Pirate Democracy  

Yeah it was a surprise to me too. Hell I knew everything sucked back then lol, and didnt get much for being hurt or anything, I didnt know they would compensate at all, hell I didnt even know they knew the word, though was probably called something else. Yeah in the army it was mostly the rich who got promoted and everyone else just stayed the same rank all the way thru.

For an interesting background on the British army, to say nothing of a cracking good tale, you could read the Bernard Cornwell Sharpe series of books. You may possibly have seen the TV series based on it, starring Sean Bean. The books and the show are about on a par for quality and enjoyment, which is unusual.

Lash

Hmmm ive heard of him, cant think of the books names right now though. Its been years, I think I might have read some of them.

Hehe your welcome :D

I find links tend to mess with my computer sometimes..I've been trying to post this answer..went to do what i'm doing now and bamm something happened and had to fix the system on the computer once again..so i try not to click on links cause now i wasted another hour when i could have been doing what i'm doing now..

Yeah I knew hollywood had too, but not how much they had. Hell if someone went back in time probably wouldnt have even recognized a real pirate lol.

Yeah all you usually hear about are the bad ones and make it like they were all like that. I doubt all of them were like robin hood though lol, hell look at blackbeard, im sure there were a few like him out there.

Your welcome :D

Yeah it does sound like it huh lol. I didnt even let that persons comment bother me one way or the other lol. Since I highly doubt real admin would actually post something somewhere lol.

That was a very strange profile and I do not believe it has anything to do with real admin. I do not think they would do that.

It apparently wasn't real. That suspicious character started a discussion like the one Crash did probably back around February of 2008, except without a prize for BR. Not sure if anyone saw it before it went bye-bye, but I left comments under several people's responses of "Test comment for (that guy) to delete." I even pointed out a guideline violation that I caught, saying a REAL moderator or admin would not have done that. Oh - yeah - at the same time, someone else who was skeptical got his response in like maybe 10 seconds before me, & he & I joked around a bit there.

Naw it wasnt real lol, I know who it was lol.

Was it a pirate?

All I know is that it wasn't me.

Thats cool, I watch the History channel a lot too, but hadnt seen anything quite like this.

That is cool, I didnt know anyone tried to make a commune back then. Of course not like they would let that be known at all lol. Im surprised they just didnt kill the people so their new ideas wouldnt spread.

Yes well when I read about it I said oh they were building a commune and my lecturer said no because that word did not exist back then. They had no words for what they were doing they just thought that if everyone pooled all their stuff and shared it then they would all be better off. Tricky thing studying history is that you have to try and see it as they saw it.

I am pretty sure that this was one of the groups that came out of the English Civil War when Cromwell and his puritans took over and I think the group were ex soldiers who decided they would be better off working as a group. They were right. Their problem was that common land did not belong to the commoners. It was land that the lords allowed the commoners to use by some old law and later was taken back when the land was fenced, called the enclosure period.

This was a fascinating time in history with many religious sects starting up and new ideas forming. I loved studying the history of ideas. It is fascinating to see people coming up with ideas for which there is no language and trying to explain it to others. You see new words forming.

Yeah thats true.

Lol hell yes it counts. Im a pirate and proud to be one lol. And we all have codes and stuff too lol. Like dont leech without sharing is a big one lol. WOohooo I got an A+ yay :D:D. Hell I hardly ever got those in school lol.