Should you feel insulted?

[NewKilt]

Good one!

I do the same thing when asked if I play the pipes...... No, do you play the tuba?

I always so no, but I do play tuba. I really do play tuba. Anyway, usually leaves them with a rather confused look.

Darrell

[Jack Daw]

I've played my pipes at work a couple of times, but before that ever happened, a few years ago I had a small-talk conversation with a colleague who works in our Dallas office and told him I played the pipes. He said, "Really? Next thing you'll be buying a kilt!" I said, "Buddy, that came first!" And, he laughed.

[Nick the DSM]

they always ask that but only if i have known them for seen them before. i respond with "well, i'm learning right now."

[sblanck]

Man, I know how that feels, it gets really annoying, but you had to deal with it. And then they mispronounce it saying "Seen"...

Yeah my name is Sean Blanck or "Seen Blank" by most morons. Original name was Blanch "ch" is pronounced just like Loch or Lochness. Just plain goofy. I love when I run into a Scottish or Irish person no sweat on pronunciation of first and last names.

[sblanck]

Nice Skirt?
My reply is "You know the difference between a Kilt and a Skirt?"
No!
"Panties"

MrBill

That is the best one I have heard yet!

[McFarkus]

I just learned those words while studying Spanish at my school. It sounds really neat to say, doesn't it?

I've also heard it called 'kilt escoces'. When I've used that in the neighborhood here, people seem to understand.

Interestingly enough, in a very mixed neighborhood on Chicago's North Side, I've only had positive comments including from the Hispanic and African American gangbangers.

[Ryan Ross]

Interestingly enough, in a very mixed neighborhood on Chicago's North Side, I've only had positive comments including from the Hispanic and African American gangbangers.

Let's keep this conversation sophisticated, now. I take it the white gangbangers don't notice the kilt?


...bare in mind, Scots were some of the original "gangbangers".

[Chris Benson]

For the "punk kids" that make comments. I say something to the effect, " It's a kilt and I wear it for the sole reason of ease of access for my girl friend or wife, boys"

[Fedgunner]

"Nice skirt"

"And that is a fetching blouse you are wearing!"

[osric the pale]

You should see some of the stares an albino gets in the middle of NASCAR country...espcecially when wearing french ren, viking garb , or Roman centurian gear at the wal-mart!
In the S.C.A. we call it "freaking the mundanes" and it's between a sport and an art form. When you go in a group to a steakhouse with say, a moor, coupela pirates and five or six buxom ladies in wench finery, the stares are legendary. So it's really nothing out of sorts for me...and when push comes to shove, we some BIG boys
~oz