Scottish Festival Peeves?

[auld argonian]

one of my all-time favorites is the viking guy that shows up to the chicago games every year. he gets pretty drunk in the beer tent.

Of course he gets drunk...he's a Viking! And I have to ask some of the other Chicago rabble...wasn't that Viking guy at Celtic Fest this year?

You want my (long) list of pet peeves? Anybody wearing one of those poofy sleeve, laced up, utterly anachronistic "highlander" shirts; white hose on anybody who isn't a highland dancer; five foot high fifteen year old boys dragging a six foot long sword around behind them; those numpty ren-faire hooligan types who show up in ninety degree heat all wrapped in fur and leather with twenty-odd edged weapons strapped to themselves and what looks like terminal sunburn from spending waaaay too much time out acting like Robin Hood and his Merry Men; anybody who is not wearing a kilt; anybody who's wearing a checkered tablecloth wrapped around their middle and is pretending that it's a kilt; the dumbkoff who showed up at Celtic Fest with the basting stitches still in the kilt.

Waiting in line at the beer tent. Inadequate areas of shade....most of us are frickin' pale skinned, fer heaven's sake! Bagpipers acting like it's all about them. Everybody showing up for the caber toss and then not sticking around for the sheaf toss. Crappy food.

The good stuff? Listening to some remarkable pipe bands. Watching the guys on the golf course next door get thrown off their game by the sound of the pipes...and just where do you think your little game was invented?

Best part...seeing so many Xmarksers in their finery...that makes the goofy stuff way worth while.

Best

AA


and PS one more nice thing: chicks in kilts...I know that it's been debated hotly here before but I still think it's dead sexy.