"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
There is an increasingly passionate debate that The Wellerman has been ruined. I am with the camp that says we have effectively doubled the shanty collection in the public conscious and should thus be celebrated. No longer will they only sing What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Did you know parts of the community gets together on discord (sometimes zoom) and does singalongs? You can usually find someone organising a singalong most days of the week. It is very good
There is an increasingly passionate debate that The Wellerman has been ruined. I am with the camp that says we have effectively doubled the shanty collection in the public conscious and should thus be celebrated. No longer will they only sing What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Did you know parts of the community gets together on discord (sometimes zoom) and does singalongs? You can usually find someone organising a singalong most days of the week. It is very good
So you mean it's a debate between the sane side and the hipsters?
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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Zxerolbat tail beaver /w a measuring tapeRegistered Userregular
Sea shanty elitism is certainly now I thing I am aware of existing.
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JedocBringing the past to lifeso we can beat it to death with a shovelRegistered Userregular
Let the sea shanty hipsters come for me, I'm in Oklahoma. The coyotes (or what we call the sea dogs of the land) will pick their bones clean before they make it ten leagues from shore.
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BillyIdleWhat does "katana" mean?It means "Japanese sword."Registered Userregular
They never really know what to do with a drunken sailor.
There is an increasingly passionate debate that The Wellerman has been ruined. I am with the camp that says we have effectively doubled the shanty collection in the public conscious and should thus be celebrated. No longer will they only sing What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Did you know parts of the community gets together on discord (sometimes zoom) and does singalongs? You can usually find someone organising a singalong most days of the week. It is very good
So you mean it's a debate between the sane side and the hipsters?
Pretty much, yeah.
It is fucking everywhere at the moment, to be fair, so I can understand why it annoys some people.
I just love introducing people to the things I like
There is an increasingly passionate debate that The Wellerman has been ruined. I am with the camp that says we have effectively doubled the shanty collection in the public conscious and should thus be celebrated. No longer will they only sing What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Did you know parts of the community gets together on discord (sometimes zoom) and does singalongs? You can usually find someone organising a singalong most days of the week. It is very good
Excuse you, there are three shanties in the public consciousness now. I will not stand for this erasure of my culture.
Oh yes but I a little bit niche to the North Atlantic stans
Fun story a few years back @Raijin Quickfoot made a PA Spotify collaborative playlist and somebody put Barrett’s Privateers on there. That was the song that sent me down the rabbit hole of being very, very into sea shanties
You have to reconcile within yourself that the age of sail was premised on oppression, slavery, imperialism, exploitation and ecological destruction.
I make my peace with it by treating it as a recognition of the hard, working class men and women carving out an existence in our capitalist hell hole
If you haven't read it, I highly, highly recommend checking out Marcus Rediker's Villains of All Nations, which takes a leftist view of piracy as a response to extreme poverty and the horrific treatment of sailors by captains and officers of the day.
To set the tone, the book opens with the story of a captured pirate named William Fly, who was given the chance to "save his soul" by speaking to those in attendance at his execution and warn them not to turn to piracy as he did. Instead, he had a warning for the captains:
Addressing the port-city crowd thick with ship captains and sailors, he proclaimed his final, fondest wish: that “all Masters of Vessels might take Warning by the Fate of the Captain (meaning Captain Green) that he had murder’d, and to pay Sailors their Wages when due, and to treat them better; saying, that their Barbarity to them made so many turn Pyrates.” Fly thus used his last breath to protest the conditions of work at sea, what he called “Bad Usage.”
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FearghaillIf there is nothing but what we make in this worldlet us make goodRegistered Userregular
Oh yes but I a little bit niche to the North Atlantic stans
Fun story a few years back @Raijin Quickfoot made a PA Spotify collaborative playlist and somebody put Barrett’s Privateers on there. That was the song that sent me down the rabbit hole of being very, very into sea shanties
Admittedly my perspective on the song's ubiquity may be influenced by my geography. I am as I type this roughly 300m from a Halifax pier.
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JedocBringing the past to lifeso we can beat it to death with a shovelRegistered Userregular
You have to reconcile within yourself that the age of sail was premised on oppression, slavery, imperialism, exploitation and ecological destruction.
