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Plaidman
Trad climber
West Slope of Powell Butte, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 2, 2018 - 07:22pm PT
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Ok. I’ll get this thread started. The pic is from The Mongolians ascent of Tempest a few years ago. It’s not really a kilt. Just plaid cloth I wrapped around myself.
I never wear a damn thing underneath a kilt as that would be illegal.
I’m surprised how many women try to pull up my kilt whenever I wear one.
I always remind them a guy would never get away with pulling up a woman’s skirt.
Never call a kilt a skirt. If you do I’ll have to kilt you.
Plaid
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Donald Where's Your Troosers?
I've just come down
From the Isle of Skye
I'm not very big and I'm awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
Donald, where's your troosers
[Chorus:]
Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow low
Through the streets
In my kilt, I'll go
All the lassies say hello
Donald, where's your troosers
A lassie took me to a ball
And it was slippery in the hall
And I was feared that I would fall
For I had nae on my troosers
[Repeat chorus]
Now I went down to London Town
And I had some fun in the underground
The ladies turned their heads around
Saying, Donald, where are your trousers
[Repeat chorus]
To wear the kilt is my delight
It is not wrong I know it's right
The Highlanders would get a fright
If they saw me in the trousers
[Repeat chorus]
The lassies want me every one
Well, let them catch me if they can
You canna take the breaks
If a Highland man
And I don't wear the troosers
[Repeat chorus]
Donald, where's your troosers
Donald, where's your troosers
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Do you know why Scotsmen wear kilts?
Because the damn sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oi mate do yah know the difference between an Englishman and a Scotsman?
No Jimmy.
An Englishman says "hey you get off of my cloud......."
and a Scotsman says
"Hey McCloud get off of my ewe."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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What about the bagpipes?
Women playing the bagpipes in plaid kilts at Walkhighlands
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
The fake McCoy from nevernever land.
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Oi, I been meaning to order sone properly patterned plaid pertaining to my parentage.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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I used to wear a kilt when I guided certain river trips and women customers were always trying to pull it up to see if I was wearing anything underneath. Always thought that was a bit of a double standard, but at least nobody got kilt doing it.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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So, how did the whole kilt-wearing business get started? Seems more suited to places like Ethiopia or Venezuela, rather than drafty Scotland.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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https://albanach.org/early-history-of-the-kilt-e0c5b0101b5
Fun stuff Plaid. ! I would never venture to peek under a man's kilt (uninvited). So rude!
I was ignorant on the exact history so I googled^^^ I thought they were imported from the mainland but there's evidently no evidence of that.
I also never understood the adoption of a style of dress that leaves so much unprotected skin in such a cold wet country... but what do I know? I've never tromped around in a bog trying to find a sheep or kill an Englishman. 😀 Evidently there are advantages.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Celebrity kilts. SIR Sean Connery at a Dressed To Kilt function and Scottish mystery writer Ian Rankin sporting one as a boy-o.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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^^^"You can take my life, but you can never take my freedom!!"
Nice post, Mouse.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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It’s difficult to find a hardier bunch than the Scots, IMO.
Scotland is the most poetic countryside I’ve ever seen. Sweet and merciless. The lilt of the lasses melted my heart.
My ex-wife had a kilt made for her while visiting. It was the most wondrous garnet I think she ever owned. The plaids matched up everywhere throughout the folds. Very fetching.
Edinburgh is a great city to live in. I loved it.
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