Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's-talk day for me!
Sep. 19th, 2008 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetzWe're rascals, scoundrels, villains, and knaves,
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
We're beggars and blighters, ne'er-do-well cads,
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,...
This is amusing only if you think piracy belongs in history books like knights in shining armour. Wearing an eyepatch and pretending to have a pegleg doesn't make you a pirate. Downloading music off the web doesn't make you a pirate. To be a pirate, you must be willing to kill anyone who gets in your way. In the year 2000, at least 15 people were killed by pirates. Piracy remains a modern-day scourge in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.
In 2003, there was this typical event:
and also this one:
Citation.
(This actually has something to do with the missing "August 6th" entry in my Mass. trip report series.)
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
We're beggars and blighters, ne'er-do-well cads,
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,...
This is amusing only if you think piracy belongs in history books like knights in shining armour. Wearing an eyepatch and pretending to have a pegleg doesn't make you a pirate. Downloading music off the web doesn't make you a pirate. To be a pirate, you must be willing to kill anyone who gets in your way. In the year 2000, at least 15 people were killed by pirates. Piracy remains a modern-day scourge in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.
In 2003, there was this typical event:
While underway, several armed uniformed men suspected to be GAM rebels in a fishing boat hijacked the fishing trawler and sailed it towards Indonesian waters, where Indonesian Marine Police confronted them. A shootout ensued in which two of the suspected GAM members on board the trawler were shot dead and another was injured. Several others in the boat escaped. The crew of the trawler and the suspected GAM members were taken for investigation.
and also this one:
While underway, several pirates in three fishing boats fired on the ship from both sides, and forced the master to stop engine. The Master sent a distress message. Pirates boarded the ship and gathered all crew on deck. They took hostage the master, chief officer and chief engineer and took them off the ship. The third officer reported to the Indonesian Navy. A Navy boat arrived and escorted the ship to Belawan anchorage. Hostages were subsequently released upon payment of ransom.
Citation.
(This actually has something to do with the missing "August 6th" entry in my Mass. trip report series.)
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Date: 2008-09-19 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-19 05:35 pm (UTC)r-Scurvy Dog
Date: 2008-09-19 08:59 pm (UTC)Are those letters? What do they say?
Re: r-Scurvy Dog
Date: 2008-09-19 09:21 pm (UTC)(actually, they're just heavily stylized storm clouds - it's a section from a really old drawing I did of my MLP character 'Rocket' (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v462/xolo/rocket.jpg))