Frogs and Bears

[anteros_lmc]

Meanwhile in Glasgow....

When I nipped out at lunchtime today I discovered a large military presence in George Square. Thankfully these splendid gentlemen were there for the Glasgow International Piping Festival which is on this week.

Comments

[esmerelda_t]

You know things are serious when they send in the men in skirts!

[anteros_lmc]

Absolutely! Sadly though there were plenty of men in bearskins there was no sign of the man in the bare skin :( Think he's high tailed it back to LA?

[eglantine_br]

Noe there is s formation I would like to see!

[anteros_lmc]

Eh? Think you're getting a bit over excited there sweetie!

[latin_cat]

I really should be more careful and not have read that that as the Glasgow International Pimping Festival.

[eglantine_br]

I want to hear more about the Glasgow Pimping Festival. Anteros?

[anteros_lmc]

Don't you start! I'd bad enough having latin_cat round here!

The Glasgow Pimping Festival? It involves lots of very fit men in skirts. Anything else you need to know? ;P

[latin_cat]

Possibly who was awarded 'Best In Show'.

[eglantine_br]

I'm all pink in the face just looking at this. My eyes were instantly drawn to the little PETA logo in the bottom center of the picture.

He does like to get nekkid doesn't he?

[anteros_lmc]

*fans eglantine_br*

My eyes were instantly drawn to the little PETA logo
Travelling south were they??

He does like to get nekkid doesn't he?
He doesn't seem to object, so I don't either!

[_likimeya]

International Piping Festival?? Aren't they mutually exclusive? When I hear bagpipes, I see lochs and highlands and Mel Gibson in my mind. :D

[anteros_lmc]

Oi! Don't you know that Scotland's main export is men in skirts?! Where do you think most of the Canadians (who aren't French) come from? Never mind the Kiwis! And the Bretons, Galicians and Irish have their own piping traditions. There are 230 pipe bands from 12 countries competing including 15 from the US, 9 from Canada, 15 from England and even 1 from Germany! Most of the English bands are associated with the police and armed forces who traditionally recruit from Scotland. The German band is from Heidelberg and District. I saw one of the Canadian bands yesterday and they were pretty damn fit! ;)

[_likimeya]

Oh yes, I know tons of German so-called folk-metal bands who use pipes! However, it will always be a Scottish thing for me, and non-Scottish people who play the pipes always seem to just imitate or try to appropriate an inherently Scottish sound. :)

[anteros_lmc]

I know tons of German so-called folk-metal bands who use pipes!
Eh?! What? Who knew such things existed?! XD

[eglantine_br]

Somehow I bumbled into two utube videos you guys may already know of them. One was of JB explaining in an interview how he came to do the PETA thing. It is interesting to hear him talk when he is choosing his own words.

The other was a blooper thing, for LOUK. He and Bradley Walsh were being all frowny, and interviewing a witness, and then in the middle of it, BW starts doing this goofy dance, while continuing to recite his lines.

Jamie doesn't say anything, but he folds in half, stricken with uncontrollable high pitched giggling.

So silly.

[anteros_lmc]

Somehow I bumbled into two utube videos
Funny how that happens. Happens to me too ;)

Ooh I haven't seen the Peta vid I will have to see if I can stumble on it too! The L&O UK outtakes are priceless aren't they? I love the way he laughs :) The bit that completely cracks me up though is the "too hot to handle" quip. The expression on his face....*melts*

It is interesting to hear him talk when he is choosing his own words.
It's always interesting to hear him talk, he is what I would call a bit of a blether. My favourite recent interview clip is this, from bamber_news.

[eglantine_br]

it sounded as if nobody else could remember the question either.
Also this makes me wonder how much backstory he invented for Archie. He said once long ago that he thought the Archie/Simpson thing was not necessarily sex abuse. But he sure played it that way.

of course, to me, his accent does things to my insides, (Not just him, but IG, and some others too,)but putting that aside, he is someone who seems to have interesting opinions. Smart man, it seems.

[anteros_lmc]

Also this makes me wonder how much backstory he invented for Archie.
Oh quite a lot I think! Here's the quote from the 2001 A&E interview:

His background is something that I was pretty free to come up with. What I'm thinking, really, is he is probably fairly well off in terms of his background. My take on it was, he was the second or third son of some nobleman. Archie Kennedy is a Scottish name, so I thought he was Scottish gentry. His family probably wasn't terribly wealthy but was titled, and he went off to the navy to make his career. And he wasn't probably naturally suited to it. He's quite an enthusiastic, ebullient character at heart, but also sensitive. He became traumatized because he was bullied very early on by another midshipman who isn't actually his superior, just a more experienced midshipman of the same rank. The character went through all sorts of problems, and that manifested itself in a collapse. He had a fit during a battle sequence, which was meant to be covert. He was making too much noise because he had this