What they really say about us

[beloitpiper]

Actually, this gives me another reason to wear a kilt--to easily weed out who I can and cannot get along with. Just like when I see somebody wearing a Chicago Bears jersey... (just kidding, guys!)

[cessna152towser]

Thanks.
As Robert Burns would say,

Oh wad sum power the giftie gie us
tae see oorselves as ithers see us

[artificer]

Actually, this gives me another reason to wear a kilt--to easily weed out who I can and cannot get along with. Just like when I see somebody wearing a Chicago Bears jersey... (just kidding, guys!)

LOL! It's "oh God, you're going to bother me anyway, so let me chase you off first". I like it, it works for me.

ith:

[Sharkman]

Personally I'm looking forward to being a "bit edgy" this weekend and celebrating my "roots' as it were!

[Ryan Ross]

Yeah, that's about what I would have expected. Of course, the big talkers (especially the lifeboat guy) and their ilk tend to be an internet thing, at least in my experience. I've been wearing a kilt around downtown Atlanta, on MARTA (like the subway, but not always under ground), and whathave you for going on ten years. And in all that time, I could probably count the skirt comments I've gotten on one hand... and I've never gotten anything more offensive than the snotty skirt comment, so far as I can remember.

Folks can type out whatever they want on an internet forum, but when it comes down to real life, they have no idea what they'd do upon seeing a random kilty, unless it's already happened to them; and I'm here to tell you- most all of them would do nothing.

So yes- Any of you kilties out there who get ragged on too much, now hear this- If you cultivate a feeling of relaxed strength (read: he's comfortable in his own skin, he's probably a nice guy, but something tells me that he could just as easily kill me as look at me), folks will pick up on that, whether they know they are or not. That will keep the jerks at bay, while not scaring off the well-meaning populace.

...that's what I find, anyway.

You could alway hope they stew nicely. 9 people could feed one becalmed sailor for quite a long time.

Just saying.

ith:

There you go!

[Brasilikilt]

After reading this thread, I feel like wearing my new Great Kilt and doing some grocery shopping or going to the park with the kids :-)

For some reason people get snippy, develop attitudes or get downright hostile when you "force" them to experience something out of the ordinary.

I pity these people in their closed little worlds

[CelticSire]

If two of us are identical, one of us is unnecessary.

[Highlander31]

:sigh:

Well, it'll be lonely, all by myself in that lifeboat, but there'll be more for me of whatever supplies are stocked. I hope those nine folks are good swimmers.

That pretty much sums up the what I thought, when I read that.

[RayMc]

Cowher --

Don't forget, the entire caribou herd will bolt when the grizzly stamps his foot...

I think the safety in numbers bit is a cop-out. I have always wanted to act & be different, sometimes to my dear chosen mate's dismay!!!

[Brother Falldown]

I don't know, gentlemen. I really don't see anything that unusual about being kilted. Now, a fascination with reptiles, that doesn't seem quite "mainstream".