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Male train drivers don skirts after shorts ban (Sweden)
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Posted on 06/09/2013 10:19:09 AM PDT by marthemaria
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To: marthemaria
We need some of that attitude in the USA.
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:25:20 AM PDT
by
Fzob
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
To: marthemaria
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:29:08 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: marthemaria
The descendants of the Vikings!
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:31:24 AM PDT
by
Signalman
To: marthemaria
Haven't seen pics but they probably aren't skirts. Most likely they are kilts and made by
http://www.blaklader.com/us/products/ On my tablet so link is to the generic Blaklader USA website. I wear kilts from Amerikilt in Philly, Stillwater kilts, Celtic Croft and Utilikilts. The latter offers a workman's kilt with modesty snaps for those times when you are on a ladder or working in a vulnerable view position.
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:35:07 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts help hold the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: marthemaria
Better be careful, their new immigrant controllers may demand they wear Burkas as the the short skirts may be too sexually explicit!!
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:36:28 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: marthemaria; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
The coroner says it was the ban on shorts that kilted him.
To: prisoner6
Actually they are skirts that are normally for women. Shorts were apparently not allowed as part of the uniform. But there are no rules about men wearing the skirts.In Sweden it would be discriminating to make special uniforms for men or women.
They probably will get shorts next summer though as part of their uniform.
To: marthemaria
Åkersten's employers Arriva have meanwhile responded positively to the move and have given their approval to the men in skirts. to say anything else would be discrimination," communications head Thomas Hedenius told the newspaper.
Good heavens. management approves.
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:43:57 AM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: marthemaria
Guys get real, your legs are not attractive and shorts are not business-like. Wear lightweight long pants please
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:47:04 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: marthemaria
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:47:57 AM PDT
by
deport
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
06/09/2013 10:59:43 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
To: deport
this group of 13 male employees probably wear dresses and skirts on their off hours
To: marthemaria
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posted on
06/09/2013 11:17:15 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: marthemaria
In a plaid kilt, with sporran, dirk, skein dubh, and of course, regimental —
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posted on
06/09/2013 11:19:11 AM PDT
by
imardmd1
To: marthemaria
It’s called “air conditioning” and in hot weather extremes the male anatomy has more need of it, more to keep cool between the thighs, than the female.
Summer is no time for the “tighty whities”.
Heat + the human anatomy spell NO to tight fitting clothes.
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posted on
06/09/2013 11:23:56 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: marthemaria
Smart! I love it! Can’t discriminate against their transvestite orientation!!
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posted on
06/09/2013 11:25:16 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: deport
Hmmmmm, gosh, I don’t know; black socks or white socks? Tie or no tie? LOL.
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posted on
06/09/2013 12:19:44 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: marthemaria; JoeProBono
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posted on
06/09/2013 1:18:17 PM PDT
by
Morgana
(Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: marthemaria
As a man, it's always annoyed me that I am expected to show up for work in a wool suit on a 90 degree day (tie, jacket and all) while my female counterparts get to dress comfortably. Hell, most professional women don't even wear pantyhose anymore, they just slip into a pair of shoes in their bare feet and wear a lightweight skirt and blouse when the weather is warm.
And who says that skirts are "women's clothing" anyhow? Why are women allowed to adopt men's clothing and not the other way around? If men can't wear skirts, then women should not be allowed to wear pants either. Let them go back to dresses.
Men's skirts - or whatever you want to call them - need not be sissy or feminine, with floral patterns and such. Just design masculine skirts for men and they will wear them. What would a "masculine" skirt look like? I have no idea. Let those who design men's suits devise one. There hasn't been a new idea in men's suits for 100 years now - so it's high time they started earning their money. Maybe the Scottish kilt is a starting point. Most of those kilt-wearing Scots would beat you senseless if you ever tried calling them a sissy.
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