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mwmisses4289

(2,254 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 02:32 PM 23 hrs ago

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 23 hrs ago OP
Bagpipes Turbineguy 23 hrs ago #1
Well, they were originally used by the Scots during battle to scare the bejeebers out of their enemies. mwmisses4289 23 hrs ago #2
WW 1 homegirl 22 hrs ago #3
Maybe not so barbarous.. justaprogressive 22 hrs ago #4
The Romans never bothered trying to tame the Irish -- also Celts, separate island... Hekate 21 hrs ago #15
Nobody ?? What about Arminius ? eppur_se_muova 13 hrs ago #17
bagpipes r supposed to channel the voices of the dead. mopinko 21 hrs ago #11
Thanks for sharing that, makes sense. mwmisses4289 21 hrs ago #12
Thank you homegirl 3 hrs ago #18
It started at 1pm and it's still on at 4:04pm. Ray Bruns 22 hrs ago #5
Are they selling concessions there? newdeal2 21 hrs ago #8
Sounds like you scored a safety. multigraincracker 22 hrs ago #6
😄 mwmisses4289 21 hrs ago #13
Bag pipe joke. spike jones 21 hrs ago #7
So bad that it made me laugh out loud! calimary 21 hrs ago #9
It made me chuckle, thanks! 😄 mwmisses4289 21 hrs ago #14
I love it a great joke. N/T. I'm airplaneman 13 min ago #19
LOL leftstreet 11 min ago #20
Football wins! Clouds Passing 21 hrs ago #10
The "Charlie Kirk Post" . . . AverageOldGuy 21 hrs ago #16

mwmisses4289

(2,254 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
23 hrs ago

homegirl

(1,856 posts)
3. WW 1
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:37 PM
22 hrs ago

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

(5,483 posts)
4. Maybe not so barbarous..
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:06 PM
22 hrs ago

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

Note: Nobody else stopped the Roman Legions!

Hekate

(99,481 posts)
15. The Romans never bothered trying to tame the Irish -- also Celts, separate island...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
21 hrs ago

But oh yeah, Hadrian’s Wall.

eppur_se_muova

(40,053 posts)
17. Nobody ?? What about Arminius ?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:23 AM
13 hrs ago

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

(72,974 posts)
11. bagpipes r supposed to channel the voices of the dead.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:58 PM
21 hrs ago

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

newdeal2

(4,124 posts)
8. Are they selling concessions there?
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:34 PM
21 hrs ago

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

spike jones

(1,960 posts)
7. Bag pipe joke.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:32 PM
21 hrs ago

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?

AverageOldGuy

(2,973 posts)
16. The "Charlie Kirk Post" . . .
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
21 hrs ago

. . . 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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