Piracy is calling!

[SpaceBadger]

Arrh, me hearties, day like today makes me in the mood for some pirating!

Good day to play the Bad Guys in a nice game of Snapshot, eh, mateys?

If anyone object, keelhaul 'em or make 'em walk the airlock without a suit, says I.



* Sept 19 rolls around once agains...


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[arbitrary.remora]

Roll a Pirate Day!

So here's what I just rolled from Supp. 4:

Signi Ardisdottir
Ex-Pirate Corporal
C57987 3 terms age 31
Brawling-1 Gunnery-2 Cutlass-2
Leader-1 Streetwise-1
Cr1000, Cutlass, Low Passage.

A veteran of the Fifth Frontier War, Signi left her home on Biter to plunder the weak, feeble Imperium.
Unwilling to put up with the stratified and male dominated services of the Sword Worlds, she took a more 'flexible' route by signing aboard the commerce raider Urania.
Prior to the FFW and during the opening phases the Urania operated in Lanth and Vilis subsectors raiding shipping in the Imperial backwaters.
The Urania was later destroyed over Caloran/Vilis. Signi having survived the attack has remained on the neutral worlds of the Vilis subsector.
Signi is currently working on Tremous Dex/Vilis as a crew member/enforcer for one of the Corporate Directors.

 

[SpaceBadger]

So here's what I just rolled from Supp. 4:

Signi Ardisdottir
Ex-Pirate Corporal
C57987 3 terms age 31
Brawling-1 Gunnery-2 Cutlass-2
Leader-1 Streetwise-1
Cr1000, Cutlass, Low Passage.

A veteran of the Fifth Frontier War, Signi left her home on Biter to plunder the weak, feeble Imperium.
Unwilling to put up with the stratified and male dominated services of the Sword Worlds, she took a more 'flexible' route by signing aboard the commerce raider Urania.
Prior to the FFW and during the opening phases the Urania operated in Lanth and Vilis subsectors raiding shipping in the Imperial backwaters.
The Urania was later destroyed over Caloran/Vilis. Signi having survived the attack has remained on the neutral worlds of the Vilis subsector.
Signi is currently working on Tremous Dex/Vilis as a crew member/enforcer for one of the Corporate Directors.

Arrrh, and here me is widout a copy o' 1001 Citizens! Hafta see what I can find in Mongoose...

 

[arbitrary.remora]

Arrrh, and here me is widout a copy o' 1001 Citizens! Hafta see what I can find in Mongoose...

You mean you don't have it memorized?



Roll some scourges of the spaceways!

 

[Burocrate]

and a bit o' commercial acceptance on this Day

Over the weekend I was perpetuating the stereotype by visiting a national chain donut shop and saw a flier in the window promoting “National Talk like a Pirate Day”. Just come and talk the talk and receive a free donut, come in wearing any three of the listed pirate items and receive a free dozen donuts; no purchase necessary.

Here is their list:
Pirate Hat
Bandana
Eye-Patch (see below)
Costume Hook (don’t know why medical hooks don’t qualify)
Pirate Shirt (blatant Seinfeld reference!)
Peg-Leg
Parrot (Norwegian Blue for the Double Point score!)
Knickers (My friends from the Olde World can calm down; here in the New World it is perfectly acceptable to walk about in your knickers as long as you are tasteful about it.)
They even have a down loadable Pirate Eye-Patch to help those busy office worker types.


So thars a whale of a deal, so says I!
So say we all!

 

[Burocrate]

what a sad commentary of the state of the world today

So here's what I just rolled from Supp. 4:

Signi Ardisdottir
Ex-Pirate Corporal
C57987 3 terms age 31
Brawling-1 Gunnery-2 Cutlass-2
Leader-1 Streetwise-1
Cr1000, Cutlass, Low Passage.

Arrrr! What manner of devilishness is this? In all innocence, I try to click over to the "Signal GK" website to generate me own bloodthirsty cur an the blasted firewalls delfect me course to a warnimg banner:

"Suspicious Content"

"I'll have thier guts as me garters before the day is through!"

