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I've heard that Haggis have their legs on one side longer than the other so that they can walk along hill sides without rolling off. OK for circular hills, they eventually get back to where they started. I suppose left-handed haggis go the other way
Charlie

I walked into town today, wearing a black Union kilt, forgetting it was Burn's night. A woman said "Happy birthday", which I thought odd as I'd never seen her before. I realised afterwards that she'd actually said "Happy Burn's day". Wonder what she thought of my less than positive reaction. Mrs C, ...

crfriend wrote:"men don't wear skirts",

A man actually said that to me once. I replied "this one does" and kept walking. On reflection, asking 'why' would have been a better response; at least it would have made him think.
Charlie

greenboots wrote:Discussion included the comment, "men in our culture don't wear skirts." I pointed out that only in my lifetime has it become the norm for woment to wear trousers...

In our culture it used to be that women only wore skirts, but they changed the culture - so why shouldn't men do the same?
Charlie

The lure of skirts? Originally, for me, it was the 'forbidden fruits' thing - skirts are what women wore and shame on you for even thinking about wanting to try one on, let alone being seen wearing one in public
Like Stu, its now a mixture of comfort and rebellion.
Charlie

Alumi num ? When I was at school in the 1960s, our chemistry teacher started talking about aloominum. We all thought it was some sort of new metal as we'd never heard of it ... until he realised what he was saying and explained he meant alumin ium . He was English but had been teaching in the USA be...

All please note that I am going with my family to Egypt on Monday on holiday and I'm not taking anything that would give me access to the internot so if you don't hear from me don't worry. I am taking my sarongs which MOH has accepted as my normal daily holiday wear. I am also taking mainly vests a...

Sort of related to this thread. There was a short item on the local TV news last Friday about a primary school in Bristol which had just won some sort of equality award. The school provides unisex toilets and teaches that parents don't necessarily have to be male & female (I'm oversimplifying the st...

I found this on the BBC news website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41356928 "Donations to an Australian school's "wear a dress day" charity drive have skyrocketed after the event was criticised by a Conservative senator. Craigburn Primary School in Adelaide encouraged its students to we...

I am inclined to downplay the idea that parents did it to "reduce the risk of kidnapping" (under the notion that boys were more likely than girls to get kidnapped) as that sounds a little bit too much like modern feminist mythology for my tastes. Among the English aristocracy boys were dressed as g...

Grok wrote:

pelmut wrote: It is no more difficult than telling a child that some people are left-handed.

A metaphor occurred to me:

1. Those who prefer trousers could be described as right handed.

2. Those who prefer skirts could be described as left handed.

I'm left-handed and prefer skirts
Charlie

oldsalt1 wrote: So that means that this ruling would in fact close down any show or play etc in which a woman appears in slacks.

.... and in public?
Charlie

What baffles me is that they don't make a similar fuss when a girl wears trousers to school
Charlie

I was walking down Wells High street this morning, skirt-counting as usual. I'd just moved on to the second set of five fingers (yes, there were that few skirts) when I saw a man in a camouflage miniskirt. He went into a charity shop, but if he'd kept walking - we were going in the same direction - ...

The presenter took over a class of seven year-olds, aiming to remove all differences in the way boys and girls are treated and to see if, after a term of gender-neutral treatment, he could even out the gaps in their achievement across a range of important psychological measures - from self-confidenc...