Talk Like A Pirate Day
Yes, its that time of year again. September the 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. And so we should. I'm looking forward to using in every phone inquiry tomorrow a hearty-sounding, "Blistering barnacles!" But seriously, why have we never given pirates the credit they deserve? After all, Australia owes its existence to them. Aye, we do. William Dampier was thoroughly piratish - looting and pillaging in the New World before being commissioned by the British to explore Australia's coastline. His maps helped James Cook find Botany Bay. At that time (the 17th century) the colonial powers were using their Navy to loot and pillage everyone else's merchant ships. Pirates were simply the sensible ones who decided that if their government wanted them to rob they might as well go independent and keep more of a fair share of the loot for themselves.
Their radical creed was equality - something they could never enjoy on an extremely hierarchial Navy ship. Furthermore they wanted fair working conditions. The Navy was notorious for not paying its sailors when they returned home. It was this radical, rebellious concept of egalitarianism that fed into Australia's founding colonies. Those that perpetuated the concept included the participants in the Eureka Stockade, Ned Kelly and Mary MacKillop. All of these people were persecuted by the government authorities of the time but we now honour them for defending the fair-go.
Besides, its fun to talk like a pirate.
Their radical creed was equality - something they could never enjoy on an extremely hierarchial Navy ship. Furthermore they wanted fair working conditions. The Navy was notorious for not paying its sailors when they returned home. It was this radical, rebellious concept of egalitarianism that fed into Australia's founding colonies. Those that perpetuated the concept included the participants in the Eureka Stockade, Ned Kelly and Mary MacKillop. All of these people were persecuted by the government authorities of the time but we now honour them for defending the fair-go.
Besides, its fun to talk like a pirate.
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