19 thoughts on “Beard of the day

  1. Who knew Scotland was where ‘I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours’ originated. Kilts certainly make it a lot easier.

    • My offer of a ‘serious’ answer would be that a ‘true’ Scotsman wouldn’t wear anything at all underneath, present day included. They certainly didn’t originally, before underpants started being worn under trousers/’breeches’ in this country, Scotland included of course (possibly late 18th/early 19th centuries?). But coming up to the modern era it has long since become normalised to put on undies under a kilt, if only to guard against that errant gust of wind which could surely cause serious embarrassment if in public, maybe even arrest. However, some might agree that in such cases, and totally by accident caused by such a weather phenomenon, the non-wearer just ‘might’ get a degree (or more!) of satisfaction in having given the exposed and inadvertent accidental flash in front of others because of something of which he has no control. Does that clarify at all?

      • I too prefer to ‘go commando’ whenever poss, mainly indoors but also out and about when it would it wouldn’t likely lead to my being ‘compromised’.

        Btw: When you refer to “my boys” I’m assuming that’s a euphemism for certain male body parts which (generally) come in pairs? I’ve not heard that before. ๐Ÿ™‚

  2. Urpso – A rough looking Scottish character in a gritty movie I saw years ago, when asked the question about what he was wearing under his kilt by a more urbane looking English gentleman, replied gruffly, in a thick Scottish accent, “Yer wife’s lipstick.”

    Not sure that’s the answer for all kilt-wearing Scotsmen. However, I understand they do have to be careful of wardrobe malfunctions while standing on a windy corner in Edinburgh.

    And there’s not a lot of cotton jersey laundry to wash at the end of the week. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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