[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

I call this persecution. Where's the "talk like a True Christian(tm) Day?"

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

As a TRUE Christian I find it utterly offensive about this idea we should dress in a strange fashion and give each other presents on some arbitrarily picked day when a blatantly fictional character with an absurd life story who lives in the sky was supposed to be born. As for this nonsense that the Flying Spaghetti Monster secretly talks to all good and right pirates were do they get rubbish?

Talking vegetable matter?

People surviving their owns deaths?

Some archaic language is the language of the soul?

This is all some kind of farce.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

I don't get what point these piratic godmockers are trying to make by quoting the marvels of God's scripture. It should be no shock to True Christians that God abhors shrimp, for starters.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

What 'appens when t' Westboro Baptist Church meets t' local Pastafarians on our most Holy o' Days!

[Mrs. Mary Whitford]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

It's here again, and I'm still offended! These God-mocking retardeds have not given up on making the entire world sound like gibbering idiots, "me buckos", and we need to do something!

From now on, we need to reclaim this day for Jesus and insist that every September 19th will from now on be International Talk Like a Christian Day!

[Phebe Carlyle]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

So if talk like a pirate day is wrong so dose that mean that St. Patrics day is wrong on the piont that a catholic priest started it? Also it is an Irish hoiloday and it supports drinking. What is wrong with the holiday real?

Of course St Patricks day is just as bad! Cathlicks aren't Christians and it is not a "holiday" we even entertain.

Now how about you head over to the Introduction Forum and introduce yourself properly.

Thank you

YIC

Mrs Phebe Dewitt.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

How about an alternative?

[Son of Athena]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

So if talk like a pirate day is wrong so dose that mean that St. Patrics day is wrong on the piont that a catholic priest started it? Also it is an Irish hoiloday and it supports drinking. What is wrong with the holiday real?

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

So me one point were a pirate charter declares itself to be founded by Christians like the US Constitution.

Would you kind enough to quote that section of The Constitution for the United States that mentions God or Christ?

I can find this about religion in it though:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Let us not forget the First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

I see not one reference to the Ten Commandments

Nor is there any such reference in the The Constitution for the United States


But I do, for example, find this in the constitution:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

and this in the charter:

Each man shall keep his piece, cutlass and pistols at all times clean and ready for action.

[SUV]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

Not to mention all the rampant cross-dressing, feminism, gender-bending and sodomy that went on!

I myself am always Careful to adhere to a low-sodomy diet. "Wellness" in America is all the Rage now, you know!

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

And don't forget a contact that all the crew signed that was a akin to what became the American constitution.

I see not one reference to the Ten Commandments in that butt-pirate charter, nor a condemnation of sodomy. Instead, they are restricted from the companionship of women, guaranteeing that one butt-pirate or another will spend the evening "in the barrel".

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

Here I gave an example of a pirate charter.

Dueling, no boys & women and drink with your lights off after eight pm??? Do you even understand what a Constitution is Mr Englishman??? So me one point were a pirate charter declares itself to be founded by Christians like the US Constitution.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

Lies, Jesus inspired the US constitution. Does the US Constitution go?

No it doesn't. Clearly it is not a pirate inspired document. If it was George Washington would have an eye patch and parrot.

Here I gave an example of a pirate charter.

Pirates explored and mapped new territories, expanded trade routes, and protected the British and French colonies in South America, North America and the Caribbean from Spain at a time when Britain and France couldn't afford to.

They also supplied colonies with food, cloth, spices, medicines and other goods colonists couldn't get or couldn't afford from other sources.

Money raked in from sale of these plundered items was spent by pirates locally - drinking, gambling and womanizing - thus bolstering the colonies' economy.

In order to prevent disputes, most pirate crews imposed rules of conduct upon themselves. These sets of rules were called charters.

One of the most important rules regarded the electing of the captain. Captains had absolute authority during raids, but could be removed from authority by a vote of the crew if they disapproved of his actions.

