Canton: And let's not forget...

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I'm sure he is wearing pants under there, but a cassock does have a skirt, so technically...

I don't know about that. Look at that smile.

Canton: And let's not forget...

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I'm sure he is wearing pants under there, but a cassock does have a skirt, so technically...

From the shoulders? That's a dress.

I went to a Catholic school where a guy wearing a kilt to prom was never an issue, no one thought that there was anything to make an issue out of. If a guy wants to wear a kilt, so be it.

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FTFY.

GT_bike: I'd hate to see if it were some Angry Samoans in Lava-lavas

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That school board treasurer is going to get a very strongly-worded email!

heh. I imagine if my son was told he couldn't wear a kilt he'd lose his pants at the prom.

MtLebanonBalogna: Canton: And let's not forget...

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I'm sure he is wearing pants under there, but a cassock does have a skirt, so technically...

From the shoulders? That's a dress.

And a dress consists of a skirt attached to a bodice...

The_Sponge: All of you forgot the coolest one of all:

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Amen Bro. Rowdy Roddy Piper's gonna whup some principle's ass!!

Must wear kilt!

AirForceVet: Hot girls in kilts thread!

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I'd Fark 'em all (at once)!

I remember a few guys wore kilts to my high school prom. And this was in Florida, not exactly a place known for either tolerance of ethnic diversity or tolerance of gaymosexuals. A few of us thought it was kind of cool, because they were the only guys at prom who weren't dressed all in black poorly-fitting rented tuxedos, but aside from that no one gave the slightest of sh*ts.

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I was fully expecting this picture to show up. Seemed an obvious choice.

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Under the fire of Nazi guns and wading through a sea turning crimson with the blood of fallen colleagues, Bill Millin struggled towards the Normandy sands.

Waist deep in water, he led the commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade on to the beach as they fought to their deaths on the most famous day of World War II.

Amid the clatter of battle and dreadful cries of the injured, Millin only just caught the five words that turned him into a hero. 'Give us "Highland Laddie" man!' shouted Lord Lovat, the charismatic Chief of Clan Fraser and Brigadier of the 2,500 commandos, who was determined to put some backbone into his invading forces.
Piper Bill Millin played again on the Normandy beaches to celebrate the the 35th anniversary of the D-Day Landings

Piper Bill Millin played again on the Normandy beaches to celebrate the the 35th anniversary of the D-Day Landings

Obediently, 21-year-old Millin, Lovatt's personal piper, put the mouthpiece of his bagpipes to his lips, ignored the carnage and thundering crash of gunfire - and played as he had never played before.

It was 8.40 on June 6 1944, the morning of D-day. In the largest amphibious assault ever mounted, 150,000 troops from Britain, America and Canada were landing along a 60-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline.

D-day was the turning point in the Allies' battle against Hitler. And the name of Bill Millin, who died this week aged 88, is intrinsically linked with the events of that early summer's day. He is a reminder of the bravery and sacrifice of ordinary soldiers as they fought to protect this nation from the Nazis. He will live for ever in the annals of history.
Bill Millin in 1944: The playing of the pipes lifted the spirits of hard-pressed British troops, and dumbfounded the German defenders

Bill Millin in 1944: The playing of the pipes lifted the spirits of hard-pressed British troops, and dumbfounded the German defenders

The French awarded him their Croix d'Honneur and plan to erect a statue to him close to the beach where he marched ashore - the most eastern of the beaches picked by the Allies for the invasion.

The long stretch of sand where his haunting music stirred his fellow soldiers into battle near the French town of Ouistreham was codenamed Sword, while the other four beaches to the west were Omaha, Gold, Utah and Juno.

By the time Millin landed, it had already been a tumultuous journey across the Channel. 'I had my pipes with me as we set off from England the night before,' he explained later. 'I had been playing to the troops waiting to board the landing craft as we went along the Hamble river, and then I put them back in the box.

'Lord Lovat said: "You better get them out again because you can play us out of the Solent and into the Channel. You will be in the leading craft with me." '

He stood at the front of the landing craft piping The Road To The Isles. When the commandos were just off the Isle of Wight, they met thousands of other boats and ships carrying troops. 'They heard the pipes, and they were throwing their hats in the air and cheering,' he remembered.

