Lidl Supermarket sells budget kilts

[macwilkin]

Does any one have a picture of Burns in a kilt?

Well I have never seen one and it's highly unlikely he ever wore one to begin with being a Lowlander who lived and died before the "Highand Revival" following the visit of George IV to Edinburgh which took place many years after Burns' death.

All the kilted connotations we now have in celebrating him are of later origin (although I am sure he would love it).

Weel Done, McClef!

Burns did mention Highland dress in several of his songs & poems, especially those that were Jacobite in sympathy --The White Cockade, Bonnie Heilan Laddie, etc. That being said, it doesn't mean Burns ever wore a kilt.

There is a painting entitled "The Soldier's Return" that reportedly depicts Burns in discussion with a Sergeant of the Black Watch in a tavern -- I'd love to have a copy for my library.

Cheers,

Todd

[Pour1Malt]

here ya gae lads...

went tae Lidl the day...

they gae oan sale Monday....

lueks like the same auld plastic sweatshop crap ya find in tat shops...

note the wrinkles....

[McClef]

You would think they would have given them a press before the models donned them - even GB do that!

[ccga3359]

Time to trade in the Green Shield Stamps!

[James MacMillan]

Reach into your sporran and extract a coin. Hold it in your hand and examine it closely...... Do you see that there are two sides?

Hand made wool tanks are fantastic and very useful.

That does not mean that low cost man-made kilts are bad and of no use.... They are good, if for no other reason than it will get a few more people in a kilt. They serve well for changing the oil or bar hopping as well.

[ccga3359]

Reach into your sporran and extract a coin. Hold it in your hand and examine it closely...... Do you see that there are two sides?

I spent half hour with my coin. I only see the outside! What's up with tht? Is it defective?

[James MacMillan]

I spent half hour with my coin. I only see the outside! What's up with tht? Is it defective?

Look into thy inner self.

Inside - outside

More - less

Left - right

Up - down

right - wrong

good - bad

Front - back

Grant - the world

There are two sides to everything.......

[Larry124]

Reach into your sporran and extract a coin. Hold it in your hand and examine it closely...... Do you see that there are two sides?

Hand made wool tanks are fantastic and very useful.

That does not mean that low cost man-made kilts are bad and of no use.... They are good, if for no other reason than it will get a few more people in a kilt. They serve well for changing the oil or bar hopping as well.

[Pour1Malt]

Reach into your sporran and extract a coin. Hold it in your hand and examine it closely...... Do you see that there are two sides?

Hand made wool tanks are fantastic and very useful.

That does not mean that low cost man-made kilts are bad and of no use.... They are good, if for no other reason than it will get a few more people in a kilt. They serve well for changing the oil or bar hopping as well.

James- ai'm no sayin' these plastic kilts can no bae made useful... sure ya cuid use them fur fitba matches an the like...ya arr richt...

ai'm just sayin' a plastic kilt frae Pakistan sold in a grocery store is no the same thing as a wool kilt frae Scotland sold in a kilt shop...

just like a plastic Smith & Wesson .357 made in China an sold a' Toys R Us is no the same thing as a steel Smith & Wesson .357 made in USA an sold in a gun shop....

they may luek the same frae a distance... but folk wha use guns wuid no confuse the two...


(and no- please dinnae turn this intae a gun discussion- that wuz a metaphor)

[belsen]

does any one want to buy me an early birthday gift?