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YARRR! It be international "Talk like a Pirate Day" Ya Har!

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#21 - 2013-09-20 14:49:13 UTC
Who here still plays Sid Meier's Pirates!? I must have married the Governor's beautiful daughter 10 times now. I am one dancin' fool. Smile
Aesheera
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-09-20 14:53:24 UTC
Yerr moniez er yerr life! Erhm.. ship.

Gah.

I'm bad at this.

I'll just keep shooting things and be done with it.

- I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#23 - 2013-09-20 15:01:27 UTC
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:

There is a tendency to forget that pirates are not people running around singing pirate songs and wearing funny old hats but rather very cruel people doing inhumane things.

Not always. Sometimes it's desperate people doing what they can to make enough to get by. Which is how the Somali Pirates started - International trawlers were massively over-fishing their waters, and with no functinoal government, locals took up the task of protecting their fishermens' livelihood. *Then* they figured out it could be profitable as well.

Oh, and: Blast me rafters and flog me 'round the fleet! I clean failed to clap a deadlight on this here scurvey thread before this watch.
Maldiro Selkurk
Radiation Sickness
#24 - 2013-09-28 07:01:53 UTC
Plastic Psycho wrote:
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:

There is a tendency to forget that pirates are not people running around singing pirate songs and wearing funny old hats but rather very cruel people doing inhumane things.

Not always. Sometimes it's desperate people doing what they can to make enough to get by. Which is how the Somali Pirates started - International trawlers were massively over-fishing their waters, and with no functinoal government, locals took up the task of protecting their fishermens' livelihood. *Then* they figured out it could be profitable as well.


While you seem fine with excusing pirates for kidnapping, ****, murder and of course the least of their crimes, ransom.

I happen to find these activities apparently far more objectionable and stand by my original statement that these acts are inhumane and to my original statement i now add inexcusable.

Yawn,  I'm right as usual. The predictability kinda gets boring really.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2013-09-28 07:23:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Grimpak
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:
Plastic Psycho wrote:
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:

There is a tendency to forget that pirates are not people running around singing pirate songs and wearing funny old hats but rather very cruel people doing inhumane things.

Not always. Sometimes it's desperate people doing what they can to make enough to get by. Which is how the Somali Pirates started - International trawlers were massively over-fishing their waters, and with no functinoal government, locals took up the task of protecting their fishermens' livelihood. *Then* they figured out it could be profitable as well.


While you seem fine with excusing pirates for kidnapping, ****, murder and of course the least of their crimes, ransom.

I happen to find these activities apparently far more objectionable and stand by my original statement that these acts are inhumane and to my original statement i now add inexcusable.

while I do agree that these activities are inexcusably objectionable and inhumane, it doesn't change the fact that most of these people were pretty much pushed to this. it is not an excuse, but it should be noted that this isn't that "black and white". given the situation, anybody in this world would probably do the same thing if it meant to have food on the table.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#26 - 2013-09-28 11:46:52 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Derp

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

Didn't vote? Then you voted for NulBloc
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#27 - 2013-09-28 11:51:03 UTC
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:
Plastic Psycho wrote:
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:

There is a tendency to forget that pirates are not people running around singing pirate songs and wearing funny old hats but rather very cruel people doing inhumane things.

Not always. Sometimes it's desperate people doing what they can to make enough to get by. Which is how the Somali Pirates started - International trawlers were massively over-fishing their waters, and with no functinoal government, locals took up the task of protecting their fishermens' livelihood. *Then* they figured out it could be profitable as well.


While you seem fine with excusing pirates for kidnapping, ****, murder and of course the least of their crimes, ransom.

I happen to find these activities apparently far more objectionable and stand by my original statement that these acts are inhumane and to my original statement i now add inexcusable.

At what point did I say that I excused criminal behavior?

You, Sir, have put words in my mouth, and owe me an abject apology for your reprehensible behavior. You are a cad, Sir.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#28 - 2013-09-28 12:20:22 UTC
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:
Sadly, I am unfamiliar with the Somali language.

If it in fact turns out to be English then "Hi, let's hope someone with some money likes you or this isnt going to turn out so well for you, also you just happen to be piloting OUR new ship"

There is a tendency to forget that pirates are not people running around singing pirate songs and wearing funny old hats but rather very cruel people doing inhumane things.



Did it occur to you that turning the idea of Piracy or any other evil idea into a cartoonish parody of itself is a way of deflating that 'evil power' that is piracy ?

Nope ?

But feel free to go ahead and complain to Disney about the silly depiction of Pirates in "Peter Pan" and try to please please please change it all to be absolutely historically accurate.

What a fun movie that would be. Ugh

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
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