I make my peace with it by treating it as a recognition of the hard, working class men and women carving out an existence in our capitalist hell hole
If you haven't read it, I highly, highly recommend checking out Marcus Rediker's Villains of All Nations, which takes a leftist view of piracy as a response to extreme poverty and the horrific treatment of sailors by captains and officers of the day.
To set the tone, the book opens with the story of a captured pirate named William Fly, who was given the chance to "save his soul" by speaking to those in attendance at his execution and warn them not to turn to piracy as he did. Instead, he had a warning for the captains:
Addressing the port-city crowd thick with ship captains and sailors, he proclaimed his final, fondest wish: that “all Masters of Vessels might take Warning by the Fate of the Captain (meaning Captain Green) that he had murder’d, and to pay Sailors their Wages when due, and to treat them better; saying, that their Barbarity to them made so many turn Pyrates.” Fly thus used his last breath to protest the conditions of work at sea, what he called “Bad Usage.”
To Read'd! That sounds fantastic, and it looks like we have it as an ebook.
Also, does anyone have one of these videos that starts with just the two dudes and layers more and more folks on top with every verse? That sounds like a blast, but Tiktok confuses and frightens me.
You have to reconcile within yourself that the age of sail was premised on oppression, slavery, imperialism, exploitation and ecological destruction.
I make my peace with it by treating it as a recognition of the hard, working class men and women carving out an existence in our capitalist hell hole
If you haven't read it, I highly, highly recommend checking out Marcus Rediker's Villains of All Nations, which takes a leftist view of piracy as a response to extreme poverty and the horrific treatment of sailors by captains and officers of the day.
To set the tone, the book opens with the story of a captured pirate named William Fly, who was given the chance to "save his soul" by speaking to those in attendance at his execution and warn them not to turn to piracy as he did. Instead, he had a warning for the captains:
Addressing the port-city crowd thick with ship captains and sailors, he proclaimed his final, fondest wish: that “all Masters of Vessels might take Warning by the Fate of the Captain (meaning Captain Green) that he had murder’d, and to pay Sailors their Wages when due, and to treat them better; saying, that their Barbarity to them made so many turn Pyrates.” Fly thus used his last breath to protest the conditions of work at sea, what he called “Bad Usage.”
Hell fucking yes, I’m sold!
We should always remind ourselves that pirates play an outsized part in our collective memories of the time!
Oh yes but I a little bit niche to the North Atlantic stans
Fun story a few years back @Raijin Quickfoot made a PA Spotify collaborative playlist and somebody put Barrett’s Privateers on there. That was the song that sent me down the rabbit hole of being very, very into sea shanties
Admittedly my perspective on the song's ubiquity may be influenced by my geography. I am as I type this roughly 300m from a Halifax pier.
You have to reconcile within yourself that the age of sail was premised on oppression, slavery, imperialism, exploitation and ecological destruction.
I make my peace with it by treating it as a recognition of the hard, working class men and women carving out an existence in our capitalist hell hole
If you haven't read it, I highly, highly recommend checking out Marcus Rediker's Villains of All Nations, which takes a leftist view of piracy as a response to extreme poverty and the horrific treatment of sailors by captains and officers of the day.
To set the tone, the book opens with the story of a captured pirate named William Fly, who was given the chance to "save his soul" by speaking to those in attendance at his execution and warn them not to turn to piracy as he did. Instead, he had a warning for the captains:
Addressing the port-city crowd thick with ship captains and sailors, he proclaimed his final, fondest wish: that “all Masters of Vessels might take Warning by the Fate of the Captain (meaning Captain Green) that he had murder’d, and to pay Sailors their Wages when due, and to treat them better; saying, that their Barbarity to them made so many turn Pyrates.” Fly thus used his last breath to protest the conditions of work at sea, what he called “Bad Usage.”
Hell fucking yes, I’m sold!
We should always remind ourselves that pirates play an outsized part in our collective memories of the time!
Oh yes but I a little bit niche to the North Atlantic stans
Fun story a few years back @Raijin Quickfoot made a PA Spotify collaborative playlist and somebody put Barrett’s Privateers on there. That was the song that sent me down the rabbit hole of being very, very into sea shanties
Admittedly my perspective on the song's ubiquity may be influenced by my geography. I am as I type this roughly 300m from a Halifax pier.
