The Bounty does not mutiny.

[sirbenjamin]

Jul 3, 2022 22:22:11 GMT @boogieeck said:

If the mutineers had not settled Pitcairn who would have? Anyone? who would have claimed it? When? Why?

Sir Henry Kissinger, in the Spring of 1407, accompanied by members of Swedish Europop quartet Ace of Base.

They'd have used the land to rear giant Arctic Terns and become one of the earliest societies to develop semaphore signalling.

[peterl]

The Royal Navy ran on discipline back in the day to keep in line men who served under poor conditions, many of whom did not want to be there in the first place. They were kept in line by the Articles of War, which justifiably prescribed a penalty of death for mutiny. In the end, three of the mutineers suffered this fate, but two were acquitted and one pardoned. Harsher treatment, punishing all the offenders put on trial, and sending a ship to punish those who had landed in the Pitcairn Islands, could have avoided later incidents such as the Spithead Mutinies of 1797.

[Arthur Figgis]

Milk or plain?

[iainbhx]

Jul 4, 2022 5:58:09 GMT Arthur Figgis said:

Milk or plain?

Plain is the superior bounty by far.

[therealriga]

The Informer wins best picture oscar instead.

[nodealbrexiteer]

Jul 4, 2022 6:24:55 GMT therealriga said:

The Informer wins best picture oscar instead.

Clark Gable, Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson etc have a shorter CV

[carlton43]

I like the use of coconut milk in some cooking, but have a marked aversion to desiccated coconut, so no Bounty for me.

[johnloony]

The vote was 1-2 and I don’t know anything about the history of the mutiny on the Bounty ( so I can’t judge whether it was justified or not) so I just voted to make it 2-2 to make the bar chart look neater.

[Pete Whitehead]

[slon]

What would have happened if Bligh had not reached Timor?

[carlton43]

Jul 4, 2022 9:27:04 GMT slon said:

What would have happened if Bligh had not reached Timor?

He would have reached somewhere else, or been picked up by a passing craft or died.

[The Bishop]

Jul 3, 2022 22:22:11 GMT @boogieeck said:

It was a close-run thing, Christian did not have the level of support he expected and the numbers of crew wishing a seat in the boat with Bligh exceeded the capacity. So let's assume the mutiny is unsuccessful, a few mutineers are hanged and none of you have ever heard of it.

Lets ask a binary question in the poll and an analogue one to go along with it.

If the mutineers had not settled Pitcairn who would have? Anyone? who would have claimed it? When? Why?

I don't know if Pitcairn would have been settled (though it probably would have been, in due course - Polynesians had settled there previously) but that it would have been claimed by somebody - quite possibly Chile - is beyond question.

Save possibly for a section of Antarctica (Marie Byrd Land, and even that was claimed by the US in some accounts) that is true of every bit of land in the world.

[carlton43]

This is another utterly pointless question with a witless poll, sensibly avoided by most of us.

Are you really that bored? No course reading or housing studies to occupy what you are pleased to term your mind?

[slon]

Jul 4, 2022 11:00:27 GMT carlton43 said:

This is another utterly pointless question with a witless poll, sensibly avoided by most of us.

Are you really that bored? No course reading or housing studies to occupy what you are pleased to term your mind?

Just what captain Bligh would have said ..... the man is a disgrace to salt water, put him on half rations for ten days

[finsobruce]

Jul 4, 2022 9:27:04 GMT slon said:

What would have happened if Bligh had not reached Timor?

The good news would still have travelled from Ghent to Aix la Chapelle.

[sirbenjamin]

Jul 4, 2022 9:13:32 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Entirely inaccurate.

Milky Way is *always* the last one left. Maybe with the odd Mars Bar or Galaxy Caramel.

Bounties tend to go quite early on round here. I'd put them on a par with the Marathon bar overall. Although I tend not to get Celebrations since they stopped including Topics. Cunts.

[Merseymike]

Jul 4, 2022 20:04:43 GMT sirbenjamin said:

Jul 4, 2022 9:13:32 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Entirely inaccurate.

Milky Way is *always* the last one left. Maybe with the odd Mars Bar or Galaxy Caramel.

Bounties tend to go quite early on round here. I'd put them on a par with the Marathon bar overall. Although I tend not to get Celebrations since they stopped including Topics. Cunts.

They have discontinued Topic altogether. Mars stopped making them.

[sirbenjamin]

Jul 4, 2022 20:07:26 GMT Merseymike said:

Jul 4, 2022 20:04:43 GMT sirbenjamin said:

Entirely inaccurate.

Milky Way is *always* the last one left. Maybe with the odd Mars Bar or Galaxy Caramel.

Bounties tend to go quite early on round here. I'd put them on a par with the Marathon bar overall. Although I tend not to get Celebrations since they stopped including Topics. Cunts.

They have discontinued Topic altogether. Mars stopped making them.

I really hope this isn't true. I'm sure I had one a year or so ago.

[Merseymike]

Jul 4, 2022 20:09:47 GMT sirbenjamin said:

Jul 4, 2022 20:07:26 GMT Merseymike said:

They have discontinued Topic altogether. Mars stopped making them.

I really hope this isn't true. I'm sure I had one a year or so ago.

It was discontinued in February I believe

[sirbenjamin]

Jul 4, 2022 20:10:16 GMT Merseymike said:

Jul 4, 2022 20:09:47 GMT sirbenjamin said:

I really hope this isn't true. I'm sure I had one a year or so ago.

It was discontinued in February I believe

Awww for fucks sake... this is what happens when people protest about shit like 'climate change' and 'inequality' instead of the really important stuff.

I'm glad I don't have children. I really wouldn't want them to grow up in a world with no Topics.