Kilted Adventure

[aaron12345]

I haven't posted in a long time so I thought I'd tell everyone about my night out last night wearing black knee high boots, blackwatch sportkilt, and black t-shirt. I live downtown in the 'bar district' of my town so I got dressed and walked down to my favorite watering hole, a place called Roosters. I got there before my friends did so I sat at the bar for a while and then when they got there we went up onto the outside balcony this place has. There was a group of women with a couple of guys at one of the tables and several of them said things like "so whats under the kilt" I replied "there's only one way to find out" they said "well come over here and let me see." With a sly look on my face I said "that's not the way".

There wasn't much going on there so we left and went to another place. Again, a woman was quite interested. The man she was with said "great, now you've got my old lady all fired up and I'm gonna have to stop drinking now so I can take care of her later."

One guy tried to make fun of me sayin things like "men don't wear skirts". I said "you need to stop saying things like that because I'm going to have to say some things back and you're not going to like it and then we're going to probably get into a fight and... you might win, but I am going to hurt you, make no mistake about that. Then people are going to say 'dude, what happened to your face' and then you're going to have to tell them 'uh, I picked a fight with a guy in a skirt and this is what he did.' so why don't we just drop it.

We stopped by a couple of other places but nothing was really going on so we went back to Roosters. I was in the bathroom and a guy came up to me and said "the girls I'm with haven't quit talking about you all night. will you go up and try to embarass them?" I was like "i don't know how comfortable I am with that" he said "there's a drink in it for you". Well that made me comfortable with it. She got a little look and a little feel and I gave the free drink to another girl I had started talking to.

I eventually took her back to my apartment and..... well that a private story. She passed out so I went back out again. I finally made it back home around 3:00am. Well, that was my night. I'm thinking that the kilt is going to get a lot more wear from now on.

[Milfmog]

Sounds like you had a fun night out!

I think I'd have taken a less aggressive tone, I usually find a little humour (preferably at the antagonists expense) is effective and leaves no one with any lasting resentment. I find that aggression (my own or someone else's) always leaves me feeling irritated which just spoils the evening. However, you did not mention a broken nose nor any cracked ribs, so I guess your response worked for you.

Have fun and, in the words of an old school teacher friend of mine, "Nil plebus carborundum" *


Ian.

* Pseudo-latin, but can be "translated" as "don't let the ba5ta7ds grind you down"

[aaron12345]

Thanks!

I'm really not an agressive person and I'd rather not get into a bar fight. However being 6'4" (probably closer to 6'6" in the chunky soled boots i had on) and 260lbs and all of my male friends being about that same size, I've never really had any trouble.

I just want to make it very clear that making fun of someone for their clothing is absolutely unacceptable.

[Milfmog]

I'm really not an agressive person and I'd rather not get into a bar fight. However being 6'4" (probably closer to 6'6" in the chunky soled boots i had on) and 260lbs and all of my male friends being about that same size, I've never really had any trouble.

I'm not quite as big as you, but stand over 6'3" and am more than capable of inflicting significant damage if necessary, I'd just rather not put myself in that position.

I also feel that any man in a skirt will to some extent be seen as representing all men in skirts and I'd rather not give the impression that we are all bad tempered, aggressive, bar room brawlers. That's not to say I always live up to my own aspirations, I wish I was that good!

I just want to make it very clear that making fun of someone for their clothing is absolutely unacceptable.

Somehow I doubt whether anyone here will argue with you on that point.

Have fun,


Ian.

[ChristopherJ]

I also feel that any man in a skirt will to some extent be seen as representing all men in skirts and I'd rather not give the impression that we are all bad tempered, aggressive, bar room brawlers.

Sorry - but had a little snigger there, because as I read that I imagined a sort of Wild West bar-room scene out of the movies - with all these guys involved in a massive brawl. Breaking chairs over each others' head and so on.

And they were all wearing skirts!

[aaron12345]

Well, it actually was an old west saloon about a hundred and 50 years ago.

I life in Fort Smith, AR which was at one time the western most city in the United States and was the gateway into the wild Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Judge Issac C. Parker also known as "Hangin' Judge Parker" holds the record for handing out the most death sentences in his career. Around 60 people where killed by hanging during his tenure.

