Anger Management...Part Deux

[auld argonian]

I went over to Chicago Celtic Fest today...I'll post some photos and details a bit later...but I overheard some inconsiderate SOB make a comment about ANOTHER guy's kilt and it really got me P.O.'ed.

My wife, my daughter and I were standing near a tent where they were taching Scottish Country Dancing and watching the festivities. The Bears game had let out and various and sundry Bears fans were leaving the stadium and meandering through Celtic Fest. Two guys stopped and stood right next to me and the one said of the kilted young man who was teaching the dancing, "Hey...look...that guy's wearing a girls' school uniform just like my daughter's."

Perhaps they didn't notice that they were standing next to a guy in a kilt...me...who then turned and looked at the two of them like they were...well, like the jerks they were. I was hoping that the guy would turn and catch my withering gaze so I could ask, "...so which girl's school do you think THIS uniform came from, @$$#°£??"...but it was obvious that he noticed me out of the corner of his eye and he and his buddy quietly left.

And this was at CELTIC FEST...what did this jamoke expect to see...?

Anger management!
Anger management!

Sheeeesh!

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AA

[Blu (Ontario)]

Yup.... let 'em think what they want.... ignorance is bliss!

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[Andrew Green]

Screw the management. I would have decked him. Chances are the guy teaching the country dancing could have walloped him... people who dance have a tendency to be pretty fit, where many football (the Bears are football?) fans are not I think.
That justfurther reinforces my negative opinions of mainstream sports fans. Sheesh.

[parpin]

Two guys stopped and stood right next to me and the one said of the kilted young man who was teaching the dancing, "Hey...look...that guy's wearing a girls' school uniform just like my daughter's.

That incident will make a nice entry on my other web site. Just send me a private note if you want to know it.

Just to tell that dumb ignorance is not an excuse in that context.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Yeah, some people simply have NO sense.

[Johnny Celtic]

Excuse my ignorance but, what's a jamoke?

[Beertigger]

Excuse my ignorance but, what's a jamoke?

It can mean either "a big, dumb, generally blue-collar male" or "a big, dumb, generally black (Jamaican) male."

The first definition is certainly derogatory. The second is as well, with the added benefit of being offensive.

[auld argonian]

re: jamoke

...I never heard of the reference to Jamaicans...in Chicago it's more like the first definition: just a general name for a dopey mope who just clods their way through life slow on the uptake...it is, believe me, one of the lesser insults in Chicago-ese....kind of on a par with telling someone that they are "goofy".

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AA

[Rygar]

Just as an off side, there is the possiblility that the guy made an honest mistake. I have seen folks complety absorbed into what they were doing that everything around them that they *should* have noticed, they didn't. That would explain why he and his buddy quietly left after noticing that the dance instructor wasn't the only one wearing a kilt after making his comment. (Which could have been a tartan close to his daughters school uniform) Then again, I wasn't there, he could have been a total jerk about it as well with the way he said it.

Just thought I would put that out there. There has been more than one occasion that I have embarrassed myself with a remark that came out of my mouth before my brain had a chance to engage.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Hey AA, while I would love to believe that the guy just did not understand that their was a Celtic festival going on, I know how the event is laid out and he would have passed about 75-100 guysd kilted between leaving the game and getting to the dancers, unless they changed the layout this year. Definitely a jamoke, and possibly somewhat worse.