Albatross wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Since the Scots are descended from the Irish Celts who drove out the Picts...

Anyways, Albatross, you sound like a snob. All bagpipes share a common ancestry and what's more important is the craic, not the authenticity of the instruments.

I thought the MOST important thing was pretending to be Irish? Music is my thing, so I was merely pointing out that the type of bagpipe being played is not generally used to denote Irishness. I wasn't expecting people to start crying about it.

If he enjoys his 'theme park' Irishness, given that he is indeed thousands of miles from Ireland and enjoying a festival which is now all about having a few pints then fair feckin play to him.

Having suffered you prattling saxon filth crossing the Tamar for years and bastardising Cornish traditions for your own 'oh ya, isn't it so quaint, we simply must keep it exactly as it is and why don't all these cornish people wear duckfrocks and chew corn?' twee stereotyped visions of what my homeland should be like according to the Daily Mail picture postcard you dreary mongrels all buy into, I can sincerely tell you that as long as the yanks are having a beer and enjoying themselves, I don't see what all the fuss is about.

Your drifting into personal attack territory here mate. Chill. 'Prattling Saxon Filth' and 'mongrels' is a bit strong, is all I'm saying. Plus, it's bollocks - the genetic make-up of the English is overwhelmingly Brythonic (look it up), amounts of Viking, Saxon and Roman blood are fairly negligible. There are more people descended from Vikings in Scotland, for example. English, Irish, Scottish, and...oh, go on then, Cornish people are not from different races - we're all very similar genetically.

And I'm half-Irish. I just don't feel the need to make a big fuss about it.

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MeanGreenStompa wrote:

Albatross wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Since the Scots are descended from the Irish Celts who drove out the Picts...

Anyways, Albatross, you sound like a snob. All bagpipes share a common ancestry and what's more important is the craic, not the authenticity of the instruments.

I thought the MOST important thing was pretending to be Irish? Music is my thing, so I was merely pointing out that the type of bagpipe being played is not generally used to denote Irishness. I wasn't expecting people to start crying about it.

If he enjoys his 'theme park' Irishness, given that he is indeed thousands of miles from Ireland and enjoying a festival which is now all about having a few pints then fair feckin play to him.

Having suffered you prattling saxon filth crossing the Tamar for years and bastardising Cornish traditions for your own 'oh ya, isn't it so quaint, we simply must keep it exactly as it is and why don't all these cornish people wear duckfrocks and chew corn?' twee stereotyped visions of what my homeland should be like according to the Daily Mail picture postcard you dreary mongrels all buy into, I can sincerely tell you that as long as the yanks are having a beer and enjoying themselves, I don't see what all the fuss is about.

Your drifting into personal attack territory here mate. Chill. 'Prattling Saxon Filth' and 'mongrels' is a bit strong, is all I'm saying. Plus, it's bollocks - the genetic make-up of the English is overwhelmingly Brythonic (look it up), amounts of Viking, Saxon and Roman blood are fairly negligible. There are more people descended from Vikings in Scotland, for example. English, Irish, Scottish, and...oh, go on then, Cornish people are not from different races - we're all very similar genetically.

And I'm half-Irish. I just don't feel the need to make a big fuss about it.

Nope, no personal attack there, just poking fun, hence offer of a pint.

Your posts to Jin certainly read to me like a bit of scoffing and peering down the nose at 'our colonial cousins' having an inaccurate attempt at cultural heritage. I know it's a popular pursuit in certain circles to poke fun at the Americans lack of history and embracing of certain old world heritages (see: having 'Irish' tattooed across your back).

All I'm really saying was, it was a nice picture of some folks having a good time. That's principally what St Pat's day is about for many, The Craic!

As I say on downin the shots 'To the Regiment' 'I wish I was there!'