Comments on: Have ye forgotten then?

Have ye forgotten then?

Lynsey — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:36:27 -0800

Arr! Have ye scurvy dogs forgotten then? It's officially Talk Like A Pirate Day so ye best start using the pirate lingo, else ye be walkin' the plank!

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:37:30 -0800

No.

By: Egg Shen

Egg Shen — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:41:34 -0800

Not "forgotten" so much as "didn't care enough to remember in the first place".

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:42:24 -0800

We actually had a Talk Like A Pirate post this morning, but it had a couple of fuckery self-links in it. So I guess today I am celebrating Ban Like A British Navy Captain day.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:43:08 -0800

I have not yet figured out why this is a thing.

By: inturnaround

inturnaround — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:45:32 -0800

I thought it was "Walk Like a Pirate Day", so I've been walking like I have syphilis and a severe bladder stone.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:47:08 -0800

Arrr! I actually fully support type-on-the-internet-like-a-pirate-day, but I think I would prefer a consolidation with CAPSLOCK day. so, to re-iterate: ARRRR!

By: needs more cowbell

needs more cowbell — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:48:26 -0800

I was excited about this for the first few years I knew about it, but now it's kind of boring and annoying.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:50:03 -0800

Not Even Pirates Spoke "Pirate" :(

By: 2bucksplus

2bucksplus — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:51:30 -0800

Ye best start believing in pirate threads. You're in one!

By: needled

needled — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:54:47 -0800

I was amused that tech publisher O'Reilly is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day with discounted R books.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:54:58 -0800

FUCK DRM. GODDAMNIT, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE. MY BITTORRENTS! LET ME SHOW THEM TO YOU!

or, if you prefer,
GIVE ME THE GODDAMNED KEYS TO THE CARGO OR I WILL SPLATTER YOUR CHILDRENS BRAINS ON THE DECK OF THIS BOAT.

also, piracy reporting center.

By: zarq

zarq — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:55:32 -0800

I have not yet figured out why this is a thing.

I'm guessing they're hoping people will give them rum.

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:58:44 -0800

d00d this office keygen u gave me had kenzero wtf

By: cribcage

cribcage — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:01:02 -0800

Why is this a MetaTalk thread?

By: Grither

Grither — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:03:28 -0800

You know why pirates wore eyepatches? Not because they were missing an eye. It was so they could be fighting with swords on the deck outside in the bright sun, and then when they go to the dark-ass interior, they would switch the patch/flip it up and use their already dark sensitive eye underneath the patch to fight belowdecks!

The more you know.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:06:24 -0800

wait. you're saying if I comply with this pirate thing, I could be given rum?!

ARRR, believe you, me: I be sore committed t' th' entire shipmate dialogue endeavour, what wi' th' walkin' o' planks an' shiverin' o' timbers. As I be clearly Captain material, I need nay worry about swabbin' th' deck, but I be always ready fer any swashbucklin' tasks that need doin'. As long as thar`s some good spicy rum in 't fer me, anyway.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:07:40 -0800

You know why pirates wore eyepatches?

asavage already told us that, dude.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:12 -0800

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF COKE ZERO!

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:12:04 -0800

Talk Like A Pirate Day marks the anniversary of when my wife and I spoke for the first time. In this case, 10 years ago. I know I don't normally talk like a pirate and I suspect that she doesn't either, but it's amazing the way these little white lies early on in a relationship just compound and become the status quo. We even named our kid after a pirate in order to keep the illusion that we're Pirate People going. Some day, I hope, we'll be able to come clean to each other, but if that happens, who knows what other secrets will come out?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:13:56 -0800

I have a Letter Of Marque from the crown so I will celebrate Talk Like A Perfectly Respectable Privateer Day

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:17:55 -0800

cortex: "We actually had a Talk Like A Pirate post this morning, but it had a couple of fuckery self-links in it. So I guess today I am celebrating Ban Like A British Navy Captain day."

He is a mod most in-de-fat-i-gable!
He bans when e'er he's able!

By: 4ster

4ster — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:19:13 -0800

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:19:32 -0800

what do you mean, "wrong musical"?

By: Grither

Grither — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:26:21 -0800

EmpressCallipygos: "asavage already told us that, dude."

Where do you think he learned it from??

