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mwmisses4289

(2,320 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 02:32 PM Sep 21

At the laundromat today, not really paying much attention to what was on the t.v.

My attention was caught by the sound of bagpipes playing. I love bagpipes, so I got up to see better, and realized it was that circus happening for ck. My husband suggested I ask the attendant if we could change the channel to football. So I did. But since I'm not a football fan, I didn't know what to say when she asked which game. Fortunately another lady was there watching a game on her phone, and suggested that game. I gratefully said yes. Attendant changed channel, and all was well.

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At the laundromat today, not really paying much attention to what was on the t.v. (Original Post) mwmisses4289 Sep 21 OP
Bagpipes Turbineguy Sep 21 #1
Well, they were originally used by the Scots during battle to scare the bejeebers out of their enemies. mwmisses4289 Sep 21 #2
WW 1 homegirl Sep 21 #3
Maybe not so barbarous.. justaprogressive Sep 21 #4
The Romans never bothered trying to tame the Irish -- also Celts, separate island... Hekate Sep 21 #15
Nobody ?? What about Arminius ? eppur_se_muova Monday #17
bagpipes r supposed to channel the voices of the dead. mopinko Sep 21 #11
Thanks for sharing that, makes sense. mwmisses4289 Sep 21 #12
Thank you homegirl Monday #18
It started at 1pm and it's still on at 4:04pm. Ray Bruns Sep 21 #5
Are they selling concessions there? newdeal2 Sep 21 #8
Sounds like you scored a safety. multigraincracker Sep 21 #6
😄 mwmisses4289 Sep 21 #13
Bag pipe joke. spike jones Sep 21 #7
So bad that it made me laugh out loud! calimary Sep 21 #9
It made me chuckle, thanks! 😄 mwmisses4289 Sep 21 #14
I love it a great joke. N/T. I'm airplaneman Monday #19
LOL leftstreet Monday #20
Same joke is also told about banjos, Dark n Stormy Knight Wednesday #21
Football wins! Clouds Passing Sep 21 #10
The "Charlie Kirk Post" . . . AverageOldGuy Sep 21 #16

mwmisses4289

(2,320 posts)
2. Well, they were originally used by the Scots during battle to scare the bejeebers out of their enemies.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 02:37 PM
Sep 21

homegirl

(1,860 posts)
3. WW 1
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:37 PM
Sep 21

The Germans laughed, but not for long, they said the British were so desperate they were sending the women to war. What they were facing was Scots in kilts.
The Romans built Hadrian's Wall to keep the barbaric Scots on the other side of it.

justaprogressive

(5,532 posts)
4. Maybe not so barbarous..
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:06 PM
Sep 21

not wanting to be ruled by a dictator (Emporor Hadrian)

Note: Nobody else stopped the Roman Legions!

Hekate

(99,594 posts)
15. The Romans never bothered trying to tame the Irish -- also Celts, separate island...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
Sep 21

But oh yeah, Hadrian’s Wall.

eppur_se_muova

(40,116 posts)
17. Nobody ?? What about Arminius ?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:23 AM
Monday

The Battle That Stopped Rome
Peter S. Wells
3.62
596 ratings72 reviews
In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this defeat, the shocked Romans ended all efforts to expand beyond the Rhine, which became the fixed border between Rome and Germania for the next 400 years, and which remains the cultural border between Latin western Europe and Germanic central and eastern Europe today.

This fascinating narrative introduces us to the key protagonists: the emperor Augustus, the most powerful of the Caesars; his general Varus, who was the wrong man in the wrong place; and the barbarian leader Arminius, later celebrated as the first German hero. In graphic detail, based on recent archaeological finds, the author leads the reader through the mud, blood, and decimation that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1190398.The_Battle_That_Stopped_Rome

mopinko

(72,990 posts)
11. bagpipes r supposed to channel the voices of the dead.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:58 PM
Sep 21

when the scots march into battle w the pipes they’re bringing their dead w them. THAT’S y they r so terrifying.

newdeal2

(4,221 posts)
8. Are they selling concessions there?
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:34 PM
Sep 21

I know Pete and most of the cabinet are lined up by the bar.

spike jones

(1,965 posts)
7. Bag pipe joke.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:32 PM
Sep 21

A guy parked his car on the street and went to the store. He suddenly realized that he had left his bagpipes in the back seat with the window open and rushed back to his car. It was too late; someone had already left another bagpipe.

I know it is a bad joke, but it is about bagpipes, what do you expect?

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,462 posts)
21. Same joke is also told about banjos,
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:45 PM
Wednesday

accordions, & probably other commonly maligned instruments!

AverageOldGuy

(3,000 posts)
16. The "Charlie Kirk Post" . . .
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
Sep 21

. . . oooppsss -- meant to say "the Washington Post" online is wall-to-wall on the "memorial service." I scrolled down the page, quit about halfway down as it was apparent the entire online Post was nothing to a Charlie Kirk rally. Juding by the photographs the thing has the look and sound of a 1930's Nazi rally.

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