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Once I found out a lot of the so called traditions were only made up less than 50 years ago I stopped putting any stock in them at all. And for a lot of traditions once you start looking in to them, they were made up to sell stuff.
As a Scot, there's nothing more disappointing than finding out about the history of kilts.
Can you elaborate? I know very little about the history of kilts
The modern skirt-like kilt only dates to the 1700s, and the association of particular patterns with clans only dates to the 1800s. Braveheart was BULLSHIT. And they didn't paint themselves blue, either - that was the Picts.
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