The Worst Pirates You've Ever Heard Of | BlueJay | History Teacher Reacts 

Like this comment if you want to be a pirate.

Norrington: You are by far the worst pirate I've ever heard of. Captain Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me.

As someone from Madeira I appreciate the long rant about the wine 😂

The trope of pirates having parrots was started by Robert Louis Stevenson in his novel Treasure Island, in which the character Long John Silver has a pet parrot.

11:30 The answer to "Where did pirate trope X come from?" is almost always "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson.. Long John Silver had a parrot named Captain Flint after the former captain, and Flint usually perched on Silver's shoulder.

“The worst pirates you’ve ever heard of” but we have heard of them. Edit: guys I just wanted to make a pirates of the Caribbean joke, it’s not that deep

I think the parrot thing is from "Treasure Island" Long John Silver had a parrot in that book.

Ice was stored in sheds buried in sawdust. It was tightly packed around and over it

One common misconception is that they were constantly being hounded by the FBI for downloading movies and music, but in truth the FBI didn't have a lot of power back then and barely did anything to stop piracy.

"That has to be the best pirate I've ever seen"

As a Somali l can say that the most funny thing was the pirates actual had a stock exchange

The parrot thing is, indeed, theatrical. The 1950 Disney film version of "Treasure Island" established a LOT of the modern pirate stereotypes, including the parrot trope.

How the Ice ships worked was basically... Build a boat with insulation, then fill it with Ice. Only around 10% was lost on the trip because of the square cubed law there isnt enough surface area to melt basically a glacier inside a ship.

Two major things helped transportation of ice: 1) transporting large blocks meant it would melt slower due to less overall surface error in ratio with the mass. 2) insulation (sawdust) helped slow down the melting significantly. Very useful that new england had both the ice to supply the market as well as excess sawdust from the lumber industry.

I would include the pirates who captured Julius Caesar on the list of the worst pirates. In the 1st century BCE the Mediterranean Sea had a crime problem. Specifically, it had a pirate problem. The rugged region of southern Anatolia known as Cilicia Trachea (Rough Cilicia) was notoriously infested with seagoing bandits whose depredations terrified Romans. In 75 BCE a band of Cilician pirates in the Aegean Sea captured a 25-year-old Roman nobleman named Julius Caesar, who had been on his way to study oratory in Rhodes. As the story is related in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, the capture was a minor inconvenience for Caesar but very bad luck for the pirates. From the start, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at the sum of 20 talents, he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and suggested that 50 talents would be a more appropriate amount. He then sent his entourage out to gather the money and settled in for a period of captivity. The pirates must have been dumbfounded. It’s not every day that a hostage negotiates his ransom up. Caesar made himself at home among the pirates, bossing them around and shushing them when he wanted to sleep. He made them listen to the speeches and poems that he was composing in his unanticipated downtime and berated them as illiterates if they weren’t sufficiently impressed. He would participate in the pirates’ games and exercises, but he always addressed them as if he were the commander and they were his subordinates. From time to time he would threaten to have them all crucified. They took it as a joke from their overconfident, slightly nutty captive. It wasn’t a joke. After 38 days, the ransom was delivered and Caesar went free. Astonishingly, Caesar managed to raise a naval force in Miletus-despite holding no public or military office-and he set out in pursuit of the pirates. He found them still camped at the island where he had been held, and he brought them back as his captives. When the governor of Asia seemed to vacillate about punishing them, Caesar went to the prison where they were being held and had them all crucified.

Your face at the "sucking" joke totally killed me. HAHAHA

The parrot trope is actually accurate. Pirates would often go ashore and bring back exotic pets, especially parrots and monkeys.

To prevent ice from melting they would have had a thicker hold and been packed in straw or sawdust.

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Apparently, after Googling, pirates kept parrots as status symbols. They ate much less than other animals, and they were sold for a great profit. So, that's why pirates are associated with parrots.

I love how that conversation with his wife he was just Archer, Blue Jay has gotten so good

I was a bit disappointed that he focused on Bonnet for so long, as there's already that great "Sundance Rejects" video about him by the Internet Historian and his friends. Let's hope for a part two about some lesser-known pirates. About the question whether or not I wanna be a pirate: Yes I wanna, but only in the sense of modern IP piracy. Downloading movies and games from Disney and EA as to not feed those greedy corporations any more money. I can still fulfill my age of piracy fantasies perfectly fine in Black Flag :p

If i were a pirate, I'd want to serve under Zheng Yi Sao

Tbh I knew Stede Bonnet from Black Flag but never actually knew he was a pirate. Makes you wonder if Kenway was a real pirate too..

I reckon the worst pirate was Captain Basil Hood. This was the pirate that stole a herd of cattle and locked them in the hold of his ship not realising Cattle get sea sick extremely bad. The smell of the vomit was so bad that Basil and his crew surrendered to the Royal Navy......and the Royal Navy would not take them prisoner due to the smell. I am just gonna post this comment on BlueJays video so he can see XD

Was that my dinner table growing up? No, but that's only because we never had a trebuchet built from sugar cane.