The following is a charter drawn up by the crew of a pirate captain named Bartholemew Roberts:

1. Every man shall have an equal vote in affairs of moment. He shall have an equal title to the fresh provisions or strong liquors at any time seized, and shall use them at pleasure unless a scarcity makes it necessary for the common good that a retrenchment may be voted.
2. Every man shall be called fairly in turn by the list on board of prizes, because over and above their proper share, they are allowed a shift of clothes. but if they defraud the company to the value of even one dollar in plate, jewels or money, they shall be marooned. If any man rob another he shall have his nose and ears slit, and be put ashore where he shall be sure to encounter hardships.
3. None shall game for money, either with dice or cards.
4. The lights and candles shall be put out at eight at night, and if any of the crew desire to drink after that hour they shall sit upon the open deck without lights.
5. Each man shall keep his piece, cutlass and pistols at all times clean and ready for action.
6. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man shall be found seducing one of the latter sex and carrying her to sea in disguise, he shall suffer death.
7. He that shall desert the ship or his quarters in time of battle shall be punished by death or marooning.
8. None shall strike another aboard the ship, but every man’s quarrel shall be ended on shore by sword or pistol in this manner: at the word of command from the Quartermaster, each man being previously placed back to back, shall turn and fire immediately. If any man do not, the Quartermaster shall knock the piece out of his hand. If both miss their aim, they shall take to their cutlasses, and he that draws first blood shall be declared the victor.
9. No man shall talk of breaking up their way of living till each has a share of £1,000. Every man who shall become a cripple or lose a limb in the service shall have eight hundred pieces of eight from the common stock, and for lesser hurts proportionately.
10. The Captain and the Quartermaster shall each receive two shares of a prize, the Master Gunner and Boatswain, one and one quarter, and private gentlemen of fortune one share each.
11. The musicians shall have rest on the Sabbath Day only, by right, on all other days, by favour only.

The first thing (pirates tried to) do is persuade everyone to give them everything without having to killing anyone. It was enlightened self-interest since any battle posed the risk of a pirate being killed or injured. Plus, it was simply good PR. They wanted the information to go out that if you cut sails and give us what we need, we'll let you go. In fact, there are stories of pirate captains inviting the crew of boarded ships to join them.

Even governments, who later turned against them, utilized pirates, funding them as privateers to search out and punish enemies. While a few pirates were wise enough to take their riches and retire early to a life as plantation owner, many died at the end of a noose, at sea or in battle. Some who helped defend against against British attacks in early 19th century received land grants for their services.

With the world atwitter over, "Pirates of the Caribbean:" the question arises - how authentic is Johnny Depp's dashing Capt. Jack Sparrow?

Well His dress is authentic - except for his eye make-up. That's about it

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

And don't forget a contact that all the crew signed that was a akin to what became the American constitution.

Lies, Jesus inspired the US constitution. Does the US Constitution go?

" Ah Hoy ye lubbers,We t' Crew o' t' United States, in Order t' form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, inaye shipboard Tranquility, provide for t' common defence, promote t' general Welfare against scurvy, and secure t' Blessin's o' Liberty t' ourselves and our Swag, do ordain and establish this Constitution for t' United States o' America. Agh!""

No it doesn't. Clearly it is not a pirate inspired document. If it was George Washington would have an eye patch and parrot.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Talk Like a "Pirate" Day is OFFENSIVE!

Tempy History shows us that it is combination of the tenacity of the Russian people and the ferocity of the Russian winter that lead to the defeat of the likes of Napoleon. The nature of the political system has nothing to do with it...

How do you know that? Let's look at the facts: under the absolute monarchy of the Tsar, the Russians beat Napoleon. Under Stalin, the Russians beat Hitler. Since democracy started, the Russians have not manage to repel a single land invasion by any major European power. The weather in Russia certainly hasn't changed, so how do you explain this?

Pirates had socialist communities were they shared their wealth, provided health care and retirement to the entire crew. Something as offensively un-Christian and un-American as that deserves no celebration.

Not to mention all the rampant cross-dressing, feminism, gender-bending and sodomy that went on!

I've made a study of Jamaica's cultural, political, and sexual history for my new novel about 18th-century Jamaica, Kingston by Starlight. It tells the story of Anne Bonny, a real-life Irish woman who journeyed to Jamaica, dressed as a man, became a pirate, had a relationship with another cross-dressing woman, and was put on trial for her alleged crimes in 1720...

Some dancehall performers may never admit it, but gay life is intertwined with the history of the Caribbean; it's part of the legends, the literature, the landscape. There are suggestion and shadows, winks and hints, that some significant portion of the region's celebrated and notorious pirate population may have been gay. B.R. Burg, in his book Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, writes of the piratical institution of "matelotage," in which one buccaneer was matched to a shipmate, each pledging mutual cooperation and companionship, with the understanding that if one died, all booty would go to the survivor. ...To modern observers it sure sounds like a same-sex marriage at sea.