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Am I Ninja Or Am I Pirate? A Peer Review.

  
  

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Persephone
22:26 / 10.05.02
Apple-Picker: wealthy merchant's daughter secretly trained in Ninja arts, little bit spoiled

potus: Pirate cabin boy

Biz: loveable curmudgeonly Pirate

[YNH]: Ninja scholar

Mister Disco: Ninja scion, left home after disastrous heartbreak, kidnapped by pirates, adopted by pirate captain. Lives on own ship with pirate companions. Occasionally receives rowboat delegations of ninja elders, gets berated for abandoning the way of ninja and gets told about latest grave injustice that ninjas must fight. Pantses ninja elders and throws them overboard. But packs gear in the early AM. Often gone for long stretches. Returns to ship and invariably gets very drunk. Pirate companions used to these dark nights of the soul-- make sure ze doesn't fall overboard, don't mention it the next day.

Rothkoid: sartorially elegant Pirate

Jade: Pirate heartbreaker, poet

QUINT: Pirate survivor of shark attacks, missing limbs here and there
 
 
Tom Coates
07:50 / 11.05.02
You can be a giant robot as long as you are a ninja robot or a pirate robot. Same with cats. Or trees. Or pairs of underpants. I do not believe anyone has dared speculate on my ninja / pirate status yet. So I feel quite left out actually...
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:33 / 11.05.02
Tom: you are a Ninja. Definately.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
08:53 / 11.05.02
But, but, Persephone.... how did you know??????

And Tom, I'm sorry but you have to actually play the game, by the rules. Right me hearties?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:03 / 11.05.02
I reckon 'tis only fair. Anyway, Tom's a pirate in my book. What kind of ninja would be able to deal with all the drunken Saturday night posters? No kind, that's what kind.
And he runs a tight ship.
This could mean a serious keelhauling for Knodger (or whatever may be his current disguise... and that- disguising, I mean... that's a damned ninja trait if I ever saw one... see, us pirates, we's honest. Bastards, but honest.) Or possibly a plank-walking...
 
 
that
10:13 / 11.05.02
What exactly does keelhauling mean? And is it any fun?
 
 
Seth
10:43 / 11.05.02
Not only am I a ninja, but I use my curled tongue as a blowpipe, shooting a poisoned dart to hit a moving target at 500m in high winds.

(Complete aside: Why is one of my Messenger Buddies called "Buxom Wench, Sporting a Love Stench?" Who the hell are they?)
 
 
Trijhaos
11:00 / 11.05.02
What exactly does keelhauling mean? And is it any fun?

Keelhauling means to haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.

Doesn't sound much like fun does it? Well, at least for the person being keelhauled anyway what with all the barnacles on the bottom of the ship.
 
 
that
11:04 / 11.05.02
I was just wondering if it could be construed as another plus for the pirates... I guess you lot really only do have the lash then, huh? So uninventive.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
11:05 / 11.05.02
Keelhauling was a brutal disciplinary practice on British Naval vessels. The offender was hauled along the bottom of a boat from bow to stern - along the keel line - whilst the ship was under weigh. I think his hands were tied to one rope, and his feet to another, making him part of a loop being reeled in at the stern and let out at the prow.

The grisly part is that the chief danger was not drowning - although even given that the vessels of the time were fairly small, this was a significant possibility. The hull of a ship after even a brief period in the water was encrusted with slime and barnacles. Being hauled along under the ship would flay the skin from a man's back and rub in all manner of foul and toxic stuff, and survivors of the intial process frequently succumbed to illness and toxic shock. Even those who escaped this fate were permanently scarred.

So generally, a Bad Thing.
 
 
Persephone
15:45 / 11.05.02
I do not believe anyone has dared speculate on my ninja / pirate status yet. So I feel quite left out actually...

ARRGH! READ THE TOPIC ABSTRACT, YOU SCURVY PIRATE!!!

You are so busted, sir. Anyway you are a pirate, and you & Nick nicely illustrate that the best friend of a pirate is very often a ninja. And vice versa.

And expressionless was left on the stoop of a ninja orphanage in a basket and was raised by ninja nuns.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:07 / 11.05.02
And me?


So the role of Dean Martin is not available, yes?
 
 
Trijhaos
17:12 / 11.05.02
You're a ninja.
 
 
Cavatina
09:00 / 12.05.02
Well oi'm a pirate, arrrrr yes.
 
 
m. anthony bro
09:26 / 12.05.02
(Mordant C@arnival said this)

Ninja elite:
oh, some people I'm not

Piratey rabble:
some more people I'm not


Everyone else:

Giant robots, vampires, disciples etc.


Although I want everyone to say I'm part of glorious piratehood, I do want to also put my name down for being a giant robot, or specifically:
(1) a decepticon (jet ---> robot)
(2) a constituent member of Voltron

that would be cool. evil robot space pirate.
 
 
cakemix
09:36 / 12.05.02
i'm new, so not alot of you know me...
but on first impression - am i a ninja or a pirate?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
09:54 / 12.05.02
Pirate. Making an open introduction, seeking others to define your status in a team-environment, and that parrot on your shoulder's a giveaway.

