Are "Pirate" and "Gay" Interchangeable Tags?

[Uther]

Fair enough, my dear... we all has our "needs" an' I'm sure Errol is dab 'and at whippin' up a soufflé or hemming the lace curtains.

[black bart]

Arrgh I be gettin out o this thread...it be loik bein caught between a pair o 400 gun Galleons tryin ta blo each uvver to Davy Jones's Locker.

[Uther]

An analogy "closer to home" might be... stayin' out of the sheep field in tupping season

Every thinking man can see... the very fact that PoN is the top Pyrite in these waters is proof of a certain gayness in the pirate profession.... women feel more comfortable, and achieve, in professions NOT dominated by testosterone and heterosexual sexual competitiveness.

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[black bart]

Talk to thee hook matey...the face aint listnin.

[Uther]

So... how come one of the "Village People" was a Pirate?

And their big hit...... "In the Navy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw

[pieces o'nine]

Ever' village 'as sum peeple wot be moor hinterestin, loike, than yer hordinairy taxpayin sit tizzens. Hit 'as nuffink t'do wif pyrates, hexspeshully.

[Uther]

The point, my dear, is that the "Village People" in question are (every last one man-jack of em)... "interesting".

They are a "gathering together" of "interesting" types..... one of the "interesting" sub-groups (types) is "Pirate"
QED

(It's not as if I mind "interesting" people... just sayin' Pirates are.)

[pieces o'nine]

Yer seems t'be quite hexersized about awl this.

'Ave ye consulted wif a speshulist about yer hobseshun?

[Uther]

Yer seems t'be quite hexersized about awl this.

'Ave ye consulted wif a speshulist about yer hobseshun?

I am a speshulist

I'm in it just for the arguin'

[PKMKII]

[black bart]

Well OK...there was Blackbeard's brother "Shirtlifter Jack".

[DavidH]

And there was Mincing Malachi, the gayest blaggard ever to sail the main. On seeing his frilly pink tops'ls bearing down on them, even really butch captains would hoist up their looming thrums and beat off downwind (to use the technical terminology). Alas, in 1647 he was killed by a 12-pounder handbag fired from the forward carronade of his arch-enemy "Pillow Biter" Rupert McNaughty, Liverpool's strangest buccaneer and part-time dress designer.

Malachi was buried at sea, and they do say as how the flowers was very tasteful.

[black bart]

This aint elpin our cause mateys but now I come ta think on it...

ye've heard of Them dastardly Barbary Pirates...well has ye heard of...The Barbie Pirates?



...and that's Ken!

[Nef Yoo BlackBeard]

OK, forum "Pirate"s....

Explain away the following ten evidences that pirate culture, as a whole, is a thinly veiled cloak for gayness.

10- "16 men on a dead man's chest"....Sick. And aren't all these "sea chanties" just a more-watery 'glee-club'?

SEXTEEN!

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ye muss b a berry speshull pywit unca kinny
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alla us udder pywitz juss git fiveteen sleepy men ta sit on dare treshsir chessis !
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[farfalla]

as many a frustrated pirate has been heard to exclaim (with feeling)

and I quote,

"Bugger, bugger, BUGGER"

(pirates --- underpants? ---- doubtful ---- let em hang, let em swing - loose and free, as fsm made em)