All hail the kilt and its holistic powers

[Uncle Al]

A very interesting article from www (dot) scotsman (dot) com and well worth the read!

Uncle Al

[skirtyscot]

An excellent article, and thanks to an American for pointing me to a Scottish newspaper article!

Is it too picky to observe that the author fails to recognise the possibility of men wearing other types of skirt? She says that only by having the man kilted can a household be trouserless.

Some of you foreigners may also object to the notion that the kilt is only for Scotsmen. But personally I don't have a problem with that!

[Sinned]

Don't want to upset things but what article? The link just refers to the home page and there are plenty of articles but I can't see anything about skirts or kilts.

[crfriend]

There are two links in the original post, one is text and the other is the URL of the main site. The way the page renders merges the two links into one visible one and confuses the issue.

[Uncle Al]

I've edited the original post to direct you to the correct link
Didn't know this "page" would automatically make the website a
link in the text of the post.

Uncle Al

[crfriend]

Didn't know this "page" would automatically make the website a link in the text of the post.

The behaviour is actually browser-specific; some browsers will automagically make anything that looks like a "www" hostname into a link, e.g. www.cant-resolve-this.com (although watch somebody try).

I hate "helpful" software. I want it to do precisely what I tell it to, and not one iota more. Playing guessing-games with computers is one of the things that's very high on my hate list.

And it gets worse: I typed "www (dot) cant-resolve-this (dot) com" and phpBB added the "http://" prefix to it which caused all sorts of fun stuff at the client (read, "user") end. Dolts.

[skirtyscot]

Your problem, Carl, is that you know how to drive a computer, but software is now designed for the benefit of the hordes who don't. Case in point: I just typed "donct" there, and I was offered "don't" as a correction. This sort of thing helps most of the people most of the time.

[skirted_in_SF]

Your problem, Carl, is that you know how to drive a computer, but software is now designed for the benefit of the hordes who don't. Case in point: I just typed "donct" there, and I was offered "don't" as a correction. This sort of thing helps most of the people most of the time.

Except when it doesn't and makes you look ignorant. I swear IE8 (which I have to use at work) changes they're to their from time to time. I'm pretty sure I'm typing the contraction form of they are but when I look back, I see a different word. Yes MS, I know the difference.

[Nolyn]

Back to the article, the article was interesting, but I thought it was poorly written. Strangely enough, it was kind of sexist too.

[skirtyscot]

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