13 Bizarre Pirate Traditions Most People Don't Know About
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Pirates have a reputation--admittedly earned--for being ruthless, bloodthirsty killers. Life on the high seas demanded so much of those willing to brave it that it became customary for new pirates to develop an honorable accord.
Pirates had a surprisingly complex culture, and what’s crazier to us is that movies have barely scratched the surface of their traditions.
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Weird History odd moments in football 🏈
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The Spanish Inquisition ! Because nobody expects it.
@@FFTT ERRYBODY EXPECT THAT JOINT.
Ancient greece in 480 bc. Beacuse it was humanity's golden age and it had awesome people like Sokrates, Perikles, Hippokrates etc.
Pirates are neat. Glad I could join in their ranks when I downloaded a song from a sketchy website back in 2006. They've really dropped the threshold for entry.
NAH SON THEY AIN'T NEAT, THEY STAY LEAVIN" CHEEZIT CRUMBS ALL OVA THE CRIB.
You wouldn't download a fucking car?!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 in like 99 it was better. Nobody was mad yet and Napster was free. Ahhhhhh the good days.
Did u go back and edit that joke to make it even fukn cornier???
😂 Pirates are now hackers
Mercenaries are now attorneys
C'mon people, keep up with the times...
Until you run into an old school pirate or mercenary.... 👺
"...Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."
―Jack Sparrow
Capitan Jack Sparrow
@@huntinfishin7816 I like your name
*sigh* Captain.. Jack Sparrow.
a lot of slave ships were taken to sell off the slaves as well, from what ive read
Yes sometimes it’s a jar of dirt
I find it fascinating that some pirates in history essentially became their own nation-states, just on water. They had their own laws, customs, and diplomatic relations with different sovereigns. They would conduct raids on their enemies and enter into alliances with their friends. I'm sure they were less centralized than the average land-based state, but regardless, the fact that they did all this is such an interesting take on the more traditional model of statecraft/governance. The pirates around Pentos around the time of Mithridates acted like this, or Ching Shih's pirates in Qin China also comes to mind.
they had Port Royal for a long time too, so sort of land based
Bluebelle51 yeah a lot of pirates would meet up there, they say that’s why it sunk bcuz there were so many sinners there
@@thisuserisfoxxy no, it sunk because of an earthquake, and it was built on sand, nothing supernatural about it at all
(Lisbon was hit with a worse one, the Cathedral was flattened)
Bluebelle51 I know but I’m talking about the story that the people told me when I visited, chill everyone knows about the earthquake that hit in the 17th century -_-
@@thisuserisfoxxy whoopsie, I'm afraid my sarcasm meter is on the blink today ..............
This still doesn’t explain why the rum is gone
Yes... but I do believe it had someth’n ta do with them *points at a quiet crewmember, gazing over the horizon* they smell... weird... like soap, not like rum and rat... like... *a woman.*
Burning coconut, white sand and a lady
One interesting tidbit about pirate culture: in an era when blacks were enslaved by the Europeans, they were actually free and treated as equals within the pirate ships and communities.
Same on whaleing fleets.
rastafish420 I doubt that they didn’t
That was pretty typical in all sea faring trades of the time, oddly enough. Race was a thing for the land lovers, I suppose. :)
@rastafish420 nope.
If they didn't they would only be black pirates, 😂
Everything was fine until I heard "syringe in his urethra"
It needled the crew.
Why tho? Asking for a friend...
Never mind haha
r/sounding
Yeah they used to chuck mercury up there to fix their syphilitic dicks
"That's somewhere between $20,000 to.... $600,000."
Lol. Thanks for narrowing down that estimation for me, so precisely. Haha. That was awesome.
The thing is; it's really hard, there are two ways to determine the worth of something from many hundreds of years back; following the official inflation numbers, you might come to an amount closer to 20K USD, but to put into perspective how much that was compared to the average man's wage or wealth of today, you would have to imagine an amount of 600K.
Maybe it depends on the currency? 😂
What's a pirate's favourite letter?
You'd think it'd be "R", but their first love is always the "C"
Ruined that one... Didn't know you could make a dad joke worse.
F FOR FIND DAT FLOPPY OL' COCK
Damn, that was funny
Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} Thought i’d sea a pirate before I see a paternity court commenter on here😆
Was that suppose to be a joke? Or you just tellin us?