I was waiting for this the moment Blue Jay put up the video.

When I saw this title the song "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" from VeggieTales started running through my mind

It's funny that you say THAT'S the reason you don't like Black Flag; it's the exact reason Black Flag is my favorite! 😂

If you're interested, a longer, more in-depth video on the Gentleman Pirate can be found over on The Internet Historian's second channel _Incognito Mode_ where he tells the life story more like a tale, rather than a lecture. It's quite entertaining, funny and well animated. He even encourages reactions to the video as stated in the description "Feel free to react stream/watch-along/re-upload this vid on your own channel. it's not sponsored -- we just want it to be seen and enjoyed ;)"

I think Stede Bonnet was the pirate the HBO show “Our Flag Means Death” is about. And the sad part of the show is, it’s more accurate than not hahahahahaha

I think the parrot comes from the idea that sailors, including pirates, would sometimes have pets. Exotic pets like that could be found in the Caribbean, and up and down South America. But I think the parrot became iconic. Long John Silver had one in both the novel of “Treasure Island” and I think the movie. He at least had one in the sequel.

The Great Pirate Era 👀

This was actually made into a well portrayed TV show: Our Flag Means Death.

2:12 - If you haven't yet done a breakdown of Tim Curry's Pirate song, he actually gives a slight insight into the myth about pirates. Every time I hear Sir Francis Drake, I always think Tim Curry.

Seen allot of posts of the Caribbean references, but none about the pirates who don't do anything. So in honor of the best pirate song ever. "They've never been to Boston in the fall."

I have watched this video probably 4 times now, twice on BlueJay's channel and twice here, and I'm just now realizing that this is the dude you save and sail with to Havana in Black Flag that keeps showing up all over the game. Thought he was a fake character but nope lol

11:06 exotic pets was actually quite common for sailors at the time. You by a cheap monkey or parrot from some local at port and you either have a companion for life or a regret that lives from 30 years to 90 years. Cats however were much more common ship pets because they would eat the mice.

From what I was able to pick up, the parrot trope is mostly from "Treasure Island", but may have some real-life basis in what would have been a lucrative exotic pet trade for legal sailors. Bonus points that parrot foods are easy to keep on ships, like nuts and seeds.

Given the general living conditions of the pirate eras for everyone not rich I think tagging along on an imperial sponsored Privateer crew COULD be a favorable alternative lifestyle to what I could be stuck with.

Stede Bonnet is the (loose) inspiration for the show "Our Flag Means Death."

Black flag being a good pirate game but a bad assassin's creed game? Yes mister Terry I can life with that, it's my favorite assassin's creed game but yeah for exactly that. Awesome pirate game but less assassin's creed in it. Thank you again for a awesome reaction video.

I want to be a pirate from roman times when fighting hand to hand on boats was actually a thing.

So the original title when it dropped was "The Worst Pirates You've Never Heard Of" But then Bluejay got a wave of comments of people who knew about this pirate. I myself was a bit disappointment when I first saw this video because all I could think was "oh this guy again?" since many youtubers have done feature length videos about him.

Fun fact: Scallywag wasn't originally used to refer to pirates. It initially referred to white southerners who cooperated in Reconstruction after the American Civil War

I live not too far from a museum (Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Canada) that had a display showing all the pirate attacks in the past few years. It was a shockingly high number (to me, anyway).

All this talk about video games, maybe you should make videos for the gaming channel

The one good times seem to have been on the crew of a successful privateer. At least you had one naval power that had your back

iirc the parrot thing was real, they were a status symbol (and thus very valuable) at the time I was amazed when I heard that was a real thing lol

During the golden age of piracy green birds was a sign of wealth in England so alot of parrots worth alot were being shipped to England and a common cargo pirates captured. Some pirates trying to appear fancy would keep one for themselves. Also John silver in treasure island also bad a parrot

Unfortunately back in the days of the pirates I don't think they had any compromise

Letters of Marque and Reprisal is written in to the Constitution.

Now I've never heard of the ice trade, but I'd imagine they kept it from melting by packing it tightly in wood shavings similar to saw dust, giving a similar effect to pykrete. But otherwise, I have no theories on how ice would be transported without melting

I don't finish monopoly games, I finish friendships.

Hey total should look into the ice trade. It is fascinating. Got started up here in New England and the system of icehouses stocked by our local lakes fed much of the world's need for cold. Also not the best people running it if I remember.

Watching this reminds me of the HBO show "Our Flag Means Death", they go into the bromance lol. It's a cute show. :)

Black flag is the best assassin’s creed game

i would love to see a prober pirates game skull and bones is ok but they dont have any big ships to go after and boading is worse then black flag i do like the combat in skull and bones unless its one of the red ships thats are 2 levels higher then player

Internet Historian has an entire video about Bonnet (The Gentleman Pirate).

Never attack a frigate with a speed boat.

If you want a longer, funny, video on The Gentleman Pirate, Icognito Mode channel does a very long and in depth video on him.

