I'll Gut Ye

Before I forget, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Which in my opinion is fairly stupid, but pirates are awesome.

Why, you ask, are Pirates awesome?
Besides the treasure, and swords, and parrots?
Well... forget the shit Disney pumped into you. A Pirate Captain's word wasn't law. Pirates ran a Democracy before the U.S. did, and elected all captains and officers. Even then, a captain was no more than a commander in battle, deciding tactics and strategy. All major decisions (headings, ports, who to attack) were made by the crew, by vote, and if the crew wasn't happy with the captain, they would choose another.
They also had their own laws, which, depending on the ship, prohibited theft, rape, murder of fellow crewmen, excessive drunkeness, etc. Punishment ranged from lashing to marooning, depending on the crime.
Spoils were divided up evenly among the crew, and the captain's was usually 1 1/2 t0 2 times the crew. Officers were in between. Ship's boys were half or quarter.
Worker's comp. Not kidding. If you lost a leg or arm or eye or finger, or anything else important, you would be compensated, quite nicely, with enough to get you by for quite a while, especially if it was something that kept you from sailing again.
Don't believe me? Under the Black Flag is highly entertaining, and educational even.

I've had 'The Pirate King' stuck in my head ALL DAY.

And it is it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King...