Poll: ITLAP day!

[Guy Profumo]

[DCI Harry Batt]

Does anyone have any idea what this is about?

[ursus arctos]

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day

[Antepli Ejderha]

No idea, talk like a prick day?

[DCI Harry Batt]

Ah right. Who's Robert Newton?

Who gets to make up annoying stuff like this? Is there an international council of annoying bollocks?

[ursus arctos]

1) no clue

2) it isn't that organised and is primarily driven by muppets putting out press releases

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Newton?wprov=sfla1

Long John Silver in the film version of Treasure Island apparently.

[Antepli Ejderha]

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Who gets to make up annoying stuff like this? Is there an international council of annoying bollocks?

Thanks TonTon, that gave me a lift.

[pebblethefish]

I don't know if it was international pirate day, but one time I was in a pub toilet and a man came in dressed as a pirate. Being at that state of inebriation that demanded I was convivial, I decided to hail him with a hearty piratical greeting. Sadly I was also at that state of inebriation that I'd forgotten how pirates talk, so the bemused man was met by a person at the urinal shouting "AHA!" at him in a pirate voice.

[ad hoc]

That's international talk like Alan Partridge day

[pebblethefish]

Yes, I did mean to type that it was in an Alan Partridge voice, but cocked that up too.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

I'm kind of surprised that people here didn't know who Robert Newton was. I'd seen all his pirate films by the time I was 10. When that Wikipedia page says he was hugely popular with boys in the 40's and 50's they may as well have been talking specifically about my dad. He even had a treasure Island book which was a movie spinoff, but that and his errol flynn Robin Hood book, Roy Rogers and dandy annuals all got destroyed in a small flood.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

This thread would have made me want to replay the John Finnemore "Kirates" sketch, but my 10 year old daughter made me play it so many times that I'm bored sick of it.

[Sam]

I'm kind of surprised that people here didn't know who Robert Newton was. I'd seen all his pirate films by the time I was 10. When that Wikipedia page says he was hugely popular with boys in the 40's and 50's they may as well have been talking specifically about my dad. He even had a treasure Island book which was a movie spinoff, but that and his errol flynn Robin Hood book, Roy Rogers and dandy annuals all got destroyed in a small flood.

I've never seen a single second of him acting in anything, but I know who he is thanks to his influence on the popular perception of what constitutes a pirate voice. To such an extent that his presence in the poll meant I was able to surmise what was going on in the OP without scrolling down for further explanation, which I was rather pleased with given it's one of Guy's threads.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'm fairly sure that Guy Profumo mentions this each year and is attracted to the idea, so I'd like to know if he fully embraces the concept and strolls around Sheffield bellowing archaic nautical instructions to his "hearties" or whether he's a shy pirate who just mutters something about not having any pieces of eight on him at the newsagent and will they accept a card?

[Gangster Octopus]

This thread would have made me want to replay the John Finnemore "Kirates" sketch

Whereas I think "We wants a training day"...

[DCI Harry Batt]

The whole idea that pirates "talk like" anything in particular is pretty ludicrous.

[Sean of the Shed]

[Sean of the Shed]

What has 8 hands, 8 legs and 8 eyes?

8 pirates.

[Guy Profumo]

1) no clue

2) it isn't that organised and is primarily driven by muppets putting out press releases

Also associated as a high holy day within Pastafarianism, to expose mainstream religions' "free passes" on their days of observance as "complete bollocks"

(Or rather, irreligious tossers demanded their own free day off because some of the devout got theirs)

[Benjm]

Just wash your hands of the whole thing, Guy.

Think of it as International Talk Like Pilate Day.