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@PirateQueen Trying to think who else was a pirate in the old movies..? Think Tyrone Power might have been, but that's going back even before my time! 😄

@PinkyPanther

do you enjoy old films?

Try Flynn in Gentleman Jim, They Died With Their Boots on and Uncertain Glory. @PirateQueen

@akindheart Robin Hood was a mythical character, but his gang supposedly gave their loot to the poor. Supposedly.

Pirates have never been known to do that, though I think the 16-early 17C privateers at a time when England and Spain were at war were supposed to give at least some to the Crown. They were basically mercenaries whose main aim was to disrupt the Spaniards' flow of gold looted from the South American civilisations.

Otherwise pirates were and modern ones are, in it for themselves; but the tragedy of modern piracy off parts of the African coast is that these are mainly fishermen driven by desperation thanks very much to Spanish and French industrial-scale fishing sweeping the seas clean of the fish the residents had relied on. Some too, are victims of wars or famine.

@ArishMell Yes. The real story is just not very glamorous. I guess there is a heroic element to the impoverished fishers you mention, turning to piracy. Like the poor not waiting for Robin Hood to steal from the rich and give to them, but doing it themselves.

@PirateQueen The impoverished fishermen are the modern ones preying on merchant ships, and whilst it is possible to understand them it is why they are doing it that needs putting right.

The type the films glamorise were in a very different situation.

For both, there is absolutely nothing romantic about the reality, but some of the privateer crew-men might have thought they would make more money than they ever would as fishermen or farm-labourers back home.

@ChipmunkErnie I don't think they'd want meet either version in real life!

I gather Disney made a film set in Boston, the NE American not English one, I think about the Boston Tea Party so still an English colony before Independence. The town was practically lawless, ruled by a vicious gang who would beat up or murder anyone for a fee - Disney glamourised even these!

@ArishMell Never heard that story about Boston.

@ChipmunkErnie I forget the title of the film but I learnt of it in a history programme, one of a series examining events that have accrued a lot of myths since. I think it was mainly about the Boston Tea Party, whose perpetrators were smugglers trying to evade a tax on the tea. The gang was a separate lot, part of the town's general lawlessness of the time.

@MrBlueGuy Didja hear about the new pirate movie? It's rated...

@PirateQueen heh heh heh. XD

How do you save a pirate that's dying?

CP..;P

@swirlie Sure enough, my lady and I both enjoy baseball, having you along would be fun

@swirlie That makes sense, somebody makes a buck of of that, for sure

@Thevy29 great picture!

@Anielka Well, if we use the era of the privateers depicted by the Hollywood nonsense, only minor worries -

- long months at sea cooped up with a few dozen other men in a cramped, smelly, very uncomfortable and always damp old ship,
- having almost nothing to do except keeping the ship together,
- storms and shipwreck,
-scurvy and other nutrition-deficiency diseases,
- falling overboard and drowning, or breaking a limb or your back by an accident on board,
- and if you survive intact so far, eventually being shot dead outright, or caught, tried and hanged (slow strangulation in those days)....

.. no, nothing really worth worrying about!

All right for Mr. Depp. He could just change out of the fancy clothes and go back to his comfortable home after pretending to be a pirate!

@PhilDeep Many of the reasons already mentioned in the thread: boldness, freedom from convention, adventure. Plus my boyfriend is into pirate stuff 😍

@Freeranger Can I just expound a bit though.....historical piracy has been a bit of a bent of mine. I've several books along the historical side and.....they're quite mind blowing, and I salute the authors who have researched them.
As an aside, said pirates were at times, employed to "do their worst.' Know yer history kiddies....as regards pirates it would amaze you if you seek the truth on them. It ain't Johnny Depp.

@therighttothink50 yes, I thought this went back well before Johnny Depp!

@BohemianBabe Vikings do. We love your stuff.

@GuyWithOpinions almost certainly 👸

@SW-User a little less of "rum, sodomy, and the lash" ?
Or about the same do you figure...?

@ArishMell 17th/18th centuries.
By my reading, life aboard a navy ship was not a great experience.

At the very least life aboard a pirate ship allowed the crew to vote on matters and split the booty.

@PirateQueen

@SW-User much better!

@pancakeslam Some of the parrots can talk too! 🦜

@PirateQueen polly want a cracker

@swirlie And, a hook for a hand, I hope.

@MarkPaul Facebook in Pirate English is fun.

@vetguy1991 Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! 🥃

@Rolexeo sexually liberated?

@pianoplayingsteve YUSS!

@FeetAreFantastic but hooks for hands!! 😛

@pianoplayingsteve oooh I want a degree in piratology 🤩

@PirateQueen I can get you a degree in piratology, dm me ;)