They are robbers and murderers who live dirty, dangerous lives. Yet there is a glamour about pirates, especially pirates from long ago. I obviously feel that way too -- but I wonder why? 馃
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@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!