" Sorry to see you there but if you'd fought like a man, you would not have been hanged like a dog. "
Sounds so savage and badass 👏 .
I especially like how she waited until after he was arrested by several other men and was on the brink of being hanged.
The thots were doing us dirty even back in the day 😂😭
oh yeah. there's no account of what happened to mary or anne after their surrender but they were the only ones fighting on board their ship as calico jack surrendered
I don't know the whole story but sounds like the worst back stabbing. Especially a female insulting a man's pride just before he's hanged.
YaAaAsS GuRl stfu
It's a good day when the algorithm brings you an unknown quality channel that's right up your alley!!!
(talking about gay pirates) "- a special, serious sort of SEAMENSHIP."
I see what you did there. Bravo!
Was looking for this. I'm surprised not that many comments mention it.
I got it. Lol
Why are pirates called pirates?? They just Arrrrrrr.... 😳
Privateers...
DEY CALLED "DEM DEEP DICKIN BOYZ" BY THEIR SMELLY OL FLOPPY MEATS RUININ' ERRY CITY THEY PILLAGE.
@Lochness Monsta NESSY YOU KEEP SPEAKIN LIKE THAT AND IM FINNA MAKE YOU A 5 COURSE MEAL, PAPA BRAKESHOEZ
Get out
Because they're Pirates... Duh.? Just kidding LOL
“East? I thought you said Weast”
- Patrick Star
^_^
That's west Patrick..Your fired! >: c
"I've got a jar of dirt"
"And guess what's inside it?"
@@katichu3911 😂😂😂😂😂😂
"AND GUESS WHAT'S INSIDE IT!? "
I cant believe how much Im enjoying all these terrible Dad-jokes about Pirates 🤦
when I was younger and acting up my parents would say “I’m gonna keelhaul you!!” and I never knew what it meant until now. That’s the weirdest threat 🤔
"Draw and quarter", "tar and feather", "boil in oil", "seal you in a room", etc.
🤨
Your parents are soooo bad ass!
Sounds like a rough period of time for you :/
gay pirates, this is what i subscribed for
Hey... not gay
@Wandy Wexler Weslon O n E J o k E
Arrr we be looting that booty mate!
ITS A MYTH! There’s no actual evidence for this idea that pirates were gay earlier than the rest of America
@@milkknife X marks the booty
Another interesting fact, some pirates had special abilities from eating certain rare fruits which gave them unbelievable power at the cost of losing their ability to swim.
it is said that this trade is held with the devil himself as the provider of the fruit, and the witness too.
NOOOOOOO YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT.
Gum gum
Wait luffy and ace can't swim😮
😂😂😂😂😂
“Blackbeard scared the absolute shit out of everyone”
It makes sense about the eye patch being used to preserve night vision. There is a chemical in the eye known as visual purple which gives you better night vision. The longer you keep the eye covered, the more visual purple you will accumulate. The rods in the eye have a slight night vision capability but you have to shift your eyes back and forth so the rods come into play. If you stare in one spot too long the image bleaches out and turns white. I also have heard it speculated that some pirates WERE blind in one eye from using a sextant. It is a navigational tool that has a small telescope on it Sighting in on the North star at night you could find out your location. During the day however, you had to use the sun instead of the north star. Modern day sextants have filters to protect your eye but I doubt if they had them back then. Might have been the cause of some blind pirates.
woah, that’s some bad ass knowledge. Thanks mate 🍻
Rhodopsin, actually learned about this in a shooting school.
"In a world without gold, we could have been hero's"- edward teach
Thats deep
A man of culture
What did the lesbian pirate say to the other lesbian pirate?
Yarr matey, scissor me timbers
HA 😃!!!
Abel and old lesbians are dull scissors
Unnecessary apostrophe, but good joke!
What did the gay pirate say to the other?
Yarr matey, I'm gonna plunder your booty.
What did the pirate say to the bulimic hooker? Heeeeve Hoooooeeeee!!!
What's a pirate's worst nightmare?
A sunkin chest and no booty
ravencoh that was a good one
No booty, thats the worst
This needs to be made into a shirt
I never heard this one
That's actually hilarious😂😂😂
I downloaded tens of movies using campus wi-fi. Fight me I'm an awesome pirate too!
reported for theft
@@mikeanderson4346 Theft? What am I? A pre-teen from downtown Detroit? It's called piracy.
