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Title: Pirates Post by: Sippo on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 10:54:59 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7734733.stm
I didn't even know they still existed. Do you reckon they still look like this?: [url width=500 height=750]http://www.ballooningaround.co.uk/images/fancy_dress_costumes/rustic_pirate.jpg[/url] Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 10:55:27 ask Ben
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Samdy Gray on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:02:53 Aaaaaaaarrrhhh!
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: janaage on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:06:18 My niece's favourite joke - Why are pirates so scary?
Because they "AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh" Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Mexicano Rojo on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:22:37 Piracy is a massive problem off the coast of somalia and around the phillipines and Papa New Guinea, it costs shipping companies millions each year.
Just call me Reg. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: janaage on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:24:00 Piracy is a massive problem off the coast of somalia and around the phillipines and Papa New Guinea, it costs shipping companies millions each year. Just call me Reg. Big problem for cinema companies too. And the DVD industry. Actually it was be a good sketch in some comedy show for people dressed like pirates trying to get into cinemas with recording equipment. Or stood on market stalls trying to flog dvds. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:39:20 I didnt think pirates were real???
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: sonic youth on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:40:49 You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Rich Pullen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:43:21 I didnt think pirates were real??? The stereotypical accent, well that's obviously Bristolian. Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, was a Bristolian (I think). Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:48:19 but like I thought they were like a fairytale thing? - like fairys and oagers
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Rich Pullen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:49:16 but like I thought they were like a fairytale thing? - like fairys and oagers I wasn't sure before but now I know you're mocking.... aren't you? ................ Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Bob's Orange on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:00:40 Piracy is a massive problem off the coast of somalia and around the phillipines and Papa New Guinea, it costs shipping companies millions each year. Just call me Reg. Is Papa New Guinea the Fatherland? Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:01:08 Read the line under her name Rich
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:02:55 ermmm no I wasnt - I really thought that! I feel a bit shocked!
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Rich Pullen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:11:35 Read the line under her name Rich I know Fred, I know... But on this forum you can never let your guard down! Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 13:16:43 JFW could fill the "From the Mouth's of Babes" section in FHM all on her own
Bless Title: Re: Pirates Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 13:46:16 First person to dress up like a pirate and take a picture wins.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 13:48:42 [url width=640 height=480]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/Photo11181342.jpg[/url]
I win. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Samdy Gray on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 13:50:36 Ben, you just made my day :) Top work!
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: leefer on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 13:51:45 The Parrots Quality.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:00:00 yeah I was a bit short of a parrot, but the rat is called parrot if that helps.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Ardiles on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:02:54 Did it really take you just 2½ minutes to knock that costume up, or have you been dressed like that all morning?
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:10:28 no comment.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:15:09 lush!!!
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Rich Pullen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:17:08 Damn... I couldn't find anything in time.
[url width=384 height=512]http://photos-h.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v378/49/99/512030051/n512030051_4874791_5882.jpg[/url] Title: Re: Pirates Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:19:16 holy fuck. that's ace
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:19:29 home taping is killing music
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Rich Pullen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:22:14 holy fuck. that's ace I couldn't find my pirate hat w/Captain Hook wig. Which ultimately lost me the challenge. Gutted. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:23:46 I had a slight advantage of knowing where all that stuff was when I announced the challenge.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Arnold.J.Rimmer on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:24:25 John Ward or Warde (c. 1553-1622), also known as Jack Ward and under his Muslim name Yusuf Reis, was a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Barbary Corsair operating out of Tunis during the early 1600s.
