“Cuckold” is far from a modern insult. In the 1640s they yelled it at each other across the battlefield, emblazoning it on their battle standards. Cary’s own troop’s cornet was red with a creature in a barrel and the motto ‘come out you cuckold‘ referred to the Earl of Essex’s notorious marital problems. The major's cornet simply bore the motto 'cuckolds we come'.
This whole flag thing reminds me of a bit done by Eddie Izzard.
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Farmer Isabel Milligan drives a tractor as she weeds and transplants crops on a farm in Amagansett, New York. Women and non-binary people are among a growing cadre of new farmers in their 20s and 30s who are changing the face of organic agriculture, running some of the best-known organic farms.
This was how Tehran National University students looked like in Iran before the revolution of ‘79. Religious fundamentalism oppresses everyone...all the time, every single time.
Wash your hands the right way people. Using caution and common sense, avoiding large crowds, avoiding small spaces with sick people, good hand hygiene and not rubbing eyes, wiping mouth or touching the face until *after* having properly washed hands will do more to protect people from this than just about anything else.