Lol
No you are just nerd :D
if you've seen my utorrent dude... officially its clean, unofficially... well...
So the line- “I’m here to plunder your booty” wasn’t just some Hollywood fan fiction in a bad movie? Gotcha
Commentator it’s a joke
A solid phrase to use as you walk into the strip club..
Being a big fan of pirate history myself, this video was very entertaining but I did already know all of those things xD
One thing that I am pretty surprised about, they *didn't* mention that pirates pioneered democracy; about a century before the American or French revolutions, it was common practice for pirate crews to elect their captains and on many ships it was also accepted that any man could, at any time that wasn't during battle, challenge the captain for leadership and a vote would be held. Another surprisingly egalitarian area of historical piracy was the division of loot by shares, which were given out according to rank and importance to the function of the ship... if I recall correctly, traditionally captain and quartermaster both get two shares, other officers including non-combat specialists like surgeons and cooks as well as people in particularly dangerous roles get one-and-a-half shares, and the general crew get one share. It's a surprisingly fair and respectful way of dividing treasure for a group of people who are so often characterized as greedy, selfish thieves (though to be fair, they did do a lot of pretty mean things to get their hands on the treasure to begin with haha)
If you knew so much about pirates that this brought you nothing new, then why don’t you know that the democracy thing is played out in EVERY pirate lesson out there? We didn’t want to hear it again. And BTW they didn’t pioneer democracy.
Yooooo. You didnt mention Ching Shih who is probably one of the baddest pirates bar none.
“One of” “bar none”... ummm
"Seamanship" no pun intended :)
Laughing my Ass off here Philadelphia, Pa. 👍
@@Dany_Stormborn )
i'm surprised how accurate ac black flag really is... black beard actually says something like "at 40 cannons I stopped counting" when he talks about the queen annes revenge
I'm currently replaying black flag and there's actually much more than just that.
Stede Bonnet, the merchant guy Edward meets right after he killed Walpole in the very beginning of the game was a real person and he actually worked for Blackbeard for a small time.
The argument between Hornigold and Blackbeard in the game was real too. Ben Hornigold actually took the pardon of the king and retired, whereas Blackbeard was just getting started.
The mission where you get medicine for Blackbeard is real too. Although it happened differently Blackbeard actually did take hostages and waited days for the medicine.
One more thing about Blackbeard and Hornigold is that they plundered the Concord together and made an agreement that Hornigold keeps the riches while Blackbeard keeps the ship which he then ultimately turned into the Queen Anne's Revenge.
The drunk captain that harassed Anne Bonny at the tavern was actually her husband. And the fact that she worked in a tavern to disguise herself was also a real thing. So was the fact that Mary and Anne announced their pregnancy during their trial. Mary actually died in the prison while Anne was freed (just not by the assassins)
This also applies to all assassin's Creed games. Rodrigo Borgia who's Ezio's main target in Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood actually existed and he became a pope at some point too just like in the game.
And when the Notre Dame burned down in 2019 they actually used the renderings from Assassin's Creed Unity for reconstruction as it was the most detailed blueprint that was left
Nassau actually was a pirate republic irl. It was the third one after Tortuga and Port Royal failed.
"you are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of"
"But you have heard of me"
Love those films !!
"I GOT A JAR OF DIRT"
-Captain Jack Sparrow
So glad i have found this page on you tube ive learnt alot about history
“Cats out of the bag”. Thats a pirate tradition. Cat of nine tails, a barbed whip used as a disciplinary tool. Once out of the bag it had to taste blood before being put back. A obvious one missed.
I thought it was about drowning cats
@@danielblackburn6601 ,ye be marooned on a island matey..
Disney's Shipwrecked showed the Cat O Nine Tails quite well .
Pirates were like the original gangsters
@giveagoodsong truee many bandit gangs
"where has the rum gone?"
- Jack Sparrow
Tim Timmons actually it’s ‘why is all the rum gone?’
Unbelievable portrayal of a pirate.
my bad, i could of swore it was where
@@timtimmonsmusic actually it's "could have"
What happened when blue beard fell in the red Sea? He was marooned 😂😜 I'll sea myself out🤷
based
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer the emojis made it cringe
@@lolgamez9171 they did tho
I got pot
"Some men managed to survive being marooned. Another pirate crew might discover and rescue them."
