First Insult

**Norbo** · 20th November 14, 04:42 PM

Well it had to happen LOL .
I was out on Wednesday taking the kids to the Nottingham play house . we parked up a little ways out and walked in to the centre of Notts to get to the show house . There's a group of blokes just going in to a pub on the other side of the road and theirs me and 3 kids coming down the road .

One bloke shouts over Oy you what you wearing a skirt for mate, and his mate are all laughing. so I turns to him and shouts back . Don't Embarrass your self mate and show your ignorance , Its a kilt you should have got some education when you were at school. A skirt is what you put on and dance around the living room in when you think no is looking.

At this all his mate just RAW with laughter and you could still hear them all the way down the road laughing and taking the piss out of the bloke.

We went on to have a great night out and the kids loved the show .

**Hawk** · 20th November 14, 04:46 PM

Well played sir.....well played......

Hawk

**Dughlas mor** · 20th November 14, 06:13 PM

Norbo, that is one of the best responses I`ve yet heard. I will remember that for sure. Nice job indeed!

**OC Richard** · 20th November 14, 06:22 PM

Yes well done!

The only things approaching insults I can think of, in nearly 40 years of kiltwearing, are things that eejits with microphones, MCs of events, have said in an attempt to be entertaining.

Many years ago I was piping for the Marine Corps Birthday at an Officers' Mess at Camp Pendleton. (It's a big thing in the Corps.)

So I march in playing whatever I'm supposed to play and when I'm done I stand at Attention. (I may be a civilian but I try to have appropriate deportment.)

So the MC, the Colonel as I recall, says something about "female civilians" being dismissed. There being no such in the room, I took it to be an insulting reference to myself. I stayed at Attention, for a rather long time, until, finally, I was dismissed properly.

**tky58** · 20th November 14, 09:11 PM

OC Richard,
The Marine Corps is now 239 years of tradition unhampered by progress.
I sounds like you were at a "Mess Night". It has a very proscribed format which is followed precisely.
I have see it where there are no civilians present at all but "female civilians" are dismissed so the men may "light the lamp" and enjoy a wee dram and a cigar. WM's are not dismissed because they are Marines.
Steve

**Tarheel** · 21st November 14, 05:41 AM

I'll be sure to pass that quip along to my wife Norbo. She insists that I practice my sword dance in the house because she's sure our neighbors (family from the movie, "Deliverence") will attack me.

**Laird_M** · 21st November 14, 05:50 AM

Unfortunately some people delight in being offensive. On Friday at Scout's doing a session on St Andrew, one girl kept asking everyone, including me, why 'that man is wearing a skirt'. All the other scouts told her I was wearing a kilt, as did the leaders, but she wouldn't let up. In the end, everyone ignored her and she then became obsessed with whether I had anything under the kilt. Hopefully one day she'll grow up, but some people never grow up mentally - they remain morons for the whole of their life.

**bwat** · 21st November 14, 06:05 AM

Originally Posted by Laird_M

Hopefully one day she'll grow up, but some people never grow up mentally - they remain morons for the whole of their life.

How do I say this in the right way? Maybe the lass was a bit "slow", you know, the sort of person who is more to be pitied at than laughed at.

**Norbo** · 21st November 14, 07:01 AM

ive had a few children ask there mum or dad why is that man wearing a skirt but they are like young kids are genually don't know as its not something they have seen before, you can hear the reply its called a Killt love and the bag at the front is called a sporran. I get the odd friend make a comment in fun but not made to be insulting in the true sense made yp upset me just as fun and as its a Scottish mans skirt called a kilt. I just play along take it as fun and never say its not a skirt as this invites them to say it more to wined you up . I say yet it is thanks for noticing we call them kilts.
This was the first time I have actually had a stranger try and take the micky. I wonder if he would have made a coment if he was on his own though . Some how I think he would not.

**Laird_M** · 21st November 14, 07:02 AM

No, think its more than that - was one of her cub leaders and she hasn't changed much - she's quite bright, pretty disruptive, and thinks its funny to make fun of people.