"Well my kilt is pure wool - 35 yards"

**Nighthawk** · 24th October 11, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by Highland Logan

I could agree that maybe it was in jest. However when did the OP mention Pakistan? He didn't. So I see no point in bringing it up if not to create a racial or regional stereotype. Which in this case would be negative... and that's called what?

Frank

Over reaction? Reading in insult where there was none? Unless, of course, you're one of those unethical Pakistani businessmen who was getting poked fun at. Are unethical businessmen a race? I thought they existed in every culture. I could be wrong, though...

Originally Posted by Zardoz

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Don't feed the Troll....

There's no troll, Z. Just someone who wants to find an insult. That is simply a symptom of a PC society. We think we somehow have the right not to be offended. There was no racial slight made- we all know that- but a region was mentioned, so there invariably was that one person who had to make up a reason to get offended. He's not being a troll- just another victim of the political correctness movement. I'm not fat... I'm horizontally challenged...

**artificer** · 24th October 11, 10:59 AM

**Alan H** · 24th October 11, 12:01 PM

Wow. In more ways than one.

**Chas** · 24th October 11, 12:57 PM

I can believe this. I have a 50 yard kit - it looks really good from 50 yards!

Regards

Chas

**O'Callaghan** · 24th October 11, 02:54 PM

A woman at an Irish festival once asked me if my kilt was wrapped round and round. If kilts were constructed the way she thought then they might be 35 yards long. I didn't have the heart to explain that she was wrong.

**room2ndfloor** · 24th October 11, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Zardoz

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Don't feed the Troll....

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I love this comment.

X Marks needs the buttons for "agree" "disagree" and "love" as Ravelry has.

**xman** · 24th October 11, 03:59 PM

Might be thinking of his waist size in inches.

**Tartan Tess** · 24th October 11, 04:34 PM

I was just told the other day that a "proper kilt is 13 yards and very heavy"

kiltedwolfman · 24th October 11, 04:36 PM

Oh yeah!? Well my kilts are 16 Rod and get 20 miles to the hogs head! Hehehe ;)

**Jay** · 24th October 11, 06:06 PM

As the originator of the "Pakistani" comment, please allow me to clarify.

By "Pakistani" I meant the low end kilt industry in Pakistan. The guys that advertise "man made wool" when they mean acrylic and "genuine Scottish design" when they mean a knock off of a traditional Scottish garment and tell you it's and 8 yard kilt that features 10 pleats about 1" deep.

The comment was in no way a slight against Pakistan as a country, a people or a culture. At no time did I feel that I was somehow better than any Pakistani because of race. But then again, that would be bigotry, not racism.