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myrrh 11-17-2008 12:45 PM
Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
The latest 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!

//\/\/ 11-17-2008 03:45 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
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 11-17-2008 04:45 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
I wonder if there are any pirates that still look like this?

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

"Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr!!!"

jOHN rODRIGUEZ 11-17-2008 05:06 PM
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This is what they look like in America.

dubman 11-17-2008 07:01 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
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 11-17-2008 08:47 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
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 11-17-2008 08:50 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dubman (Post 105928)
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 11-18-2008 05:13 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
Latest being reported from Sky News: Hijacked Tanker: Pirates In Talks

"Aaarrrrrrrrrr!!!!"

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

jOHN rODRIGUEZ 11-18-2008 11:12 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bas_I_am (Post 105934)
yeah get it right JR

this is the cereal pirate:

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


Crunch-a-tized!!!!!

//\/\/ 11-18-2008 11:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bas_I_am (Post 105934)
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 11-18-2008 11:50 AM
Re: Making light of terrorism on international waters with amusing cartoon characters
 
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 11-18-2008 12:40 PM
Re: Making light of terrorism on international waters with amusing cartoon characters
 
Arrrr, beauty. The bilge rat got his hornpipe stuck in the grog's bung hole. Lubber just needs a good boardin'.

BeautifulBurnout 11-18-2008 12:52 PM
Re: Making light of terrorism on international waters with amusing cartoon characters
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by myrrh (Post 105988)
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 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 11-18-2008 03:06 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
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 11-19-2008 01:15 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dubman (Post 105992)
dammit janie, "trrrsts" stopped being funny like 3 years ago. get an upgrade.
:p


Anyhoo, the Indians seem to have got this whole problem nailed...

myrrh 12-08-2008 12:41 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
The EU now has a Navy!

King of Snake 12-16-2008 01:58 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
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 01-07-2009 03:58 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Piece by Johann Hari posted a few days ago:
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

I found it fascinating - worth a read.

//\/\/ 01-10-2009 04:30 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
let's make fun of the pirates, some of whom clearly fell victim of shoddy planning - early entries for this year's darwin awards :rolleyes::o

BeautifulBurnout 01-10-2009 08:57 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
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. :confused::(

Quote:
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 01-10-2009 11:39 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout (Post 107662)
having read Johann Hari's (yes, him of the Inde fame) article in the HuffPo.
*Ahem*
;)

BeautifulBurnout 01-10-2009 03:08 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckard (Post 107665)
Oh arse. :o That'll learn me!

Deckard 01-10-2009 05:13 PM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
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 01-11-2009 04:05 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckard (Post 107679)
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 01-11-2009 05:23 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckard (Post 107679)
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.

//\/\/ 01-11-2009 09:23 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
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 01-11-2009 10:03 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by //\/\/ (Post 107698)
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, 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 01-12-2009 10:05 AM
Re: Bloody Pirates! (aka making fun of trrrrrists, it seems)
 
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......


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