To refuse to send my child to a pirate party

[Mashbocking1]

A nursery friend of my 4 yo DS is having a pirate themed birthday party. I’m planning to decline the invite as I don’t think it’s appropriate for little children, or anyone for that matter, to dress up as a pirate - it’s glorifying and sentimentalising criminal men who raped, robbed and murdered.

FFS, piracy used to carry the death penalty until recently! You wouldn’t let your child go to a Nazi themed party - I can’t see much difference!

😂 this is 100% the quality content I come here for.

You should have been a kid in the seventies like me. Far less sex specific stuff. Although I did make walkie talkies out of my Mum's fag boxes when we we playing spies.

Also I agree OP. My DD will have a real cutlass, not some plastic pish. We are environmentally conscious, after all.

Very good OP, this has given me a much needed laugh. I once had a parent write in a complain about a book we published because the pirate said 'blast' and according to her we were teaching her child to swear. Was that you?

Luckily it wasn't just men that were pirates.

www.piratesquest.co.uk/top-10-famous-female-pirates/

Seriously, if you keep up like this, your PFB will have no friends at all.

Do you really think that pirates dressed anything like kids at a pirate party? It's a caricature, cartoon image.
My son went to one years ago, if the costumes were in any way realistic then the pirates would have made a poor show of sailing a boat never mind raping and pillaging, what with all the one legged one eyed pirates with fake parrots getting in the way.
He went to one on a canal barge, they played pass the parcel and had a karaoke, pin the feather on the parrot. It was great fun.

@AlbusSeverusMalfoy

What's a Pirates favourite letter of the alphabet? Rrrrr

Ye would think so, but me first love actually be the C!

Future generations will judge us.

Ah OP, you had me going for a minute but now you've over-egged the pudding

Interesting first post, my hearties - arrr!

And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King.

😂

Future generations will judge us.

They won't, they'll be too busy making each other walk the plank off the coast of Derbyshire.

if the costumes were in any way realistic then the pirates would have made a poor show of sailing a boat never mind raping and pillaging, what with all the one legged one eyed pirates with fake parrots getting in the way

Not to mention their poor fashion sense,,,🤣🤣🤣

IIm guessing you're one of those parents who doesn't allow your children to play with toy guns
I didnt allow my kids to play with guns and my GC don't either. I don't see that the same in any way as dressing up as pirates. Guns kill now and many look real. Dressing up as. A pretend pirate or superhero is not the same thing at all it is just dressing up and playing.

Surely this is a wind up. OP you're absolutely ridiculous.

How much does it cost a pirate to get their ears pierced?

A buccaneer

Well you could go and pop all their balloons

Oh FFS. Your poor son. Take a chill pill.

What do you do if a pirate stops breathing?

Give him CPRRRRRRRRRR

Mockersisrightasusual

Well done for doing a comparison to the Nazis in your very first post. You broke Godwin's Law.

How are a group of water-based violent outlaws from 400 years ago in any way comparable to the political party that introduced the world's largest state-sanctioned genocide? Think about what you are saying FFS.

I mean don't get me wrong, I LOVE overthinking stuff. I'm a master at it.

You've achieved god level with this bat-shittery

Hilarious!

Don't be daft.