The weird people strike again.

[slohairt]

There will always be small and closed-minded people everywhere. And not just religious people. I feel sorry for them because they are stuck in their little world and ,I think, are afraid to expose themselves to things they don't understand. Where I live we generally refer to these people as "rednecks". They all aren't as funny as Larry the Cable Guy.

Larry the Cable Guy is funny?
I grew up in a rural area (in Ontario) whose inhabitants were, shall we say, less than worldly. An proud of it, eh! (Nice lookin' skirt ya got dere, eh? Where's yer pipes? Guffaw, Guffaw! you get the picture)

Back to the topic on hand: Upon further reflection, pretending to be unable to speak English probably wouldn't work. Someone like that would just speak louder! (Everybody knows that non-English speakers are notoriously deaf.)

[Bugbear]

All and all, it's just shadows on the cave wall.

Inspired by Pink Floid, and Book VII of Plato's Republic...

[Coemgen]

All and all, it's just shadows on the cave wall.

Inspired by Pink Floid, and Book VII of Plato's Republic...

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So, Plato and a platypus walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What's with the platypus?" Plato replies, "Well, she looked better in the cave."
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[sharpdressedscot]

If they are doing the old "if you do that you will go to hell" routine, I usually respond with "so what you're saying is... Jesus died in vain?"

Usually when people say that to me in any situation I reply: "I'll see you there." Just to show the point that what they're doing isn't necesarily the right thing.

[Phil]

Back to the topic on hand: Upon further reflection, pretending to be unable to speak English probably wouldn't work. Someone like that would just speak louder! (Everybody knows that non-English speakers are notoriously deaf.)

That reminds me of when my wife and I were on holiday in Fuengirola (see Alex's post about storming the castle a couple of days ago). The place was crawling (hoaching) with timeshare touts and one got off a scooter and came up to us with a pitch. Fed up by this time my wife who has a little Gaelic said something to the girl in Gaelic (I think it was something about what the weather was today). The look on her face was a picture and she walked off.

[beowulf67]

Larry the Cable Guy is funny?

He is to me, but that might be because I'm from Alabama and know quite a few people just like the ones he makes fun of. Or maybe I'm one that he makes fun of... hmmmmmm

Speaking of Jehova's witnesses, I know a preacher that just waits for them to show up at his house. When they start their spiel, he whips out his Bible and says "Show me where it says that. And then I get to show you where my beliefs come from." They don't hang around long.

[Barry]

I grew up in a rural area (in Ontario) whose inhabitants were, shall we say, less than worldly. An proud of it, eh! (Nice lookin' skirt ya got dere, eh? Where's yer pipes? Guffaw, Guffaw! )

To which I respond " Nice head you got there, mate. Where's yer brain?" Guffaw. Guffaw.

So, you see here that, at the time, women were required to wear négligées and men were required to wear towels.

I have towels just like those. Came via a promotion from a frozen food company.
BTW its good to see that the prisoner has nice fresh chain, not like that ol` rusty stuff you so often get in dungeons

[ChromeScholar]

The older I get, the less inclined I am to waste my time arguing with these sort of people. To quote Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)

“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

Hence the non-English speaking act. It's amazing how many people will accept what they consider wrong, or eccentric behavior from "ferriners", because "they just don't know any better".

[Kevlar70]

Contextualizing - when reading into the Scriptures our own cultural demarcations - is not helpful to the Scotsman. When the Protestant reformation came to the Highlands, did it negate kilt wearing? I have read of no instance of the outlawing of the kilt except by the English crown for vastly different reasons.

The Apostle Paul was writing in Asia (modern Turkey) and Rome primarily. If we were to look at the male garments of that day, we would think them fundamentally different than Western 21st century dress.

[auld argonian]

re the Nihilist's story about a chick from the Old Country ragging on him about the kilt being "Scots Only"...hey...ask some of the kiltmakers in Scotland if they want to make it Scots Only. Sounds like tartan and kilts may not be Scotland's most important export but I'm sure that the folks who are involved in their production think that it's swell that the Diaspora want kilts and are willing to pay for them.

And thanks to Father Stan for clearing up the context of that Biblical citation. I figured that it was something like that but didn't know the particulars. I'm sure, however, that anybody who has the nerve to come up to you in the supermarket and start that bit is convinced that they know more about the Bible than you do and wouldn't even slow down to listen to any kind of historical information.

Best

AA