And, he was bigger and meaner than you, right? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ahh but they are different:

http://www.google.com/search?q=imperial+pint&btnG=Search

versus:

http://www.google.com/search?q=US+pint&btnG=Search

The difference being that prior to 1824 the wine gallon was used everywhere which was the volume of eight merchant pounds of wine, alternatively the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 in diameter . The ale gallon, (the volume of 10 pounds of distilled water) was adopted by the George IV in 1824 - thus rewarding his loyal subjects with larger pints of beer - since a pint is 1/8 of a gallon in either system. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Those who had rebelled against his father in 1783 never got the change, and stayed with the old smaller gallon (and pint).

Hence the reason we canadians are so happy, we get larger beers, and a nissan xterra gets 30 miles per gallon in canada <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Maybe it comes in tartan?

Cannot help you out on this one! I am old enough to have had to wear dresses and skirts all through school and once in college, I hardly ever wore a dress on again! I prefer loose pants to a skirt any day. I do not even wear shorts that much because bugs swarm me all the time. However, if you want to wear a skirt, I would not consider it any reflection on your manliness.

I can see where it would be cool and airish but I like the addition of clothing to:
1. Help with slight abrasions <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />
2. Wick and control moisture <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
3. Keep you warm <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
4. Keep you dry <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
5. Look very stylish, <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Making my life a little better knowing that I won't be strutting down a crooked trail when around the corner comes a group of Girl Scouts. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> But as they wonder by they will gaze upon "Wilson", (the ball from the movie Castaway) ,painted on my nice round belly. With nothing else to hide behind, and thinking that as soon as I reach the trailhead there will be at least 2 officers waiting with cuffs. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I'll stick to clothes thank you.

He was definately smellier than I <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Although, come to think of it, most people are bigger (and meaner) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> than I am.

I knew there was a difference in pints but never knew why. Now I do - George just wanted to thumb his nose at us impudent Americans who dared think that coffee was an acceptable substitute for tea <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Daisy
thank you <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I guess if even the girls don't think skirts have a place hiking or climbing, then its not worth pursuing. I just have to think of Fred Flintstone and wonder if the fur toga was as good as people think. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I know that feeling, too. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You have to hang out with a very select crowd in order for bagpipes to make you more popular.

If a fur toga is all you got then who cares what people think. You won't have a fashion choice anyway. Except maybe what animal it was.

I always wear shorts. Different kinds, (heavy vs light, short vs long,) for different seasons, but even here in Maine, I pretty much live in shorts year round. And shorter than most men nowadays will tolerate. I think I carry it off rather well.

If I ever get back into serious winter hiking or mountaineering, I might just take another look at this. But for almost everything I do, shorts rule, and no matter what others think. Not a consideration. The only consideration should be the danger of exposure in our severe cold spells.