He only stopped playing because the waves had become choppy and he was losing his balance. 'After we left the Solent and were out in the Channel, the hatches on the landing craft were put down and we were very cramped.

There were some people playing cards, but most were violently sick, including myself. The next morning I pushed open the hatch and looked out at a grey dawn. The wind was blowing and freezing

'Then after another half an hour people were starting to get gear together, their rucksacks on and were making towards the front of the craft. We could see the mist of the French shoreline and the neat bungalows along the seafront.'
The only weapon Bill carried on D-day was a small dagger tucked into his sock

The only weapon Bill carried on D-day was a small dagger tucked into his sock

Bill continued: 'Everyone was checking their kit, and putting their kit on. I didn't think of being shot, how many Germans there were or anything other than the smell of seasickness on me. We all got up on deck and we stood in the freezing wind watching the shoreline. Then the order came to get ashore and I was very pleased.'

Lord Lovat, 32, jumped into the water first. Because Lovat was over 6ft tall, Bill waited to see what depth it was before going in. He said: 'My kilt floated to the surface and the shock of the freezing cold water knocked all feelings of sickness from me.'

Within seconds the commandos were being struck down by German mortar shells and machine-gun fire. One commando was killed as Lovat got into the sea, his body floating up by Bill as he made for the shore.

Yet Lovat asked Bill to play again. He nearly refused. 'Well, when I looked round - the noise and people lying about on the ground, the shouting and the smoke, the crump of mortars,' he said later, 'I said to myself: "Well, you must be joking, surely."

But Lovat insisted, and Bill said: 'Well, what tune would you like, Sir?'

'How about Highland Laddie and The Road To The Isles?' said Lovat, telling him to walk up and down the beach as he played.

Bill could see soldiers lying face down in the water as he played. 'Troops to my left were trying to dig in just off the beach,' he recalled. 'Yet when they heard the pipes, some of them stopped what they were doing and waved their arms, cheering.'

Lovat's commandos were heavily machine-gunned and mortared, but had a vital objective and pressed on. They had orders to link up with the British 6th Airborne division and keep secure a strategically vital bridge over the Caen Canal three miles down a road full of German snipers beyond Sword beach.

The airborne division had captured the bridge in the early hours that day in an assault later immortalised in the classic film The Longest Day, in which the part of Millin was played by Pipe Major Leslie de Laspee, the official piper to the Queen Mother. The 180-strong company airborne division, led by Major John Howard, swooped at dawn in gliders.

The crossing was later renamed Pegasus Bridge, after the flying horse shoulder emblem worn by British airborne forces.

The attack took the Germans completely by surprise and stopped them from swarming over the bridge and towards Sword beach.

It also allowed the invading soldiers to push across the bridge and make their way through France.

Throughout that morning, the airborne division had to repel repeated counter-attacks at Pegasus, which was surrounded by Panzer divisions. And by early afternoon, the jaded British troops were urgently needing help from Lovat and his commandos.

Suddenly, at 1 pm, there was the sound of bagpipes. With Bill Millin playing Lovat's favourite tune Blue Bonnets Over The Border, the commandos marched into view. despite heavy German fire, as the red berets of the airborne division and the green berets of the commandos mingled there was a lightening of spirits.

Major Howard approached Lovat. Holding out his hand, he said: 'We are very pleased to see you, old boy.' Lovat responded: 'Yes, and sorry we are twoanda-half minutes late.'

The commandos went over the bridge to confront the Germans - with Bill Millin playing his pipes as brave as a lion leading the way.

'not once did I think I was going to die,' said Bill afterwards. 'I was too busy playing. We had been attacked by snipers once we left Sword Beach, particularly from cornfields on the right of the road. 'At one point I glanced round, stopped playing and everyone was face down on the road. even Lovat was on one knee. Then the next thing this sniper comes scrambling down from a tree and Lovat and our group dash forward.

