Wednesday, 18 February 2026

Want To Run Away To Sea?









And hey, if you haven't seen it yet, you may want to watch the streaming series Our Flag Means Death as preparatory viewing. Gay pirates in love, featuring the great Taika Waititi as Blackbeard and Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet. What more could you want? Its humour veers crazily all over the place from silly to absurd to surreal to insane. I'm sure this is exactly what old timey piratical life must have been like, aren't you?


40 comments:

Tom said...

...just cal me "Soggy Hook Orphan," but I like Tom better.

Boud said...

Afternoon tea,and a bottle of rum!

Mistress Maddie said...

Fresh Skull the Foolish here.....

Sailing around the world, getting drunk on beer, sea shanties....and getting paid... plus 30- 50 men at sea?!?!?!?! SIGN ME UP ME DEARIES!!!!! Now this me can handle.

Bob said...

Apparently, I am White Bottom the Vile????

Janie Junebug said...

I'm thrilled to be Little Bottom the Hideous. Love the way pirates play Scrabble.

Love,
Janie

baili said...

Fun memes about pirates dear friend 🥰
Enjoyed them all
Thanks for smiles ♥️🫂

Moving with Mitchell said...

I want to see Our Flag Means Death. But, Rrrrrrrr, I think I’ll be watching it alone.

Moving with Mitchell said...

Me: What’s the favorite letter of a pirate?
You: R
Me: Aye, you’d think that. But it’s the C.

Travel said...

I have learned that an ancestor in early 1800's was a privateer, I pirate with permission from the government.

Mary V said...

Love them all, would have been a great post for TLPD Sept 19th. Not so sure about my pirate name…Filthy Bottom the Greedy.hahaha

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Moving with Mitchell -- GROAN!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Travel -- Of course your ancestor was law-abiding! Respect for the law must run in your family.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Mary V -- OMG that's the BEST name yet!

whkattk said...

LOL. Love that after eye surgery photo. Yep, that's the kind of fun we had around here after my eye surgery.
Cruel Dog the Impossible????

Val Ewing said...

Black Dog the Dreadful. Arrrr. Seems fitting.

Pixie said...

I'm a huge fan of Taika Waititi. I'll have to look for this.
Pirates are huge fans of the letter R, but they're awfully fond of the C as well.
How much does a pirate charge for corn?
A buck an ear!
I'll stop now:)

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Pixie -- You get TWO GROANS for those!

Tundra Bunny said...

Just call me White Bottom the Wicked.... direct descendent from the white rabbit in Monty Python & The Holy Grail.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Tundra Bunny -- Sharp pointy teeth and all!

Bill said...

White Blood the Savage here, sounds rather scary. :)

Kathy G said...

Salty Rat the Greedy reporting for duty :-)

RedPat said...

A fun post, Debra.

Hena Tayeb said...

haha.. Muddy Guns the Greedy.. lol

Liz Hinds said...

Oh that sounds good!

Deedles said...

Oh, great. I'm Moldy Bottom the Impossible. Balder Half thinks it suits me.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Deedles -- Oh dear oh dear oh dear!

Sixpence Notthewiser said...

OMG YES!!!
Our Flag Means Death is THE series to watch. LOVE!!
I've watched the whole thing twice already.

I'm Rotten Bones The Dreadful.

XOXO

Linda's Relaxing Lair said...

Red Hat the Miserable!!! LOL! LOL!

Moving with Mitchell said...

Deedles:
You can’t make that up. I love the name!

Yorkshire Pudding said...

I'm Grubby Skull the Unfavourable which makes me feel a whole lot better about myself. Thanks for that Debra!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Yorkshire Pudding -- Hey, onwards and upwards, GSU!

Marie Smith said...

The eye surgery one shows a great sense of humour! Love it.

Kirk said...

I don't have a middle name so I'm merely Salty the Ghastly.

River said...

I have two middle names so I am either Broken hair The Miserable or Broken Hair Guns The Miserable.

roughterrain crane said...

Pirate is an exiting job at any time, any place even if the salary is not big.

e said...

First rate memes! Loved them all! So many lols this morning, thanks!
Broken Dog the Vicious - a suitably piratical name!

Guillaume said...

Real historical pirates are even more interesting than the legendary ones.

Busy Bee Suz said...

The MIL pirate is hilarious. Your friend~Fresh Bottom The Vile

Mike said...

I stole the joke from Picard.

angela said...

Don’t have a middle name, my parents were too poor for that. Lol
So it doesn’t make sense.
Captain crochet hook made me giggle