What are your thoughts on Sherbrooke?
I'm sure it was a lovely place in 1778, and there's roughly as much to do there now as there was then.
For real though its a former gold mining town, and a former fishing town and these days it's mostly a tourism town. Sherbrooke Village is pretty cool, it's an open-air museum recreating life in the 1800s.
There is an increasingly passionate debate that The Wellerman has been ruined. I am with the camp that says we have effectively doubled the shanty collection in the public conscious and should thus be celebrated. No longer will they only sing What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Did you know parts of the community gets together on discord (sometimes zoom) and does singalongs? You can usually find someone organising a singalong most days of the week. It is very good
Excuse you, there are three shanties in the public consciousness now. I will not stand for this erasure of my culture.
Speaking of Shanties, check out
Garnet's Home-Made Beer
Caedwyr on
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I'm only on the 2nd game of this in the video, and I'm very, VERY much regretting passing on the preorder/kickstarter.
Looking to get rid of some 2005-2010 era Star Wars vehicles/toys. If interested, please PM me.
He/Him
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
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Frankenstein and the Socialist origins of Electronic music
This guy's on a watch list somewhere, right?
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
There is an increasingly passionate debate that The Wellerman has been ruined. I am with the camp that says we have effectively doubled the shanty collection in the public conscious and should thus be celebrated. No longer will they only sing What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Did you know parts of the community gets together on discord (sometimes zoom) and does singalongs? You can usually find someone organising a singalong most days of the week. It is very good
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
So you mean it's a debate between the sane side and the hipsters?
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Throw em in a ditch till they wake up sober.
Pretty much, yeah.
It is fucking everywhere at the moment, to be fair, so I can understand why it annoys some people.
I just love introducing people to the things I like
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Put em in the scuppers with a hose pipe on em?
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Second one is VERY nsfw
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hey i've been to see that painting in person
howard pyle rules
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Excuse you, there are three shanties in the public consciousness now. I will not stand for this erasure of my culture.
Fun story a few years back @Raijin Quickfoot made a PA Spotify collaborative playlist and somebody put Barrett’s Privateers on there. That was the song that sent me down the rabbit hole of being very, very into sea shanties
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
You have to reconcile within yourself that the age of sail was premised on oppression, slavery, imperialism, exploitation and ecological destruction.
I make my peace with it by treating it as a recognition of the hard, working class men and women carving out an existence in our capitalist hell hole
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
mcc expertly puts into words my feelings about this
If you haven't read it, I highly, highly recommend checking out Marcus Rediker's Villains of All Nations, which takes a leftist view of piracy as a response to extreme poverty and the horrific treatment of sailors by captains and officers of the day.
To set the tone, the book opens with the story of a captured pirate named William Fly, who was given the chance to "save his soul" by speaking to those in attendance at his execution and warn them not to turn to piracy as he did. Instead, he had a warning for the captains:
Admittedly my perspective on the song's ubiquity may be influenced by my geography. I am as I type this roughly 300m from a Halifax pier.
To Read'd! That sounds fantastic, and it looks like we have it as an ebook.
Also, does anyone have one of these videos that starts with just the two dudes and layers more and more folks on top with every verse? That sounds like a blast, but Tiktok confuses and frightens me.
/sigh
Shanties need be simple so that the sailors could sing in unison to sync their work efforts
I’ll take my lashings now, perhaps I’ll take a tonguing and go
Hell fucking yes, I’m sold!
We should always remind ourselves that pirates play an outsized part in our collective memories of the time!
What are your thoughts on Sherbrooke?
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
I'm sure it was a lovely place in 1778, and there's roughly as much to do there now as there was then.
For real though its a former gold mining town, and a former fishing town and these days it's mostly a tourism town. Sherbrooke Village is pretty cool, it's an open-air museum recreating life in the 1800s.
Speaking of Shanties, check out
Garnet's Home-Made Beer
Looking to get rid of some 2005-2010 era Star Wars vehicles/toys. If interested, please PM me.
He/Him