'We could see this sniper's head bobbing about in the cornfield. Lovat shot at him and he fell. Lovat sent two men into the cornfield to see what had happened, and they brought back the dead body.'

reMArkABLY, the only weapon Bill carried that long day was a Scottish dirk in his sock. He survived unscathed The Germans put a hole in his bagpipes with shrapnel. So he just pulled a spare set out of his rucksack.

The great mystery is why the Germans didn't gun him down. He couldn't have been more conspicuous in full Highland dress and with blaring bagpipes.

Pipers were banned in conflict zones after World War I because so many died. Lovat's orders for Bill to play on d-day breached all Army rules.

It would take Bill more than 40 years to find out why he survived. He said: 'I met a German commander at a dday reunion and asked why they hadn't shot me.

'The commander just tapped his head and said "We thought you were a 'Dummkopf ', or off your head. Why waste bullets on a Dummkopf?" '

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1304597/Awesome-courage-Bill-M illin--D-Day-piper-Nazis-thought-mad.html#ixzz1qMO2XvbB

you guys are slipping.

/hot.

HailRobonia: Kilt: A symbol of Scottish national pride invented by the Victorian English.

What? A kilt is just clothing.

Symbols of Scottish pride:
Stone of Scone
White Cross on a Blue background
Red Dragon on a Gold Background
Malt Whiskey
Burns poems
Royal Scots Greys defeat Napoleon at Waterloo and no kilts

rabbty frabbity broken up images...

tadaaaa

Is it "asinine school polcies for the prom articles" season already? I swear, it's like Christmas, in that it comes earlier and earlier every year.

My brother wore a kilt to his prom way back in 1996. Surprisingly, the there was no mass hysteria.

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Came for this, leaving pleased.

Yeah, this is what I expected to find. I can't say I'm "pleased" by it though...

I was surprised that it took that long to post it.

It's an iconic outfit, and every time I see it my heart swells with pride for Mr Connery's balls wearing it.

Hmmm... I don't wanna know what part of his anatomy is wearing it...

I wore a kilt to prom so I'm really getting a kick etc., etc.

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tadaaaa

This illustrates a funny point:

it is YOU who are responsible for your own mind

and no one else, dig?

If I wear a kilt and all you can think of are my schweaty balls, that's your problem, foodie...

;)

20 something yrs ago my senior class president wore a kilt to class on a regular basis. For prom, he wore the FANCY kilt. We also did Brigadoon as the spring musical and created a sort of kilt fashion thing for a few months. I think there were about 20 at the prom, actually.

I am serious, if they told my son no kilt he would wear breakaway pants. For sure. No doubt.

xenomorpheus: I have a few traditional kilts in some different royal and non-royal tartans of my family, but my Utilikilts are worn about 90% of the time if I am wearing one. Need more New Rock boots, though. Any kilt-wearers have suggestions for other similar boots?

I've been reasonably happy with my Demonias, but obviously those are a massive step down in quality from New Rocks. Way cheaper though.

Picked up some Gettagrips several years ago and they've held up reasonably well to regular club nights.

Bad_Seed: Some Bass Playing Guy: The reason given is pretty much BS, but there's probably a standard dress code for these types of events and all of the kids need to meet the requirements. Having a standard dress code is a good idea so that the event maintains the kind of formality of the typical prom. Without a dress code, people may dress in all sorts of bizarre ways, which is counterproductive to the experience.

I don't think a kilt falls into the bizarre category, but rather just doesn't fit the dress code.

I fully expect that if the kid gets denied by the school board, the next story we'll be hearing about is a lawsuit.

You can wear a kilt to a white tie event. There is no dress code in the world that can exclude a kilt for not being "formal".

Generally the dodge the teachers would mention whenever someone brought it up in school when I was growing up---I was in upstate South Carolina, where there's significant Scots/Irish heritage---was that a kilt was proper formal wear if and only if you were of Scots ancestry and the kilt was your tartan.

Since that pretty much followed the etiquette rules of the time, and didn't reject anybody's heritage outright, people were okay with it. Nobody really wanted to take the time to actually get everything proved and get a real kilt in their real tartan.

