I gotta vent a little...

[Thunderbolt]

[RANT]

You know, I've spent the last few hours surfing the Internet on kilt-related information. Most of it is mis-guided, mis-information, dumb, malicious or just plain wrong.

From some ignorant englishman claiming that kilts are for Scottish ONLY, and only Ulster Scots at that, to some bible-thumping idiot quoting the old testament claiming that anyone (male) wearing the kilt is going to hell, because dressing like a women is a sin!

Why is it that as soon as someone does (wears) something just a bit off center according to their idea of "normal", the person is branded as "weird"?

Why must people be this ignorant?? We are constantly bombarded with the mantra of being a tolerant society and accepting people for who they are, yet when these very same people are confronted with something outside there perception of reality, they are the first to finger-point and ridicule!

Yes, I wear a kilt.
No, I'm not strange or wierd.
No, I'm not gay.
No, there isn't a special occasion.
My wife loves it, as a matter of fact.
Yes, I DO play the bagpipes, but that's not why I wear a kilt.
Yes, I wear it almost every day.
Yes, it is cool, doood.
No, there isn't some type of Scottish holiday today.

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I should just clarify something. I, frankly, don't give a rats a$$ what other people think. Most of the time I ignore most things said anyway. (My bad ears help me ignore everything else) I just wish people would stop and think just one second before opening their trap.

T.

[TheKiltedWonder]

You can run into people like that. I was in the grocery store and there was one guy who couldn't wait to make a comment about me to his buddy, but I was right behind him. It took us forever to walk three aisles because he had to keep turning around to see if the coast was clear yet. I know it would have been something about sexual-orientation or weirdo or something, just by the look on his face. But whatever. I was wearing the kilt for me. If a few girls are impressed along the way, the more the merrier. If some close-minded people who feel threatened by anything that's different aren't impressed, well frankly, I don't give a damn.

[gilmore]

[RANT]

...Yes, I DO play the bagpipes, ...Most of the time I ignore most things said anyway. (My bad ears help me ignore everything else) ....

Should we be frightened?

[beloitpiper]

I'm right there with ya' buddy. The best response I've used to people that try to call it a skirt is simply saying "It's a kilt...dumba**" Then leave. Because I know that I have no desire to talk to them any further and we probably have nothing in common.

[cavscout]

Similar to my view of Government purchasing, That the equipment you use in life and death situations is provided by the lowest bidder, I also believe that people are inherently ignorant. Now, no offense to anyone, but people in general really are ignorant.

It takes A LOT of work not to be ignorant as proven by all the schooling we have to go to through our lives (or do we have to, but we do it anyway?) The number of books we read about everything. People say computers are dumb machines, but think of it this way...the computer does exactly what you told it to do the first time you told it to do it. Right or wrong results, it did do what you told it to do. How many people do you meet in your day that can respond that way. "Didn't I give you a twenty, so my change should be $15.", "You were supposed to be here between 12 and 3 and it's now 6", "I said a trim, not a shave", "I asked for no onions", ...

The increased popularity of self check-out lines and credit card/ATM payment features is further evidence that though people consider computers to be "dumb machines" we still would prefer to deal with a dumb machine than a ignorant human.

I've simply learned that if I meet someone who does not say something ignorant right off the bat, I have met a hardworking human who has made an effort not to be as ignorant as they were yesterday.

[pipesndrumsnun]

[Howard Clark]

I like your attitude, Steve.

[Riverkilt]

How can anyone possibly be "wrong" when there are so many widely varied concepts as to what is "right?"

Rumi said, "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

Think I just heard on the radio that Rumi's 800th birthday is this week.

There's a standard two word response involving an insertion related verb and a noun that is the appropriate response to these crazy folks.

In my profession we find many "rule bound" folks were raised in crazymaking homes as children and now as adults cling to any set of rules they happen to like. Gives them comfort knowing theres a "right way" and that they are "right" and we are "wrong" making them "better" than us. What a sad sad way to live...frightened and anxious about doing the "wrong" thing and suffering eternal damnation for screwing up...ya gotta pitty the poor fools.

But ya know, if I am going to suffer eternal damnation in the bowels of Hell at least I'll be kilted.

Ron

[Galician]

But ya know, if I am going to suffer eternal damnation in the bowels of Hell at least I'll be kilted. Ron

Ok, new thread, which is the best kilt for this situation. Tank, UK or Sportkilt?

[McFarkus]

This is a great place to vent. Illegitimis non carborundum (that's bad Latin for don't let the bastards get (grind) you down.)