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Why, oh for love all that is good and decent, why?!

Why do people get all happy about a made up day that thinks that those who steal and kill, make everything we purchase cost more and have no socially redeeming qualities are worthy of celebration?

Why no talk like the Royal Navy or even the US Navy day? I mean those are the good guys (and gals these days), they protect us upon the high seas and yet you all want to celebrate scumbags.

You people make sad, sick, depressed and furiously angry, but there is one thing that makes me happy on this day and that is the following reminder that as the Enemies of All Minkind: ALLL PIRATES MUST HANG!

 

[arbitrary.remora]

You people make sad, sick, depressed and furiously angry, but there is one thing that makes me happy on this day and that is the following reminder that as the Enemies of All Minkind: ALLL PIRATES MUST HANG!

Spoken like a Peer. :smirk:

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

No, Spoken like a Citizen!

Spoken like a Peer. :smirk:

First off, this is Citizen speaking, speaking as a Peer it is more like "Give them another from the forward battery and use the nukes!".

So, while in character I don't like pirates, as a Citizen here in the Real World where this foul thing has reared its vile head I make it my job to kill this sickening meme dead, dead, dead! I will see this meme killed, dismembered, burned and its scum ridden corpse buried at several different crossroads so that it remains dead and gets no rest as the evil it is.

This is a real world problem and I take it damned seriously. Someone has to fight the propaganda that says it is better to be an scumbag than a decent member of our community and Soceity. Ethics, codes and sometimes even morals, they make life more difficult, but they also make the world a much better place for all of us.

 

[rancke]

Why do people get all happy about a made up day that thinks that those who steal and kill, make everything we purchase cost more and have no socially redeeming qualities are worthy of celebration?

Eroll Flynn. The protagonist pirates of swashbuckling tales DO have redeeming qualities. They usually fight against brutally oppressive regimes or aganst bad pirates, but they themselves don't rob and plunder, and if they kill, they do so in fair fights against odds. They're fictional!

You people make sad, sick, depressed and furiously angry, but there is one thing that makes me happy on this day and that is the following reminder that as the Enemies of All Minkind: ALLL PIRATES MUST HANG!

And what will you do then? Go after anyone playing cops and robbers and cowboys and indians?

Lecture naive kids, if you like; you might even do some actual good there. But most adults are perfectly aware of the difference between pirates that talk like movie pirates and real life pirates, though it sounds like you're not.


Hans

 

[pendragonman]

Pirates are what we Royal Marines hunt when at peace.

Therefore we need eternal war or Pirates!

 

[SpaceBadger]

First off, this is Citizen speaking, speaking as a Peer it is more like "Give them another from the forward battery and use the nukes!".

So, while in character I don't like pirates, as a Citizen here in the Real World where this foul thing has reared its vile head I make it my job to kill this sickening meme dead, dead, dead! I will see this meme killed, dismembered, burned and its scum ridden corpse buried at several different crossroads so that it remains dead and gets no rest as the evil it is.

This is a real world problem and I take it damned seriously. Someone has to fight the propaganda that says it is better to be an scumbag than a decent member of our community and Soceity. Ethics, codes and sometimes even morals, they make life more difficult, but they also make the world a much better place for all of us.

Someone is either (a) taking Talk Like a Pirate Day waaaaay too seriously, or (b) in need of the use of some smileys.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Another pirate thread.

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Not fiction, but real life.

Yeah, I have heard that, "but they a fictional" excuse, but it in no way makes up for the fact that this day celebrates dirtbags, that it teaches people to venerate folks who make the world a worse place for everyone but themselves. It is bad, vile, meme and it needs to be replaced with something that celebrates those who contribute to a better world for the non-scumbags of the world.

What we need is talk like a civil engineer, or talk like a physicist, or talk like an astronaut day, not talk like a thief day. And since we have a least two hotspots on the planet today with real live, not cool pirates who are making everything imported by sea more expensive, the idea of celebrating my having to pay more for goods is a crappy thing in my eyes.

