Also gay marriage and relationships were common among pirates, called "matelotage" (from the french word for sailor, matelot). Matelot partners shared their loot and should one of them die at sea, the ship would pay the surviving partner the deceased's fair share. Hence the origin of the term "matey".
PM Press just published a second edition of Gabriel Kuhn's Life Under The Jolly Roger , which analyzes pirates as gender/race diverse intersectional nomadic outlaws from a marxist/anarchist lens (also persistent 25% off code "stick25") (libgen link if you want also)
Also gay marriage and relationships were common among pirates, called "matelotage" (from the french word for sailor, matelot). Matelot partners shared their loot and should one of them die at sea, the ship would pay the surviving partner the deceased's fair share. Hence the origin of the term "matey".
That's fucking badass.
aye matey
Ayyy ima start doing this with my wife, I've already got her used to accepting aye as an affirmative reply in conversation
My partner and I can't stop talking like Billy Nighy's Davy Jones (we watched the PotC films recently), and it's bad
Thank god we're quarantined
That sounds absolutely delightful! This is the stuff that gives me hope for humanity
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