A day of days ...

[Barry]

One other course of action, which invariably puts these people on the run is to quote legal statute ate them. Something along the lines of "Oh, you may think that your comment is acceptable but you are in breach of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. If you continue in that vein I may have to bring this to the attention of the police" Since most people don't know much about the law the fact that you can quote such things is usually enough to dissuade them.
I havent needed to use the harrassment laws but have a good working knowledege of Sale of Goods and related acts and this has served me well.

FYI summary at http://www.solarnavigator.net/embass...t_act_1997.htm

Slainte!

[Derek]

McMurdo ... I did'nt read anything into your post, so no apologie is needed!
Robin .. Indeed, there are far to many narrow minded people out there. Looking forward to meeting you as well at Ferintosh. Just over two weeks to go .. yippee!
Scout .. yep, you gotta be sure to spell it right .. don't try it after a pub crawl .
Iechyd Da
Derek

[macwilkin]

In fact I have had non kilted locals beat me to the punch as it were with rude people (Mainly those Damn Yankees But that is another story).

Hey now! I won't say anything about some rude Southerners I have met in my time! My Iowa mother raised me better than that!

Todd

(who is married to a Louisiana Cajun girl)

[cessna152towser]

There I was this afternoon, attending the (new to me and English) dentist and wearing my 8-yard Spirit of Scotland, reclined in the dentist's chair having a tooth filled when I overheard the dentist say to the dental nurse "Of course, in dentistry we aren't allowed to kill fairies". My thoughts immediately flashed back to this thread and for one horrible moment I thought maybe he had an issue with my kilt, but to my great relief I quickly cottoned on that he was referring to an item on the radio which was playing in the background!