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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Okay here's my pirate joke.

A ship is sailing the high seas when the crows nest guy calls down, "Pirate ship ahoy!" The captain tells the cabin boy, "Fetch my reddest jacket!" The boy brings the reddest jacket he can find and the captain puts it on. They engage in battle and sink the pirate ship. The boy asks, "Cap'n, why did you call for your red jacket?" The captain says, "So that if I should be wounded in battle the crew would not notice the blood and lose their fighting spirit."

Next day the crows nest calls down, "Twenty pirate ships ahoy!" The captain tells the cabin boy, "Fetch by brownest pants!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well since we're telling pirate jokes...

A guy is at a party and sees a pirate coming towards him. He notices as the pirate approaches that the pirate has a little wheel sticking out of his pants.

Naturally curious, the guy asks the pirate, "why do you have a little wheel sticking out of your pants?"

"Arr," says the pirate. "I don't know, but it be drivin' me nuts!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

How appropriate! You fight like a cow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do they also pronounce "human" as "hugh mon?"

If so, that's a Ferenghi ship.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yes, fun idea. No problem with that but... that 'flag' is a sail. They're different things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

A sail is just a giant flag that says "I'm a boat!"

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago

Using a sail to fly your colours is a red flag.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sus. Having any issue with a red flag meme. /s

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Immediate red flag in my book

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Those are not flags either, those are pages. smh

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's a multifunctional sail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

These very same people would have no problem calling women 'people that birth'.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not as bad as the ones that call women femoids.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

It's an incel thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's very prevalent on 4chan and the like if you want to look at it and be depressed for a bit

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Remember, pirates did fly red flags as well as black ones. The red ones meant you were extra fucked.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you saw a pirate ship with a rainbow flag though , you're in for a mean margarita and a good time.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think they’re still after your booty.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

I think black was like, "We just want your shit and we'll let you live if you surrender" while red was like, "We're gonna kill and then take your shit or take your shit and then kill you, either way you will not survive," kinda thing.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

female as an adjective for clarification (like "oh you're looking for that female doctor over there") is ok, female as a noun is just weird

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

There are contexts where it makes sense, mostly medicine or science, but even in those contexts it's deliberately dehumanizing, which is the point. It is also the only English word for a female human that does not imply age, as woman and girl both do.

The quick sniff test: "Males and females"? Clinical, but probably fine. "Men and females"? Fucking Ferengi freak, avoid that guy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Unless you're speaking about (non human) animals. Saying a dog is a female is fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Excuse me, but my dog is a lady.

(An obnoxious, clumsy, stupid lady but...)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

But isn't calling her a bitch also fine in this case?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

To be fair, the existence of animal breeders is not fine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I knew it! Once I suggested this to someone assuming they're, like me, not a native speaker, and got downvoted to hell. Turned out I was too woke.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I wonder if the joke would work better if it actually was a black background. This might also keep the 'its a sail' gang happier.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Uterus having creatures

Squishy Chested Humans

Temperamental Beings

Confusing Loud Wind Atronach

Ever Bleeding Never Dying

Human human Grower

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I been wondering people's opinion of "Female" in some instances. Like is "First Female president/athlete/mayor/lawyer" appropriate? "First woman____" doesn't sound right and you wouldn't say "first man athlete to run 2 hour marathon" you would use male.

Most things can be rephrased maybe, but obviously using Females outside these instances is very right wing cringe.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (15 children)

"Female" is fine to use as an adjective.

It's also fine to use as a noun when describing livestock, which is why it's a red flag to describe women that way.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Someone should really tell everyone from the south. I had no idea until it was pointed out to me by someone younger. Changed my behavior of course, but was simply ignorant before.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

A lot of people use certain words just out of habit, the last thing you need is some SJW jumping down your throat and calling you names cause they don't like your regional dialect. Lots of words I grew up with that were normal or not that bad, and now are considered super offensive. It's not a malicious thing, all you can do is calibrate and learn, but some people get so worked up if you don't use the words they're used to

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