I just like that fact, sheesh, do we have to cite EVERYTHING we say now?
we probably do, don't we? Sigh.

By: Jehan

Jehan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:26:51 -0800

The thing is, if you've ever heard of The Wurzels, pirate speech has lost all cred.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:27:45 -0800

But I am a pirate. This is how I talk.

Fuck stereotypes.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:28:17 -0800

I'm not very good with accents/dialects, so I don't even try. Sorry to ruin y'all's fun with my inability to mimic dialects.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:38:02 -0800

Is this even really a Thing? I've never actually heard anyone talk like a pirate on this day. All I see are a bunch of Facebook and Twitter and Metafilter comments where people say "YAR! IT BE TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!" and that's usually the extent of it.

I think if anyone actually came up to me and talked like a pirate I'd just sort of give them A Look and walk away.

Also, I always heard pirates wore eye patches because they blew out their eyes sighting on the sun with their sextant.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:46:15 -0800

Only 10k download speeds? Seed, you fucking parasites!

By: Melismata

Melismata — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:47:02 -0800

I prefer the old jivenet. Slap ma fro'!

By: TedW

TedW — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:49:55 -0800

Don't pirates speak Somali?

By: Iridic

Iridic — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:00:18 -0800

One of the little secret twists in Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom is that the 17th century pirate captain who spews the most jargon is almost certainly an undercover time traveler. Most of his lingo ("lay o' the land," "set her cap") dates from the 1800s.

By: Devils Slide

Devils Slide — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:12:14 -0800

Huufarkarafkayga waxaa ka buuxa kallumayso!

Hey, I did speak like a pirate...a Somali one. That means "My hovercraft is full of fish."

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:28:25 -0800

cortex: "We actually had a Talk Like A Pirate post this morning, but it had a couple of fuckery self-links in it. So I guess today I am celebrating Ban Like A British Navy Captain day."

He is a mod most in-de-fat-i-gable!
He bans when e'er he's able!

He is the very model of a modern Meta moderator.

By: jenkinsEar

jenkinsEar — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:32:44 -0800

I thought it was:
Huufarkarafkayga waxaa ka buuxa eels

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:38:52 -0800

Talk Like a Pirate Day is like International Bacon Day. Except I eat bacon on International Bacon Day.

But seriously: This morning, the extremely hip and with it local news team was all about Talk Like a Pirate Day. Especially the co-anchor who kept saying "Arrrrgh." She must have mistaken it for Talk Like an Aggravated Pirate Day. The fool. That's in May.

By: Devils Slide

Devils Slide — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:43:15 -0800

I thought it was:
Huufarkarafkayga waxaa ka buuxa eels

It is, but I wanted to avoid using an English word.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:44:22 -0800

I updated to iOS 6 and felt nothing.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:45:42 -0800

Somali pirates speak Arabic, which sounds much nicer than your mongrel English even when they're talking about launching RPGs at container ships.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:47:17 -0800

The new Siri wench isn't all she's cracked up to be, eh Burhanistan.

By: MsMolly

MsMolly — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:53:38 -0800

needs more cowbell: I was excited about this for the first few years I knew about it, but now it's kind of boring and annoying.

No no. We save sentences like that for Talk Like a Hipster Day.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:03:49 -0800

I updated to iOS 6 and felt nothing.

Did you post that to Facebook?!

By: bukvich

bukvich — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:10:06 -0800

THERE IS ACTUALLY REAL PIRATE NEWS TODAY NOT JUST FAKE STUFF.

THIS IS MY FAVORITEST PIRATE ARRRR.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:15:40 -0800

I liked Talk Like a Pirate day back when we used to have to do it in person. I'm not sure what kind of hipster that makes me, probably just old.

By: patheral

patheral — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:40:23 -0800

I have my Facebook set to "Pirate" speak (because it's funny!), so talk like a pirate day doesn't do much for me.

By: Podkayne of Pasadena

Podkayne of Pasadena — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:43:55 -0800

I am the very model of a modern day Bit Torrenter,
I watch my first run movies more quickly than I oughter to,
And each week I watch the Doctor before you are able to,
I am the very model of a modern day Bit Torrenter !

Arrrggghhhh !

