Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)

[myrrh]

The latest (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/kenya.tanker.pirates/index.html) in the pirate attacks. This is getting crazy!

But I must say that deep down inside me I love it! It seems like to Eastern Africa coast has become the new Barbary Coast!

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my girlfriend and i were wondering if they've got parrots with them?!

it's all well and good; but apparently there are currently 200+ crewmen being held hostage in somalia; which isn't so much fun :(

(but i'm with you - it's all rather swashbuckling - yaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!)

[Deckard]

I wonder if there are any pirates that still look like this?

http://i38.tinypic.com/2qu5jk6.png

"Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr!!!"

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

This is what they look like in America.

[dubman]

thats the cap'n you jerk

dont you go off about the hegemony of cereal companies vis a vis the american corporatocracy

THE CAP'N IS ONLY A PIRATE OF DELICIOUSNESS

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

It's not that hard tonight.

Come on, you can do it.

Look at it as the new davinci code of the millenium!

[bas_I_am]

thats the cap'n you jerk

dont you go off about the hegemony of cereal companies vis a vis the american corporatocracy

THE CAP'N IS ONLY A PIRATE OF DELICIOUSNESS

yeah get it right JR

this is the cereal pirate:

http://www.lavasurfer.com/q-lafoot.gif

[Deckard]

Latest being reported from Sky News: Hijacked Tanker: Pirates In Talks (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Somali-Pirates-Tanker-Negotiating-Sirius-Star-Seized-Off-Kenya-Coast-US-Navy-Calls-For-Protection/Article/200811315153725?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15153725_Somali_Pirates_Tanker_Negotia ting%3A_Sirius_Star_Seized_Off_Kenya_Coast%2C_US_N avy_Calls_For_Protection)

"Aaarrrrrrrrrr!!!!"

:D (Yes I'll feel bad if people end up actually getting killed)

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

yeah get it right JR

this is the cereal pirate:

http://www.lavasurfer.com/q-lafoot.gif



Crunch-a-tized!!!!!

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yeah get it right JR

this is the cereal pirate:

http://www.lavasurfer.com/q-lafoot.gif

that's just captain caveman after a shave!

[BeautifulBurnout]

Which member of the Bush Administration changed the thread title on this?

Would the Honourable Gentleman please go to the third aisle on the left where they have a whole stack of Senses of Humour available at only $9.99. (They are on special due to demand).

Edit: Oh wait! No need to ask! *points in direction of SoCal*

[myrrh]

Arrrr, beauty. The bilge rat got his hornpipe stuck in the grog's bung hole. Lubber just needs a good boardin'.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Arrrr, beauty. The bilge rat got his hornpipe stuck in the grog's bung hole. Lubber just needs a good boardin'.

Aye, Cap'n!

Two more ships seized today (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7735507.stm) it seems, too! A King's ransom, I tells ya!

Shame there is more uproar about this than there is about all the children dying in Darfur, but hey.... no change there then.

[dubman]

well i thought it was an amusing title considering the conflict of levity and "oh but i would feel bad if something happened" directly after the levity.

dammit janie, "trrrsts" stopped being funny like 3 years ago. get an upgrade.

[BeautifulBurnout]

dammit janie, "trrrsts" stopped being funny like 3 years ago. get an upgrade.

:p


Anyhoo, the Indians (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7736885.stm) seem to have got this whole problem nailed...

[myrrh]

The EU now has a Navy (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/08/pirates.somalia.warships/index.html)!

[King of Snake]

we had a navy all the time, we've just finally figured out what to do with it :)

Also a nice occasion to decorate our army helicopters with movie references!

http://www.refdag.nl/media/foto/2008/57740-a.jpg

[Deckard]

Piece by Johann Hari posted a few days ago:
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html)

I found it fascinating - worth a read.

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let's make fun of the pirates, some of whom clearly fell victim of shoddy planning (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479045,00.html) - early entries for this year's darwin awards :rolleyes::o

[BeautifulBurnout]

I am in two minds as to whether to make fun of them or not at the moment, having read Johann Hari's (yes, him of the Inde fame) article in the HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html). :confused::(

In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."
At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."
This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters... We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas."

[Deckard]

having read Johann Hari's (yes, him of the Inde fame) article in the HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html).
*Ahem* (http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/showpost.php?p=107602&postcount=18)
;)

[BeautifulBurnout]

*Ahem* (http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/showpost.php?p=107602&postcount=18)
;)

Oh arse. :o That'll learn me!

[Deckard]

you mean "arrrrrrrrrrrse"!

Seriously, I'm glad someone else read it. I'm shocked that I never even stopped to consider the background of these people, such was the strength of the official narrative.

One man's pirate is.....

[BeautifulBurnout]

you mean "arrrrrrrrrrrse"!

Seriously, I'm glad someone else read it. I'm shocked that I never even stopped to consider the background of these people, such was the strength of the official narrative.

One man's pirate is.....

Yep, pretty much. :o

[froopy seal]

Seriously, I'm glad someone else read it.I read it too, and found it very interesting. Sometimes I'm a bit of a romantic, so I hope it's true.

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hmm, so there's nuclear waste where the fish are being taken from? how come diners 'in the restaurants of paris and london' aren't suffering bad doses of indigestion...?

[bas_I_am]

hmm, so there's nuclear waste where the fish are being taken from? how come diners 'in the restaurants of paris and london' aren't suffering bad doses of indigestion...?

from the article:POSTSCRIPT: Some commenters seem bemused by the fact that both toxic dumping and the theft of fish are happening in the same place - wouldn't this make the fish contaminated? In fact, Somalia's coastline is vast (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/africa/somalia/), stretching to 3300km. Imagine how easy it would be - without any coastguard or army - to steal fish from Florida and dump nuclear waste on California, and you get the idea. These events are happening in different places - but with the same horrible effect: death for the locals, and stirred-up piracy. There's no contradiction.

[Rog]

unfortunately i've got to the point where i don't believe a word of what the press says any more:(
i hope the article is true..........somehow i think they're well into a shitload of money......