Bizarre anti kilt rant

**castledangerous** · 27th July 11, 10:46 AM

"I don't like to get dressed up" is a reason to write an article?

**Jock Scot** · 27th July 11, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by castledangerous

"I don't like to get dressed up" is a reason to write an article?

Oh come off it! Just think of the endless threads and subsequent posts there have been on the definition of "traditional" in kilt terms. How many words have been posted on what colour hose we ought to wear? How many threads do we have going at the moment on "summer kilt wear"? Then there is the "shirt" debate and then the "kilt pin" thread, again----- and again--------------------and again------------------and then there is the pages of posts about----------and of course the thread about------------again--------and--------

The phrase containing the words "stones" and "glass houses" spring to mind!

**Phil** · 27th July 11, 11:36 AM

Where does "freedom of speech" come into this, the opportunity to express one's personal views? And yet here we have a regiment of critics from the very place that is supposed to uphold these freedoms above all else. Surely everyone is entitled to their opinion. Whether we agree with it or not is another matter but to sink to character assassination of the article's author in this way is not the way of a free society. "I will not fight a battle of wits with an unarmed man" implies that he is in some way mentally deficient because he doesn't share that individual's views. Please remember where that path eventually leads. Our forefathers gave their lives to save this world from that philosophy.

**castledangerous** · 27th July 11, 12:16 PM

So your argument that people should not criticize someone's speech on the basis of freedom of speech?

**English Bloke** · 27th July 11, 12:27 PM

Come on chaps... easy now. It's pretty clear that if we wear a kilt on a fairly regular basis we're hardly likely to agree with this ethos but no need to be nasty to either the author of the article or each other.

Take a check pace everybody please

(says the English Bloke with his box of ten bob rockets!) Let's not get the thread bombed.

There's no escaping that this Bloke's thinking is not uncommon in Scotland. I've heard it for myself on a number of occasions. The fact you are born in Scotland doesn't mean you HAVE to love the Kilt. It's only an opinion.

And Jock? I think I started the last Kilt Pin thread....... I'm rather hurt now... (Sob!)

**Jock Scot** · 27th July 11, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by English Bloke

And Jock? I think I started the last Kilt Pin thread....... I'm rather hurt now... (Sob!)

Hurt? Somehow I don't think so!

Another phrase comes to mind that contains the words,"skin", "thick"(as opposed to thin!) and " rhinoceros"!

**English Bloke** · 27th July 11, 12:51 PM

Oooooh yew makes oiy laaarf!

Edit: Oh and thanks for the clarification on "thick" as opposed to "thin"... I was nearly hurt again

**Phil** · 27th July 11, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by castledangerous

So your argument that people should not criticize someone's speech on the basis of freedom of speech?

Not freedom of speech but impugning the author's mental capacity is beyond the pale - just because he finds kilting up a pain.

**Mike_Oettle** · 27th July 11, 01:39 PM

The writer’s opinion on kilts is much in line with that of a colleague of mine, born in Glasgow, now semi-retired.
He has expressed mild interest in the various Glasgow-related tartans I have shown him. But just recently he came up to me and asked whether I was really entitled to wear the kilt.
I said certainly – through my regiment and through my ancestry.
He expressed his doubts.
His wife is of Scottish descent, and I informed his daughter that she was entitled to wear the Edinburgh District tartan. His response was that he would not allow it in his house!
He was a bit mollified when I learnt that her family did in fact have a tartan of its own.
But I doubt that I will see him, his wife or his daughter in tartan any time soon.
Regards,
Mike

**Bob C** · 27th July 11, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Oh come off it! Just think of the endless threads and subsequent posts there have been on the definition of "traditional" in kilt terms. How many words have been posted on what colour hose we ought to wear? How many threads do we have going at the moment on "summer kilt wear"? Then there is the "shirt" debate and then the "kilt pin" thread, again----- and again--------------------and again------------------and then there is the pages of posts about----------and of course the thread about------------again--------and--------

The phrase containing the words "stones" and "glass houses" spring to mind!

Hear, hear!