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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Kilts, because they don't make three legged pants."

For real though, I gave up pants years ago and I will never go back. I highly recommend giving it a try.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 82 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're just skirting the issue.

[–] Guilvareux@feddit.uk 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In his defence, he’s having a ball

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm feeling like you just kilt the thread.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No matter how you dress it up, that was below the belt.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You kept it going. Well plaid.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 5 months ago

Sometimes you just have to tartan up an old thread.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No proper Scotsman would have posted this.

[–] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No true Scotsman would say "no proper Scotsman."

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You Scots sure are a contentious people.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

That's proper.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

You've made an enemy for life!!

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

That's a fallacy, MacGregor!

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I dunno, knives and male genitals don't really mix.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't mix with female genitals either. Maybe keep knives away from genitals as a general rule

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're no fun.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

This is why we can't have knife things.

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the invention of circumcision

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was it invented or discovered, though?

[–] occhionaut@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Invented by a little-known geezer named Sir C. Ision

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago

Hopefully knives and female genitals don't mix either.

[–] alienzx@feddit.nl 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Indians too

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

No true Indian feels that way.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I don't know, they ruined Scotland.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I don't want knives near my googlies

[–] C0unterfactual@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

This is just fooking graet!

[–] Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

As a guy, the days I can wear skirts are my happiest days.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe if they’d hidden some malaria pills up there the Darien Project wouldn’t have bankrupted them so badly they had to sign the Act of Union with my lot.

[+] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org -11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure that the kilt was invented by an Englishman so that scots working in his factories would be less likely to get clothing caught in the machinery and maimed. I say this as a kilt-loving descendent of scots.

EDIT: To be clear, I was referring to a Small Kilt, whose intention is attributed to an English mill owner named Rallinson circa 1720. Not the Great Kilt, which to my knowledge is Scottish in origin.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the 16th century happened before the Industrial Revolution, when there were British factories.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

Should have been more precise, I think. I most frequently hear "kilt" referring to the Small Kilt which comes from the 18th century, not the Great Kilt.

[–] violetring@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm having a hard time thinking of garments that would be MORE likely to get caught in machinery than an ~8yd piece of fabric wrapped to include open ends, pleats, flaps and the over the shoulder option. A poncho or cloak is the only thing I can come up with.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

A Great Kilt (invented by Scots, as far as am aware) definitely. I should have been more specific. I was referring to the Small Kilt (which is what I most often hear people referring to as a kilt), which comes from the 18th century.

[+] xor@infosec.pub -23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

based on genital structure, women can pee a lot easier when wearing a dress, men can pee easier just unzipping the front of their pants….
this post is stupid.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lifting a kilt is not exactly difficult.

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 5 months ago

Yeah basically, based on genital structure, everyone should wear skirts.

[–] violetring@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

And yet there is zero chance of an unfortunate zipper accident when wearing a kilt/skirt. Pant zippers are the leading cause of penile injury.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Scottish kilts have been around since the 1500's.

The zipper was patented in the 1800's.

[–] xor@infosec.pub -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what does that have to do with anything?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the ease of peeing determines the usefulness of a garment, then in a world without zippers, kilts are clearly the superior genitalia obscuring clothing item. For 200 years the Scots were enjoying free and easy urination while the rest of the British Isles were having to unlace their codpieces like fools.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

did everyone have codpieces? i thought that was just for fancy lads…

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