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My favorite Highland dress pet peeves
Here are a few of my favorite Highland dress pet peeves that I often see at Scottish Events and Highland games... Please feel free to express your own pet peeves!
 
1.) Kilt Shirts aka Jacobite shirts -
 
2.) Men wearing a multitude of lapel pins on their bonnet -
 
3.) Men wearing their bonnets indoors -
 
4.) Men wearing their flashes wrong, e.g., around on the backside of their calf - also droopy kilt hose!
 
5.) kilts worn too long, droopy kilts...usually done deliberately, the offender is usually someone under 20. Also, men wearing their kilts down on their hips like blue jeans! Even my kilt will drop a bit after long day at the games or an evening of Scottish country dancing...but come on guys!...pull the kilts UP where they belong! Especially you CANADIANS! (Tom muttering under his breath, Canadians tend to wear their kilts longer than anyone else.)(Love Thompson's term for this, "Trollopy kilts"!)
 
6.) utilikilts and other facsimiles worn is if they are traditional Scottish National attire...
 
7.) wearing the wrong level of formality to an event OR mixing items of formality...example: a Prince Charlie coatee worn with daywear...or mistaking "casual" with "daywear" (they are not the same!) One would not generally wear sneakers with a suit or slacks and a sportcoat so why wear sneakers with daywear?
 
8.) Wearing dirks, swords, etc. to Highland games or other Scottish events! The only item of this nature that is, or should be, worn is the sgian dubh. Dirks and swords are OK for the parade of the tartans or display, but I'd personally rather see the pageantry of flags and banners! (Dirks are appropriate for very dressy formal evening wear. I don't really recommend them because you really have to lay them aside for any sort of vigorous dancing. Same with plaids!) Heck, I saw a man wear a sword to a recent Kirking of the Tartan!
 
9.) People who get bent out of shape when they see a man in a kilt wearing a sports coat! I honestly do not have a problem with this!
 
10.) Men wearing ladies tartan sashes! Come on! You KNOW you have seen this at least once! :-D
 
11.) The cost of kilts and accouterments! One can only hope for the good old days when the dollar was stronger!
 
12.) Finding a hole in a pair of $200+ Argyll Kilt hose RIGHT before an event! @#*&$$$!!!^^*)@(
 
13.) People who come up to you and say, "I LUV YOUR COSTUME!" I usually have to bite my tongue not to come up with a Gordon Ramsay reply!
 
14.) Did I mention that I HATE kilt shirts!
 
15.) Yes, Indeed, I loath kilt shirts...If there was anything I could do to contribute to Scottish National Dress, it would be the total elimination of the kilt shirt! No Scottish supplier, kilt maker, etc. would dream of carrying them and no self-respecting man would even consider wearing one! Wake up and retire yours to the rag pile!
 
16.) Men who do not know when to move their sporrans! When a gentleman is dressed in Highland attire and dances with a lady (cheek to cheek), he should move the sporran to his left hip. He should also do this when sitting down to dinner.
 
17.) Wearing the sgian dubh with the sheath portion in the hose with the whole handle sticking out.
 
18.) If I hear the old worn out, "What do are you wearing under your kilt" question one more time I can't promise I won't go "Ramsay" on them!
 
19.) There is some question regarding the wearing of tartan ties with the kilt. In my opinion, a tie should be left up to the man's choice, with the only rule being the constraint of good taste.
 
20.) Wearing kilt belts with a waistcoat....
 
21.) Women (who are not a part of a pipeband) wearing men's Highland attire.

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My pet peeves!

Yea, everyone has one...but mine is definitely the weirdest!!!

 

Lol, I hate to sit in a warm seat! It really really bugs the hell out of me, and for some reason I think it's absolutely disgusting. If I sit in a warm seat...I automatically get up, not even thinking about it...and change the seat. Like, switch desks, or chairs, or whatever I'm sitting in at the time...

 

 

 
 
 

   
Video Blog: Pet Peeves

Yes folks, it is yet another horribly edited installment of Inside The Mind of a Night Owl (ITMANO).  Episode III discusses a few of my pet peeves.  Since the video was filmed in 8 clips of 22 second installments because I had to film it with my cell phone, the editing is shittier than ever! Note those smooth transitions and notice how my head changes positions in the frame.  Also, my accent seems to get thicker and thicker with each 22 second installment. Other than that, ENJOY! (or don't).

 

 

 
 
   
 

My Pet Peeves

1. Slow Internet (which I've got)

2. MySpace camera whores

3. Camera whores in general

4. People who get dressed up and put on a ton of makeup just to take some pictures to put on MySpace

5. People who bitch and complain ALL THE TIME that they're ugly/fat just so people can reassure them that they're not.

6. Narcissists

7. People who talk about their role-playing game life outside of it. Honestly, when they talk about things they've killed in the game it sounds like something that really happened. And if they bitch about something, it's because they couldn't defeat the wizard or whatever on level 26. Then they talk about their own character and it's so gay! Get a life! Sorry if this offends any of you.

8. When I've been working on a song for a long time then some stupid guy in my guitar class plays it perfectly after having just listened to me for, like, two minutes. I HATE that!

9. Egoistic people (mostly guys)

 

That's all I can think of for now, but I'll probably update.

 
 
 

   
Wasting time...

 I'm sorry he feels like he's wasting his time. I know he said he was joking...but I just got that feeling, you know? It just cuts me deeply, and I'm not sure how to handle it. I hate cyring over stupid things that don't really matter. 

I mean, he doesn't have to be an asshole all the time, does he?  Not that he's an asshole to me. He's not. He's really sweet to me. But he'll almost just ignore me when we're around people. I guess I understand why he says he's doing it, but still. What the fuck? And what is it with his shitty comments about Celeste all the time? I know she's not the coolest person in the world, but he doesn't have to be so rude every time she walks into a room.

And why the hell did he start smoking again? It's nasty, and I hate it.  He knows it bothers me, too. That just pisses me off even more. He asked me if it would bother me, and I told him it would. But he started up again, anyway. And what is it with those fucking sleeping pills? God, why are there so many things that he does that bothers me? Why do I even stay around? Why am I still sleeping with him? Why am I such a dumbfuck? Why can't I ever have a relationship go right? Hell, this isn't even a real realtionship. Not officially. He was right. He did hurt me. And he's still hurting me. And I'm letting him. I'm helping him. I'm so fucked up.

 

Am I wasting my time?

Am I wasting his time?

 

Am I just "another woman to bone"? God, I feel like it. What the fuck made me think this could actually work? Why the fuck would I think anyone would  actually want to be with me? How the fuck did I let myself think that everything would be the way I wanted it to be? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me?

And why the hell am I sitting here crying over him? There's not even anything for me to cry over! 

And once again, I've realized that I haven't really eaten in over a week. That's usually one of the many signs that I've fucked up again.

But this is a big fuck up that I can't take back.

 

I'm just so scared I'm going to end up alone, with everyone I love hating me, leaving me. I'm going to be abandoned by everyone. Like it's been my entire life. Fuck it all.

 
 
   
 

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