BAGPIPES Now A Threat To The Environment (Dirt Worshiper Alert)

Scotsman.com ^ | Sun 2 Dec 2007 | MARC HORNE

[Viking2002]

THEY were once outlawed for being used as seditious weapons of war. Now, bagpipes have been blasted as an environmental menace.

Over-intensive logging means that the African wood used to make Scotland's national instrument faces being wiped out.

Conservation groups are letting out skirls of protest, urging musicians and instrument manufacturers to make sure their pipes come from eco-friendly sources.

As part of the campaign, Scots are being asked to fund the planting of "bagpipe trees" in a bid to atone for the environmental damage.

[Viking2002]

You can't make this stuff up, folks. Now bagpipes are destroying the environment, causing sea level rises, and killing millions. Or that's what they'll have you to believe.

[leda]

how about a “bagpipe tree” farm? ;)

[PROCON]

I’m boycotting Scotland!!/s

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

You have to be kidding.

[sionnsar]

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[ErnBatavia]

Will this Bullsh*t never end?

.....(never mind - I already know the answer)

[Windcatcher]

It’s not just the Scots. Hippies should KNOW BETTER than to p*ss off the Irish...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Rush mentioned some guy in the UK had collected 600 different harmful events supposedly linked to Globalwarming. This must be # 601.

[Nervous Tick]

Th’ Scots should make theirr bagpipes from the femurrrrs of envirrrrronmentalists, then, if ye werrrre ta ask me...

[null and void]

Oh Noes!!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

BUAIDH NO BAS!

[yield 2 the right]

It is all over now, we better surrender to the left....

[Slip18]

I’m half Dane (Viking) and half Scottish. Guess my ancestors are to blame for all of this.

What about the ivory in pianos? Someone give me a break.

[Viking2002]

Well, hot damn. Glad to kick your ping list out of hibernation mode. :-)

[sionnsar]

But pipe major and manufacturer David MacMurchie, who uses Blackwood, was less than impressed by the campaign.

"I for one am not going be made to feel guilty by a bunch of misguided environmental do-gooders," he said. "I am sure that the communities in Africa use a hell of a lot more Blackwood than bagpipe manufacturers.

I know nothing about the final sentence, but I otherwise concur. My wife's harp is, I am told, one of the last currently made of a rare wood that they periodically cut off so new trees can grow to maturity. And this was almost a quarter-century ago.

[Gorzaloon]

As part of the campaign, Scots are being asked to fund the planting of "bagpipe trees" in a bid to atone for the environmental damage.

So that the UN and the local "King For Life" in some savage diseased cesspool of a Third World pesthole can steal every cent as usual.

I'm sorry, but it really IS time to start killing doing something about these scammers.

[sionnsar]

Well, hot damn. Glad to kick your ping list out of hibernation mode. :-)

Thanks! I have made searches from time to time, but there's not been much...

[decal]

Well, clarinets, oboes and bassoons are also made from African Blackwood, and many more of them besides - I suppose it’s just not feasible to bully high school band members to toe the line.

[Viking2002]

I wish I was kidding about this latest spasm of dementia from the Gaia-Is-Everything rabble. The demands and delusions of these freaks becomes more surreal each week, anymore.

[elkfersupper]

Too bad fat chicks aren't destroying the environment.

We're overrun with them now, and everytime there's a vacancy, they hire a bigger one.

We have Affirmative Action for fat chicks around our place.

It has to stop.