how do you feel about a kilt being worn as a fashion statement?

**thescot** · 17th March 07, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by shane the piper

so from what we have so far the general consencus is that kilts are great.

Amen, brother. So mote it be.

This is not about food or shelter or keeping the kids fed. It's about clothing, and some of us are fortunate enough (or smart enough, or hard working enough, or whatever) to be able to indulge our proclivities. We can do what we want.

And, we want to wear kilts. It's not really about anything other than our own desires and choices. I love kilts. Tonight, I was the focus of interest most places I went (it's St. Paddy's Day), and I loved it. It's not about respect, tradition, etc. No, it's about being who I am (an old guy who wears a kilt and loves doing it) and accepting the things I cannot change, changing the thing I can (that need changing), and knowing the difference.

But . . . I am one bad mamma-jamma in a kilt, and the laides love it!

Wooo-hoo!

**elitekiltedcommando** · 17th March 07, 04:02 PM

I said that I was fine with it as long as you respect what it's about.

**mcvarmit** · 18th March 07, 08:44 AM

times change, if you ain't movin forward, you will become extinct, just ask a dinosaur.

slick

**Nanook** · 18th March 07, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by mcvarmit

times change, if you ain't movin forward, you will become extinct, just ask a dinosaur.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6444811.stm

"The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed?

For a long time it was thought that dinosaurs were a lumbering, cold-blooded extinction just waiting to happen. Even the word dinosaur has come to mean something that has outlived its time.

The scientific argument was that as cold-blooded creatures, dinosaurs would not have stood a chance of surviving an ice age.

"According to the first imaginings of palaeontologists and the general public about dinosaurs, we thought of them as reptiles," says Kristi Curry-Rogers, from the Science Museum of Minnesota.

"'Reptile' is a word which comes with a lot of other connotations, like cold-blooded, slow-moving, sprawling, scaly skins, kind of stupid."

But more recent discoveries, such as dinosaur fossils in both polar regions, reveal that these animals were far more adaptable than previously thought.
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If the asteroid had missed, there probably wouldn't be humans here today either to find out how it would have turned out.

The impact that ended the golden age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago made for an extremely bad dinosaur day but it was also a very good mammal day. "

**mcvarmit** · 18th March 07, 01:38 PM

well my anti-psychotic meds just kicked in, so i was wondering, how many yards would it take to make a dino-kilt? inquiring minds want to know!

slick

PS: i voted for who cares.

**Nanook** · 19th March 07, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by mcvarmit

well my anti-psychotic meds just kicked in, so i was wondering, how many yards would it take to make a dino-kilt? inquiring minds want to know!

Depends.. A big or a little dino?
A Sauroposeidon would need a whole lot more tartan than a Compsognathus!

**mcvarmit** · 19th March 07, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Nanook

Depends.. A big or a little dino?
A Sauroposeidon would need a whole lot more tartan than a Compsognathus!

i was having a conversation with some of the voices that live in my head, and that was the same conclusion we all came to. great minds think a like.

slick

**mcvarmit** · 19th March 07, 08:33 AM

i change my oil and filter on my truck while wearing a kilt, can get kinda dicie at times, but my truck deserves the best. thank you scotland. kilts are very versatile garments.

slick