When Scottish music attacks...

[cosmolinguist]

'Don't be afraid of the bagpipe players,' Andrew said as we were walking through the city centre this afternoon. (I hadn't noticed them until then, actually.) 'They're more afraid of you than you are of them.'

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[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

There were bagpipe players at the Mall of America today when Darren and I were there.

In other news, you used to be able to spell center and realize (from some other comment, I don't remember which) correctly.

[cosmolinguist]

My spelling (and punctuation, to some degree, though I only use the single quotes all the time because they're on the key they're supposed to be, whereas the double quotes are not) is not consistently American or British these days. But with centre I feel justified because 'city centre' is a common phrase to hear or see, and when I see it, it's always written that way, of course, so that's how I think of it in my head.

[cosmolinguist]

Someone else complained similarly last night as well; it's the first time I've gotten told off for British spellings. (And anonymously at that; a curious thing.) Until then, it was always the Americanisms that got me mocked here. Either way, I can't win. :-)

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

You just lack lingual identity, mixing things around like that. You should come up with a unique solution, such as writing in German any word with multiple spellings. (I will, of course, continue to make fun of you regardless of what you do.)

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee - that's vintage Andrew. (And needs Terry Gilliam illustration.)

[iamcompufrog.livejournal.com]

Someone asked me (once) "How can you tell if bagpipes are out of tune?"
He was trying (unsucessfully) to be funny.
I looked at him and said, "If you can't tell, why are you even bothering to listen?"

He snorted and turned away.

It's actually not difficult to tell, and a good piper will tune each pipe before s/he starts, then tune the chanter.

I know... more than you cared to know about it.

(SMILE)

[toastedtuna.livejournal.com]

Bag pipes rule.

That is all.

[cosmolinguist]

Not at all; I actually can like bagpipe music (but if Andrew hears me say that he'll probably shout at me).

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

A GOOD piper yes. The ones who busk on the streets of Manchester are not good pipers...

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, I was just commenting about him (http://www.livejournal.com/community/manchester/157176.html) earlier.
He still does it, but not as frequently during the term-times, because the students with proper instruments are too close to him.

[hexar-le-saipe.livejournal.com]

My D&D group once spent the better part of an hour creating a mindflayer (humanoid with a squid for a head) bard who played bagpipes.