Auld Crabbits

[Downunder Kilt]

Cajunscot, you started a group for like minded members, you named it as you saw fit, people have joined the group knowing the name of it, and I suspect, thinking the title was a nice bit of fun. (I think the group name is great and as you said it goes so well with the avatar)

I am a grumpy old man and thought it was great when the BBC brought out the series Grumpy Old Men. I think some people see a label and and immediately take offence to it. without seeing a possible fun side to it.

People it's good to have a giggle at yourself sometimes

[macwilkin]

Cajunscot, you started a group for like minded members, you named it as you saw fit, people have joined the group knowing the name of it, and I suspect, thinking the title was a nice bit of fun. (I think the group name is great and as you said it goes so well with the avatar)

I am a grumpy old man and thought it was great when the BBC brought out the series Grumpy Old Men. I think some people see a label and and immediately take offence to it. without seeing a possible fun side to it.

People it's good to have a giggle at yourself sometimes

Well said that man!

T.

[DWFII]

No offense meant gents, but you're reading far too much into this. It was meant, as I said earlier, as a bit of fun...a witty title with a flair towards Scots dialect and colloquialism instead of the more straight forward and boring "kilted traditionalists". Again, I respect others opinions, but there's quite a bit of speculation here that really did't figure into it at all.

Look at our avatar -- Hector MacDonald of "Monarch of the Glen".

But what do I know? I'm only the guy that started the group.

T.

No worries, Todd. I don't take it that seriously. That said, I find myself strangely proud to be an Auld Crabbit and since I am the only one using it in my signature (that I know of) strangely compelled to defend the notion.

But what do I know? I'm a dinosaur...

Next topic in the Traditional Highland Dress sub-forum-- "Dinosaurs of the K-T Boundary."

[gary meakin]

I just thought it was because Hector MacDonald was our hero and expert on all things "auld" and "crabby"

[MacLowlife]

I think the OP had a valid point, based on his notion of what an Auld Crabbit might be. I do believe that most pejorative ethnic terms are an order of magnitude beyond "Auld Crabbit" but then one man's term of endearment is another man's insult, as the OP observed.

And, of course,Political Correctness does not extend to all groups. I believe I am a member of four or five categories that are still ridiculed throughout popular culture. So be it. One of those groups is People Who Are Actually In Charge.


Thanks, DWF, for the link.

[Cowher]

I got my answer. Thanks. I feel better about it and I'm less ignorant.

Cheers!

[beloitpiper]

It's the same reason I call my (Irish-American) friends "Micks". Taking a pejorative term and making it our own. Taking the power out of it.

[Cowher]

It's the same reason I call my (Irish-American) friends "Micks". Taking a pejorative term and making it our own. Taking the power out of it.

This is off topic regardless…
You take no power out of it. If I was to walk up to your group in a pub and said "hey! Look at all these micks over here!!! How ya doin? Ya bunch of Micks!!!" I would most likely be knocked out.

[macwilkin]

Not worth arguing about.

[Cowher]

You've never been around a group of Irish Guardsmen, then. Their regimental nickname is "The Micks", and from what a friend of mine who served with them while stationed in London has said, the only way they would knock you out is if you implied that their nickname is pejorative.

T.

I guess it's all experience. Because you must have never been to Southie Aka south Boston. I have a few associates there that would give some one a close shave if you called them a Mick. Regardless of the meaning behind your use… by close shave I mean really really close. Like to your spine close.

* I don't mean YOU you. I mean anyone.