A question to you all………..
Tattoos?
Yes?
No?
Good?
Bad?
Attractive?
Ugly?
Would you?
Have you?
Well yesterday I was sitting in front of the television, counting my legs when suddenly the programme changed to tattoos.
After about 10minutes I couldn’t take any more. It was all about the one they hold in Edinburgh.
Now I find bagpipes irritating at the best of times. However I do believe that this was their original intention, in other words; to scare or unsettle the enemy just before waggling your claymore in their faces.
What I find trificult to comprehend is how many tartan clad marching bands does anyone really want to watch in one session?
Not very many I’d have guessed, but in Edinburgh there were simply tens of people who were only outnumbered by how many bagpipe stranglers of every creed colour size and gender there were present, and all bustling each other to be annoying.
What really puzzles me is that considering that bagpipes originated in Iran and were only taken to Scotland by The Romans (obviously hoping to banish them forever by relocating them to the furthest known extremity) why is that Military Tattoos consist of everybody from diminutive Ghurkas and muscle rippling ebony skinned chaps down to American batton twirling girls who appear to have universal joints inserted where knees and elbows should be ….. However, all garbed in full ceremonial Highland dress (The McClone Tartan?)
Why aren’t they all strutting their stuff and strangling their sheep stomachs over in Tehran where they could take advantage of being enveloped in either a grey sack or an ill fitting nylon business suit?
