Where have all the pirates gone?

[Griffin NoName]

YArrr!

Portsmouth Pirate Public School is right out over there. Principal Cullianane can only live and dwell here, coz phBB doesn't have strike through characters yer blaggards. There was stuff here which evolved here because of the Joomla board features.

:rofl: :pmsl:

[Black Bart]

AARRRRRRRRRRR...still here...I think!

[Griffin NoName]

Think? With that apology for a brian?  woops this isn't the insult thread.

Good ter see yers Barty

[The Black Spot]

I suppose that it's only reasonable that I let everyone know my thoughts on all of this.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I was unaware of the troubles when Venganza tore itself apart. I'd been off for a few days, and had missed the infamous public letter. The whole thing passed me by - the first I knew about it was when I was invited over to the Monastery.

Well, most of my favourite people had left TOP so I started posting here and settled in.

Then one day, someone suggested that we should try posting back at the other place. It didn't sound like a good idea at first, because the FSM Pirate Board had degenerated into a few childish rants about "Pirates v Ninjas" and "look how big this gun is." Not promising.

Anyway, we started posting, and it was a blast. Incredible fun.

Now this is the important bit: I don't think Venganza is better than here, it's just different. I post something starting "Arrr" over here and I know exactly who will be reading it. Over there, it could be anybody. You may not think this to be much of a difference, but it is to me.

Humour's a strange thing. The piratey stuff seems (to me) to flow easier when your audience is unknown. I find it easier to "let rip" when I haven't got to worry about saying the wrong thing. On the pirate boards, The Black Spot is a ghastly, boastful despot; not a very humble person at all. Sometimes it felt like I was shouting in church.

I haven't left, it just that I'm not a prolific poster.

I said that the two sites were different. They are. The people here are good, decent, respectful (and respected) human beings; over there - well, a bit of a rabble if you ask me.

[anthrobabe]

Right-- two different places
here I can be my usual refined - reserved self 
who am I kidding- I'm a total cut up!

HI BB and TBS!

It is good to have a place where one can "shout in church!"--- keeps pirates sane and all

did I just use sane and pirates in the same thought?

[Opsa]

Hee hee...

BS, BB and all Pirates:

Understood, and you're always welcome here. 


-Opsanus tau
formerly known as Sir Francis Drake
and always with pirate in me blood.

[Aggie]

Heh, I understand....   I'm on a few different fora (although I call this one the 'home forum') and they are ALL very different. 

Believe it or not, I actually play the role of the Big Bad Notoriously Drunken Pirate with the risque' sense of humour on one (the hoity toity one) and have even managed to get moderated a couple of times.  Here, I have always felt like I'm not quite able to keep up with the 'big boys' in the Pirate threads, but I've found my niche in other ways.  And there's another forum where I'm a prude compared to most of the members.

This is my home forum because I can be myself here, but I wouldn't want to have to give up my other 'characters' either, and each place allows completely different forms of self-expression.


Remember that you lads are Toadfish too...  and always welcome to lay the cutlass aside for a quiet chat when you need a break from pirating. 

[Bruder Cuzzen]

I suppose that it's only reasonable that I let everyone know my thoughts on all of this.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I was unaware of the troubles when Venganza tore itself apart....

I hadn't a clue until I logged in here  at the end of winter .

[anthrobabe]

Heh, I understand....   I'm on a few different fora (although I call this one the 'home forum') and they are ALL very different. 

Believe it or not, I actually play the role of the Big Bad Notoriously Drunken Pirate with the risque' sense of humour on one (the hoity toity one) and have even managed to get moderated a couple of times.  Here, I have always felt like I'm not quite able to keep up with the 'big boys' in the Pirate threads, but I've found my niche in other ways.  And there's another forum where I'm a prude compared to most of the members.

This is my home forum because I can be myself here, but I wouldn't want to have to give up my other 'characters' either, and each place allows completely different forms of self-expression.


Remember that you lads are Toadfish too...  and always welcome to lay the cutlass aside for a quiet chat when you need a break from pirating. 

Did you charge extra for the "moderation" 
Oh--- sorry- you were yourself moderated, so - did they charge you extra 

Self- Expression------ that's it, we Homo sapiens are all about self expression- all our synapses and such get off(literally) from use and creative use is a workout for the synapses and all...

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Happily dARR be duzzens ove treds afore uh be riting to meseff to much !

[Black Bart]

Where has bruder Curzen gone AKA Chow Mein?

[Opsa]

Scuttlebutt has it that e's paddled off to a small atoll to commune wif the island wenches until thoroughly exhausted. We hopes to see im back soon.

[Darlica]

I miss dearest Bruder Cuzzen, ain't we toadfish lasses whenchy enough for 'im?

[Opsa]

We was too wenchy for im. He went ter Polynesia ter slow down a bit. If he'd a stayed here, we woulda worn im out by now.

[Griffin NoName]

Wasn't he busy with garden or house or summat?