• odium
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    5 hours ago

    According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?

    Am I missing something?

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      That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.

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        Wait, you’re telling me that privateers don’t just grow into the hulls of their ships like Bill Turner?

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        Oh, ic. That does appear to be what OOP meant.

        Would you still call them a pirate though? More of an ex-pirate imo. If someone was a blacksmith in their 20s and is now a chef in their 60s. You would not call them an elderly blacksmith.