# Northern\_Piper's Avatar **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447 "2022-04-25T23:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/1 "2022-04-25T23:48:50Z")
I pit **Northern\_Piper** ’s avatar. I have seen **Northern\_Pipe** r claim that it is supposed to be some sort of bizarre, foreign musical instrument. This is clearly a delusion. It is obvious that the avatar represents a mosquito or maybe some other blood-sucking arthropod. Why do posters on this message board put up with this kind of crap? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/2 "2022-04-25T23:50:46Z")
Well, I guess it’s five o’clock somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/3 "2022-04-26T00:09:23Z")
Or 4:20. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/4 "2022-04-26T00:17:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Or 4:20.  Dude… it’s like a mosquito 'cuz it like annoys that one guy. And it’s like musical, too, y’know. Y’know? So it’s like two things. Y’know? Ah, dude dude dude! It’s like Schrodinger’s Mosquito! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/5 "2022-04-26T00:20:44Z")
You mean… **Northern Piper** was one of these? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6rfU1sC5vK8/hqdefault.jpg "The Mosquitoes - Don't Bug Me / He's A Loser - 1965") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rfU1sC5vK8) Probably the one in the hat. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/6 "2022-04-26T00:44:15Z")
It’s not a hummingbird? Oh noes . . . ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/7 "2022-04-26T00:48:10Z")
The OP has bigger problems, obviously, than disliking a poster’s avatar. They’ve beem on the board a while, so why complain now? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/8 "2022-04-26T00:58:52Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > I pit **Northern\_Piper** ’s avatar. Says the guy whose name is just an ordinary name backwards. Pot, kettle, rubber, glue, glass houses… ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/9 "2022-04-26T01:48:34Z")
“Hey Mum! There’s a man over there with a dead pig under his arm … and it sings” … says a descendant of Clan Farquharson ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/10 "2022-04-26T01:55:54Z")
“Look at that horrible monster attacking that poor old lady! Hsve courage, Granny, I’ll save ya!” –Bugs Bunny ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/11 "2022-04-26T01:59:36Z")
And you are who again? I pit the pixel at the bottom of your Y front. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/12 "2022-04-26T03:03:06Z")
Wait. So the Pit thread came first, and not the thread? I assumed this was just a joke thread. Still do, really. Just not the joke I thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/13 "2022-04-26T03:54:07Z")
He’s not a small bird that speedwalks the shores of beaches above 49°N? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/14 "2022-04-26T20:03:22Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@Ynnad](#): > > > > I pit **Northern\_Piper** ’s avatar. > > Says the guy whose name is just an ordinary name backwards. Pot, kettle, rubber, glue, glass houses… Yeah, big talk from a guy whose own avatar is just the default letter. (I at least was clever enough to flip my default avatar letter backwards. Because I’m so lost, har har) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/15 "2022-04-26T20:25:21Z")
It could be worse …[https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd/profile-hidden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd/profile-hidden) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/16 "2022-04-27T02:22:02Z")
The real problem with @Northern_Piper is not his avatar, but that he’s from the south, not the north. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/17 "2022-04-27T02:52:44Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > The real problem with @Northern_Piper is not his avatar… No, man, it’s the avatar. Even though I know what it is, I always mistake it for some weird mosquito hummingbird, it freaks me out. Every time. Not saying it should be changed (I sort of like it), but yeah, it’s the avatar. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/18 "2022-04-27T03:21:55Z")
His avatar is the nearly-extinct Scots Bagsquito. It is a flatulent insect that feeds by making your ears bleed, then drinking your ear blood. Vicious and yet it has beautiful markings. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/19 "2022-04-27T06:04:54Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > Why do posters on this message board put up with this kind of crap? Eh, I take your point but firstly even though his avatar is clearly some form of blood sucking bagpipe bird, it’s still kind of cool. And secondly, it’s **Northern\_Piper**. He’s been here forever and - like a marriage - after a while you just have to accept you are going to have to put up with certain foibles. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447/20 "2022-04-27T07:16:25Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I at least was clever enough to flip my default avatar letter backwards. If you look closely, you’ll notice that he did, too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-pipers-avatar/963447.md?page=2)