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[–] odium 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?

Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

I think that's why they specified an "elderly" privateer - past their glory days.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Wait, you're telling me that privateers don't just grow into the hulls of their ships like Bill Turner?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some say there are pirates to this very day, and that they sail a sea that holds no water

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia

There are pirates right now, and they are sailing on water.

They just don't , you know, dress up like old timey pirates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And there's also pirates right now who are downloading stuff they don't own.

[–] odium 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, ic. That does appear to be what OOP meant.

Would you still call them a pirate though? More of an ex-pirate imo. If someone was a blacksmith in their 20s and is now a chef in their 60s. You would not call them an elderly blacksmith.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elderly French pirate so they would be in in their 60s or more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

John King was somewhere from eight to eleven when he became a pirate.