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At Straight Grubbin asked, where did the pirate accent come from?

Because there's no way in hell that people really talk like that.

It was invented by the actor Robert Newton when he did the Walt Disney film Treasure Island back in 1950.

He used his native Somerset accent and embellished it a bit and that created the sound of the pirate essentially.

It's a great accent but it's just one actor's view of what a pirate would sound like.

Pirates would have come from just about any port in Britain or Europe or even colonial America.

He'd no idea 60, 70, 80 years later people are using it as the established pirate accent.

It shows you the power and the impact of that film at the time and how it captured people's imagination.

At Corbynest asks, why are pirates called pirates?

Pirates really comes from a Greek word which means to attack or to rub.

Pirates existed as far back as the ancient Egyptians and then when the Romans came along their word pirates essentially meant a sea rubber.

They had whole naval patrols out trying to hunt down pirates.

Famously Pompey the Great organized a sweep through the Mediterranean to capture all the pirates he found.

They were using the term then so it's kind of stuck.

At Luca Don Mews says, what's your favorite rule of the pirate code?

We have a few examples of pirate codes and they're really codes of conduct within the ship to govern how the pirates operate on board the ship.

I like the fact that they're very democratic.

For instance, how any plunder is held in common by the pirates and divided up.

They also have ones that give you an idea of what life was like on board.

Basic things like no candles while you're gambling and drinking below decks.

Knock over a candle in a wooden ship and all hell breaks loose.

At Sean Rome One asks, what do pirates do for fun?

We don't know an awful lot about what pirates did on board but we have a few records from merchant captains taking prisoner and held on board pirate ships.

There was a lot of card playing and an awful lot of drinking.

Pirates essentially every time they looted a ship with drink in it, they would lay into the stuff.

Ships carrying things like Madeira wine was regularly imported to colonial America.

Pirates were well stocked with drink but also an awful lot of just lying around looking bored because they were waiting for a victim.

That involved a lot of long passages at sea doing very little.

I wonder if pirates really did use wooden peg legs or is this just common folklore?

They must've gotten seriously bad splinters.

Often people with peg legs were used as kooks just as Long John Silver was in Treasure Island.

Peg legs are probably the only kind of prosthetic available.

As for splinters, I'm sure that happened.

At Wheelie Average, what's the most famous non-fictional pirate through history?

Probably the instant iconic pirate is Blackbeard, Edward Teach.

He did things like placate Charleston which really upset the apple cart in colonial America.

People didn't know where he was going to attack next and for a short period, merchant ships wouldn't go to sea for the risk of being attacked by pirates.

His parents owned a plantation in Jamaica they were well off but he got the bug when he was a privateer.

He obviously liked it, he was good at it and so when he grabbed the chance he went out pirating on his own account.

At Luke 4337, it says, weren't pirates democratic and overthrew bad captains?

At the time, we're speaking about the early 18th century it was a very strained, constricted sort of lifestyle ruled by the church, ruled by laws.

They were rebelling against tyrannical merchant captains who could have them flogged or even killed without any recourse to the law.

They could vote in a captain they liked and vote out one who didn't suit their needs and that happened several times.

If the pirates weren't happy, they'd call a meeting and they would decide if the captain should stay or go.

Pirate captains like Charles Vane were deposed by their crew.

He and his crew that supported him were shoved onto this other ship and told to fend for themselves while the pirates elected a new captain, in this case, Jack Rackham and he sailed off to continue his piratical career somewhere else.

At Honey Nut Berrios, it says, pirates never actually made people walk the plank.

There's no real evidence that pirates ever did.

Barrie used the whole plot device of walking a plank to add dramatic impact to his story because pirates wouldn't bother sticking a plank out and making people walk it, except in fiction.

Normally, a pirate would just cut your throat and throw your body over the board and there's plenty of examples of that happening.

Some, like George Lowther, made a name for being almost psychopathically vicious and they would often pick on the captain of a ship that they captured as a figure of authority and they'd often torture him just to make his life a misery before killing him and throwing him overboard.

At Roars 3 said, so you're telling me Jack Sparrow wasn't a real pirate?

Well, no, he was a character beautifully played by Johnny Depp.

His inspiration for it was largely Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones because he just liked that crumpled but dynamic look.

Johnny Depp just took that, embellished it and ran with it, just like Robert Newton did all those years before with Treasure Island.

He's actually basing his look, not just in Keith Richards, but in real pirates.

That's straight from Edward Teach from Blackbeard.

He's got a captain's coat, the kind of fancy coat that a pirate captain would wear, albeit kind of shabby.

This is the sort of thing they'd steal from a boat.

The whole thing is kind of exaggerated, but underlying it, there's a sort of real pirate look in there.

Another thing with Johnny Depp is he's always a bit drunk.

Pirates did steal a lot of rum from ships.

At Beth a Cowboys makes a good point and he says, how am I supposed to pay attention in class when gay pirates exist?

Bartholomew Roberts, probably the most successful pirate in terms of the number of ships he captured, was definitely a gay pirate.

His partner was one of the crew and was equally ferocious.

In a very constricting society, being a pirate was a great place to be.

You were part of that pirate crew and they all looked after each other very well.

At Fisherbeck PB asks a great question, what's the difference between a pivoteer and a pirate?

In time of war, governments give privateers a letter of mark, basically a license to become a licensed pirate.

For instance, during Queen Anne's War, anyone could go get a letter of mark and if they had financial backing, they could gather together a crew for a ship, buy a ship and go off hunting.

Anytime that ship was captured, it was taken back to port and legally sold.

The government would get its cut about 20% and the rest was sheer profit shared between any shareholders in the enterprise and then amongst the crew.

The trouble is, when the war stopped, those licenses were terminated.

A lot of pirates had spent a lot of time learning the skills.

They didn't want to go back to the drudgery of being a regular merchant seaman.

A pirate attacks any ship regardless of nationality.

At about 1713, 1714, there was an immense upsurge of piracy, mainly in the Caribbean and the American seaboard, but also over in coasts of West Africa.

The Golden Age of Piracy, a modern term for a deadly problem.

At Marković says, why is it trying to drink off rum while watching parts of the Caribbean?

Rum and the Caribbean kind of go together.

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