Polish pirates

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Edited by: isthatu2 Mar 14, 11, 16:30 #31

JonnyM:

"I really wasn't used to the hook yet."

killer.....

Des Essientes:

My niece attends a rather hippy-ish private primary school here in California and it bans pirate costumes from its Halloween celebrations because pirates still exist, especially in South-East Asian waters, and they are brutal murderers.

Oh,thats priceless,I thought my mum was at bonkers hippy level mark 9 ( I wasnt allowed toy soldiers or army guns,but,could have toy knights and cowboys and indians and cowboy guns.....) but,wow....reminds me of a lecture me and a couple of mates got about the horrors of napalm after being caught playing a rowdy game of Zulus and Red Coats aged 9 by one of our more lfty teachers.......pointing out that they didnt have napalm in 1878 didnt do me any favours,but pointed out to the know it all git I try not to be to this day :)

Des EssientesThreads: 11 Posts: 2,318 Joined: Feb 6, 10 ♂ [Suspended]	Mar 14, 11, 16:40 #32
isthatu2: I wasnt allowed toy soldiers or army guns,but,could have toy knights and cowboys and indians and cowboy guns The school my niece attends bans all toy guns and once one little boy was even sent home for the day because he pretended a bent stick was a gun and "shot" at his classmates!

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Mar 14, 11, 16:43 #33

Des Essientes:

especially in South-East Asian waters, and they are brutal murderers.

It's certainly getting worse month by month off the coast of Somalia. A real problem. And the Somali pirates are getting bolder. Certainly none of them are Polish, but some of the crew members taken by them are.

I have to do a course soon about what to do if attacked by pirates. Should be interesting, but I hope I'll never need it.

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,225 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Mar 14, 11, 16:46 #34
JonnyM: I have to do a course soon about what to do if attacked by pirates. Ive located a training aid for you;

BarneyThreads: 16 Posts: 1,630 Joined: May 26, 08 ♂	Mar 14, 11, 16:48 #35
JonnyM: I have to do a course soon about what to do if attacked by pirates. You escape by plunging a knife into a sail and sliding down holding the handle.

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,225 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Mar 14, 11, 16:57 #36
Barney: You escape by plunging a knife into a sail and sliding down holding the handle. lols,I was going to reference captain blood ,but thought ,nah,to obscure :) Ok,heres one,you turn the jolly boat upside down and walk ashore in the airbubble...... Polish related....er,30 odd Poles were extras on board the Surprise ;)

BorrkaThreads: 49 Posts: 770 Joined: Apr 25, 08 ♂	Mar 14, 11, 17:49 #37
"We can hardly exclude Polish pirates in the famous Klaus Störtebeker's Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) but no historical proofs as far I know." BB, no historical proofs for Poles present in Störtebeker's crew, that's what I mean. Störtebeker was a well known and historically proven Robin Hood (captain Hook ?) of Alemannia :) No doubt about his existence !

Bratwurst BoyThreads: 11 Posts: 14,563 Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂	Mar 14, 11, 17:56 #38
Ach so... :)

ShawnHThreads: 9 Posts: 3,056 Joined: Jul 2, 09 ♂	Mar 14, 11, 17:58 #39
Barney: You escape by plunging a knife into a sail and sliding down holding the handle. Debunked on Myth Busters.....

southernThreads: 116 Posts: 10,955 Joined: May 17, 07 ♂	Mar 15, 11, 20:05 #40
I can imagine a pirate yelling kurwa!Kurwa enemy ship in horizon.Etc.However as we know the biggest pirates in Mediteranean were Berbers and Greeks and the latter paid a huge contribution to greek revolution against Turks by turning several turkish battleships into candles.

Des EssientesThreads: 11 Posts: 2,318 Joined: Feb 6, 10 ♂ [Suspended]	Mar 15, 11, 23:32 #41
southern: However as we know the biggest pirates in Mediteranean were Berbers and Greeks The United States of America fought its first overseas war against the Berber pirates from 1801 to 1805.

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Edited by: southern Mar 15, 11, 23:51 #42

Yes,the Barbary pirates were the most successful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirate

''From the 16th to 19th century, pirates captured an estimated 800,000 to 1.25 million people as slaves.''

Once they even invaded England and thousands of blonde english women were sold in the slave bazars in Tripoli.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.s html

Slaves were at that time equal opportunity.

''Slaves in Barbary could be black, brown or white, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim.''

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Edited by: isthatu2 Mar 16, 11, 00:15 #43

Borrka:

Störtebeker was a well known and historically proven Robin Hood (captain Hook ?) of Alemannia :)

In that case,hats off to stortebeker :)

ShawnH:

Debunked on Myth Busters.....

