The Great Ninja vs. Pirate debate (split from immortal topic)

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My wife posed an interesting question last night. We were watching Modern Marvels: Pirate Tech (I'm a nerd, shut up,) and the commentator said, "The crime of piracy predates recorded history." She looked at me and asked, "How do they know?"

Unless there is some ancient heiroglyph from the first day of recorded history saying, "Piracy continues," I'm calling BS on the History Channel.
 
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cotton said:
My wife posed an interesting question last night. We were watching Modern Marvels: Pirate Tech (I'm a nerd, shut up,) and the commentator said, "The crime of piracy predates recorded history." She looked at me and asked, "How do they know?"

Unless there is some ancient heiroglyph from the first day of recorded history saying, "Piracy continues," I'm calling BS on the History Channel.
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Not all history is "recorded" per se. Much history was passed down by word of mouth and even song. I'm making an assumption here but my guess on what they meant was that the act of piracy was recognized long before anybody sat down and wrote about it. Not a stretch really since it's just a form of robbery, only based off ships.
 
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This was the first thread I ever split right after becoming a Mod. They grow up so fast...:cray:
 
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hndog609 said:
Not all history is "recorded" per se. Much history was passed down by word of mouth and even song. I'm making an assumption here but my guess on what they meant was that the act of piracy was recognized long before anybody sat down and wrote about it. Not a stretch really since it's just a form of robbery, only based off ships.
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I still think it is odd that a narrator would claim that we know events were happening before we know they happened.
 
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vader said:
This was the first thread I ever split right after becoming a Mod. They grow up so fast...:cray:
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Yeah, it's kind of like running into your first girlfriend at the mall.

On another note, my 6th grade girlfriend manages Jersey Mike's. She hooks me up with extra toppings on my #6.

Oh yeah:

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cotton said:
I still think it is odd that a narrator would claim that we know events were happening before we know they happened.
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Oh man then pirates are nothing. Ever seen any of the "real" prehistoric stuff? They'll talk about things that supposedly happened 5 million years ago like it's a documentery.
 
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now going along the lines of alien and predator, you mix and have the pred-alien now mix pirate and ninja you get the ultimate, the piraninja
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GASOUTHERNVOL said:
now going along the lines of alien and predator, you mix and have the pred-alien now mix pirate and ninja you get the ultimate, the piraninja
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Actually, you get a ninrat.

If you breed a thoroughbred to a donkey, you get a jackass every time.
 
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