Poll: Bagpipes - anyone actually like the sound of them?

[Biohazard]

You're thinking of the late Bill Millin, braveheart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Millin

Personally I hate bagpipes up close, would love to use a knitting needle to burst their sack

edit: damn, beaten to it

Yeah there were a bunch of really cool articles last year when he passed away in the papers here, extracts from most recent interviews etc.

Brave man.

Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot him because they thought he was crazy

 

[Maccapacca]

Eminen Bagpipes from Baghdad, was going to link a you tube vid but much swearing

 

[Mat]

Haggis cake!

 

[Richie]

I had Haggis when I was in Edinburgh last year and it tasted exactly the same as Black Pudding.
The Hotel Manager also confirmed they were made from similar stuff.

Obviously you're going to tell me that Black Pudding is made with pigs blood and Haggis made with the meat you wouldn't normally eat.

That's like saying Cottage Pie and Shepherds Pie is the same thing or that a Cornish Pastie and a Scottish Bridie are the same.

Black Pudding and Haggis are different and, if its made proper, should taste different.

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

Don't listen to an Englishman for he knows naught about the Scottish.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Don't listen to an Englishman for he knows naught about the Scottish.

You pesky Scottish and your Scottish ways

 

[Angilion]

Indeed, strike fear into the hearts of the enemy with a cacophony of sound followed by the steel in your hand.....

Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill comes to mind. He used bagpipes, sword and bow in battle...in WW2. No joke. If someone made an accurate film of his life during WW2, people would laugh and say it was sillier and more implausible than Rambo.

 

[Draeger]

Every time I hear the pipes, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

If your not Scottish, you won't be able to fully appreciate the national pride the sound of the pipes stirs within you.

And a slightly different take on our national musical sound, Fast forward to about 1.10, you will probably recognise the film soundtrack :-

 

[MonkeyNews]

No it didn't, it in all likelihood didn't originate on the Isles at all.

It's origins are older than Scotland and England most probably.

Possibly even pre-history. I'd guess this one to be fair.

Depends on who and which theory you want to listen to.

What you will have heard on QI from **** features is the oldest written recipe, which was found in England.

The same can actually be said about the Bagpipes, early recorded history of the instrument dates back to the Hittite civilisation so way before us Brits got our grubby hands on it.

 

[Skidder]

bagpipes drove scotland into heroine addiction and obesity, I say we keep them out of England by law

 

[Draeger]

bagpipes drove scotland into heroine addiction and obesity, I say we keep them out of England by law

This is a common misconception.

It was actually Buckfast tonic wine and Mars bar suppers at the root cause.

 

[True_Scotsman]

This is a common misconception.

It was actually Buckfast tonic wine and Fried Mars bar suppers at the root cause.

Fixed

 

[krooton]

Horrid. The UK's answer to vuvuzelas.

 

[Draeger]

This is a common misconception.

It was actually Buckfast tonic wine and Deep Fried Mars bar suppers at the root cause.

Fixed

Double fixed.

 

[Superficial]

It depends, from a bit of a distance i.e. a full pipe band in the Tattoo or a piper at the rugby and it's amazing. Walking past a random piper on Princes Street - not so much.

This is how i feel about them.

That dragoon guards video is excellent but it's been studio manipulated to control volume levels etc. Live bag pipes can be ear plitting if the acoustics are wrong.

 

[Nexus]

Depends where they are used really.

If it's your neighbors playing in the next room, I can understand how it would be really annoying.

Best I ever heard the use of them though was not the Highlands of Scotland, but on top of a mountain in Canada. There was a member of staff that used to play the bagpipes at the top of Whistler Mountain when I worked there. It would be the end of the day, with the sun setting and you could hear the distant sound of bagpipes carrying a tune, that was pretty special.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

I don't either love 'em or 'ate 'em so haggis cak- I mean pancake!

 

[Skidder]

there was a piper practicing in a park I walk the dogs at the other day (near Hampton Court in England so he was obviously lost or coming off the back of a hard night on spesh and scag) and my jack russells did not approve - initially howling, followed by condescending head tilts