Also, Ninjas do not eat cake, unless it's ricecake, whereas pirates are known for their love of nosh.

Finally, ninjas do not advertise. They take cover and hide, and vanish and hiss.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:04 / 12.05.02
originally posted by cakemix:

"i'm new, so not alot of you know me... "

yeah, and not a lot of people know what we slipped in yer liquor... GOOD PIRATE GROG! Consider yerself pressganged.
AAARRR!!!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:13 / 12.05.02
Cakemix: The email addy says it all. Welcome to the Ninjas!
 
 
Trijhaos
12:15 / 12.05.02
Bah! Damn ninja lovers

Ninjas are pansies. They go around drinking rice wine. While pirates have grog. Grog!

Come, join the darkside.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:16 / 12.05.02
I don't need you all to tell me what I am, because I am clearly a Giant Robot.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:22 / 12.05.02
At the risk of repeating Trijhaos...

Grog!!!

Come on, GROG!!!

Dontcha just feel the need for some GROG???

(This post brought to you by the grog marketing board. Which, before someone accuses me of being a sell-out pirate, was ACTUALLY PLUNDERED NOT TWO NIGHTS AGO by some pirates, and therefore lays now in the hands of the proletariat. Yeah. 'Tis true. Cos I said so. So NER.)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:30 / 12.05.02
Saki!!!

Hiss.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:58 / 12.05.02
The origins and true nature of grog, as revealed here:

Admiral Sir Edward Vernon, nicknamed ‘Old Grog’ because his cloak was made of grogram, a coarse material, was returning from the Caribbean in 1740. He decided to water down the crew’s rum rations in order to improve efficiency. The result was named Grog... the original recipe was always 1 part strong rum to three parts water.

See? A drink of watered-down rum, invented by an Admiral. How appropriate.
 
 
Trijhaos
18:14 / 12.05.02
That's not real grog. The real grog recipe is a closely guarded secret. That's near-grog.
 
 
The Strobe
20:24 / 12.05.02
Well, when I've split your fucking heads in two with my big, bad-ass katana... then I've got all the grog I can lay my hands on, right?

Grog thievery. It's the way forward, Ninja-cru.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:43 / 12.05.02
Absolutely. We shall set about the pirates with our Ninja swords and stars (Ninja weapons) and shall have grog galore. Even if it is horrible watered-down stuff, there is a principle at stake. The Ninja Code of Flipping Out demands nothing less!
 
 
YNH
03:23 / 13.05.02
Mister Disco: Pirate with highly placed Ninja contacts, apparently
Rothkoid: Pirate
Jade: Pirate
QUINT: Crow’s Nest
Tom: Pirate
expressionless: Raised by Ninja nuns, picture on Ninja Wheaties box
Johnny the zenarchist: Dean Martin disciple, hauling a shrine
Catavina: Pirate
mikebro: Yellow Lion “Hunk”
cakemix: Appears to be a ninja... But could be a crafty pirate... 00cakemix?
Flux = Quantasaurus Rex MegaZord “If the Megazord appears stuck or jammed while morphing, the Megazord needs assistance in completing the morphing process. What has happened is that the internal gears and computer chip are out of sync.”
 
 
m. anthony bro
05:48 / 13.05.02
wick-ed. I'm the hunky yellow lion. If me and Flux are going to be giant robots, then I think we should add 'giant robot' as a legitimate option.
And, I'll need more people to audition for the glamorous voltron-ettes. There's some more colours, first come first served. Last one in gets the least slimming colour.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:27 / 13.05.02
Well, when I've split your fucking heads in two with my big, bad-ass katana... then I've got all the grog I can lay my hands on, right?
Not exactly. That life of single-minded training and self-denial, that whole body-as-temple-and-ultimate-fighting-machine horseshit means that you're under the table after a thimbleful of mighty Secret Recipe Grog (tm). At which point, the pirates return with peg-heads, keelhaul you, steal your stuff and then take grog back off you. Ha. Katana that, motherfucker.

Besides: hook beats katana anytime. It's an essential kind of scissors-paper-stone truth.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:49 / 13.05.02
I'm starting to get worried. I only get votes as Pirate. This is wrong! I can't throw my shurikens in a ship's deck, it's slippery, wet and it's rocking all the time! People will lose eyes here!
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
15:52 / 13.05.02
Ninja's don't use katanas.

Thought you might like to know.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:20 / 13.05.02
We could if we wanted.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
16:28 / 13.05.02
Oops.

FWIW, there seems to be a huge debate about ninja weaponry. That's hardly suprising, given that many people contest the existence of a single group of 'ninja'. But questions about weaponry reveal a depth of disagreement - short, straight weapons, shorter versions of katana, blah blah blah.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
16:32 / 13.05.02
Yes, you could but it would be unninjaly of you and thus revoke your ninja status.

A katana is the weapon of a Samurai. It is big, often ornate/shiny and difficult to conceal. Use of such a weapon would be unwise by a person wishing to keep their identity a secret.
 
  

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