Research paper on Kilt discrimination, your help is needed!

[SteveB]

I am very interested in what you find. I have only had one instance of the cross-dressing perception of my wearing of the kilt. There are some fun things that do happen. While walking around the city, the attention that is drawn to the kilt itself, often leaves other items totally unnoticed. For a gag I wore a "Irish and Proud" in white on a green T-shirt, both front and back, with my solid green kilt. One hundred and twenty-two comments later. Twenty-three "Are you Scottish?", Twelve "Do you play the (bag)pipes?" Forty-one "Where is the event (concert, show, parade)? Thirty-one "Nice kilt!" Seven " you must be freezing in that thing. (Temperature was 10 f.) Five "nice skirt" ( three were in jest from people who know me), Three "The Question". A fun survey that was a gag for an otherwise boring Tuesday here in Boston.
Enjoy.

[cwr89]

Thank You So Much Steve!!!!!!!!

[Sylvain]

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Warning to US residents: The Wizard lives in Canada, and that makes its wisdom even more expensive, as a Canadian dollar is more than a US dollar...

[Sylvain]

It seems to me there has recently been some restrictions on kilts in one of the European countries. It was brought on by a few troublemakers who happened to be kilted.

I remember it was Poland.

[Kiltedfirepiper]

Don't know if this qualifies, but my nephew Seamus had an interesting experience of having his kilt lifted in a public high school setting. He wrote about it here http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/t...x.html?t=10893. If he had done this to the young lady in question while she was wearing a SKIRT, he probably would have been suspended.

shoot after the 20/20 report I saw last night, not only would he have been suspended...but thrown in jail and had to become a registered sex offender

they told a story of 2 boys ( 12 and 13 y.o.) who participated in a game called "slapbutt" where they and other kids ( BOTH sexes) would slap each others butts as they ran by them...they actually called it "slapbutt day"
they were held in a county jail for 5 days before their parents were allowed to get them, and ALMOST had to become registered offenders for it.


I understand the need for diligence(sp) and all but I really miss common sense


Obit for common sense
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense who has been with us for many years.
No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as
knowing when to come in out of the rain,
why the early bird gets the worm,
and that life isn't always fair.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn)
and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge).

His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate,
teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch,
and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student,
but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband;
churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize
that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, she spilled a bit on her lap,
and was awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust;
his wife, Discretion;
his daughter, Responsibility;
and his son, Reason.

He is survived by two stepbrothers, My Rights and Ima Whiner.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

[SexyButler]

haven't tried google, as google is blocked from school computers, and I don't feel like getting in trouble from brute forcing my way around the proxy blocker.

~Casey

Hey kiddo,
Just an FYI.
Your Guidance Counselor's computer is probably not blocked.
Usually, if you ask (nicely) they will let you on their puter or an office computer to look things up.
Sometimes they will even get you out of a boring class to do some important kilted research.
Di