US teenagers have bagpipes seized at Canada border after competition

[eppur_se_muova]

67. If playing the bagpipes is a tradition, so is dumping on them.

"A Scottish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes, but doesn't."

Lovers of the pipes learn to accept it with wry, self-deprecating humor. See:
http://lowthian.tripod.com/jokes.html

On the subject of noisy neighbors, I heard a story about a student at an English university, called Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye (or perhaps it was Neill MacNeill from Barra, but anyway ...), who was living in the hall of residence in his first year there. After he'd been there a month, his mother came to visit, no doubt carrying reinforcements of whiskey and oatmeal.

"And how do you find the English students, Donald?" she asked.

"Mother," he replied. "They're such terrible, noisy people. The one on that side keeps banging his head against the wall, and won't stop. The one on the other side screams and screams and screams, away into the night."

"Oh Donald! How do you manage to put up with these awful noisy English neighbours?"

"Mother, I do nothing. I just ignore them. I just stay here quietly, playing my bagpipes."