Quote Originally Posted by pdcorlis View Post
. . . I was told by a Scots lass her in Idaho that no "real Scot" would wear a Glengarry to a college graduation. . . .
Has anyone else noticed how often this sort of use of "real" thinly masks the fact that the criticism is based on misinformation at best and arrogant hypocrisy at worst? It's gotten so that, to me at least, "real" has become a flag-word.

Quote Originally Posted by bowser View Post
. . . it seems to be an affliction of the "minor" special units . . .
IMHO this business of quarrelling over minor ingroup-outgroup distinctions is commonly found among the mediocre practitioners of many activities. I noticed when working as an engineer that the most outspoken (read: "loudly bragging") people were never among the most skilled, and C. S. Lewis has observed that the most disputatious Christians are not among the most devout but instead are peripheral to their own confessions.

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