Garrison Avenue, which was mainstreet in what is now the historic downtown dictrict is about a half a mile long and hosted 23 saloons in 1907. Oddly enough Sebastian County has been a dry county since the end of prohibition but Fort Smith has 'private clubs' which essentialy means that you have to sign a guestbook when you walk through the door so that you're a 'guest of the club'.

[ChristopherJ]

Judge Issac C. Parker also known as "Hangin' Judge Parker" holds the record for handing out the most death sentences in his career. Around 60 people were killed by hanging during his tenure.

They didn't like men who wore skirts in those days - did they?

heh . . heh . . just kidding.

I didn't intend to disrespect where you live at all. It was just the weird picture that came up in my mind of a bar room brawl - with all of the guys wearing skirts. It would be quite a sight to see!

[aaron12345]

Oh, I didn't take any offence at all. In fact, the particular place we had the conversation in still has the origional architecture as it did when the place was built back in the late 1800's.

It is weird to think about how backwards the town I live in has become. It seems that nowdays there's a baptist church on every corner and the place would be described as anything but progressive. However, the towns visitors center is in an old house called "Miss Laura's". I'm sure you can imagine what services were available to people living on the frontier at a place called "Miss Lauras's".

Last year Fort Smith was selected to be the site of the new National U.S. Marshall's Museum and everyone around here was pretty excited about that. One of the reason that Judge Parker hung so many people was that it was common for fugetives to head out into the 'lawless' indian territory to avoid justice. Judge Parker employed bounty hunters to go after them. If you brought back a criminal you recieved a $500 reward. However, if you somehow killed him in the process of bringing him back to the jail you lost the reward had to pay $50 to have him burried.

[Milfmog]

If you brought back a criminal you received a $500 reward. However, if you somehow killed him in the process of bringing him back to the jail you lost the reward had to pay $50 to have him buried.

That's interesting, was it a local ordinance or a general rule? It's certainly not something I've heard of before and tends to put a bit of a mocker on the "Dead or alive" image that Hollywood perpetuates.

It sounds like a good reason to keep fugitives alive, however if there was an accident and a fugitive got killed I suspect that a consequence of this rule would be a form of fly tipping; just leave the body and don't tell anyone

That's the problem with rules of this kind, they always produce behaviours that were not intended.

Have fun,


Ian.

[Milfmog]

If you brought back a criminal you received a $500 reward. However, if you somehow killed him in the process of bringing him back to the jail you lost the reward had to pay $50 to have him buried.

That's interesting, was it a local ordinance or a general rule? It's certainly not something I've heard of before and tends to put a bit of a mocker on the "Dead or alive" image that Hollywood perpetuates.

It sounds like a good reason to keep fugitives alive, however if a fugitive got killed, I suspect that a consequence of this rule would be a form of fly tipping; just leave the body and don't tell anyone

That's the problem with rules, they usually produce behaviours that were not intended.

Have fun,


Ian.

[aaron12345]

Well, we as a species will never be able to fully grasp the concept of the rule of unintended conseqnences. However, $500 for a live fugetive or $-50 for a dead guy or $0 for leaving him on the side of the trail seems like a fairly logical course of action. After all, he's gonna be dead anyways, just seems to make sense to make all reasonable efforts to bring him back alive to collect the bounty.

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If you brought back a criminal you received a $500 reward. However, if you somehow killed him in the process of bringing him back to the jail you lost the reward had to pay $50 to have him buried.

That's interesting, was it a local ordinance or a general rule? It's certainly not something I've heard of before and tends to put a bit of a mocker on the "Dead or alive" image that Hollywood perpetuates.

It sounds like a good reason to keep fugitives alive, however if there was an accident and a fugitive got killed I suspect that a consequence of this rule would be a form of fly tipping; just leave the body and don't tell anyone

That's the problem with rules of this kind, they always produce behaviours that were not intended.

Have fun,


Ian.
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Originally Posted by aaron12345
If you brought back a criminal you received a $500 reward. However, if you somehow killed him in the process of bringing him back to the jail you lost the reward had to pay $50 to have him buried.

That's interesting, was it a local ordinance or a general rule? It's certainly not something I've heard of before and tends to put a bit of a mocker on the "Dead or alive" image that Hollywood perpetuates.

It sounds like a good reason to keep fugitives alive, however if a fugitive got killed, I suspect that a consequence of this rule would be a form of fly tipping; just leave the body and don't tell anyone

That's the problem with rules, they usually produce behaviours that were not intended.

Have fun,


Ian.
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