules made life difficult for the hard working 15th century prostitute. Not only did they make life uncomfortable or even shorten life, these little importunities shooed clients away.
So what was a girl to do? Or even a boy, if that’s how he kept himself amused?
Obviously they would wish there to be no medical involvement due to cost and the invasive nature of the general quackery that passed for healthcare at the time. Concern for their clients’ well-being can hardly have rated highly in the minds of society’s most disaffected. So the obvious answer was a quick trim and a new false thatch to have everything appear ship-shape and squeaky clean.
Anyway they have been in, at least intermittent, use since and are supposedly now a thing of boudoir fashion as well as being a frequent prop in film-making as a circuitous route around film censorship. You can pick one up at Merkin World.
Bibliography
The Straight Dope converses on the merkin
Wikipedia
A letter to the Guardian on the topic
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