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Canuck Teacher · Joined: 18 Feb 2007

Aye...time for a scientific survey.

I worked as a bartender in a club back in Toronto during the university days. The staff wore kilts, men and women, and I actually grew fond of wearing it; even wore it out on occasion (yes, I�ve got the legs for it and you know it improved my tips). Of course my friends said it, and the sarong I brought back from my scuba trip to Thailand, were "so-wrong."

So what's the word...kilts on men? yes? no?

Little old lady: On a good day, what does a Scotsman have under his kilt?
me: I don�t know.
LIttle old lady: lipstick.
me: Shocked

I was told that joke in the back of a church...right after a formal wedding, surrounded by a group of ladies in their 60s.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

That reminded me of a thread a long time ago....

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=62809&highlight=kilts

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

You mean skirts?

seoulkitchen · Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Location: Hub of Asia, my ass!

Sarongs. kilts, yrah man,. they are all good.

Let's start KILTIN.

Baby yeah! Bring it back and to hell with everyone else

Really tho, I've often thought about wearin' my clans colours. That would be cool.

And well hell, after reading the threads here you know that waygooks here are pretty freaky,
so basically, anything goes.

According to one of trhe avatars here now:
Charlie Brown: Snoopy, I'm bringing SEXY back.
Snoopy: Bitch, please.

!

Natalie · Joined: 16 Apr 2007

Yes. Kilts good. Wink

rhinocharge64 · Joined: 20 Sep 2006

In the land of thai, no worries for wearing a sarong. But in Vietnam the locals don't react so well, certainly back in 2002. A kilt in the U.K. is pretty much par for the course espescially if you are from North of the border.

Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

As far as I know kilts don't have pockets. Where would
a Scotsman store lipstick? It is possible to put it in the
"sperm". This is the purse that hangs on the front.

Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait

Not unless you're actually scottish, actually scottish, not a third generation canadian still claiming to be one because his grandad was called campbell and was rather partial to shortbread. Oh, puck rockers still living in the late seventies are allowed as well.

kermo · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:50 am Post subject: Re: kilts

traxxe · Joined: 21 Feb 2007

If your parents did not customarily put you in kilts when you were a kid then you should not be wearing them now.

It's just something people do for attention these days if it is not a cultural thing.

Not exactly the same thing but sort of related..

Should I bring my boots with me to Korea? In Texas no one really cares about cowboy boots. I just don't imagine they are very widespread there. I'm not sure I would where them enough to justify packing them though.

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

Who's the sissy now ladyboy! Laughing

Canuck Teacher · Joined: 18 Feb 2007

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

I wear sarongs here at home and for bed but I'd never go outside wearing one, even to the little store nearby. I know the Koreans would just stare at me like I was some kinda nutcase... Very Happy

traxxe · Joined: 21 Feb 2007

Sorry if you thought that thought was moronic.

I've seen to many highlander fans who where kilts out for attention or because they think it is cool. Then when someone asks them about their heritage they claim something but are ignorant of the details or even the cultural heritage of their people beyond Braveheart.

I'm mostly Irish, Scottish and Dutch. Even as a history major I don't feel I know enough about the culture to identify and represent it in my daily attire.

If I wear my boots and you ask me about them. I've ridden horses. I've roped a little. I've worked a ranch as a kid. I have a couple of honky tonk musicians in the family. I can exlpain the culture. I can tell you I identify more with Hank Sr., Waylon, Marty, and Merl. Hell, I have a picture of my step-father and Merl jamming out while I'm sitting in the background watching playing with a toy.

If I wore a kilt, which I have and find comfortable. Someone once came to me and asked questions. I was clueless. I felt that I was somehow betraying the culture. I don't feel that way about my boots.

bejarano-korea · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

I wore a Welsh kilt to my sisters wedding, very liberating it was to wear. To feel the wind flow up to your knackers on a warm day is something that every man who has the Gael in them has to experience.

Family members threatened to de-kilt me, I warned them that the penalty was an on the spot beating! Twisted Evil