Apparently, I'm a fool

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Apparently, I'm a fool

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I wrote a letter to the local paper saying I'd like to wear a skirt, strictly as a man. This was in reply to a article that appeared in the previous week's paper. A few people I know saw the letter and commented, but nothing negative and it wasn't a big deal.

However, it got back to me via a mutual friend that a neighbour thought I was a fool. Whether this was because I wrote a letter, openly admitting that I envy women in their flowing skirts on hot days and that I'd like to do likewise, or just the fact that I do wear skirts (and sarongs, and kilts), I do not know.

Personally, I don't care what he thinks (he may be surprised by some of the thoughts I have about him :D )

My thinking is that occasionally someone has to stand up and say what others are reluctant to say or admit. That's why I'm usually the one who asks the idiot question in a meeting - and it has happened that someone has said afterwards that he's glad I asked the question, because he didn't want to look daft by asking.

As I said to my wife "I may be fool, but I'm a happy fool"

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Charlie,
Perhaps we *all* are fools. No matter, we love ya anyway!

Keep standing up in those meetings, I do too. Some things can't be ignored!
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Charlie,

All the Best :!:

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Charlie,

You are not a fool and have done a lot to support a good cause. Keep up your confidence and don't let anyone discourage you. Well done.
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Post by Bri »

I think the fools are the ones who realize they're uncomfortable or that there's something wrong, but do nothing to help themselves or the situation.
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Bri wrote:I think the fools are the ones who realize they're uncomfortable or that
there's something wrong, but do nothing to help themselves or the situation.
I'll agree in part with this. The real fools are the ones who don't
know any better, who don't recognize that they are uncomfortable.
They just think this is normal, and keep on going. To much "thinking
inside-the-box". Their 'comfort zone' so to speak. Their mind set
has been established [drilled into them] by 'society' for so long, they
can't conceivably comprehend anything else.

Just as Wilber and Orville Wright were told that their contraption
would never work, 'that if 'man' had been ment to fly he would have
wings'. I guess 'we' are the Wright brothers when it comes to kilts
and skirts. The more people get used to 'our' idea, the more
common place it will become.

OK-I'll put away my :soapbox:

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Colin wrote:Charlie,

You are not a fool and have done a lot to support a good cause. Keep up your confidence and don't let anyone discourage you. Well done.
Charlie is certainly no (and nobody's) fool; his writing points that up most eloquently. Quite likely, with his tenacity in taking things up with the media, he may have done more than most of the rest of us lot who, whilst we support each other, and the intellectual notion that skirted garments can be for everybody, pretty much don't try to educate the masses (other than by being an object lesson). So, BRAVO to you, Charlie!!!
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From one "fool" to another- many Peers back Charlie " Heah=Heah. bravo old chap. We Lords of skirting know better!
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We fools, we mighty fools, we band of brothers...

UNfortunately, wayyyy too many males in the "west" (west being from Scandanavian countries south to France, Italy and Spain, across the North Sea to the British Isles and then the BIG hop across the Atlantic Ocean to the USA) are still STUCK in the Victorian Age and are mentally just a huge gang of Lemmings. That guy in New York that sells ONLY one product, suits, and says, You Will Love my suits, I GUARANTEE it must be the King of the Lemmings.

I'd far rather be a member of a small band of skirt wearing brothers than one of any millions of Lemmings.

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Charlie, you don't live on a hill, by any chance, do you? No, wait, it's just the Beatles playing in my head! :dj:

IMHO, a fool is the man who doesn't follow his heart.

From one fool to another, keep following your heart, Bro' Charles! :salut:

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Re: Apparently, I'm a fool

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Charlie wrote:I wrote a letter to the local paper saying I'd like to wear

etc etc
Charlie
Charlie, You look very much like me, or me like you in your ways. I am sure you realise, you are not alone out there! All people MUST be different, or the world would come to a grinding halt or explode. Or something. But luckily for the world, there are ""fools"" if you like, like you AND me, who together, the millions, billions of us, make the difference for all the rest, them being the lemmings, al be it living hapily as they are.

If your neighbour was anything of a "man" he would talk to you about what you said, out of interest and to get the facts straight. That is however something only few ever do, that being one of the reasons so many people have wrong ideas about everything.

I was walking with two other skirted guys a few weeks ago in a city down south in the Netherlands, and two women asked us about the way we were dressed. They wanted to know from the horses mouth what was going on. And they got all the right information. They went on two richer women, haveing gotten the corect information about something which interested them / attracted their attention. They now will not be biased when they again see men wearing skirts. And we proffited by spreading correct information by way of those women.

What by the way is IMHO ?
A man is the same man in a pair of pants or a skirt. It is only the way people look at him that makes the difference.
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Peter v.

IMHO is an accronym for In My Honest Opinion.

LOL is Lots Of Laughter. :laff:

TMI is Too Much Information. :tmi:

BTW is By The Way.

.....to name a few, but if you ever see...

ROTFLMAO---basically means the same as this smilie :rofl:

I'm a bit to polite to say what it really means :oops:

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Colin wrote:Charlie, You are not a fool and have done a lot to support a good cause. Keep up your confidence and don't let anyone discourage you. Well done.
Amen to that!

Keep up the good work Charlie. The constant drip drip will wear away the stone.
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Charlie,

Better a happy fool than a repressed smarta**e...

I've been called far worse, and apart from an occasional desire to rip the other guy's head off for it, it has done me no harm.

The way I see it, I'm a fool on occasions but if someone else gets a laugh at my expense then my contribution is still positive.

Have fun and remember "nil plebus carborundum"


Ian.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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