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

[mwmisses4289]

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.

[Turbineguy]

1. Bagpipes

Music to choke Nazis by.

[mwmisses4289]

2. Well, they were originally used by the Scots during battle to scare the bejeebers out of their enemies.

[homegirl]

3. WW 1

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]

4. Maybe not so barbarous..

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

Note: Nobody else stopped the Roman Legions!

[Hekate]

15. The Romans never bothered trying to tame the Irish -- also Celts, separate island...

But oh yeah, Hadrian’s Wall.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Nobody ?? What about Arminius ?

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]

11. bagpipes r supposed to channel the voices of the dead.

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

[mwmisses4289]

12. Thanks for sharing that, makes sense.

I learned something new today! 😃

[homegirl]

18. Thank you

for passing on this information...

[Ray Bruns]

5. It started at 1pm and it's still on at 4:04pm.

My mom gave up around 3pm

[newdeal2]

8. Are they selling concessions there?

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

[multigraincracker]

6. Sounds like you scored a safety.

Football talk.

[mwmisses4289]

13. 😄

[spike jones]

7. Bag pipe joke.

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?

[calimary]

9. So bad that it made me laugh out loud!

[mwmisses4289]

14. It made me chuckle, thanks! 😄

[airplaneman]

19. I love it a great joke. N/T. I'm

[leftstreet]

20. LOL

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

21. Same joke is also told about banjos,

accordions, & probably other commonly maligned instruments!

[Clouds Passing]

10. Football wins!

[AverageOldGuy]

16. The "Charlie Kirk Post" . . .

. . . 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.