By: InfidelZombie

InfidelZombie — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:56:53 -0800

Pirate Love

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:08:24 -0800

This thread is now post your banal iOS 6 panorama shots.

Here's the shower in my office restroom.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:09:28 -0800

I made up these "ha-ha-the-other-kind-of-pirate" jokes on Facebook (though I can't possibly be the originator of the first one):

Q: What was the pirate's favorite Californian city?

A: Torrance.

Q: Name two pirate horror movies.

A: THE BAD SEED and THE GIANT LEECHES

You guys, I kind of hate myself. Like a lot.

By: corb

corb — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:20:19 -0800

So I guess today I am celebrating Ban Like A British Navy Captain day.

I'll get the rum, sodomy, and the lash ready.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:29:59 -0800

I say, is that a frigate?

By: mazola

mazola — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:39:22 -0800

Is this where I get to mention that I pronounce 'Pirates' like 'Pilates'?

Takeaway: I'm much more annoying in real life.

By: charred husk

charred husk — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:58:05 -0800

I've always assumed Talk Like a Pirate Day was one of those early memes that helped early internet users identify themselves as being "in the know" about the information superhighway. It feels very Usenet, for some reason.

Unlike caps lock day, which is universally awesome.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:01:30 -0800

Double the rum and hold the lash for me, matey. I'll let ye know about the sodomy ere sundown.

By: still_wears_a_hat

still_wears_a_hat — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:02:55 -0800

"I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?"
"Often!"
"Yes, orphan. Have you ever known what it is to be one?"
"I say, often."
"Often, often, often."
"I don't think we quite understand one another. I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan, and you say "orphan". As I understand you, you are merely repeating the word "orphan" to show that you understand me."
"I didn't repeat the word often."
"Pardon me, you did indeed."
"I only repeated it once."
"True, but you repeated it."
"But not often."

By: darksasami

darksasami — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:29:13 -0800

I work in a major technical support center, and believe me, in certain circles Talk Like a Pirate Day is alive and well and annoying. Except for the bags of Pirate's Booty that management handed out. Those are less annoying. They are bootylicious.

By: BeeDo

BeeDo — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:36:05 -0800

A pirate walks into a bar with a ship's wheel stuffed in the front of his pants.

The bartender says, "Hey pirate, why do you have a ship's wheel stuffed in the front of your pants?"

The pirate says "Yarrr, it be drivin' me nuts."

By: newmoistness

newmoistness — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:36:29 -0800

Arrrhh, ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him! I wash my hands of this matter! Arrrhh!

Wait, what?

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:17:05 -0800

This got real old sometime around 2004.

By: bukvich

bukvich — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:33:08 -0800

This will never get old you scurvy dog.

By: emmtee

emmtee — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:12:33 -0800

I've 8een talking like a pir8 all day thankyou very much!!!!!!!!

By: saveyoursanity

saveyoursanity — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:16:10 -0800

I met up with MeFi people today! Unfortunately, their MeFi usernames I don't really remember (something about a hockey player, possibly?) but whose real names I do remember (mostly because they are now programmed into my phone) -- via a strange chain of events that led to me visiting #mefi on slashnet and then bitching about Iowa wherein someone was like 'OH HEY I LIVE THERE'

then we met up and they have an extremely cute baby. That is not the point. The point is this:

I was really considering wearing an eyepatch, because Talk Like a Pirate Day, but mostly I didn't feel like I could pull it off, so instead I went with the otherwise nerdiest ensemble possible that was unweird enough to pass for normal on the first glance so that they would recognize me: Star Trek t-shirt which proudly states that Vulcan girls do it with logic, a circuit board necklace, earrings made from repurposed motherboards, and a Slytherin scarf. I thought to myself: perfect! I am completely unmistakable for anything other than the world's biggest geek!

... then I got to the restaurant where they were meeting me for lunch and the fuckers beat me there.

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:32:37 -0800

/sets fire to a unicorn, a ninja, a zombie and some bacon.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:47:29 -0800

Is this where I get to mention that I pronounce 'Pirates' like 'Pilates'?

For a couple years after Pilates became a thing, I was pretty sure it was pronounced to rhyme with "pirates." I guess I don't spend much time face-to-face with members of the Pilate-doing demographic. (Wait, is there a singular form? Can you have one Pilate? They need to put up a FAQ on this stuff....)

