So, did you hear the one about the women who dressed up as pirates, thinking it’d be appropriate to attend a talk about pirates dressed as pirates?
None of whom realized that the speaker, Colin Darch, was there to talk about his time as a hostage of Somali pirates…?
Yeah, that kinda went down well…
Supposedly he took it in stride, the whole British stiff-upper-lip thing and all, and if the crew that came had attended a talk by someone without that direct experience to draw from, say a historian or writer as opposed to a hostage, this would not have been any kind of deal at all.
Mind you, one thing that allows pirates during all periods to function is gathered intel, which these women obviously didn’t have. Which means if you dress like a pirate, you best be able to act like one too, even just a little…
James Ryan 