Early life Born about 1553 probably in Faversham, [1] Kent, in southeast England. He spent his teenage years working the fisheries. Late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he joined the Navy, where he may have done some privateering during Elizabeth's reign but by the time James I came to the throne he was living in poverty in Plymouth. [edit] Piracy Around 1603 Ward was pressed in to the Royal Navy in where he was placed into the Channel Squadron and served aboard a ship named the Lion's Whelp. After two weeks he and a group of about 30 of his colleagues deserted, stole a small 25-tonne barque, from Portsmouth Harbour, and sailed to the Isle of Wight and captured another ship, the Violet, a ship rumoured to be carrying the treasure of Catholic refugees. However, the ship turned out to be empty of treasure, but the enterprising Ward used her to cunningly capture a much larger French ship. Ward and his men sailed to the Mediterranean where he was able to acquire a warship of thirty-two guns which was renamed The Grift and began attacking merchantmen for the next two years. While at Salé, Morocco in 1605 several English and Dutch sailors, including Richard Bishop and Anthony Johnson, joined Ward's crew and the following year (August, 1606) Ward arranged with Tunisian ruler Uthman Dey to use Tunis as a base of operations in exchange for one fifth of Ward's loot. From this base, Jack Ward was easily able to capture several valuable merchant ships, including the Reniera e Soderina of 60 tons and worth $100,000. Following his return to Tunis in June of 1607, Ward was informed during the winter that the now rotted Reniera e Soderina had begun to sink. With several of his officers, Ward deserted the ship to one of the French prizes he had captured. The Reniera e Soderina later sank off Greece as 400 crew members, of which 250 Muslim and 150 English, were lost. Ironically, Ward lost his own ship, as well as two others captured by Venice, several weeks later. While many in Tunisia were angered by Ward's desertion of the Muslim sailors aboard the Reniera e Soderina, Uthman Dey offered Ward a safe haven. Ward however offered James I of England £40,000 for a royal pardon which was refused and he reluctantly returned to Tunis. Uthman Dey kept his word and Ward was granted protection by Tunis. During the next year ballads and pamphleteers condemned John Ward for turning corsair. He changed his name to Yusuf Reis and married an Italian woman while he continued to send money to his English wife. Ward continued raiding Mediterranean shipping, eventually commanding a whole fleet of corsairs, and whose flagship was a Venetian sixty-gunner. He profited by his piracy, retiring to Tunis to live a life of opulent comfort until 1622, when at the age of 70 he reportedly died from the plague. [edit] Legacy An English sailor who saw him in Tunis in 1608 described Ward as "very short with little hair, and that quite white, bald in front; swarthy face and beard. Speaks little and almost always swearing. Drunk from morn till night...The habits of a thorough salt. A fool and an idiot out of his trade." [2] To his contemporaries Ward was an enigmatic figure, in some ways like a Robin Hood, but in the 16th and 17th centuries many English pirates operated our of the mouth of the Sebo River and preyed on Mediterranean shipping. Ward was supposed to have spared English ships while attacking "papist" vessels. John Ward and Simon Danseker are credited with introducing Barbary corsairs to the use of square-rigged ships of northern Europe. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 14:26:14 I could only find a cow print cowboy hat! - if we ever have a cowboy dressing up challange I will defo win that
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 17:07:38 The hot bed of piracy throughout the medieval period into the 19th century, was the so called Barbury Coast....nothing to do with our local wonderful hillfort, but rather a coruption of Berber, the people of North Africa.
These Islamic pirates thought it fair game to seize infidels and send them into slavery. Although the west gets the rap for sub Saharan slavery, many of the merchants were Arabic, and slavery is still practised in countries such as Mali and Niger til this day. I always thought that Tolkien's the Corsairs of Umbar were based on Barbury pirates. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: JPC82 on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 17:34:25 You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences. haha class, new series of IT Crowd friday isnt there? Title: Re: Pirates Post by: axs on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 17:35:34 I was going mad trying to remember where I'd heard that before.
yes - starts friday. Title: Re: Pirates Post by: Barry Scott on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 17:37:13 Oi TCP, get your arse on the trust thread and reply to my really important post. Please.
Title: Re: Pirates Post by: adje on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 18:23:26 home taping is killing music Looking at the"charts"-I'd say music definitely is dead |