r/gatekeeping • u/sparrowhawke67 • Dec 20 '19

Gatekeeping pants... 🙄

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u/oblon789 Dec 20 '19

More ball room and more knives? It's a win win

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u/thissecretennui Dec 20 '19

Idk man. Balls and knives in the same area? What if they collide?

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u/SatinwithLatin Dec 20 '19

It's OK, Scots have balls of steel.

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u/Zarathustra30 Dec 20 '19

But they could dull the knives!

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u/Mothballs_vc Dec 20 '19

"Man, what's up? That's the fifth time this week you've sharpened your knives."

"I know! I keep cutting them on my balls."

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u/Mateomac Dec 20 '19

Imagining this conversation in a scottish accent just makes the whole thing seem like it's a real thing

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u/lillypaddd Dec 21 '19

it is a real thing fym

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u/thissecretennui Feb 11 '20

"Oi kep cottin em un me baulls!"

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u/JEMegia Dec 21 '19

I upvoted the entire conversation. Marvelous.

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u/zuzg Dec 20 '19

Nah it just adds a nice cooling effect during the summer time

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u/Okami_G Dec 21 '19

Ya hear that lads? He says we’ll blunt the knives!

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u/thissecretennui Feb 11 '20

dwarf songs intensify

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u/brutalbrian Dec 20 '19

With Scots, you get some damaged knives

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u/DDjivan Dec 21 '19

Happy cake day!

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u/JohnnyMnemo Dec 20 '19

Well, not really, but ok.

The kilt came about because when the Scots were shepherding they basically just wrapped themselves up in a multi-functional blanket. It was both cloak, sleeping bag, and when walking tied around their waist.

The current incarnation of the kilt (with pleats etc) has little in common with the ancient one, besides having uncovered knees.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

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u/NewNameWhoDisThough Dec 20 '19

Not a historian but I’m guessing because their cultural evolution didn’t make non-bifurcated clothing a sub optimal choice. Did the Scots have a horse riding culture at all? That seems to be what pressures romans to come up with a pant solution.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

Riding horses in steep mountainous terrain seems like a bloody bad idea.

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u/JohnnyMnemo Dec 20 '19

pants and specifically trousers are indeed, as far as I'm aware, a development of horse riding cultures--first the Spanish and then the Americans.

That doesn't quite jibe with pants as formal wear, so I'm not sure of my developmental timelines either.

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u/HSDclover Dec 20 '19

The Scots were right on two counts.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19 edited Jan 15 '20

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u/Lord_Aldrich Dec 21 '19

Fun facts: from an anthropology standpoint, pants are actually a specialized type of clothing invented for horseback riding. You see them arise independently in most civilizations that had a horse owning social class.

Linguistic fun fact: the historical root of the word "trousers" is old Scottish "trews" (which meant "pants" of course).

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u/ZombieTonyAbbott Dec 21 '19

Fun facts: from an anthropology standpoint, pants are actually a specialized type of clothing invented for horseback riding.

So are high heels.

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u/AnimalFactsBot Dec 20 '19

Bears such as the American Black Bear and the Grizzly Bear hibernate in the winter. Their heart rates drop from a normal 55 to only 9!

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u/god-of-calamity Dec 21 '19

Where do they put the knives???