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View Poll Results: Does a Kilt lifter seriously offend you?

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  • Yes

    47 40.17%
  • Sometimes

    48 41.03%
  • No

    22 18.80%
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  1. #1
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    I voted sometimes. Like Rocky says, it depends on what's actually happening. But the few times its happened to me I don't recall getting angry - even the drunk gay guy at the Pride Festival...I just spun away and silently scolded him by shaking my finger at him...it was the fun spirit of the place that probably encouraged him and held back my anger.

    What angers me more than anything is that at least four times I've been accused of "flashing" while seated kilted. Now I know from where various parts of my body fall that my chubby thighs are preventing and view of the bits - particularly from someone looking my way with their eyes high above my knees. But the person will act as if they've been flashed when nothing happened. For some reason these folks seem dramatic. I've even been accused of flashing when wearing underwear.

    For me, this is a more difficult situation to deal with since its only someone's word and its hardly the place to explain geometry - there's no way. Kind of like trying to prove you're not a Communist. And the accusation comes at me...accusing me of being some sort of flasher. A much different deal than when someone puts hands on to lift my kilt and its them that is the offender.

    Maybe folks see too many of the upkilt shots (all taken from low levels). Maybe folks just like to tease. Maybe they're sadistic knowing there's little defense against the accusation. And they seem to live on as myth and gossip. "I heard you flashed so and so."

    Don't know that we've ever talked about these false flashing accusations. But they are what greatly anger me.

    Ron
    Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
    Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
    "I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."

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    I'm not easily offended, a kilt lift may be unwarranted, unwelcome and inappropriate but being offended by it would not be the correct term.

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