Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I watch ID all day long. It is my favorite channel. I am particularly enjoying FBI Files more than when it used to air.
Do cats have aborted hairball pukes? Immanuel just stopped and sort of jerkily wheezed twice, and then went back to chasing. I hope he didn't eat a feather or the mouse he had in his mouth all night.
Yes. Devi sometimes makes herself gag.
I think this is an ad for a home of the vintage I'm buying, in the hood: [link] Can't really tell, but the layout and pictures look right.
Wow! That is so cool! Where did you find it?! I wonder if there's something similar out there for my house?
Yeah, the pirates in the time the classic pirate stories were set were not nice guys either. I mean if they took a ship, mostly everybody on board from captain to ordinary sailor got killed, possibly with torture for the entertainment value. Or sold as slaves. Sometimes captains and and people with rich relatives were taken captive and ransomed, but that was a hell of a lot of trouble, so not the normal course of things. Occasionally someone on a captured ship might be recruited as a pirate. But again rare, and even when it happened, that would would one or two in a crew of dozens. Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates.
I'd just googled the 'hood and some other stuff (builder, year) not sure what combo did it. That got me to the special collections stuff and I just clickityclicked everything. But try starting at [link] with your street or something like that.
Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates.
Like with so much, the distance of time adds romance.
That whole walking the plank thing is only cool when our hero manages to escape. Pirate fiction glosses over the death sentence aspect.
Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates
Not even Dear Grandpa Jan Jansen, AKA Murat Reis of the Turkish Salee Rovers. Probably not a guy I'd want to have show up at the family reunion.
Depends on your family ... got any relatives you'd like keelhauled?
Depends on your family ... got any relatives you'd like keelhauled?
Not anymore. Hmm . . .
edit: The image of a straitlaced Puritan/Protestant family reunion being attended by a Moslem-converted, Dutch pirate who joined up because he hated Catholics so much is amusing. Especially if he turned up with appropriate entourage and attended by his Bedouin wife and adored concubine.