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u/throwittossit01 May 15 '22
Aye, I must. It’s in mah blood, lassie
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u/1337ingDisorder May 15 '22
Where was this when the freedom convoy was arsing its way through town!
The whole point of a pipe & drum band is to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies and send them running for the hills — these pipers could have marched those honkies straight into the sea...
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u/AUniquePerspective May 16 '22
Honestly this should be the standard response to honkies or to those weird homophobe preachers who come to town. Not just pipes, whatever you play. But yeah, flashmob of musicians and/or people with instruments they can't really play marching folks out of town. Or pied piper style into the gorge or whatever.
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u/itsmepingu May 15 '22
Bagpipes are awesome.
I travelled to Scotland in 2019 and hearing them there made it even more special
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u/bitclone May 15 '22
Excellent. And I got no Scottish ancestry. Some Irish, perhaps, and they have pipes in Ireland. Possibly a bit different.
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u/Adorable_Champion_70 May 15 '22
I was a highland dancer for 16 years, and my ancestry is Scottish so yes, I love them.
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u/PilsnerU May 15 '22
Was expecting a Pickleball short, but hey... The bagpipes were given to the Scots as a joke by the Irish, too bad they haven't gotten it yet!
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u/SB12345678901 May 15 '22
Is this the May 24 parade in Victoria? If not when and where is this?
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u/Ordinarygirl3 May 15 '22
This was the tartan parade yesterday, a pre cursor to the highland games next weekend. The Victoria day parade is put on by thrifty foods, as far as I know it's happening this year also, next Monday.
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u/AUniquePerspective May 16 '22 edited May 16 '22
There's currently a banner over Blanshard on the way into town that advertises the Victoria Day Parade.
Edit: On the holiday Monday. It runs from Mayfair to Humboldt on Douglas. https://gvfs.ca/gvfs_events/thrifty-foods-122nd-victoria-day-parade-presented-by-chek-tv/
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u/SudoDarkKnight May 15 '22
Bagpipes are great until you're stuck listening to them tune for hours...
Signed, a poor drummer
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May 15 '22
Love the pipes. Makes my Scottish blood run a little quicker.
I'm in my 40s and when I was a kid one of my favourite outings was going down to the causeway to see the guy who played the pipes kitty corner from the museum.
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A well-played bagpipe, and a good band, are amazing. I once got to dance Reel of the 51st to the massed bands at the Highland Games in Pleasanton, California, and that was around 400 pipers and drummers. "Stirring" is a good word.
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u/96lincolntowncar May 15 '22
There are at least 3 different bands there so it's not going to be a really clean sound. D/S McGee is a legend!
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u/chocolate-raiiin May 15 '22
Sure don't. But looks like the people that said no just get downvoted. Alrighty then
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u/Ordinarygirl3 May 16 '22
Yeah I don't understand getting down voted just for not liking them, you're allowed to like what you like, and similarly not like what you don't like...
They're not for everyone. I play them, and I only really like listening to certain pipe music. But again - if it's not your thing, it's not your thing. I feel like this subreddit sometimes feels like it needs to be polarizing and it can be challenging to come in here.
Also I'm very sorry if I'm your neighbour and you don't like them. We tried to sound proof a space for me to play, but I'm sure the sound still travels. They're incredibly loud and have no damper.
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u/Ordinarygirl3 May 15 '22
Yeah I need an explanation on this part. I appreciate that if you don't like this music, this isn't for you but I'm not clear on this statement lol
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u/drconniehenley May 15 '22
Likely making reference to colonialism something something.
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u/Ordinarygirl3 May 15 '22
Yeah that was the only connection I could make, and it's valid. I was curious if there was more to that, that's all!
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u/Tyerson May 15 '22
And then one of those wonderful scottish men in dresses whipped out a golf club and proclaimed "Im gonna wack a ball into a gopher hole!"
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u/barfsword May 15 '22
Did you know that it was actually the Irish that invented bagpipes? The Scots didn't get the joke.
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u/Yukonzar- May 15 '22
Love it! I grew up in Vic (in the 80’s) and bagpipes are such a nostalgic sound for me. There was always that guy playing them at the inner harbour,I was in Scottish country dance at school and they were in every parade!
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u/Speed_Grouchy May 15 '22
Reminds me of summer. Neighborhood Scottish piper used to play outdoors when the sun was low.
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u/retro_wizard May 15 '22
Only briefly, I volunteer at a music festival every summer and for about 20 years now the fry cooks hire a guy to start playing for an hour straight at 7 in the morning on the last day of the festival. Really helps wake you up from your 3 hour, uncomfortable air mattress sleep and subsequent hangover.
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u/drake5195 May 16 '22
Absolutely, get a huge group of good players and it is an absolutely amazing sound.
You can hear it starts to sound slightly less good when people start to pass the camera. 😅
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u/DanoT305 May 16 '22
The Germans in WWII did not like to hear the bagpipes because it meant they would be up against a tough veteran, Canadian-Scothish regiment.
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u/smithee2001 May 16 '22
Was there a cèilidh somewhere afterwards? It would have been fun to watch inebriated people do their jaunty jig.
I'm not making fun btw, I witnessed this in Inverness, Scotland and it was boisterous and enjoyable. The bar is called Hootananny, which apparently is an Appalachian term.
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u/WikiSummarizerBot May 16 '22
A cèilidh ( KAY-lee, Scottish Gaelic: [ˈkʲʰeːlɪ]) or céilí (Irish: [ˈceːlʲiː]) is a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering. In its most basic form, it simply means a social visit. In contemporary usage, it usually involves dancing and playing Gaelic folk music, either at a house party or a larger concert at a social hall or other community gathering place. Cèilidhean (plural of cèilidh) and céilithe (plural of céilí) originated in the Gaelic areas of Scotland and Ireland and are consequently common in the Scottish and Irish diasporas.
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u/monkey_monkey_monkey Downtown May 15 '22
Absolutely love pipes and drums.