The last podcast on the left series on black beard has a very comprehensive and comedic on both the historical time and bonnet

Though not completly historically accurate, the assassins creed franchise is my favorite due to my love of history and i have played and completed all major titles thus far, black flag being one of my favorites. Cant wait for the remastered version to be released and raise the assassins jolly rogers again.

Hm, sure Pirate life can be fun, same as being a successful actor xD (as in very low odds) For era, probably a sci-fi setting though as that could bring back the classical chase, boarding and other cliché stuff. Kinda like hm... Maybe Star Wars tech-level with Ion Cannons and tractor beams or for smaller starts smuggle runs.

Isn't there a show called "our flag means death" on Hulu or something that's literally about stead bonnet?

Definitely older times. Knowdays you never know whete you'll find a millitary boat

I have heard of Sir Francis Drake thanks to the Uncharted video game series. Sic Parvis Magna.^^

Think parrots where a thing during the golden age of privacy. They are a native Carribean bird, make good pets and would fetch a good price in a European port - why would you not get one.

The pirate « golden age » started because of the end of the Seven Year War, after this war the UK and France disbanded their fleets and the now unemployed sailors turned to piracy

Sure. Black Flag is fine, but my heart still goes to Sid Meier's Pirates Gold.

For what it's worth, you are entitled to your opinion... even if it's wrong, lol. Black Flag was my FAVORITE AC game. At least up until that point. I actually stopped playing midway through... Unity? Whatever the next one was. It was just "The Ubisoft Sandbox Game" Part 38. They've all become the same game with a different map layout and slightly different (un)historical events. To be fair to your viewpoint, it is indeed not the same as the other AC games, which is probably why I liked it so much TBH. Great pirate game. I don't really care about being an assassin when I can be a pirate with an actual ship combat function that isn't lobotomized like what you got in AC3.

Anyone watching this should watch Black Sails. Great pirate show, mabye best show ever

11:10 The Parrots of Penzance?

Also I don’t know if somebody said this in the comments but an Ancient Rome also had an ice traid

Have you ever heard of Grace O'Mally? Now she was a great pirate ☠️. 😀

Black flag is a great pirate game

I suggest IH/IncogniMode's Gentleman Pirate, a feature-length "documentary" about Bonnet

Uncharted series!!! Nathan and Sam drake! Sir Francis drake, Thomas tew, Bonnie

Hi Mr. Terry, I've been watching and looking through your videos. Your stuff is great. Have you ever checked out Extra History or War-O-Graphics? Two great channels. The former does short-ish series (4-7 episodes of 15 ish minutes/topic) on different historical topics. The latter does deep dives into specific historical conflict/war topics. Both are great channels.

Great vid! I always enjoy your history comments much more than your political ones. 👍👍

"O, the year was 1778 How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now A letter of marque came from the king To the scummiest vessel I've ever seen G-dd--n them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers" - Stan Rogers "I am a member of the council of the naval mutiny And no traitor to my conscience having done my sworn duty These are my last words before the scaffold and I charge you all to hear How a wretched British sailor became a citizen mutineer Pressed into service to carry powder I was loyal to the crack of the whip It I starved on the streets of Bristol, I starved worse on a British ship" - The Men They Couldn't Hang

You probably wont see this but theres this channel called real pixels and he did a how historically accurate is read dead redemption 2 series i think it would be cool to hear your input

I want to be a space Pirate in the far future ^^ With lasers and all the cool stuff... pew pew

I love you Mr Terry but blah flag was so good

What if I’m a decent of Sir Frances Drake

First of all: Assassins Creed 4 was a good game... I enjoyed it a lot and had wonderfull houers with it, even tho the graphic broke often down, the story was weak and I had the same glitches numerous times... Second: I just recendly won Monopoly against my friends (to be fair we played the digital version on Playstation) but hey... I almost lost, because I liked to keep them in the game for even longer with giving them money if they were broke. It was risky and I just should have destroyed them but this way the victory felt even better... 😎😎😎

I'm with you there Black flag one of my least favorite

Do Colin Quinn's history of New York, it's hilarious

Is this video about Calico Jack

Ooo idk if i agree with that ac black flag take

What era? Maybe post 1700's?

I think you would like his behind the scenes videos on his RedJay channel

I agree with black flag comment. Really fun pirate game. Ok assassin's creed game.

I think you might be the first person I've ever heard of that said they didn't like black flag. That might be my favorite assassins creed game. I'll admit that the modern day segments in that one were kinda boring though. But the rest of it I thought was amazing.

HOW TF DID YOU NOT LIKE BLACK FLAG

I wouldn't mind being a ye olden pirate. Just dudes being dudes, bros. Best friends. Roommates even, never lovers tho, obviously.

There is a reason REAL gamers, say,"well let's enjoy this for as long as we can, before the COD community ruins it with their toxic natures."

The zombies community is the last good part of call of duty

Our Flag Means Death is a satirical look at Steve Bonnet and in that story Blackbeard, and he had some implied butt fun.

Internet Historian has a long video on Steed Bonnet, recommend checking that out for some laughs.