Why Pirates Fail
Written on November 20, 2009 – 3:19 am | by woomel25
Being a pirate was not the best thing to be. Many of the things that people know pirates for would have been unpleasant. For example eye patches were often a sign of crickets (from not enough vitamin C) which caused them to go blind in one eye. The romance novels pirates don’t exist. Pirates were hairy and smelly.
Not only this but death by hanging or death by any other form is what awaited any pirate that got caught. (Mary Read for example died in prison. She didn’t get executed because she claimed to pregnant).
As for youth among pirates you’d be lucky if you made it to adulthood to be promoted. Moving up the ranks from powder monkey to gunners mate or gunner was a dangerous and risky journey
By the way no gambling allowed on board. Sad, I know it’s a classic pirating game that you can’t even do on your own ship. But, if you got caught gambling on board punishment would be given.
Being a pirate (with a boat not the internet) would be an awfully lonely job as pirates became an endangered profession in the 1850s.
Being a pirate nowadays is not as fun as it seems. Being a pirate back then was not fun at all. Disease, hunger, injuries and death plagued those long ago pirates. Stick to internet thieving don’t go get a boat.
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Wahl, David. “Awesome Pirate Facts For Kids!” HELPFUL RESEARCH! 2003. Web. 15 Nov. 2009. <http://www.helpfulresearch.com/piratefacts.html>.










