Originally Posted by
Sir William
You handled it well. . . . I want it to the top of the knee and not mid-knee. I find mid-knee to be irritating. . . .
I agree on both points. I strongly dislike having the selvedge abrade the skin of my kneecaps. One of the things I like about kilts is that they can be worn high to increase ventilation in hot weather or low to decrease it in cold.
Having pondered the matter for a few years I have decided that kilt police are even more pitiable than aggravating. They appear to be a subset of all people who behave as if they believe:
1. There cannot possibly be more than one right way to do anything.
2. Anyone who does anything differently from how I think he should is attacking me by saying that I am wrong.
3. The best way to respond to such an attack is to counterattack by showing him how he is wrong.
This of course brings to mind the platitude "There's a right way and a wrong way to do anything" which often means "exactly one right way, mine" and "any other way, especially yours."
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"No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single." ---- H. L. Mencken
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