Up Front: That's Inappropriate!
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blame Canada
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Sigh. I think I better play "Bigger Longer Uncut" for light relief. It's ages since I've heard that song!
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I'm a southerner x2 (electric boogaloo).
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Thank christ you guys have gone off skirts.
I sit here in my kilt (Gunn tartan). The question for you all is:
What have I got on underneath? I wear it 25.4mm above the knee.
And is that ….appropriate??
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Ross, we are supposed to ask "What is worn under yon kilt?"
And you reply "Nothing - it's all in perfect working order". -
Jacqui Dunn, in reply to
As long as it's not a sporran under your kilt!
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recordari, in reply to
Ain't nothing like the real thing...
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Mounties spanking lumberjacks, saying ‘Don’t do it again, Pierre,’
Pictures of rotten teeth as health warnings on maple syrup packaging.
I love a good stereotype, please don’t anyone spoil it for me.Jeez, the maple syrup warning thing I can believe Joe, and I can add to it... one year I got a Christmas card from Canada, and on the postage stamp, the words Joyeux Noel were over a tiny picture of a car being hauled out of an icy river, And I thought, wow, is that ever Canadian. Not festive, perhaps, but certainly Canadian. The NZ stamp on the other hand, was a Kiwi bird with a little Santa hat. How may lives did that save, eh? Or teeth?
As for the Mounties... well, they are trying hard to clear their name as dog murdering racists.
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Ross Mason - authoritively, your kilt should just graze the ground when you kneel.
You never kneel in a kilt thereafter.
My kilt is ANZ tartan. I love it (not only because my Scots links are island links, and in the Orkneys - we didnt really have kilts.) -
a tiny picture of a car being hauled out of an icy river
Did you see Atom Egoyan’s film The Sweet Hereafter, Dyan? It was a real downer in a way that was just totally .. Canadian.
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Sacha, in reply to
Melancholic, gorgeous, and one of my favourite movies http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120255/
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In the same vein … Glenn Gould. Well, OK, a fair bit weirder
(from 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould). -
[Offensive content removed. Please moderate your behaviour so I don't have to - RB]
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
because they were requiring actual proof of your Social Security Number for various things. (I never even had a Social Security Number until I was in my 20s, but our son had to apply for one with his passport.) It’s all quite wacky.
Stop, you'll make me cry. I've already had enough "I don't have, and am not legally allowed to have, an SSN" conversations to last a lifetime.
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I sit here in my kilt (Gunn tartan). The question for you all is:
What have I got on underneath?
Oh but a true Scotsman will never tell you what's under his kilt.
He'll show you, quick as a flash. But he'll never tell you.[line poached from BBC4 News Quiz but probably as old as the kilts themselves]
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Ross Mason – authoritively, your kilt should just graze the ground when you kneel.
And none of you called a slut! Dress sense slovened but sluttish - not. AND it had a slit up the side!
Thank you.
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3410,
As long as we're getting all Canadiany...
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One of my favourite Canadians would be
Rand Holmes (R.I.P.) best known for his classic Harold Hedd underground comics and his Georgia Straight (Vancouver) covers and contributions. -
a true Scotsman will never tell you what's under his kilt.
He'll show you, quick as a flash. But he'll never tell you.It really puzzles me why a people living in such a madly cold, windy and inclement climate didn't wear TROUSERS! Or does the icy draught up your kilt keep you fierce?
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BTW Emma, that school photo on the PA homepage, is it yours? Beacuse I think I see you in it!
Obviously, if it’s not yours, I have an overactive imagination! ;-)
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Amy Gale, in reply to
the chap behind the desk told us that we should carry not only our passports, but also our Social Security cards with us at all times while travelling, because they were requiring actual proof of your Social Security Number for various things.
My reaction to this is the same as to the requirement that I carry my immigration paper work at all times: no WAY are the most important pieces of paper in my life leaving their safe homes except when absolutely necessary. The odds of being randomly stopped and thrown in gitmo for not having my approval notices in my purse are way the hell lower than the odds of having said purse stolen. Touch wood. Touch wood touch wood touch wood.
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
It really puzzles me why a people living in such a madly cold, windy and inclement climate didn't wear TROUSERS! Or does the icy draught up your kilt keep you fierce?
As I understand it, the kilt as known in the modern day was never really worn that way: c.f. this picture from the eighteenth century of the predecessor to the modern kilt, where they're clearly wearing some sort of leggings.
Or, you know, it's because Scotsmen are just that stoic. I'm not one to get in the way of a good story.
(Fine, I totally am.)
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
My reaction to this is the same as to the requirement that I carry my immigration paper work at all times: no WAY are the most important pieces of paper in my life leaving their safe homes except when absolutely necessary.
I'm paranoid enough that I have two photocopies of all our immigration documents at home stored separately from the originals and each other, one with each set of parents back in NZ, one with Fulbright, and one with the university's international office. And scanned copies.
(The US immigration people scare me, OK?)
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Lucy, I see your kilt picture and raise you this one!
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Oh, I'm paranoid, I just have a strict ordering on the subjects of paranoia. In which "my purse is stolen with my paperwork in so I have no paperwork and eventually this is discovered and I get detained indefinitely" > "my paperwork is at home and I get randomly stopped and I don't have it on me so I get detained indefinitely".
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