But if they had, the school would have let them wear it---because it was correct formal wear By The Book.

With the internet and everything, it's easier now to track down what clan you are. It's still not cheap to get a real kilt in your real tartan. I just checked and a kilt from my clan runs nearly 400 pounds.

This school might have had an easier time of it if they'd made the kid do a report with a family tree showing which clan he was in, what its tartan was, and then provide the documentation that the kilt was an actual, authentic kilt in his clan's actual tartan. "You can wear this more expensive formal wear at your own expense if you're actually willing to go to all the expense and trouble. Or you can rent a tux like the other kids if you're not."

HailRobonia: Kilt: A symbol of Scottish national pride invented by the Victorian English.

Indeed. Tartan itself too.

Put on your trews and be a real highland Scot.

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What? A kilt is just clothing.

Symbols of Scottish pride:
Stone of Scone
White Cross on a Blue background
Red Dragon on a Gold Background
Malt Whiskey
Burns poems
Royal Scots Greys defeat Napoleon at Waterloo and no kilts
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truthfully, what he is referring to as 'invented by the english' are the tartans, which didn't exist till only the last couple hundred years, and were invented by a couple of tailors looking to cater to wealthy scotsmen. so they started making up connections between various family lines and different patterns. the scots, desperate to be seen as fashionable and well-to do and connected to their heritage, snapped it up like mad.

basically, if you wear a 'clan tartan' you're nothing but a ignorant hipster who's trying hard.

I wore a kilt to both Jr. and Sr. proms and I went to an uptight high school........the teachers and other students loved it.

(looked for pics in kilt, but cannot locate at this time) bummer!

Julie Cochrane: I just checked and a kilt from my clan runs nearly 400 pounds.

I heard haggis goes straight to the hips and butt, but that's crazy.

Julie Cochrane: This school might have had an easier time of it if they'd made the kid do a report with a family tree showing which clan he was in, what its tartan was, and then provide the documentation that the kilt was an actual, authentic kilt in his clan's actual tartan. "You can wear this more expensive formal wear at your own expense if you're actually willing to go to all the expense and trouble. Or you can rent a tux like the other kids if you're not."

Or they could just take his word for it. If you show up at a formal even wearing your kilt, they generally won't make you show papers to prove that you are a true Scotsman.

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I'll take the one second from the left, please.

/would hit that like the planetoids from the last three apocalypses combined
//feel like a dirty old woman for saying it
///gahhh...um.....yeah...um...what were we talking about?

Kilts are awesome, but they're not really formal wear unless you're actually in Scotland (or in some very specific military units).

Basically, seems reasonable to not allow them at prom. Typically requires black pants and a similar blazer with a white or light-colored collared shirt and dark shoes, minimum. Not necessarily a full tuxedo or anything, but it's clothing that any male should have by the time they're 17 or 18 anyhow so I don't think it's really a huge imposition.

buttery_shame_cave: basically, if you wear a 'clan tartan' you're nothing but a ignorant hipster who's trying hard.

To be fair, most of the stuff we regard as "Scottish heritage" is shiat that some bored guy made up or fabricated to sell. The war bonnets, curling, that crazy shiat with the logs, whiskey, etc.

The tartans are a bit arbitrary but they look nice and give us something to argue about, which is like half of Scottish (and American) culture. We do the same shiat in the US, look at any family with a crest for instance. Don't hate.

trews.

if'n wearrrin' a kilt is wrrrong

i dun wanna be rrright...

;)

*rolls his r's on out*

Jesse Rae - Over the sea (new window)

multi-kiltage, including a brother. And the bonniest lassie in all of Scotchland.

Bad_Seed: Julie Cochrane: This school might have had an easier time of it if they'd made the kid do a report with a family tree showing which clan he was in, what its tartan was, and then provide the documentation that the kilt was an actual, authentic kilt in his clan's actual tartan. "You can wear this more expensive formal wear at your own expense if you're actually willing to go to all the expense and trouble. Or you can rent a tux like the other kids if you're not."

