Saturday, September 17, 2005

arrr matey, will ye be helping me look for treasure?


Dressing like a pirate is the newest emerging look on the streets...well, almost... a very hip young 20-something (myself of course) is wandering around the city wearing an eye patch, puffy shirts, bandanas and of course skull and cross bones. This look is on the verge of being very big. It's catching on- during the week I spotted a girl wearing an eye patch (it looked like it
was there for medical reasons though).

This preoccupation with pirates is not just a 'look' it's also a lifestyle of drinking rum, speaking pirate talk, singing sea shanties and always looking for treasure. Freshly caught fish is the food of choice, when on land one always thinks of the high seas and it's quite normal to have sudden spells of nausea from being car or land sick (a pirate is only accustomed to the motions of the sea), eating too much and from drinking something that is not rum.

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