What is your stance on pirates?

Ninja and zombies are better.

In my honest opinion, you can be a pirate for the right or for the wrong reasons. Nowadays you can only occasionally afford a trip on a cruise ship. It's not a necessity, but I think curiosity is found deep within every human being. If you want to satisfy your hunger for adventure - I'm not judging you. Sometimes people are born into this and they have to support their family by tagging along or you simply don't know what else to do. If your way of life is not allowing a change anytime soon and it has no harmful impact on everybody else's life - I won't judge you. Bad reasons could be summed up as 'just for the sake of wrecking other ships' or even more importantly, kidnapping people and demanding ransoms. Big no-no.

The only pirates worth mentioning are the Lagoon Company from Black Lagoon.

I did enjoy being pirate in AC4, was not fully immersed in Sid Meier's version of it due to some substantial lacking

Pirates are wonderful people.

Hard working people who do what they must to survive in cruel capitalist world.

everyone loves Jack Sparrow! [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY]U now the tale of Captain Jack Sparrow?[/url]

I started loving pirates as soon as i read Captain Blood. Awesome book...

Old, but relevant, heh: http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf

Movies, tv shows, games - Okay.
But pirates in reality? They're thieves (and some of them murderers), so... THIS

I love the One Piece pirates.

Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Also i'd love to be a pirate in a one piece-like world.

Pirates wore eye patches to keep one eye dilated, so when they went into the hull they could flip the eye patch up and see in the dark.

Thanks for teaching me this

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Pirates are our friends!

"... a decline in the number of pirates over the years is the cause of global warming" - Bobby Henderson

Anyone else having pasta for lunch? :D

Better then ninjas any day. And i have the facts to put this debate to a conclusion for good:

Ninjas had extensive training, healthy lives and obeyed a master- tottaly submissive.

Pirates? They were more awesome, more feared, learned things the hard way, didn't attack anyone 'sleeping'(for lack of chance but whatever, they had balls) and weren't submissive to authority, all the while dealing with scorbut and other sick stuff.
More badasses missing an eye and a leg. You can't beat that.

I guess I have to like them, since there's an International Talk Like a Pirate Day on my birthday.