Or they could just take his word for it. If you show up at a formal even wearing your kilt, they generally won't make you show papers to prove that you are a true Scotsman.

Tartans spelled backwards is SATAN!

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Came for this, leaving pleased.

Yeah, this is what I expected to find. I can't say I'm "pleased" by it though...

I was surprised that it took that long to post it.

It's an iconic outfit, and every time I see it my heart swells with pride for Mr Connery's balls wearing it.

Hmmm... I don't wanna know what part of his anatomy is wearing it...

You can see them plain as day

GT_bike: Tartans spelled backwards is SATAN!

?

TARTANS

SNATRAT

?

Reminds me of "Hail Satin" spraypainted with pentagrams...

Flumple: HailRobonia: Kilt: A symbol of Scottish national pride invented by the Victorian English.

Indeed. Tartan itself too.

I'm genuinely curious about this, since you can find older tartan (or something similar). The late Georgian time frame has tartans. For example, Pompeo's portrait of William Gordon (new window).

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Came for this, leaving pleased.

Yeah, this is what I expected to find. I can't say I'm "pleased" by it though...

I was surprised that it took that long to post it.

It's an iconic outfit, and every time I see it my heart swells with pride for Mr Connery's balls wearing it.

Hmmm... I don't wanna know what part of his anatomy is wearing it...

You can see them plain as day

yeah...

I donno which is creepier, John Boorman directing Zardoz, where he took James Bond and made him run around like that, or Excalibur where he directed his daughter's sex/rape scene...

It's the 21st century. When the fark are humans (everywhere, not just here) going to get over this creepy fixation on what OTHER people wear? Mostly what women wear, but occasionally men, too.

Seriously, the human race is goddam retarded.

Ignorant, redneck racist farks.

Bad_Seed: Julie Cochrane: This school might have had an easier time of it if they'd made the kid do a report with a family tree showing which clan he was in, what its tartan was, and then provide the documentation that the kilt was an actual, authentic kilt in his clan's actual tartan. "You can wear this more expensive formal wear at your own expense if you're actually willing to go to all the expense and trouble. Or you can rent a tux like the other kids if you're not."

Or they could just take his word for it. If you show up at a formal even wearing your kilt, they generally won't make you show papers to prove that you are a true Scotsman.

True---I did say the school where I grew up was using a dodge.

I think the US would be a better place if our schools would quit being a bunch of authoritarian idiots with sticks up their arses and accept that kids are individuals. But it's not going to happen, because that would make too much sense. :-(

Actually, some places aren't too bad. It's the places that act stupid that get all the press. But the world isn't likely to run into a stupid shortage any time soon.

Jim_Callahan: Kilts are awesome, but they're not really formal wear unless you're actually in Scotland (or in some very specific military units).

Basically, seems reasonable to not allow them at prom. Typically requires black pants and a similar blazer with a white or light-colored collared shirt and dark shoes, minimum. Not necessarily a full tuxedo or anything, but it's clothing that any male should have by the time they're 17 or 18 anyhow so I don't think it's really a huge imposition.

buttery_shame_cave: basically, if you wear a 'clan tartan' you're nothing but a ignorant hipster who's trying hard.

To be fair, most of the stuff we regard as "Scottish heritage" is shiat that some bored guy made up or fabricated to sell. The war bonnets, curling, that crazy shiat with the logs, whiskey, etc.

The tartans are a bit arbitrary but they look nice and give us something to argue about, which is like half of Scottish (and American) culture. We do the same shiat in the US, look at any family with a crest for instance. Don't hate.

oh family crests and coats of arms are a fun fun FUN way to stir the pot with the right family during the holidays.

/married into a scottish family of the old blood, legitimate coats of arms and heraldry. the papers on the family tree go back(with high accuraccy) a good 5-6 centuries which is pretty impressive(and like 10 centuries back in total but it's pretty iffy on the accuracy/legitimacy)
//of estonian descent, so no actual coat of arms(hell the family name is less than 150 years old near as i can figure. they were all going by so-and-sosson/dottir up till the barons decided everyone should be modern and have surnames.
///technically tho i could prolly use the einstein coat of arms...