Don_DickleTIL that British judges and lawyers wear white wigs to bring formality, solemnity, and anonymity to the courtroom
Just looks dumb to me but what do I know
NuttemanYou know they look dumb as hell, so you have what going for you at least
UnderpantsWeevilIf you’ve ever been inside a British courtroom, you’ll discover that they regularly act dumb, too. Lots of pomp and circumstance, but its still the same clueless, vulgar assholes under the hood.
I think that’s intentional. It proves their dominance. I mean you have to go to them and they are wearing something very silly and you have to pretend it’s not silly, and if you don’t they will harm you somehow.
Laugh at a lawyer wearing a wig, and they will come to your house at night and cut you!
Just some good ol’ oppression of the prol’s through class.
Time to ditch the Guy Fawkes mask for a powdered wig instead
I thought it was to cover up syphilitic lesions and just kinda stuck around.
That might be wigs in general, probably not specifically their use in the British legal system.
AdaThat’s pretty much what the article says
delirious_owlWigs began to catch on in the late 16th century when an increasing number of people in Europe were contracting the STI. Without widespread treatment with antibiotics (Sir Alexander Fleming didn’t discover penicillin, the treatment for syphilis until 1928), people with syphilis were plagued by rashes, blindness, dementia, open sores and hair loss. The hair loss was particularly problematic in social circles.
This fucking culture, man. People getting dimensia and going blind, but if they loose their hair then their friends abandon them.
Sounds like they had their priorities right
To be fair it might have been the fear of catching the disease plus the stigma (it was associated with prostitution and bohemian lifestyle).
tehWrapperIt was also a thing of class since white powered wigs where taxed more if remember right. Cant have the poor people looking pimp in white wigs!
That typo made me chuckle.
Ah me to corrected.
Most are handmade from 100 percent horsehair, though there are synthetic versions available today, too. Horsehair wigs aren’t cheap, either, especially when they’re handmade and combine an ages-old craft of styling, sewing and gluing. A judge’s full-length wig can cost more than $3,000
This is the stupidest and most disgusting thing I’ve read today, thanks.
Hair is already dead and animal hair (can’t remember which animal) is also used for the best brushes used for painting.
IMO as long as the hair is washed which it obviously is, it’s not really disgusting.
Its disgusting to use a being’s body without their consent.
Again, hair is dead.
And honestly if you are referring to the animals (which you are, otherwise you wouldn’t say “beings”) they likely wouldn’t have been born in the first place if humans didn’t like their hair.
Necrophila is immoral.
Yeah no shit Sherlock. That has nothing to do with taking the hair of dead people though.
If I’m dead you can take whatever part you want and use it for medical purposes or wigs I guess. I don’t really care, because I would be fucking dead.
Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean others don’t care.
Why do you think culutrs have condemned necrophiliacs?
Taking hair isn’t necrophilia
Jojo, Lady of the WestYeah, I demand an end to wooden structures!
The Siberian Weasel’s hair is used in kolinsky sable brushes for water colour, and sometimes acrylic painting.
Amazing cause it does all of those things so damn poorly. You’re thinking of Diamond encrusted ivory full head masks
Welp. Considering it does none of those three things, maybe it’s time for them to go the way of the buggy whip
Not from Britain but trying to get new slang every day what is a buggy whip.
The whip used to whip the horse(s) pulling your horse-drawn buggy.
Thank you for educating me… i do appreciate it…no sarcasm.
I did pause for a bit, pondering if it was actually deone new slang…
Then decided if I’m wrong then it’s only on the internet.
SLVRDRGNThere’s no stopping the start of its rebirth in modern slang. Someone just needs to give it a new meaning.
100% buggy whip, yo.
ShaggySnacksAh shit, they be 100% buggy whipping in their whip.
That’s actually amish talk “buggy whip”
Interesting; here in Alberta a buggy whip is a flexible (fibreglass, at least mine is) flagpole for the back of your truck.
Hmm, I’m guessing that buggy whips were more like a flexible pole rather than the stereotypical Indiana Jones whip.
So a thin flexible pole would make sense.
Like when you’d whack your little brother with a long bendy stick when you were kids.
Just an example of something outdated that’s not needed anymore
In 2024 it’s just stupid and ridiculous
Racist?
The bleach blonde, white European aristocracy hairstyle wig was designed to show that only certain people were welcome in the club
Oh dip, is gray hair cultural appropriation now? Fuck now I got to buy hair dye.
Age is now a race I guess
The hairstyle is very clearly styled after white, European aristocracy. Always saw it as more bleach blonde than grey
Barristers in Australia wear these also.
I know people are here going like it’s it makes them look silly. Good. Lawyers need to feel like they look silly. This is a group of people that needs to be taken down a peg every single day. If judges and lawyers can be made humble just a little bit we all benefit in society.
They think they look good tho
RivalarrivalThey need to be pegged two or three times a day.
“May I approach the bitch?”
Sundrayto bring formality, solemnity, and anonymity
That’s exactly why Rip Taylor wore a wig, too.
That’s stupid, they’re stupid.
Ellia Plisskenare they aware that their attempt at solemnity makes me giggle
I had a lot of trouble taking the courtroom scenes of Broadchurch seriously
Rob T FireflyWhat it brings nowadays is a bit of yassss, queen!
Serving court
And just a bit of fun!
We need to stop treating courts and judges like they are sone mythical magical place and judges are mini little emperors in their mini little kingdom. It’s just a fucking place people need to go to handle their business. Why the fuck should everyone stand because the guy showed up for his job. All this shit is too much and judges are increasingly out of their minds
Its all a façade because the system is designed to screw you, and grind upon the face of the poor. Justice? More like just-us.
whotookkarlLooks just as silly to me as pantaloons or suits or fedoras