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04-18-2007, 10:25 PM
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Last Thursday and Friday I wore a kilt to class. Nothing new there. But two women related a comment of one young man about my wearing a kilt that I'd never received before. The comments was that he didn't want to mess with me because I looked like I could handle myself. Have any of you heard, or been made aware, of such a comment? I expect the usual comments, but this one was new to me. Actually I'm rather pleased by the comment at 60 years of age.
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04-18-2007, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Kiltman  Last Thursday and Friday I wore a kilt to class. Nothing new there. But two women related a comment of one young man about my wearing a kilt that I'd never received before. The comments was that he didn't want to mess with me because I looked like I could handle myself. Have any of you heard, or been made aware, of such a comment? I expect the usual comments, but this one was new to me. Actually I'm rather pleased by the comment at 60 years of age. | yes, a great many times. Once I was approached by the owner of a bar as I walked in, and was instructed in no uncertain terms that I was not to get into any fights that night. He spent 15 minutes trying to make me understand how very much he didn't want me to bash anyone's head in. Here is the funny part. I had yet to even order a drink, and the guy I was wingman for was a state-champ wrestler and could bench over 300lbs. it is amazing that I was the one the bar owner was worried about.
I believe there is a saying from somewhere stating "No matter what you do...do NOT (mess) with the guy in the kilt!"
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04-18-2007, 10:48 PM
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Yeah, almost the same thing happened to me. A couple of years ago I wore my kilt to a speed metal concert, and we had passes that got us in early. I'm standing there near the front of the stage, waiting for the first act to get on stage, and the bouncer comes up to me and says "Dont hurt anyone in here tonight, I dont want to have to fight you..."
I wound up talking to the bouncer for several minutes before the concert started, and he was a pretty cool guy. He just didnt want to potentially be the bouncer that got his butt kicked by the guy in the skirt. =)
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04-18-2007, 11:09 PM
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I'd agree with the bouncer, you "look" like you could be trouble. Not a bad thing, maybe it's keeps trouble from coming after you.
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04-18-2007, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Kilted KT I believe there is a saying from somewhere stating "No matter what you do...do NOT (mess) with the guy in the kilt!" | i believe that was started be Rowdy Roddy Piper,
a wrestler from back in the day. http://www.rowdyroddypiper.com/index.php
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04-18-2007, 11:16 PM
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Your awesomeness cannot be contained. The kilt is only adds to it.
Congratulations, Kiltman!
And, please, don't kill anyone!
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04-19-2007, 12:09 AM
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The closest I have come to a similar comment was when some of my wife's work mates have seen photos of me kilted (they are yet to meet me in the flesh): a few of them passed comments like, "Well, nobody's going to be game enough to pick on him for wearing a 'skirt'".
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04-19-2007, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by LK-13 | I met him when I was a wee boy. He used to live just up the street from my sister's beft friend when we were very young.
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04-19-2007, 03:28 AM
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Yes...and it's hilarious, because I don't look like a dangerous creature.
I "earned" a reputation in my favorite pub when I swept someone of his feet when he told me to go to the ladies room instead of the mens room.
He made funny remarks for weeks and that was just one too many.
It's now over a year ago and the little event got blown out of proportions over time.
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04-19-2007, 04:28 AM
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I always find it interesting that some react to kilted men by thinking they are big butch he men while others react the opposite way and see them as weak effeminate wimps!
Clearly the latter view has often been changed to the former by a little "sweeping off the feet"! 
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