By: hellojed

hellojed — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:49:12 -0800

Pirates by themselves have been played the hell out, you need to add in a few superlatives to it. For example: Space. Space Pirates. That's hella interesting. Space ninjas. Woah now, this is really going places now. SPACE ZOMBIES. Feel that? that's your pop-cultural ennui evaporating.

All I need now is for someone to get me 5 minutes to a Cartoon Network Executive, and I can pitch Puppy Space Pirates.

By: kengraham

kengraham — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:59:20 -0800

Wait, is there a singular form?

Yes, he's called Pontius.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:15:54 -0800

Arrrhh!

Sailors seem to rather testily insist that it is "yar." Adjust your jokes accordingly, lest ye be belayed.

By: tangerine

tangerine — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:20:29 -0800

mazola and nebulawindphone, something like that pronunciation confusion is exactly what got poor Frederick in trouble in the first place.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:23:41 -0800

Space pirates with space zombies?

firefly was cancelled YEARS ago, move on people.

By: running order squabble fest

running order squabble fest — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:25:39 -0800

Sailors seem to rather testily insist that it is "yar." Adjust your jokes accordingly, lest ye be belayed.

Wait, like in The Philadelphia Story? That explains a lot...

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:44:34 -0800

Gimme the Loot

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:45:11 -0800

Feds Charrrge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Arrrticles

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:49:15 -0800

What kind of exercise do pirates enjoy the most?

Caarrrrdiovascular.

What is the most likely part of a car engine to break down in a pirate's Buick?

The haarrrrmonic balancer.

What area of physics is of greatest interest to pirates?

Qaarrrrks (especially chaarrrrm).

By: mule98J

mule98J — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:49:41 -0800

Knock knock

who's there?

Arrrrrhhgho

Arrrrrhhgho who?

Arrrrrhhghofukyursef.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:57:13 -0800

Who is my personal hero on Talk Like a Pirate Day?

Stephen Decaturrrrrrrr.

By: tickingclock

tickingclock — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:03:43 -0800

By: double block and bleed

double block and bleed — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:29:25 -0800

I went to Long John Silver's yesterday because my blood cholesterol was dangerously low. They had a deal where you had to talk like a pirate to get a free piece of fish.

I asked the lady at the window if a lot of people had spoken to her like a pirate. She rolled her eyes, sighed deeply and said, "Yes. You're supposed to talk like a pirate to get the free fish. If I could live the rest of my life and never hear someone trying to speak like a pirate, that would be wonderful." I told her that I was sorry and that I didn't need free fish badly enough to do that to her. She smiled and thanked me.

The entire meal, for myself and my kids, was free.

By: h00py

h00py — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:55:08 -0800

Oi likes to eat my friends and make no bones about it.

By: thelonius

thelonius — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:06:01 -0800

I think it is possible that this has become kind of played out.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:14:58 -0800

Ahoy to this thread.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:21:08 -0800

Congratulations Admiral Morgan

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:07:29 -0800

The entire meal, for myself and my kids, was free.

If you look at this another way, that was Blackmail Like a Pirate Day.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:29:17 -0800

"A DRUNKEN woman stole a passenger ferry on the River Dart and shouted 'I'm Jack Sparrow' and 'I'm a pirate' as she drifted away from police on the shore, a court has been told."

By: mephron

mephron — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:19:34 -0800

When I worked for Citigroup, people heard about this and tried to do the talking like pirates thing.

They weren't good at it. At all. And they kept trying and failing. The entire place sounded like someone took the pre-movie Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World and spliced it together with 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and they thought they were ever so funny and witty and aren't we cool. And I lost some hearing trying not to listen to them, especially when they would answer the emergency call-in line doing it, and try to get other people, many of whom were going crazy with technical issues, to talk like them when they should have been helping resolve network outages and crashed servers.

And that's why I kind of hate this thing.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:44:00 -0800

Congratulations Admiral Morgan

Fox And Friends: Obama Spurns Netanyahu For Pirate (He Didn't)

By: double block and bleed

double block and bleed — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:34:18 -0800

GenjiandProust: "The entire meal, for myself and my kids, was free.

If you look at this another way, that was Blackmail Like a Pirate Day."

Nah, she was just sharing the loot.