Now that part is easy to answer: You dress thin for high intensity activity - like running. The outfit works like a charm for what it is designed to do: Venting away excess moisture and providing adequate wind block and insulation for a body working at high intensity in cold air. [/quote]

OK, I see your point. To me though, "track suit" is one of those ditzy Reebok or Adidas lounge suits you see folks wearing that can't figure how to coordinate their wardrobe. I can see maybe interpreting that as "athletic wear" which would make a bit more sense.

I did XC ski a few years ago on a 2-mile trail, wearing what I thought was reasonable: sweats with a gore-tex layer, Underarmor T-shirt under a wool sweater.

After my 2nd lap, I wrung out my sweater and called it a day. Realized real quick that some activities get the sweat pouring out. Perhaps this was their "ah ha!" moment. Still...

Sorry "Scouser" is somebody from liverpool, the running joke is that the stereotypical scouser wears a shell suit (ie. a nylon tracksuit).
So scouser in shell suit on Snowdon is a dream headline.

Geordies are from Newcastle (North east England) the stereotype is that they wear T-shirts or miniskirts in sub-zero weather. A popular joke - how do you tell a Geordie astronaut? He's the one in the t-shirt.

You mean vertical black and White Striped T-shirts.

Thank you all very much. This opens up a whole new world (probably another thread?) Might one infer there are labels for folks from other major cities?

Yes we have lots of labels:
Oldham 'ruffyheads'
Luton 'hatters'
London 'Cockneys'
Paisley 'Buddys'
East Anglian 'fennys'
Liverpool 'scousers' or 'Mickey Mousers', if lowlife 'scallys'
London 'Cockneys'
London even has it's own unique slang; rhyming slang. Like the 'Mickey Mouser' one for scousers. Where something is referred to by a rhyming phrase.
So 'dog and bone' for 'phone', 'whistle and flute' for 'suit'. Sometimes one word gets lost and sometimes it's the rhyming one. So 'Barnet' for 'hair' from originally 'Barnet Fair'.

that's off the cuff, without looking any up. Don't you have labels too?



>Thank you all very much. This opens up a whole new world (probably >another thread?) Might one infer there are labels for folks from >other major cities?

The phrase: 'Two nations separated by a common language' comes to mind.

I've got a friend who has a deep Cockney heritage and when he gets a belly full of beer it, and the rhyming slang, bubble to the surface with such force that he is nearly incomprehensible. Even his fellow Brits can barely keep up and are often reduced to making wild guesses about what he is on about.