don't do it.

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• HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or you’ll walk the plank.

  I just watched a video about “walking the plank” and found out it is a myth. pirates never did this. They just killed traitors and threw their bodies overboard.

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  • mobyduck648@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Golden age pirates were generally fairly rational economic actors, they wanted to terrorise you into a quick surrender and potentially recruit from the defeated merchant crew. Once you’d surrendered they usually had little need for theatrics like walking the plank, while there absolutely were brutes who’d dish out violence for the fun of it this wasn’t the favoured outcome generally because it’s expensive to the pirates. It’s why the pirate flag is so important, just possessing one is enough to hang you so it’s a reliable way of saying ‘we’re outside the ordinary rules of engagement, do you really want this fight?’

    Of course, if you fight they might quite instrumentally make an example of you to enhance their reputation, and increase the chance of future surrenders. If every pirate captain did that to every ship though, he wouldn’t be in business long.

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My understanding is pirate culture is totally different from people’s idea. For example the captain was either second in command or on same level of command as the quarter master, except in times of battle.

      I forget which pirate it was but atleast one of them had a rule that was something like “any crew who forces themselves onto a woman without her permission shall be immediately executed” and some of them had curfew banning singing and drinking after sunset.

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    • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But keelhauling was a real thing which is like 10 times more gruesome and a proper torturing method than just walking some plank like a drama student

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The navy ship I served the longest on hand an poopdeck, it was also the designated smoking spot when we were underway.

  All of us nonsmokers would make jokes about someone going off to suck a fag or two on the poopdeck

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  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “I’m just off to see if i can bum a fag on the poopdeck”

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  THF WOBD BOOBDFCK

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Poop deck, from the french puppis, meaning stern… Aka the back part of a ship.

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    AKA the pooper

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can we launch at seamen?

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  😆

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