People's Ignorance

[davedove]

I was out walking the other day in a kilt, and for the first (and so far only) time someone yelled out the F word to me from a passing car. Now I don't pay too much attention to that sort of thing, as I figure it just shows the ignorance and immaturity of the person. What got me to thinking afterwards, was how ignorant the person was of his own locality's heritage. I walked down many streets that day with names like McKinley and Wallace, and several other similar names I can't recall right now. Now streets are given names for a reason, even if the reason is only that someone of that name lived there at one time, so there was obviously a Scottish influence. Now I know that many people don't seem to care about their heritage, but the whole situation just seemed sad to me.

[Freedomlover]

Ignorance, yes, but personal insecurity plays a large part in that sort of behavior as well.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Oh my God Dave!

Someone had the GAUL to yell "Fritos" at you?

You should have run them down and pummeled them within an inch of their life! Nobody... but NOBODY... is going to insult me like that, especially when I'm most definately a baked nacho chip kind of guy. That's just wrong!

He'll learn the error of his ways when his arteries clog from all that excess grease and oil. That little b#stard!!!!!!!!!

There's a lot of jack-holes out there buddy. Write them off as ignorant and just move on. One day, they'll be in the middle of a situation where their stupidity will get them "nailed"... and then maybe they'll learn.

[davedove]

Oh my God Dave!

Someone had the GAUL to yell "Fritos" at you?

You should have run them down and pummeled them within an inch of their life! Nobody... but NOBODY... is going to insult me like that, especially when I'm most definately a baked nacho chip kind of guy. That's just wrong!

He'll learn the error of his ways when his arteries clog from all that excess grease and oil. That little b#stard!!!!!!!!!

There's a lot of jack-holes out there buddy. Write them off as ignorant and just move on. One day, they'll be in the middle of a situation where their stupidity will get them "nailed"... and then maybe they'll learn.

That was a good one Jimmy. Seriously, the comment didn't bother me that much. How seriously can you take someone who calls out then speeds away? I've got big enough shoulders (figuratively and literally) to let that kind of thing slide right on past. It just makes me sad how small minded some people are.

FRITOS??!!! That's still got me smiling.

[F16WarBird]

IMO, anyone who doesn't have the balls to say something like that to your face, is a F**!

Actually, that's a pretty homophobic thing for me to say. The more appropriate word would be p****.

[glengall1]

Sorry to hear that you were treated in such a manner by those who don't understand.

I thought the States would be a great place to wear the kilt as there are so many different cultures and creeds that expressing your own goes mainly unnoticed.

When I have visited my relatives in the States (never with my kilt on) I have been treated with nothing but kindness and respect.

Never mind, there are one million that will support you to every one of these type of idiots.!!!!

[Graham]

I guess we'll have ignorance with us until the end of the age. Let us be thankful that we have risen above that and have the joy and knowledge that allows us to appreciate the kilt, our heritage, and all the great things that flow from that.

Somewhere it says "bless them that curse you", there's great power in that!!

[Dreadbelly]

Somewhere it says "bless them that curse you", there's great power in that!!

Oh wow Graham, I am glad you said something. This whole time, I thought it said "bash them that curse you." And here I am thinking I had done the right thing to do this whole time. :razz:

[bubba]

I only had that happen to me once but I had the last laugh. The idiot yelled "******" out the car window and sped away only to have a cop nail him for speeding immediately. I got to walk past him, wave and laugh while the cop was running his license. Sometimes there IS justice in the world. ;-)

[Frank]

I guess there are a range of guys for whom kilts and kilt wearing is an issue due entirely to their own limitations as human beings.

If you imagine a spectrum with, at one end, those for whom walking upright with just a little knuckle drag is something of a personal achievement right through to those who don't need approval from their buddies to have wash everyday, the not so brave dunderheid in the auto probably needs a lot of band-aids.

I refuse to believe that guys who have a problem with kilts, actually have a problem that involves clothing. You'd probably have to be a psychologist to
fully diagnose their inadequacies, but I'm guessing that it's often just straight good ol' fashioned jealousy with a side shot of pretence.

Jealous that their miserable little world means they'll never know how the kilt meaures up as a clothing choice, and pretence that, heck, they prefer not to have the choice. Right? After all, who wants choice? No sirree, I'll just stick with a fragile ego and the body odur of a decomposed racoon like the rest of my buddies down at Moe's...

Back in the 1970's a British food company ran an ad campaign for 'instant mashed potato mix'. The ads featured a family of Martians who split their sides laughing at the behaviour of the sad Earthlings who thought the best way for creamed/mashed potato was to peel, boil and then mash them.
The joke was the Eartlings were pitifully blinkered and not very socially developed (not to mention stupid). I'm reminded of those ads every time I read about some repressed redneck with a negative kilt comment.

Imagine the service we could do to society at large with a 'only real men can hold their breath for ten minutes' bumper sticker campaign....