They have the best pirates!
They have the best pirates!
They arrrrr, arn't they....
A bit of rather dull land in a very useful place whose few inhabitants were a little surprised when these white men arrived and said " you are now subjects of the king and he like these presents called taxes. Oh - and these chaps in funny shirts want a word with your priests"
Hundreds of years later its a bit fubared
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those white life boats were confiscated off the pirates and taken here in the Seychelles, we see them all the time.
it must be a mega dangerous place because its been done by the daddy of hard men....
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Well it's given a nice career change to some of my former colleagues. Thanks Pirates!
Doesn't it now act as a staging post for most of the gak that comes in to Europe?
So... no Somalia? No nose-bag!
[s]S[/s]o[s]ma[/s]li[s]a[/s].
certain UK health care professionals can earn 3+ times their salery working in Somalia as compared to the NHS!
Oh - and whilst they're not your [i]traditional[/i] type, pirates are cooooooool (subject to being captured)!!!!
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PS: its not easy being a pirate:
Another unusual revelation that Stig’s research has gleaned is that many Somalis enter into piracy to support their many wives – some have as many as 13! A common complaint he hears from pirates is how their family networks rapidly increase after they begin earning money from hijacks; unknown and distant cousins begin appearing at their doorsteps, asking for a slice of the profits.
[i]ref: http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/General/ProfessorAmongPirates.aspx [/i]
And we're going to see A LOT more dead ones in the near future.
There used to be a lot of Somalis working on UK ships as legitimate sailors rather than pirates. I guess they were cheap. All the ones I met were decent enough.
Blimey! If you had 13 wives, you'd be heading out to sea and shooting people too 😯
No, I'd be too knackered from all the shagging 🙂
No, I'd be too knackered from all the shagging
You're not married / not been married long, then? 🙁
I suspect the opprobrium directed at the OP derives from the choice of language. The point of any country is to provide somewhere to live for its inhabitants, obviously, and I think Somalia does that like any other.
Asking what the point is comes across as being very derogatory.
Ha brilliant.Not sure I get your point. Is there a reason why Somalia should impress you in some way?
What tyres for Somalia ?
It'll be a useful location for the MOD to send squaddies to top up their tans after Afghanistan packs in.