Or, in the case of Charles Vane, a British vessel found and rescued him... then realized who he was and arrested him for piracy.
And I quote "Blackbeard scared the absolute shit outta everyone".. weird history..keep doing your thing man I love it
Annie Bonny seemed like a badass. I loved her qoute.
You left out the part when Anne Bonny and her friend Mary went to jail instead of being hanged along with Calico Jack because they were both pregnant with his children. They both died in jail before their babies were even born.
I remember that.
That’s a sad end.
Arrrr..pirate babies!
@@mikaelafox6106 meh they sounded like a couple of bitches
Not true. Mary and her baby DID die of fever, shortly after she'd birthed the baby.
Anne Bonny did NOT die, birthed her child and is thought to have went back to her parents in The Carolinas
You left out that they practiced a form of very early Democracy. That's rather huge. Pretty much trumps everything else. Most pirate captains didn't rule by fear. They were actually chosen by the men. All of whom got a say, or vote, as to who would be captain. If he did a great job, he earned the loyalty of the crew.
If he screwed up one time too many, he was relieved of that duty. If he was a capable sailor and overall well-liked by the crew, he was allowed to stay on-board. If not, then he was the one who faced being marooned or killed outright for his failures as captain. The same applied if he developed an Ego or overinflated head. The crew would basically vote on all sorts of important matters that effected them both individually, and as a crew. Centuries before Democracy became popular.
When you like pirates so much you know most of these 😅
*Interesting, factual, and straightforward video as usual*
comments section: "Gay pirates?"
I read that, pirates used eye patches to ensure that, when fighting in the dark, they could lift the patch and that eye was already adapted to the dark. Also, i dont remember if its pirates but, sailors wore knitted hats with the yarn ball on top to prevent from hitting their heads on beams and low ceilings when below deck.
I loved the tour we had in Charleston, SC where they told stories about Blackbeard and showed us where they had been.
I feel like it’s an important point that the syringe referenced was a common at the time remedy for syphilis, by applying mercury to the affected area. Apparently it was extremely painful and he definitely wasn’t just doing it for fun lol
That keel-hauling scene in 'Black Sails' cinched that series as one to remember. I couldn't forget it if I tried. Thought I had seen it all in these tv shows but I found this one haunting. Hard to impress a calloused, jaded viewer - so congratulations!
Yo, who wants start a stoner/doom pirate metal band called Black Beard.
I got drums 😎
Thank God I'm not the only geek that thought of this
I got earrings
I got a fiddle
@@ludwigvanbeethoven5176 I see you in every video🤣🤣
"Look at me, Look at me. I am the captain now"
I'm starting to have Flashbacks of Ac 4 Black Flag
Because all of the gay pirate stuff?
Playing it right now on PS4. great times are being had.
“Strike your colors, you braisen wench, no need to expose your superstructure.”
Really loving these videos!
Wow pirates invented air pods? Yeet
That was great!! I'm surprised you guys dont have more views
A+ video!
Fascinating traditions, apparently pirate life was not as simple as one would think!
"Rum, beer, quests and mead. These are the things that a pirate needs"
You forgot to mention that it's believed that over 80% of pirates were mad alcoholics
He did say they drank 5 shots a day
That just comes with the territory, it's not really a weird tradition
Nah, If ye drinks yer rum in tha marnin, ye nat an arlchalalick, ye be a Poitarrhte!!! (Sorry, slurring. ) Yo ho ho, ARGH!!
if you think the Pirates of the golden age of piracy were alcoholics, wait until you hear about Alexander the great and his army
they were basically drunks with sarissas
They were only mad til they raided and got more rum.
"A pirate had to swash and buckle in order...."! Beautiful!!!!!
Another brilliant one. Many thanks😊😊😊😊😊
Love your channel!! Keep up the good work.
Love ALL of your videos... But still waiting for that one about the Battle of Vienna. 😁
Let's see if we can get that one on the slate
@@WeirdHistory many thanks. Now I only harp on that so much because I think it would really make a great video diving into all the almost movie-like aspects of it. On top of that many people have never even heard of it or know how if it didnt happen modern europe would be MUCH different.
There's a legend about a pirate, named Sir Mix-A-Lot, you see, treasure was his life, he loved Big Booty, he could not lie.
I got to see artifacts and treasure from the Wydah, that included the ships bell. The National Geographic Society had an exhibit at the Arizona Science Center. Getting to see those item's was awe striking.
