Does your walk change when you "kilt up"?

**creagdhubh** · 20th July 12, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Spinnaker

You hit the nail on the head.

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**pugcasso** · 20th July 12, 08:08 PM

I find that since wearing the kilt, I tend to emulate the stylistic maneuvers of the male pigeon.

Ok, perhaps not quite ... but the idea came to me while looking at how they expand their tail feathers and brush them on the ground when trying to impress the females and that that the expanded tail feathers looked a lot like kilt pleats.

Perhaps we were all male pigeons in previous lives?

Seriously though, I feel I tend to walk with an acknowledgment of the movement of the pleats in back ...the swooshing or swaying back and forth (one reason why I feel 8 yards of material is what I prefer)

**LitTrog** · 20th July 12, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by pugcasso

Perhaps we were all male pigeons in previous lives?

Perhaps. I'll certainly not squabble with you on that point.

**Mikilt** · 20th July 12, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by LitTrog

Perhaps. I'll certainly not squabble with you on that point.

Well played, sir

**tundramanq** · 20th July 12, 10:27 PM

Nature didn't give us tail feathers, but we DO make do.

**OC Richard** · 21st July 12, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! the "see you Jimmy" red hair wigs

Like this?

**Jock Scot** · 21st July 12, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Like this?

Well yes and no.

Yes the "See you Jimmy" wig is to the fore with the Tartan Army and anything seems to go for them.

But no, it is the fellow from away(anywhere away, so no nation in particular is in the frame) usually wearing said wig, sometimes with the "braveheart paint" who takes it upon himself to wear a kilt , back to front and/or down to his ankles who climbs off the coach(tour bus) and then proceeds to murder the Scots accent to the world at large in the loudest of loud voice and generally behaves in a pretty borish way to the tired---it seems--- amusement of his fellow coach travelers------I have often wondered if the coach party eventually murder this type quietly and dump the body in the nearest Loch. Can they, do they, I wonder, keep these antics up for the whole trip? I am afraid I met up with one of these sad characters this morning at Spean Bridge, when I called in to pick up a news paper. I did notice that his "friends" did usher him away pretty smartly as my, I hope, properly kilted shape hove into view. The shopkeeper was almost speechless with anger and he tells me that this sort of thing is happening more and more.

**tundramanq** · 21st July 12, 08:07 AM

Quit it guys, I sprayed coffee on my keyboard

Rabid football fans, american and the round ball kind, are just that - rabid

Does give me ideas on how to scare the H E double L out of the kiddies next Halloween....( Apron in front )

**OC Richard** · 21st July 12, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

it is the fellow from away(anywhere away, so no nation in particular is in the frame) usually wearing said wig, sometimes with the "braveheart paint" who takes it upon himself to wear a kilt , back to front and/or down to his ankles who climbs off the coach(tour bus) and then proceeds to murder the Scots accent to the world at large in the loudest of loud voice and generally behaves in a pretty borish way

It's very sad that this happens, and makes me cringe.

It's part of why I've never considered bringing a kilt when on holiday in Britain.

The only time I've worn a kilt in Britain was when competing at various Highland Games, and performing at George Square in Glasgow.

As I've told before, when walking from George Square to the nearby Underground station after our performance (and still wearing band kit and carrying my pipes) I was accosted by an elderly Scottish woman who demanded "WHERE are you FROM?" "Los Angeles" I replied. "I THOUGHT so!" she harrumphed and walked off. Seems she took the uniform and pipes to be mere props.

The irony was that a few minutes before this incident our band was playing in George Square and the locals seemed to love it.

Sorry that this is offtopic and will probably receive a warning from the Mods...

**guardsman** · 22nd July 12, 01:34 PM

Jock
where did you get a paper at the monument , nearest place Cameron museum or Fort William. Sad to see people frowned at ( i.e. letting side down) in kilt, but theres always a clown. Hope we , I, act and behave appropriately,even though born in wales I am very proud of my blood ( Mum and Dad proud Scots)would hate to let my family down , but if we cant laugh at ourselves who can we laugh at. That is a Scots sense of humour. Cant imagine plying a daft galoot to the locals