how other fashionable males view about kilts

[Rob Wright]

Now this is a highly entertaining thread! Especially loved the Retrosexual Code.

Now, if more baby boomers knew that code, there wouldn't be so many nancy boys out there who inhabit such boards as contained such lame opinions about the kilt.

"Dandy" is what I believe such males (I hesitate to use the word "men") were once called. They primp and tease and prance about like peacocks in mating season - completely unaware that peahens will discard them the instant a more colorful cock comes along.

The opinions there concern me not in the least. Nor do the opinions of any others who might deride the kilt. They "dress up" to go out on Friday night by wearing pre-washed, pre-dirtied, pre-stained, pre-ripped, pre-oiled jeans (i.e. ones that I would be embarassed to wear while doing an engine overhaul in my garage) they paid $250 for, pink striped satin shirts tailored for female figures (another $300), $300 shoes (hand-sewn on the thighs of Cuban virgins), and of course, some extremely feminine smelling cologne.

In fact, they wear whatever Madison Avenue tells them to wear. The key word in "slave to fashion" is SLAVE. And every one of them, without batting a curled eyelash, will tell you he's just showing his INDIVIDUALITY.

Just exactly, precisely, like everyone else.

So just who are the fools?

And just to sum it up, I would rather spend my drinking time with any of you hard-assed, Retrosexual, bearded, beer-and-scotch-drinking, kilted MEN, than even look at a nail-polished nancy. We'll go for a pint, and while the dandies bat their mascara-ed eyelashes at the lassies, said lassies can look over at us - and blush.

Prost!

Right On!

[GlassMan]

Damn you foreigners don't understand the best things in life! :-D
When we keep the kilt meeting in Finland you should get ready for sauna in every night!
(And don't forget snow baths and icy-water swimming...) :-D

I think the difference in opinion about saunas comes from where we've both grown up. You grew up in Finland where it's nice and cold, so the hot sauna seems like a great idea.

I spent much of my childhood in South Texas where it was often over 110 degrees and almost 100% humidity for much of the summer. I can remember my father carefully scrapping black dots off the car after a drive because the day was so hot that the asphalt in the roadway had melted and was being kicked up by the tires.

I used to love to go visit my mother at the medical school where she worked and stand in the giant walk-in freezers. When it's a sauna outside for most of the day, the idea of climbing in a sauna for pleasure seems downright diabolical.

Now, if it's -20 degrees F outside, I'd bet a sauna would be mighty attractive.