Thursday is Staff Diversity Appreciation Day

[Alan H]

OK, after everyone quits choking on their Guinness over the PC'ness of that title, figure it this way. This is an excuse for Alan H to get out the full rig including my new Locharron knee socks and my jacobite shirt and show up to work kilted to the nines. It also means an hour and a half on the grass listening to music and eating free ice cream. What's not to like?

BTW, I've been wearing a blue surplus military beret with my kilts and it looks just fine. I got some nice compliments on it at the Livermore games a couple of weekends ago. I've got a new red beret on my "birthday" list to go with the Macnaughton from Bear, when it finally gets here.

Huzzah for Staff Diversity Appreciation Day...*cough*..

[Yaish]

Have you ever had the chance to go to work kilted besides this? If not, maybe this will be a good stepping stone. And free ice cream is never bad.

Re:Berets. I wore either a black or UN Blue beret with my kilts several times, it comes off looking good.

[bubba]

I usually wear a tan beret myself, with Clan badge on it. I did, however, just get a grey herringbone Donnegal tweed flat cap.

[GMan]

Free Ice Cream! I am there.

Alan I do think a beret with the kilt looks great (Bubba looks mahvalous!)

[Alan H]

Have you ever had the chance to go to work kilted besides this? If not, maybe this will be a good stepping stone. .

Oh, I go to work kilted 2-3 days a week. This is just an excuse to get out me new hose and put on that shirt that I've had for 9 months but haven't worn, yet.

[KiltedHuntsman]

I've got a "Diversity Day" coming in work in June. They've been asking me to wear my Kilt, but I've declined. I don't really want to be an exhibit. Strikes me as a sort of school show and tell thingy.

I usually wear western wear to the office, and they asked me to be part of the "Diversity Fashion Show" last year, which included Asian, Native American and others. I declined for the same reason. It would have gone over real good. "Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

[chasem]

..."Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

for some reason that struck me as purely hilarious (not the oppression, but the image that brings)

[Yaish]

It would have gone over real good. "Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

That kind of thinking has always bothered me. Have YOU done so? If not, who cares? If we want to look back into history to find problems there is no race that needs to look any further than their own to find examples of where they were as bad or worse than anything that happened to them from someone else.

[cajunscot]

That kind of thinking has always bothered me. Have YOU done so? If not, who cares? If we want to look back into history to find problems there is no race that needs to look any further than their own to find examples of where they were as bad or worse than anything that happened to them from someone else.

As someone who makes their living in historical/informational trades, I have to agree with Yaish's last post 100%. We shouldn't judge people in the past by our modern standards, because we cannot totally experience what they went through.

Cheers,

Todd

[beerbecue]

As someone who makes their living in historical/informational trades, I have to agree with Yaish's last post 100%. We shouldn't judge people in the past by our modern standards, because we cannot totally experience what they went through.

I don't think we should judge people in the present based on what happened in the past, either.......