"It's not really a tartan then is it"

**RockyR** · 17th August 13, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by TJ Kelley

turns and walks away... classic. it is my belief, negative comments like this come from envious, angry pricks. inside they'd love to sport a kilt, but dont have the stones.

I don't think it's jealousy or that he doesn't have the stones. Most comments like this come from a place of "assumed superiority". He ASSUMES that he knows more about tartans (even though the actual facts he does know may only fill the bottom of a glass) and therefore wants to feel superior to you by telling you what he "knows to be true" (which is actually false). He falls in line with the type of people who put others down to lift themselves up type mentality.

Crash: Smile to yourself now and know that he's dead wrong. You are wearing a "real tartan" and you met a "real idiot" who didn't know "real facts".

**Father Bill** · 17th August 13, 11:00 AM

I used to have a small card taped to the wall next to the light switch in my classroom: "Never attribute to malice that which can be satisfactorily explained by sheer stupidity."

**HarveyH** · 17th August 13, 02:28 PM

Of course stupidity can work in many directions. I have sat with a man in a Camo kilt when someone has come and asked "what tartan is that?" and given the answer is "er...its Camo, not tartan" to which the response "oh, so is that your clan then?"

Has to be one of the silliest things I have yet to hear.

Ignorance is ok and can be funny - rudeness is not.

**auld argonian** · 17th August 13, 02:46 PM

Sounds like the kind of jackass who sez: "MY family tartan is THOUSANDS of years old."

....I still think there should be a movie about the Sobieski-Stuart Brothers....

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**A Lenape Scot** · 17th August 13, 05:37 PM

Next time ask him his name. For this example we will say he is Robert. Then say, Well Robert, you have got no idea how little I care.

**crash** · 17th August 13, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by RockyR

Crash: Smile to yourself now and know that he's dead wrong. You are wearing a "real tartan" and you met a "real idiot" who didn't know "real facts".

That's exactly what I did, Rocky.

**crash** · 17th August 13, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by A Lenape Scot

Next time ask him his name. For this example we will say he is Robert. Then say, Well Robert, you have got no idea how little I care.

Gee I really hope his name isn't Robert. lol. That's my name.

**A Lenape Scot** · 17th August 13, 08:10 PM

Sorry crash, didn't know. I will make it a weird name like Bolwinkle instead.

**aonghas** · 5th September 13, 09:40 AM

Hey my name is Bolwinkle, Arthur van Bolwinkle.
Just kidding, it isn't Arthur at all.

A great Nation The Lenape, much to be admired

**Kilted Cole** · 6th September 13, 11:52 AM

Its similar to when I wear my Scruffy Wallace tartan kilt from USA Kilts....and someone ask's is that your family "plaid"?.......I find myself just answering simply "yes" more and more. Less turns out to be more in cases of random people coming up and asking questions without really wanting to know anything more than a yes or a no, because as always.......the random in slack's ALWAYS knows more about wearing the kilt than you do........