And for the it would be funny if it weren't so close to home, I have yet to see anyone speaking Somali today, instead they talk like they think the scumbags of yesterday talked, which I find questionable. If you really want to talk like a pirate learn Somali, not pretend old English.

As for your Errol Flynn, I said and meant, All pirates must hang, there are no "good" pirates, only those who have yet to make their foreordained appointment with the Yardarm and the Noose. No papers = pirate = hanged by the neck until dead.

 

[MCEvans]

I think someone needs to relax.

As for "Talk like a Pirate Day" I have only heard about it here, not saying that it is not bigger out side or in other areas, but it sounds fun.

Sounds fun?!?!?! Yes. Like a dry run for Halloween that will help people de-stress in the office place.

As for a US Navy, Army, Air Force day, we have TWO of those one is called Memorial Day the other is Veterans Day and if you want Labor Day includes the First Responders.

So we have real holidays for real heros to remember them and the crap that they put up with to protect us.

And a little known made-up day to have fun.

As for real pirates, unless that yardarm is using rusty razor wire, you are being nice to them. Actually the best use of a pirate is for launch tube cleaning at 600 ft below the surface with out a pressure suite during live fire. But I digress.

Have a nice day

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

I think someone needs to relax.

Indeed.

 

[Blue Ghost]

The origins of "Talk like a Pirate Day" is derived from the "Time for Timer" 1970's series of PSA cartoons. One specifically that used a partial out of the ink well story formula about two kids and their fat, greasy, unkempt uncle (possibly a father) who cut his finger or hand, and was a special as it was either 30 minutes or almost an hour in length, as opposed to the 30-second PSA spots that aired during commercial breaks.

That famed American animated Saturday Morning "celeb", Timer, who reminded kids not to drown their salad with dressing, or to eat fruit because it was "nature's candy", took the two children into their patriarch's innards, and explained how various systems of the body worked, including how his immune system were fighting the germs infecting his cut.

It was an anatomy lesson.

So what does this have to do with "Talk like a Pirate Day"?

In this Timer special the characters (Timer and the two kids) come across a pirate captain who states "Arr, matey, walk the plank, and other pirate like phrases..." As he commands his pirate ship inside the uncle / father's blood stream (fighting white blood cells). This idea was held onto by one of PBS's / NPR's avid viewers / listeners, and found its way to the NPR powers that be, who decided it would be a fun idea to pay homage to various Hollywood iterations of pirates.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

EDIT;
Said piece was "The Incredible, Indelible, Magical Physical, Mystery Trip"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322745/combined

 

[SpaceBadger]

Yeah, I have heard that, "but they a fictional" excuse, but it in no way makes up for the fact that this day celebrates dirtbags, that it teaches people to venerate folks who make the world a worse place for everyone but themselves. It is bad, vile, meme and it needs to be replaced with something that celebrates those who contribute to a better world for the non-scumbags of the world.

And do you really believed that real pirates "talked like a pirate"? Even the non-English speaking ones from the Barbary Coast and Malaysia?

This is just a fun silly day for talking like Long John Silver out of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Halloween must be a real treat for you.

 

[aramis]

As I've said elsewhere, talking like a pirate should be things like:

"Mind if I borrow your install CD?" and "Time to social engineer my way to your password and then make use of your online cloud software subscriptions."

 

[arbitrary.remora]

Let's call them 'Star Vikings' instead...

Without belabouring...
No one on this board (forgive if I overstep) supports murder, theft and rapine. In Real Life, I am a creative person whose livelihood is impacted by the copyright violation. Real Life pirates indeed suck.

Celebrating the mythology of the Pirate (yes, they get a curious free pass for ethics) is about tapping that anarchic spirit of humanity and embracing the rougher edges.
In our shared fiction of future history it is so apparent to me such is needed.
So;
I celebrate those who would trade serfdom for the freedom of the trackless expanses of sea and space.
I salute those who call no man master based on birthright but cleave to a rough-hewn meritocracy of equals.
I respect those who know the line between a Reaver and an Empire Builder is a blurry one indeed.

I'd wax more but the espresso machine is ready...
-a.r