Aye, sails were never a single sheat of canvas,he'd get tangled every 6 feet or so in the rope and stiching ....but sshhhh,its a movie :)

Des Essientes:

The United States of America fought its first overseas war against the Berber pirates from 1801 to 1805.

hence "...to the shores of Tripoli.." in the USMC Hymn.

southern:

Once they even invaded England and thousands of blonde english women were sold in the slave bazars in Tripoli.

They regularly raided the south west coast of england and southern Ireland,did it hundreds of times over the centuries,an entire village also disapeared in ireland.

Des Essientes:

The United States of America fought its first overseas war against the Berber pirates from 1801 to 1805

technicaly,yes,but the fledgling US navy did raid a town in North West england during the revoloutionary wars.

ShawnHThreads: 9 Posts: 3,056 Joined: Jul 2, 09 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 00:41 #44
isthatu2: Aye, sails were never a single sheat of canvas,he'd get tangled every 6 feet or so in the rope and stiching ....but sshhhh,its a movie :) That, and the fact that his wrist wouldn't be strong enough to support his own load... Oh, also, his rate of descent would probably result in broken ankles, at the very least!

Mr GrunwaldThreads: 34 Posts: 2,358 Joined: Dec 16, 08 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 00:48 #45
So adding any Polish pirates to "Pirates of the Caribean" would be "wrong"?

ShortHairThugThreads: - Posts: 1,375 Joined: May 1, 09 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 00:54 #46
Mr Grunwald: So adding any Polish pirates to "Pirates of the Caribean" would be "wrong"? Not really, read up on what happen to the Polish legions in Haiti, even an Irishman that made his fortune in the 2 short years they prowled those waters settled in Warsaw a rich man.

JonnyMThreads: 16 Posts: 4,487 Joined: Mar 9, 11 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 00:56 #47
ShortHairThug: an Irishman that made his fortune in the 2 short years they prowled those waters settled in Warsaw a rich man. Interesting!! Do you know his name. Worth reading up on.

ShortHairThugThreads: - Posts: 1,375 Joined: May 1, 09 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 01:00 #48
Ignacy Blumer (O'Bloomer) but you won’t find this interesting trivia in his English biography as not to tarnish his good name.

JonnyMThreads: 16 Posts: 4,487 Joined: Mar 9, 11 ♂	Edited by: JonnyM Mar 16, 11, 01:29 #49
ShortHairThug: Ignacy Blumer (O'Bloomer) An interesting guy. Searching for him, I found this, about some other Polish pirates - a big surprise! I suspect very few people, even in Poland, know about these guys. You learn something new every day. http://www.magistravel.pl/en/piraci.html

ShortHairThugThreads: - Posts: 1,375 Joined: May 1, 09 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 01:36 #50
Good find: Olszewski exploits were published in a Warsaw weekly “Wędrowiec” at the end of the 19th century.

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,225 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 01:59 #51
ShortHairThug: Ignacy Blumer (O'Bloomer) but you won’t find this interesting trivia in his English biography as not to tarnish his good name. lols,because as everyone knows the english would never want to tarnish the good name of an irishman ;)

rybnikThreads: 29 Posts: 1,232 Joined: Jan 16, 11 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 02:02 #52
Des Essientes: My niece attends a rather hippy-ish private primary school here in California and it bans pirate costumes from its Halloween celebrations because pirates still exist, especially in South-East Asian waters, and they are brutal murderers. Really? But it's Jack Sparrow! How sad :(

ShortHairThugThreads: - Posts: 1,375 Joined: May 1, 09 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 02:09 #53
isthatu2: because as everyone knows the english would never want to tarnish the good name of an irishman ;) Actually a Pole of an Irish ancestry but his Wiki entry won’t have this as it was a small episode in his life and he is a Polish Hero after all. ;)

BarneyThreads: 16 Posts: 1,630 Joined: May 26, 08 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 02:10 #54
isthatu2: sshhhh,its a movie :) No, I saw a documentary from the 30s presented by Douglas Fairbanks Jnr....

A JThreads: 19 Posts: 4,639 Joined: May 21, 10 ♂	Mar 16, 11, 12:15 #55
southern: What about polish pirates? Try piratebay.org? ;)

skysoulmateThreads: 41 Posts: 3,039 Joined: Jan 10, 10 ♂	Edited by: skysoulmate Mar 16, 11, 15:46 #56
A J: southern: What about polish pirates? Try piratebay.org? ;) Sorry, those are primarily Swedish pirates (Vikings lol). "...The Pirate Bay was started by the swedish anti copyright organization Piratbyrån in the late 2003, but in October 2004 it separated became run by dedicated individuals..." http://thepiratebay.org/about

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