So much Wyeth! Well done and very interesting.
Great vid
Jean Lafitte was well known for burying stolen goods as well as hiding it in swamps. Contraband Bayou got its name because of this. In fact one of the most enduring myths of buried pirate treasure involves a sizable fortune he buried at or around Galveston Island. Walking the plank comes from the sometimes but not often stage of keelhauling where a sailor walked out unto a gangway prior to being winched under the ship, typically by a capstan.
Love this. Gives a new meaning to 'jolly roger'! Expains why so many pirates walked with a limp! x
Such great content in this channel! Very interesting
*FUN FACT ABOUT BLACK BEARD, WHILE OUT ON A PIRATING ADVENTURE!*
One time, before *Black Beard* was a captain, he sailed under a man named Captain Benjamin Hornigold.
One day Hornigold and his crew flew their pirate flag and overtook a small sloop. Strangely, Hornigold and Black Beard didn't really rob or loot the crew, let alone harm them. According to the written account, it was said that Black Beard and Hornigold explained to the crew that they had overtaken, that the previous night Hornigold and Black Beard had drank a little too much and drunkenly lost their hats overboard. So, when they awoke that morning, in their hung over addled minds they made the sound decision to stop the next ship they saw, and get themselves some new hats.
So, the pirates made quick work of it, and Black Beard and Hornigold returned to their ship, along with their crew, sporting new hats. Leaving the sailors in the sloop with bare heads, but not harmed otherwise and short nothing else, aside from their hats.
Could u do a cover video of Deadwood? I always wanted to learn about some things that went on in Deadwood that would be cool ?or revolutionary war time on long island) 💯😃🤯👍👍👍
You got such a great channel.very interesting topics.
Y’all are my new favorite channel!
“...that nugget of real manly love at the bottom...” LMAO!!! 🤣
why didn't the pirate wash before he walked the plank ... because he will wash up on shore later
Thank you for having my national instrument in the background
You got a new sub. Your videos are great!
"Pirate life was like prison, you had to do the same chores everyday." Compared to other careers in the 1600s?
Considering most pirates were sailors freed from being impressed into naval service against their will (a.k.a. slaves) or sometimes former chattel slaves, they probably preferred their "prison."
smelling like the wrath of a stoner God 😭😂😂🤣🤣🤣
😂🤣 Bro, for real. LoL!
Arrr..puff puff pass matey..☠
The eye-patch thing was really interesting. Good eye-dea!
🤣🤣🤣. Eye there Matey!!
I'm related to both Captain Kidd and Captain Morgan! Cool to know some more about pirates.
"Seamanship"? That's a new take on such a word.
3:14 Seamanship. Interesting word choice considering the topic at hand😁
I love pirates, keep it coming
Ok that mouse had me smiling. From the first few seconds I'm already enjoying
Imagine your find some pirates treasure , when you break the lock and realize it just looks like a bunch of random things from Goodwill,
One theory I've come across regarding the Jolly Roger: It comes from the French "Jolie Rouge", meaning "pretty red". Since the earlier pirate flags (and the "expect no quarter"-flag) were red, and since France was a major player in the Caribbean, this explanation makes sense to me. I mean.. the word Buccaneer is also a French loan-word.
Love it!! I portray a Pyratez at Ren Faire events. They also cut coins to make change. Plus the pieces of eight.
I love your channel thank you for all
Why did the 10 year old not get to watch the pirate movie? Because it is rated ARRRRR.
Sea yourself out lol
Shoved a syringe in his urethra? Umm what
Treating syphilis
@@JB-vd8bi With mercury
Best channel to watch no cap👍👍
So glad I subscribed already
That thumbnail reminded me of
*"In a world without Gold we have been Heros!!!!"*
" Bend over that rum barrel lad, I'm going to have to bugger you a bit."
Thank you, for the historical information on the life and customs, of a pirate. I guess the movie Pirates of The Caribbean got it right, when they marooned Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swan on the dessert Island. Including, Barbarossa's line, which the actor portraying Barbarossa explains, to Jack Sparrow to take the weapons given, because he will surely want a quick end for both, before they starve to death.
I love ur voice and ur styleof narrarting things u r awesome❤❤
First mate: Canon's be ready cap'n!
Captain: are!
this vid made my day
I love this video!!!
Good Form!! This was entertaining.