I seem to be the only person on the planet not getting into the whole Talk Like a Pirate thing. I’ve got a problem glorifying piracy. The world has enough pirates right now.
I know I’m overreacting, and being overly sensitive about this. But, what’s next? Talk like a rapist day? Talk like a murderer? Kidnapper? I mean, those are all pirate-related activities. How about Talk Like a Decent Human Being Day? I’d be up for that one…
btw, I’m not totally humorless about this – Evan’s upcoming birthday party is pirate themed. But, without swords. Arrrrrr.
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I understand your your point but you are looking into this way too much, you need to chill out!!!!
Today is all about fun fun fun, People love dressing up and feeling silly thats what this day is all about!
Try it you might like it.
Talk like a rapist day sounds tight. Hello do you like candy? I have lots of candy in my van, its got tinted windows ;D
Yeah. I should have added “… but without swords. and rapists.”
Think Disneyland, not southeast asia. Besides, you can always turn it on its head and speak like a SOFTWARE PIRATE! Just remember, the number of pirates in the world is inversely proportionate to global temperature, so talking like a pirate pleases TFSM and brings global warming under control.
hold on–Evan’s party is pirate themed?! LOL i lost respect for your decent point when you helped me picture a rapist themed birthday. oh my.
Arr, avast, Darcy, ye scurvy dog! Ye be a party pooper! I’m not be knowin’ th’ reasons behind it, and she may not have any real socially redeemin’ value, but, by Blackbeard’s sword, it be darn difficult t’ be in a bad mood whilst ye be talkin’ like a pirate! As a result, matey, I’m more congen’al-like to all th’ landlubbers ’round me. Pass the grog!
Ye may truly have a point ’bout th’ real pirates, tho.
I understand your pirate stance – but if you look at it like a feel good holiday – like friend’s day. There is a major problem with piracy both classical and post-modren these days and that should not be glorified. But in the spirit of the day, as eafarris drawls ye be’n a scurvy lump!
Personally I had fun wearing my Mickey mouse pirate ears to work and just seeing the office double take and smile.
Employing the term pirate to reflect the current political and/or corporate global structure is an interesting reappropriation of the term. Scholarship on piracy narratives during the 17th and 18th centuries are reconceptualizing the figure of the pirate as a nationless space of independence from the nationaistic and imerpailistic logic of the Western world, interesting how the term is no more appropriate in describing the very thing some “pirates” were attempting to escape. See Marcus Rediker’s Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 for an interesting read along these lines.
Scallywags!
The “no more appropriate” above should be read as “now more appropriate” – big difference, I believe.