Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts'

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 28 Jun 2009 | Simon Johnson

[SunkenCiv]

I think they just liked the smell of horse urine.

Hey, it’s okay to hit my own people. :’)

[Royal Wulff]

So you’re sitting around your subsistence lifestyle and the crier comes up to announce the English advancing. Your response: “Hang on, gotta wait for my horse to pee so I can die my only shirt.” Seems doubtful.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe it wasn’t horse pee. ;’)

[Monkey Face]

Not sure I want to know what’s under a yellow tunic....

;o]

[Royal Wulff]

Are you suggesting the Scots’ tunics became yellow, umm, after the fact?

[GOPJ]

Men in kilts sexy! Men is urine stained shirts NOT sexy!

Kilts for courting - war for killing.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Wow Hollywood doesn't always give an accurate account of historical events, imagine that.

You know I kind of figured that when Braveheart's battle of Stirling Bridge had no bridge

[Monkey Face]

You got a yellow tunic, sion?

[mass55th]

"Those Scotsmen were badass. They wore horse urine. Arrrr!"

During the middle ages, warmed urine was used as a bleaching technique. I can't even imagine how bad people smelled, especially when they began to sweat. I wonder if that's where the term Pee Yew came from. LOL!!

[Little Ray]

Hmmm.
My favorite color is Prussian Blue. I was amazed to discover that a major ingredient in the original dye was ox blood (the chemist was trying to get a red...).
If a chemical reaction with urine would get a bold yellow color, believe me, the dyers would go for it.

Urine was also used in tanning leather and quenching iron to make blades.

[BJClinton]

Yes but did they moon enemy troops, that’s what we really want to know.

[sionnsar]

Thanks to Monkey Face for the ping. Some truth to this from my readings -- the kilt would be dropped at entry to battle and recovered after.

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[norton]

"the same Jim Webb who is in congress and he is a Rat..."

Every time I decide I'll buy the book (because it really does appear to be worth the read) I choke on the idea of supporting Webb and go for something else.

Amazon is touting "How the Scots Invented the Modern World" today, maybe I'll hit that one.

[philled]

Odd, I was thinking about James Webb quite a bit over the weekend. I’ve got a lot of respect for Webb- as a man, and a Marine and the role he played in re-building and resurrecting the Marine Corps after their lows of the 1970s. I encourage you to learn more about him. I was wondering what essentially caused him to turn on his head. He now seems very paritsian and political. Yet, the side he has embraced is the one that has no love for the values he embodied or the culture he shaped.

[Oratam]

Urine was also used in “fulling”, the process of thickening woolen cloth. However, I think human urine was used.

[Max in Utah]

I wonder if that's where the term Pee Yew came from. LOL!!

Could have come from a question asked of an olden times asparagus fancier:

"Pee, you?"

[Salamander]

Same here......like 20 years ago

[SunkenCiv]

Here’s something probably of interest, maybe even postworthy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8116431.stm

The Queen is visiting Culloden Battlefield and the L140m Glendoe hydro power scheme in the Highlands. She is the first British monarch to set foot on the battlefield - the site of the Jacobite defeat of 1746.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) The don’t wear undies under the kilts so they don’t crap their pants too.

Heh...

Ah, the smell of battle. Ew, wait a second...