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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:38:53 GMT, "Chess One"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"The Highlander"  wrote in message   
   >news:kmaac3tgirout18h30uqnahjndu6ubfd8c@4ax.com...   
   >   
   >> I'm having some difficulty with your self-description as a Highland   
   >> Scot and as someone who seems to feel he is an expert on all things   
   >> Scottish.   
   >>   
   >> Lines like:   
   >>   
   >>>Tell me your opinion again after you have climbed Ben Macdui in midwinter.   
   >>>Tell me what the old man said to you. Then you have better basis to   
   >>>lecture   
   >>>a highland Scot of what is or is not to your speculatory intent.   
   >>   
   >> I have not only climbed Ben Wyvis on Xmas Eve for five years running;   
   >> but I and my friends also slept on top of the mountain so we could   
   >> welcome Christmas Day from the best view point in Easter Ross. And we   
   >> did so without benefit of tent, sleeping bag or anything except what   
   >> we were wearing. But then we were Highland Scots and inured to cold.   
   >   
   >Are you having 'some difficulty' with anyone else's experiences of the   
   >highlands? You have been to Wyvis, and are perhaps lucky not to have died up   
   >there. That is a very dangerous thing to do. When we climbed above tree-line   
   >we took body-bags in summer! If anyone of you had snapped an ankle he would   
   >have been dead of exposure before any relief could have been summoned, no?   
      
   Oh please! The only people who ever die on Highland mountains are   
   tourists. I've also climbed in the Alps (France) and the Aurès   
   Mountains (North Africa), so I can claim some mountain expertise.   
   >   
   >But how come you avoid the Macdui reference 3 times now? Did you really   
   >never hear of it? I thought it was a rite-of-passage for /real/ highlanders   
   >;)   
      
   I'm not avoiding it; I never got round to taking a stroll that way.   
      
   >> The mountain climbing claim and other irelevent claims and remarks on   
   >> your part lead me to wonder if your portrayed part here as a social   
   >> scientist is just that - a part. Are you playing games with us, or are   
   >> you really as underinformed about Scotland as you appear to be?   
   >   
   >I am as informed as I represent myself, and indeed more so. You have now   
   >decided this is a 'claim' because you made some insensible jaunts up a hill.   
   >   
   >I did suggest you that I would call 'attitudes' if you continued. pfft!@   
   >Sorry to step on your toes, but there are all sorts of experiences possible   
   >north and west of Sueno's stone, and your remarks are je jeune and not   
   >unlike a rentier-Scot tourist.   
      
   I'm sure you're correct. Indeed I cannot conceive of any situation in   
   which you would admit you had been wrong, despite the corpus of gross   
   errors stretching unendingly from your initial post on down.   
   >   
   >Phil Innes   
   >   
      
      
      
   The Highlander   
   Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,   
   togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus   
   toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)