Some background:
The British army recently told its pipers to limit their practice sessions to 24 minutes a day, or 15 minutes indoors. According to a health study conducted by the Army Medical Directorate the volume of the pipes is beyond safe levels. Apparently the pipes have the same decibel level as a chainsaw.
Here is what one reader of the newspaper where this story was reported wrote to the editor:
SIR – I am not surprised to read that bagpipes and chainsaws have the same decibel rating. If we have a choice, may I opt for the latter?
Shouldn’t you be an expert on this? It isn’t necessarily obvious to your readers that YOU are English. Thanks to your mum for the clippings, huh?