QI | What Are The Rules On A Pirate Ship? 

ChrisC - Captain Hector Barbossa

ChrisC bloody pirates!

Savvy?

ChrisC thanks😁

“What’s the thing you want most?”

Yeah ikr, rape is funny but I would never make that joke on a woman

​@BladeCast I am what I eat and through this logic I can see myself calling you a dick

I would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those raping kids

the mystery machine seems so much more sinister now

What goes on in the "mystery van" is a mystery no more.

omg xD

So that's the van used by Bangbros…

That was actually gr8

That joke was so good.

Sane Man Blackbeard were famously Bristolian, Sir Francis Drake spoke broad Devonshire to his dying day and southwesterners were the largest demographic of emigrants to the new world, so yeah, they used it in the films for a reason

Blackbeard was from Bristol, which is also in the South West.

That was my understanding

there were a few infamous Welsh ones as well so yeah the typical pirate accent isn't accurate

Sane Man Benjamin Hornigold came from Norfolk which everyone incorrectly thinks is the same as a West Country one

Lolol my first thought too

@@eleanorbartle5354 He's on a show called Our Flag Means Death. He plays the main character, the captain of a pirate ship called Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate.

*for the time* and even today we don't give death to rapists, and he didn't say they were strict about that it was the lights out at 8:00 PM

They may have given death for bread but it was much more common for the rapist to 'have' to marry them or pay them and that's if it even went anywhere in the first place.

@@MrDJAK777 on land

@Tom Mccarthy that implies that rape was taken seriously, as it still often isnt today

@Tom Mccarthy so you think women were treated better then than now?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He's below decks with master bates

Alex Rawsthorne boooooo

@@AlRaw94 surrendered by seamen

The Cabin Boy's name in Captain Pugwash was Tom, I believe.

2:55

MrFireCowboy Because nerds lol

Well, if you watched it...

I love QI, I just forgot how it worked for a second.

Because the actor who played Darth Vader was Bristolian and thus spoke with a West Country accent, the same accent typically associated with pirates. However they used a different voice actor for Vader than the one to wear the costume.

Yer a trai'er with the rebel alloience!

Ah foind yer lack o' fay'eth disturbin'.

Hoho, the furce is strong in this'n!

Search yar feelins, you know it be true

Adrian Pietkiewicz Lu' i yam thy pops

Your comment says it all

muskatDR yarr harr don't meddle with me

Cyborg Jelly underrated comment

Muskat - you're right, we mostly live under maritime law - the law of the sea

@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE More like the press ganged sailors mutineed and became pirates because democracy is far better than the totalitarian hellhole it was on a regular navy ship.

Cannot unsee that now

Considering there are so many pride and prejudice adaptations, at this point, I'm just glad that hasn't been done

Anglia had smugglers and the west country had pirates. Both were caused by the lack of opportunity for the poor half the time to get past their status.

"Black Bart" Roberts, as mentioned here, was apparently Welsh.

Using a 'False Flag' was also done by Dutch Privateers in the 1600s. Unless they were as organized and well-known as Piet Hein: when he set sail to capture the Spanish treasurefleet, he did so with a fleet of about 30 warships, provided by the Dutch West Indies Company. The Spanish, knowing Hein's objective, kept their fleet in their ports because their lumbering galleons were defenseless against such a well-organized force. When he did spot the treasure fleet, there was little fighting done. The Spanish commander led his vessels into a dead-end (Matanzas Bay near Havana), leapt ashore and kept running untill he reached the city. He left his ships, their crews and the invaluable cargo for the Dutch.

The black flag was also a signal that the pirates were willing to give quarter if the other ship surrendered without a fight - as opposed to a white flag (truce) or a red flag (no quarter).

Well they were a bit silly

​@@AudieHolland So wait, the crews didn't see the captain go running off and think "well, that's not a great sign, is it?"

@@Brasswatchman It wasn't the captain, it was the admiral of the entire fleet. Sure the Spanish knew they were screwed. That is why they only fired their cannon once then surrendered. I believe there were no casualties on either side.

Chiszle get out

OOUU! That hurt but was a good one!

I guess the same goes with playing music and such. Sound probably carries a long way on the ocean.

I felt like it looks like rice

Underated comment

Brilliant

Hahahaha

It's more a comment innit?

Awful lot of grey area around the definition of meddling

Only with consent

@@CharlieQuartz you mean parlay?

I heard an interview with a researcher who said the Appalachian hillbilly accent is believed to be closest to Shakespearean because the population was isolated and their accent didn't change, and it also matches the rhymes that don't work with most accents today.

catfish552 no they recorded it as "obi wan killed your father" but then changed it...

Thought it was obi wan was your father

Get out

Isobel Marchant thats nice?

Yes, fabrics are often used for more than one type of garment. Shocking, I know.

Cotton?

@@DJogdog if so then I have pants (in both the British and American sense) made from the same fabric as his shirt and her blouse. I think she meant the pattern though, in which case I don't : )

prove it

My understanding was that Beery invented it, but Newton popularised it.

Beery's pirate talk was dictated by the vocabulary of the script. As far as I can tell he's otherwise speaking in a normal American accent, a little affected by his native Missouri. A little gravelly, but not otherwise too unusual. As they point out here, the "pirate accent" of Newton is an exaggerated English West Country accent the equivalent of a "hick accent". No American actor was going to pull that out of his hat.

Maybe if he was aboard a "prairie schooner"? B^D

Telstar62a And feasting on seafood like Rocky Mountain oysters?

Yes. Rhys Darby.

Yep

Yes, because immediate execution without the right for a defense or a trial under any suspicion of rape is clearly a good thing. This is the problem with people's backwards self-righteousness nowadays. Witch-hunting by another other name...

I have to wonder what you get up to in your free time, James, if you're so upset at the thought of a rapist pirate getting his comeuppance.

​@@vihaze6725 ​ You and the 20 people who thumb-uped this comment can go screw yourselves. This kinda self-righteous garbage is toxic and dangerous. You pose a stupid straw man to James G, to derive his caring for human life and due process enough to think that every _suspected_ rapist should not be executed on the spot, making him him a raptist. Sure, whatever you say. Even a _confirmed_ rapist should not be executed on the spot. Don't be so freaking idiotic. Well done for showing a total disregard for both the idea of due process as well as a total disregard for the worth of human life. This is the reason the law is left to, you know, _laws,_ and not in the hands of the self-righteous populous. Thank you James (and those who thumb-uped the coment) for restoring my faith in humanity a little bit after reading such a brain-dead comment with so many thumbs up.

The amount of people who liked this comment makes me fear for the sanity of humanity.

you can't arrest or execute anyone based on accusations alone, you need to look at things systematically, try and find witnesses and gain both sides of the story. Once the judge and jury have seen this evidence the verdict shall be made. Innocent until proven guilty is a great thing as it allows cases to be looked at in the highest detail possible. I'm not defending rape, its just that you need to not assume things when issues as important as this arise.

it's interlaced footage

When you make a ranch over a ship