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skirtyscot wrote:... I have just tried searching for references to me in a skirt - oh, the vanity! The only thing I found was a link to the Facebook page of my "advisor" at the Job Centre. Sadly her FB posts are viewable only by her FB friends, so I do not know what she has said. (And of course my search terms "man skirt sainsburys saltcoats" could have hit upon her musings on any subject at all. ) Now I am itching to find out, and pondering whether to send her a friend request! BTW, I am no longer unemployed, so presumably there is no bar on her accepting.
That was how I had picked up my own "spotting" - though at the time, I did see a fellow on the other side of the road point his camera-phone in my direction a couple of times (never seen the picture(s) he took) and that prompted me to run a search in case it had been posted somewhere, and it came up trumps!
Anyway, great news to hear in that you are back in employment now and the wolf is well and truly chased away from the door!
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
STEVIE wrote:Good news, but the advisor is bang out of order posting it on Facebook.
I agree with Stevie on this and would be inclined to lodge a formal complaint with the JobCentre. That is utterly unprofessional and should not be tolerated, you are entitled to a little privacy and the fact you are (or were - congrats on getting that sorted) unemployed is not information that the staff should be sharing with others.
Have fun,
Ian.
Do not argue with idiots; they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Cogito ergo sum - Descartes
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
skirtyscot wrote:... we are going to our timeshare in Calahonda next July! See you for a beer then?
Of course !
Not that I spent much of July in Spain this year, but I'm not intending to make a habit of being in Grenoble in summer. Much more fun in Malaga.
Martin
Back on topic:- but not sure if it was a sighting or not.
I was out with wife and sprog at a bar in Morningside area when this person came in - wearing knee-high black boots with buckles, dark grey thick ribbed rights, short skirt about 16-17" length in black with a faint lighter pattern through it. However, the face was heavily made up and looked fairly masculine under the makeup and their head was topped off with what looked like an oversize golden blonde wig (couldn't have been real hair in my opinion). He/she did look over at me briefly before sitting down at the bar (with back facing me), staying there for one drink and then leaving.
Neither wife nor son noticed as they were facing the wrong direction.
I'm almost certain it was a bloke as how many women on their own go into a bar for a single drink and then leave?
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
I saw one on Saturday. Admittedly it was at a Gay Pride event in Liverpool but nevertheless I saw thousands of other attendees that day and he was the only male I noticed so still a decent achievement I guess. It was a black possibly leather one an inch or two above the knee.
I don't find the idea of men wearing skirts, tights or dresses whilst presenting as male degrading. What I find most degrading is society dictating that men should only dress in a certain way, whilst affording the opp sex an unrestricted freedom of choice
I was sitting outside a bar on the other side of the road at the time and only caught him from behind shortly before he turned round the corner. He had a white shirt / t-shirt on and did not appear to be in drag.
I was with a couple from our city who I'd only just met on holiday a few months earlier. I mentioned the sighting to the bloke (he missed him), who's a bit of a comedian, and he replied "its always good to see a bloke in a skirt!"
I don't find the idea of men wearing skirts, tights or dresses whilst presenting as male degrading. What I find most degrading is society dictating that men should only dress in a certain way, whilst affording the opp sex an unrestricted freedom of choice
I was at Sidmouth Folk festival yesterday. During a Caller's workshop, a guy came in wearing a brightly coloured skirt - he also had pink tights, a yellow waistcoat and a blue face.
I guess he was a member of a dance troupe who hadn't taken his makeup/dance clothes off. Apart from the blue face, he didn't look out of place.
So there were two men in that workshop in skirts - him and me (I was wearing an olive coloured Union kilt).
I also briefly saw another guy in a black kilt.
Charlie
Charlie wrote:I was at Sidmouth Folk festival yesterday. During a Caller's workshop, a guy came in wearing a brightly coloured skirt - he also had pink tights, a yellow waistcoat and a blue face.
I guess he was a member of a dance troupe who hadn't taken his makeup/dance clothes off. Apart from the blue face, he didn't look out of place.
That will have been someone from Gog Magog Molly Dancers (based in Cambridge). They all wear colourful and gender-confusing clothes.
I myself am a musician for Ouse Washes Molly Dancers - both teams are good friends, as we are based in the same general area (Fenlands). I wear a skirt when I am playing for them. Here's a video of us performing at Whitby Folk Festival last year. You can see me rather in the distance on the left-hand end of the three musicians, playing a melodeon with a white diamond pattern on the bellows.
Is it the heatwave or is it the recent end-of-ramadan festivities?
Generally, the few (north-)africans that wear long robes in Europe wear trousers underneath, but in the last few days. I have seen in the streets men in long robes without trousers. Are they getting the message that it's more comfortable to be completely unbifurcated?
NB : No, I do not go around lifting other men's skirts! Summer robes (unlike thick woolen jellabas) are light enough to show the difference between bare and trousered legs -- when the sun shines.
The only thing I found was a link to the Facebook page of my "advisor" at the Job Centre. Sadly her FB posts are viewable only by her FB friends, so I do not know what she has said. (And of course my search terms "man skirt sainsburys saltcoats" could have hit upon her musings on any subject at all.
) Now I am itching to find out, and pondering whether to send her a friend request! BTW, I am no longer unemployed, so presumably there is no bar on her accepting.
