what annoys me most about international talk like a pirate day, apart from the fact that it exists, is that it seems to be international talk like a pirate day once a fucking month. which means that once a month i have to put up with otherwise intelligent and entertaining people of my e-cquaintance (admittedly i do know some fairly hippy- dippy, soft- goff, reenactor- type people on the interweb) interspersing their communications with the words 'ARRR!' and 'AVAST ME HEARTIES!' willy-nilly as if doing so is by its very nature funnier than punching a homeless in the kidneys.
why does this charade persist? is it purely to annoy me? why do all these fat tie- dyed thirtysomething goths think that the words 'SHIVER ME TIMBERS!' are so inherently amusing? why are the americans so fond of taking real british history and turning it into a pathetic plastic dress- up game for beardies and c++ programmers? why do i even find that particular element of it annoying? when will 'international talk like a pirate day' incorporate ritual whippings, living in your own shit and sodomy? its what the ***** deserve.
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Do pirates have an International Talk Like A Corporate Twat Day? I think they should.
"Yar har, Cap'n, 'tis a Frenchman's sails 'pon the horizon, yarrr."
"Did you not receive the email from Corporate Pirating Affairs, Associate Explosive Device Operative Colleague? It's International Talk Like A Corporate Twat Day today."
"Ooh arr, ye be right... I mean, yes Long Managing Director Silver, I, er, wanted to flag the situation vis-a-vis the current pirating opportunity being mapped out on the horizon over the forthcoming ten minutes or so. A Euroboatman. Up the flagpole. Financial prospects improvement challenge."
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I'm ashamed to say that TMO had a 'talk like a pirate day thread' last year. It was probably about five months ago, actually, during the last annual ''talk like a pirate day'. It was Black Mask's fault.
I didn't realise anyone actually did this in the real world, though. I've never once heard a timber being shivered or someone talking only in the present tense: 'pirates only speaks in the present tense does pirates...ever since pirates begins' (The Million Pound Radio Show cira 1989)
I'm not sure if that means I'm mixing with the wrong or right people.
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Bbbbut, pirates are just inherently cool. I'd rather have two or three annual Talk In An Odd Fashion Probably Erroneously Attributed To 18th Century Naval Criminals days a year than the endless National Obscure Disease Day, National Care About Poor People Week or whatever.
It will be a sad day if I stop finding pirates cool. Like the moment that parrots swearing ceases to be the highest form of comedy.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: It will be a sad day if I stop finding pirates cool. Like the moment that parrots swearing ceases to be the highest form of comedy.
We went to Battersea Park Zoo a few weeks ago and they have mynah birds. Trouble is, there was another family standing there when we got to the cage so I had to stick to, "Hello" and "What's your name" and dull shit like that instead of a stream of filth which would have been much more entertaining for my kids. Probably for the other family's kids too now I think on. Bugger.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: Do pirates have an International Talk Like A Corporate Twat Day? I think they should.
"Yar har, Cap'n, 'tis a Frenchman's sails 'pon the horizon, yarrr."
"Did you not receive the email from Corporate Pirating Affairs, Associate Explosive Device Operative Colleague? It's International Talk Like A Corporate Twat Day today."
"Ooh arr, ye be right... I mean, yes Long Managing Director Silver, I, er, wanted to flag the situation vis-a-vis the current pirating opportunity being mapped out on the horizon over the forthcoming ten minutes or so. A Euroboatman. Up the flagpole. Financial prospects improvement challenge."
Oh lol. Dang that just caused the best lip-biting suppressed sniggering I've had all morning.
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When I first saw this thread a few weeks ago, I didn't understand it. I just assumed it was another one of those wacky Brit things that I just needed to let pass. But horrors of horrors, a co-worker just came up to me and said "Arrrrgh". What the hell do I do? How do I supress the rage?
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: What the hell do I do?
Well, they used to hang pirates on the top of cliffs along the coastline, leaving their bodies and skellingtons hanging in cages. Maybe a similar arrangement outside your office building would deter others from saying, "Arrr" or, indeed, the more extreme "Yarr-harr".
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: Well, they used to hang pirates on the top of cliffs along the coastline, leaving their bodies and skellingtons hanging in cages. Maybe a similar arrangement outside your office building would deter others from saying, "Arrr" or, indeed, the more extreme "Yarr-harr".
But there's just one of me, and hundreds of them. Hundreds of middle-aged white males wearing suits and eyepatches.
My manager just stopped by to say "Avast ye matey and prepare to have your code migrated to QA".
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This actually goes on? I've seen the stuff on Barbelith, hell, I've arrr-ed on Barbelith, because I like pirates, they're fun - but I don't want to dress up as one, nor be faced by sweaty, dead-inside middle-management males who are so affraid of introspective silence that they feel the need to do this as much as they feel the need to laugh loudest at their own jokes, I wouldn't want to be there when the laughter stops.
Now where do pirates keep their buccaneers?
Under their buccing hats
etc etc etc
er, I mean, &c.
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