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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2017, 09:25:05 AM »
The bagpipes do make a screeching sound, which isn't to my taste.

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2017, 09:39:20 AM »
I was just thinking about my encounters with the Scots, it's usually been fun with good friends, plenty of banter and coming away laughing at how every English put down of the Scots amusingly well countered with clever put downs of the English and then after a really friendly encounter like that, the Scot'll go that bit to far and throw in bagpipes, now that's uncalled for and really nasty. 

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2017, 02:36:22 PM »
The bagpipes do make a screeching sound, which isn't to my taste.


Which type?
'cos there are many which do not.
I assume you know this.
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #28 on: June 23, 2017, 02:39:10 PM »

Which type?
'cos there are many which do not.
I assume you know this.
Given Floo finds nearly all music unpleasant, she may well not hear the same way you do.

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« Reply #29 on: June 23, 2017, 04:02:29 PM »
Given Floo finds nearly all music unpleasant, she may well not hear the same way you do.

True, I don't know why music doesn't do it for me, seeing I come from a musical family.

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2017, 04:20:49 PM »
You won't like this, Floo - so I don't know why I'm posting it. Maybe 'cos in the dim and distant past I used to have a go on the small pipes. Here's a virtuoso - Mike Katz, world renowned soloist and player with the iconic 'Battlefield band' showing the range of the Scottish Small pipes - a bit like the Northumbrian pipes, if you're interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3W3klHIYQ
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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #31 on: June 23, 2017, 04:23:44 PM »
True, I don't know why music doesn't do it for me, seeing I come from a musical family.
Doesn't make you a bad person, though I know some who would think it does. Aesthetic appreciation is not morality.

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #32 on: June 23, 2017, 05:47:44 PM »
Doesn't make you a bad person, though I know some who would think it does. Aesthetic appreciation is not morality.
I wouldn't invoke morality, but to me, someone for whom music is like oxygen, I think of people who say they don't like music in a slightly pitying way, a bit like somebody who's colourblind - functional but incomplete because they have a lack which means they're missing out on the full spectrum of human experience. Whatever style of music you're into - and I like just about all of them in differing degrees - anybody who likes any kind of music in a serious as opposed to shallow and superficial way will know (although they may struggle to put it into words) just how much it enriches your inner, emotional life - even what some might call spiritual life: other than hardline Islamism there's no religious tradition without its music.

You can go through life and exist fairly contentedly I should think in what I would call a fairly mediocre, humdrum, so-so way without ever having been in love, for example, but I would say that if you're thereby spared some of life's worst suffering, you also miss out on potentially its greatest joys. Likewise, to me, though further down the emotional scale, with music.
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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2017, 05:51:44 PM »
I wouldn't invoke morality, but to me, someone for whom music is like oxygen, I think of people who say they don't like music in a slightly pitying way, a bit like somebody who's colourblind - functional but incomplete because they have a lack which means they're missing out on the full spectrum of human experience. Whatever style of music you're into - and I like just about all of them in differing degrees - anybody who likes any kind of music in a serious as opposed to shallow and superficial way will know (although they may struggle to put it into words) just how much it enriches your inner, emotional life - even what some might call spiritual life. Other than hardline Islamism there's no religious tradition without its music.

You can go through life and exist fairly contentedly I should think in what I would call a fairly mediocre, humdrum, so-so way without ever having been in love, for example, but I would say that if you're thereby spared some of life's worst suffering, you also miss out on potentially its greatest joys. Likewise, to me, though further down the emotional scale, with music.

Be careful you don't pull a muscle reaching round that far to pat yourself on your back.

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2017, 05:53:54 PM »
Be careful you don't pull a muscle reaching round that far to pat yourself on your back.
No, it's no more self-congratulation than it is self-congratulation for not being colourblind or not having any allergies. It's simply the way it is.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2017, 06:13:22 PM »
No, it's no more self-congratulation than it is self-congratulation for not being colourblind or not having any allergies. It's simply the way it is.
I think describing someone who is colorblind as going through life in a fairly humdrum mediocre way is jaw droopingly arrogant.

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #36 on: June 23, 2017, 06:16:14 PM »
I think describing someone who is colorblind as going through life in a fairly humdrum mediocre way is jaw droopingly arrogant.
That's not actually what I wrote is it?

You're all over somebody else like flies on shit if you deem them to have misrepresented an argument, yet here you are doing the very same.
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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #37 on: June 23, 2017, 06:20:14 PM »
That's not actually what I wrote is it?

You're all over somebody else like flies on shit if you deem them to have misrepresented an argument, yet here you are doing the very same.
in what way is a misrepresentation? If you think it is, wouldn't itbetter to explain why than try a tu quoque?

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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #38 on: June 23, 2017, 06:32:54 PM »
No, I'm really not prepared to get into yet another epic round of monumental pedantry from some dreary little Norman No Mates wanker who could start an argument and keep it going in an empty room. What I wrote I wrote. If you've any problem with it, take it up with yourself - I'm sure yourself will be incredibly interested. I'm not.
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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #39 on: June 23, 2017, 06:37:15 PM »
No, I'm really not prepared to get into yet another epic round of monumental pedantry from some dreary little Norman No Mates wanker who could start an argument and keep it going in an empty room. What I wrote I wrote. If you've any problem with it, take it up with yourself - I'm sure yourself will be incredibly interested. I'm not.
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Re: Yoga in kilts
« Reply #40 on: June 24, 2017, 12:41:35 PM »

Which type?
'cos there are many which do not.
I assume you know this.

There's no excuse good enough for bagpipes Anchor.

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