Kilts, being woollen, are actually quite warm:chill: ...unless the wind blows up'em. Then you find out who the real Scots are... (and if anyone's read my post about Burns Night, if I do hire a kilt, I will be true to my blood:yup.
Never heard it called that before, but seems to fit... and may 'possibly' contain a hipflask or two...bambodoggy said:Cool...that was the thread I was talking about!
And I'm presumming a Sporan is a scotish possible pouch?
Sporran. And I meant I hadn't heard it called a possible pouch/bag.bambodoggy said:I most likely spelt it wrong....the furry or leather bag thing they have hanging by their danglies...."sporen, sporan, sporran"...I don't know! :?:
jakunen said:Sporran. And I meant I hadn't heard it called a possible pouch/bag.
<wanders off muttering under breath and looking for large pointy stick...>bambodoggy said:Lol...that's coz it's called a Sporran... I'm not helping now am I..... :rolmao:
Reminds me. A few years ago I was working in a shopping complex and it was snowing outside and REALLY cold. The up strolls this guy is sandals and shorts, and nothing else, well apart from his glasses.bambodoggy said:So I think it's what you get used too.....same way I can wear shorts almost all year round while most people I know look at me like I'm mad and ask if I'm cold. I'm not a fatty but I'm not skinny either however it is very rare I can't adjust my body (not with mind control...it just does it on it's own) to whatever temp I am in....hence saying in another thread that I was happy in both jungle or arctic.
The Eskimos aren't likely to be any hairier due to the fact that evolution needs people to die of natural causes such as predators and climate. Where we can now utilise and fashion aids such as clothes and tools we prevent some of these deaths and effectively stunt evolution (to a point). Survival of the fittest is no longer the case so physiological changes just add to the variety instead enabling us to benefit over others.Hoodoo said:Well...I'm not buying it eh? :wave: No one can lay down fat better than us modern humans. ): As for being hairier, I doubt that was significant. Humans originally evolved in a hot, arid environment and lost much of their hairiness early on when compared to their primate cousins. If you look at Eskimos, they don't appear to be hairier and they have survived some of the harshest cold on the planet.
Humans were able to move into colder climes mainly due to technology: animal skins for clothes and shelter, fire for warmth. However, there is a physiological "furnace" found in mammals that helps them produce heat. This is called "brown fat" and it's still with us today. It works by uncoupling the production of ATP from electron transport but then, that's another story.
sandbender said:I have seen medieval sporrans which were more akin to belt pouches, some had additional slots for small knifes, forks, a waterproof insert for papers etc etc. So at one point they arguably were possibles pouches, however mine is used to hold a mobile, wallet and car keys.
Gary said:Just to sort of bring this back on topic again -----
Lewis and Clarke reported that native americans would go about their business in their usual dress or bare chested even in the coldest depths of winter while their men wore every article of clothing and had never taken to wearing their blankets.
This is possibly part climitization and we see it all the time, a farmer will happily work outdoors in just a shirt while the office worker out for a days hike is wrapped to the nines.
Also I believe there were several physical factures involved - firstly size, mental and physical hardiness but most importantly metabolism - a promative body would undoubtably utilize all food in a far better way than our modern bodies which are used to gealing with all manor of crap.
As for ice age man wondering around in fur with his bits showing - look at the inuit, cree ect - they dont - so dont believe all you read in books !!