13 Bizarre Pirate Traditions Most People Don't Know About
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Published 2019-08-21
Pirates had a surprisingly complex culture, and what’s crazier to us is that movies have barely scratched the surface of their traditions.
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All Comments (21)
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Pirates are neat. Glad I could join in their ranks when I downloaded a song from a sketchy website back in 2006. They've really dropped the threshold for entry.
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I find it fascinating that some pirates in history essentially became their own nation-states, just on water. They had their own laws, customs, and diplomatic relations with different sovereigns. They would conduct raids on their enemies and enter into alliances with their friends. I'm sure they were less centralized than the average land-based state, but regardless, the fact that they did all this is such an interesting take on the more traditional model of statecraft/governance. The pirates around Pentos around the time of Mithridates acted like this, or Ching Shih's pirates in Qin China also comes to mind.
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"...Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate." ―Jack Sparrow
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Everything was fine until I heard "syringe in his urethra"
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This still doesn’t explain why the rum is gone
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One interesting tidbit about pirate culture: in an era when blacks were enslaved by the Europeans, they were actually free and treated as equals within the pirate ships and communities.
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"That's somewhere between $20,000 to.... $600,000." Lol. Thanks for narrowing down that estimation for me, so precisely. Haha. That was awesome.
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(talking about gay pirates) "- a special, serious sort of SEAMENSHIP." I see what you did there. Bravo!
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What's a pirate's favourite letter? You'd think it'd be "R", but their first love is always the "C"
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Why are pirates called pirates?? They just Arrrrrrr.... 😳
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"I've got a jar of dirt"
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It's a good day when the algorithm brings you an unknown quality channel that's right up your alley!!!
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" Sorry to see you there but if you'd fought like a man, you would not have been hanged like a dog. " Sounds so savage and badass 👏 .
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“East? I thought you said Weast” - Patrick Star
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I cant believe how much Im enjoying all these terrible Dad-jokes about Pirates 🤦
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What did the lesbian pirate say to the other lesbian pirate? Yarr matey, scissor me timbers
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gay pirates, this is what i subscribed for
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“Blackbeard scared the absolute shit out of everyone”
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It makes sense about the eye patch being used to preserve night vision. There is a chemical in the eye known as visual purple which gives you better night vision. The longer you keep the eye covered, the more visual purple you will accumulate. The rods in the eye have a slight night vision capability but you have to shift your eyes back and forth so the rods come into play. If you stare in one spot too long the image bleaches out and turns white. I also have heard it speculated that some pirates WERE blind in one eye from using a sextant. It is a navigational tool that has a small telescope on it Sighting in on the North star at night you could find out your location. During the day however, you had to use the sun instead of the north star. Modern day sextants have filters to protect your eye but I doubt if they had them back then. Might have been the cause of some blind pirates.
