Why no one ever says anything negative to me...

[Bigkahuna]

What, and let you steal your wife's adoration of me too? Hrmph!

It's all in the mustache wax.:ootd:

[dowofbuchanan]

im only 6 ft and just under 200lbs so i dont get to be that scary, although i havent had any trouble yet going to the store in the barrio. btw just as a side note from a guerro in the know. never refer to a norteno as a cholo. cholos are surenos. its like calling a macdonald a campbell.

[NorCalPiper]

never refer to a norteno as a cholo. cholos are surenos. its like calling a macdonald a campbell.[/QUOTE]

Yeh-I actually said "Vatos Cholos" not being in particular (Thats how we refer to them.). Don't want to raise the ire of Nuestra F.....

[Big Homestead]

It's the size and look. If the look ain't friendly, then the size will scare them off most days.
I have the same deal. But I am a sweetheart.

6', 250lbs, tattooed and carry myself confidently most days. However, I've noticed the older ladies aren't fooled by my look. If they see the kilt, they somehow know I'm a nice guy and ask questions.

Leave it to the older gals to have us younger guys (I'm only 33,...lol) figured out.

*on that note: the only disgusted look I got was from an older lady (60's?). Her jaw literally dropped and she gawked as she drove by. Must have been from somewhere else

[kev_1270]

Or maybe the wind blew your kilt up!

[Galician]

I have found that Hispanics understand and appreciate tradition and culture. While walking through downtown El Paso last week, I noticed a homeboy (bandana and tats) eyeing my kilt. As I past he said, “¡Órale,’mano! (Way to go, bro)”. “¿Qué húbole, ese? (What’s up, man?)”, I replied. He nodded and I nodded and I continued on my way. I don’t think I’ve ever met a Latino who didn’t know what a kilt was. Maybe it’s because El Paso is a military town, or because there are a couple high schools with kilted pipe bands or maybe everyone has seen Brave Heart. Or maybe it's just that the silver buttons on a PC look suspiciously like the charro jackets that mariachi musicians wear.

I wish that I could agree. I have worn the kilt in the Caribbean. While a few knew that it had some connection with the U.K., most thought I was crossdressing. Some reactions had me wishing I wore a sgian dbuh.

On the other hand, two years ago, I was down at the Games in Arlington, Va., when it was still being held in the colonial part of the city. I was walking down a side street when a very young black boy stopped to look at me and my companion. He yelled at his father, "Daddy, those men are wearing dresses." The father shook his head, and told the boy with great emphasis, "Those aren't dresses. They're Irish!"

[Tobus]

on that note: the only disgusted look I got was from an older lady (60's?)

That's odd; the only disgusted looks I've had were from older men and a soccer mom. Usually it's the older men, though, that scowl at the kilt.

I do tend to carry a perpetual scowl on my face (not on purpose). But unfortunately I don't have the size to intimidate people. I'm only 5'-7" and weight about 140 lbs.

The father shook his head, and told the boy with great emphasis, "Those aren't dresses. They're Irish!"

The only Hispanic person who has ever made a comment to me about the kilt said the same thing. He asked if I was Irish. He was very pleasant about it and seemed curious, but it seems to be a trend now that you other guys have shared similar examples.

[NorCalPiper]

I've actually posted this before somewhere on the forum, but I found growing up in Atlanta the African Americans always seemed to have a grip on what I was about. Even in the hardest part of the city (4th ward--My Father owns TONS of apartments in the award, so we lived fairly close-Thus the exposure). I think that Rowdy Roddy Piper helped the situation inadvertently, but I have found that this ethnic group was more in-tune with what I was doing than whites strangely enough. I always thought that a strange phenomena.

[Ryan Ross]

I've been bigger...


...and I've been smaller...


...but either way, I've never really gotten bad reactions from being kilted. I think that, so long as you carry yourself confidently, people just tend to either leave you alone or start a decent conversation with you. I think looking imposing doesn't play as much a part as it might seem like, at first.


...that, and I hypothesize that a beard keeps the kill-joys at bay.

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I've actually posted this before somewhere on the forum, but I found growing up in Atlanta the African Americans always seemed to have a grip on what I was about. Even in the hardest part of the city (4th ward--My Father owns TONS of apartments in the award, so we lived fairly close-Thus the exposure). I think that Rowdy Roddy Piper helped the situation inadvertently, but I have found that this ethnic group was more in-tune with what I was doing than whites strangely enough. I always thought that a strange phenomena.

Aye, I've seen a bit of that as well. Atlanta has always seemed pretty kilt friendly, to me. I go kilted to GSU and have for years... ride MARTA down there and all the rest... and I always meet plenty of friendly people, while getting nothing in the way of negativity.

As strange as it sounds, the kilt brings people together- even the most unlikely seeming sorts.

[Bigkahuna]

I liked the Braveheart impersonation at the end of the film.