Agree or disagree: "Horrific" and "humiliating" Commonwealth Games uniforms for Scotland released

They remind me of the puffy shirt in Seinfeld.

Puffy is a politically incorrect way of saying gay in the UK.

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ataglance wrote:

I cringe when I hear my fellow white Americans talk about their ____ ancestry.

My rule of thumb is that unless you have a living relative, (usually a parent or grandparent) that came over from whatever country and has an accent- you are just an American.

Don't try to claim you're Scottish, or English, or Irish. It's just sad.

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Maybe, but maybe not. Some families hold onto cultural norms for several generations, including religion. I know some Irish-Americans who look Irish and structure their lives around the Catholic church.

There's a difference between dressing in green and getting trashed on March 17th to express your Irish identity and doing things like attending all Catholic schools, sending your children to those schools, being against contraception, etc.

Can't you be content to just say you're Catholic?

I just hate hearing Americans running around talking about how they're this or that, when no one from their family has touched a toe in whatever country they are claiming to be "from" in over 150 years.

ataglance wrote:

I just hate hearing Americans running around talking about how they're this or that, when no one from their family has touched a toe in whatever country they are claiming to be "from" in over 150 years.

I just hate how brits haven't had a toothbrush touch their rotten gobs in over 150 years.

Hanner Englandah wrote:

ataglance wrote:

I just hate hearing Americans running around talking about how they're this or that, when no one from their family has touched a toe in whatever country they are claiming to be "from" in over 150 years.

I just hate how brits haven't had a toothbrush touch their rotten gobs in over 150 years.

I just hate how brits haven't spoken English in over 150 years.

Hanner Englandah wrote:

I just hate how brits haven't had a toothbrush touch their rotten gobs in over 150 years.

Hilarious!!!! I've never heard that one before.

Scotland is a beautiful country.

Och the noo! wrote:

Scotland is a beautiful country.

Don't go to scotland if you want to see beautiful scenery. It is just as pretty and rainy and cold in Norway. And the Norwegians aren't ugly. And you can understand the Norwegians when they speak English. And the Norwegians brush their teeth.

ataglance wrote:

I just hate hearing Americans running around talking about how they're this or that, when no one from their family has touched a toe in whatever country they are claiming to be "from" in over 150 years.

I agree that it's ridiculous, but when the only alternative is to admit you're American I can kind of understand it.

watwat wrote:

hates to tell you.. wrote:

Ha ha. Awful. The men look like cross dressers. Fine, kilts, I get it, I'm 1/3 Scottish, but the shirts appear to be ladies blouses.

it's impossible to be 1/3 anything genetically...

His mom had a foursome with two Scotsmen and a third guy.

His father is thus Scottish with 2/3 probability, and he can correctly claim he is 1/3 Scottish.

Slutty mom, though.

ataglance wrote:

I cringe when I hear my fellow white Americans talk about their ____ ancestry.

My rule of thumb is that unless you have a living relative, (usually a parent or grandparent) that came over from whatever country and has an accent- you are just an American.

Do try to claim you're Scottish, or English, or Irish. It's just sad.

Agree. And I'm first gen on one side. The other side had been here since the Revolution at least.

longjack wrote:

If you think about the artistic talent available in Scotland, it would be virtually impossible to come up with anything better.

Okay, I LOLed.

ataglance wrote:

?? wrote:

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Maybe, but maybe not. Some families hold onto cultural norms for several generations, including religion. I know some Irish-Americans who look Irish and structure their lives around the Catholic church.

There's a difference between dressing in green and getting trashed on March 17th to express your Irish identity and doing things like attending all Catholic schools, sending your children to those schools, being against contraception, etc.

Can't you be content to just say you're Catholic?

I just hate hearing Americans running around talking about how they're this or that, when no one from their family has touched a toe in whatever country they are claiming to be "from" in over 150 years.

oh yes, and they have some royal linage. Nobody just says, we were from a long line of tin smiths and left because we were going to tossed in debtors prison.

Randy Oldman wrote:Puffy is a politically incorrect way of saying gay in the UK.

Close, but not quite - the slang you're referring to is "poofter" or "poof". And while it may be politically incorrect its usage is still fairly widespread across much of the UK, especially in chav culture.

I have Scottish lineage on one side of the family.

Those outfits are perfectly fine.

Presumably they will not perform in them, so what's the big deal? At the Olympics nations march into the opening ceremonies with traditional garb of their nations.

If you make fun of a nation's culture or attire it says more about you than anything else.

LOL.

Aye, laddie.

I dunno what you're all cribbin about. The Miss Marple look is in but I suppose it makes the guys a little Lilly Savage like. Only Scottish governing bodies and their ilk get titilated by the dominetrix look of Jean Brodie. By all accounts, Scottish team members feel like fuds and rightly so but have some sympathy for the boxers who were also given makeup bags.

Laura Muir, Lynsey Sharp, Elidh Child, Chris o'Hare & Guy Learmonth appear to be in the mix and a few others progressing well. OK, so they will be dressing up as drag queens, pale faced and wonky teeth but when you see them prancing around like court jesters, just remember these are real athletes with real feelings. It's not their fault they've a fruity governing body getting their rocks off at guy pleats.

I'm full blooded Scottish and keep in touch with our governing body regularly but they never respond. I suggested they go back to the Shirley Temple look, Superman suits or pink charity t-shirts promoting the plight of impoverished CEO's.

Tony Blair was a cross dresser known as Miranda. His Scottishness must have rubbed off many a Sporting CEO.

Look on the bright side, with those fancy dress outfits I can't imagine any team member getting screwed during the games. I don't get it, the Irish have announced the athletes have to dress up Michael Flattely but they're still mocking the Scot's. Even the English with their pink shell suits and headbands are having fly digs at the Scot's.

The Glasgow Commonwealth Games will be the biggest event since last years Eurovision song contest.

Gonzo wrote:

I have Scottish lineage on one side of the family.

Those outfits are perfectly fine.

Presumably they will not perform in them, so what's the big deal? At the Olympics nations march into the opening ceremonies with traditional garb of their nations.

If you make fun of a nation's culture or attire it says more about you than anything else.

And those shirts are traditional how?

These sheep tuppers can wear kilts and toss cabers all day and this is going to embarrass them?

My first impression was to bust out laughing followed immediately by a wave of nausea. Now whether that rises to the level of "horrific and humiliating" is up for debate I suppose.