Christian or Bligh?

flyboy55 · Post by **flyboy55** » June 16, 2006 10:55 am

OK so around six bells on the midnight watch (3:00 am) you are shaken from sleep in your hammock by Adams who says to you,

"Fletcher Christian is taking the ship - are you with us?"

Your response is . . .

As you can see, there are only two choices - both courses of action have something to recommend them and both men named have their good points.

Choose carefully - I am making notes for future reference.

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » June 16, 2006 11:04 am

Boobies always gets my vote

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » June 16, 2006 11:07 am

color me tardo, but i have no idea what you are talking about flyboy.

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » June 16, 2006 11:13 am

Mutiny on the Bounty...

well...there was Clark Gable...so I'd have to go with Christian

nude Tahitian women..just don't interest me...

Bubbaphan · Post by **Bubbaphan** » June 16, 2006 11:16 am

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » June 16, 2006 11:21 am

Oh yeah...Brando, too..

and he married a local...even owned his own island in the South Pacific..

flyboy55 · Post by **flyboy55** » June 16, 2006 11:26 am

Moonie wrote:Mutiny on the Bounty...

well...there was Clark Gable...so I'd have to go with Christian

nude Tahitian women..just don't interest me...

Could be nude Tahitian men.

scubamyk · Post by **scubamyk** » June 16, 2006 11:29 am

Bligh was a b@st@rd

And I am a pirate.

Bubbaphan · Post by **Bubbaphan** » June 16, 2006 11:57 am

flyboy55 wrote:
Moonie wrote:Mutiny on the Bounty...

well...there was Clark Gable...so I'd have to go with Christian

nude Tahitian women..just don't interest me...

Could be nude Tahitian men.

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » June 16, 2006 12:09 pm

doesn't qualify...fb said nude

alphabits · Post by **alphabits** » June 16, 2006 1:16 pm

Moonie wrote:doesn't qualify...fb said nude

Oh my, you don't really want to see the rest of HIM do you?!?

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » June 16, 2006 1:18 pm

scubamyk wrote:Bligh was a b@st@rd

And I am a pirate.

no.. just really anal due to a bad case of OCD

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » June 16, 2006 1:19 pm

alphabits wrote:
Moonie wrote:doesn't qualify...fb said nude
Oh my, you don't really want to see the rest of HIM do you?!?

not at all...I figured if there was one of him nude...it'd been posted..?

alphabits · Post by **alphabits** » June 16, 2006 1:46 pm

Well no matter which version of the movie, Captain Bligh was an a-hole so mutiny it is.

Brando's Christian was kinda prissy though - right on the boundary of Brokeback Bounty. But if we go for that later version ("The Bounty") with Mel Gibson, we'd have something for everyone. For the ladies ... well, it's Mel. And for the guys ... if Mel's around you know everyone is gettin' laid.

Sam · Post by **Sam** » June 16, 2006 2:01 pm

Actually no comment as the movies that have been made, do not show the real Captain Bligh, nor the real Fletcher Christian.

Bligh may not have been as mean and cruel as the movies portrayed him. Certainly he was stern, but there is no evidence he did anything Hollywood has accused him of.

Fletcher Christian did not find the Paradise he thought he would and in fact, found quite the opposite.
The descendents that remained on the islands, well I would not trade my living conditions for theirs, as they or I have it now.

Giving up the world and life as one knows it for a tiny piece of volcanic rock, does not seem like a very good idea.

You can find out details on the link below

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pitcairn.html

ER HMM...FLYBOY....Check your rank above on Bligh...he was CAPTAIN NOT a Leiutenent....

Bubbaphan · Post by **Bubbaphan** » June 16, 2006 2:06 pm

Can't we have ANY fun?

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PirateJohn · Post by **PirateJohn** » June 16, 2006 2:13 pm

Sam wrote:Actually no comment as the movies that have been made, do not show the real Captain Bligh, nor the real Fletcher Christian.

Bligh may not have been as mean and cruel as the movies portrayed him. Certainly he was stern, but there is no evidence he did anything Hollywood has accused him of.

<snip>

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pitcairn.html

IIRC (and I didn't read your link - sorry!) Bligh sailed the remaining crew safely for some tremendous distance. The Brit Navy held a hearing and decided that he was an exemplary Captain and gave him another command.

With all of that said and done however ... I'd probably go for the attractive Polynesian wimmen

Sam · Post by **Sam** » June 16, 2006 2:55 pm

PirateJohn wrote:
Sam wrote:Actually no comment as the movies that have been made, do not show the real Captain Bligh, nor the real Fletcher Christian.

Bligh may not have been as mean and cruel as the movies portrayed him. Certainly he was stern, but there is no evidence he did anything Hollywood has accused him of.

<snip>

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pitcairn.html

IIRC (and I didn't read your link - sorry!) Bligh sailed the remaining crew safely for some tremendous distance. The Brit Navy held a hearing and decided that he was an exemplary Captain and gave him another command.

With all of that said and done however ... I'd probably go for the attractive Polynesian wimmen

Quite true, Capt. Bligh and 18 others managed to sail a 23 foot boat 3,600 miles and survive the voyage. He had to be one hell of a sailor and a navigator even if his people skills left something to be desired.

Actually go reead the site if you have time. It is objective and lays no blame to either side and even covers the survivors up to modern day.

I used to have a couple articles about the sex scandals involving 7 men and some teenage girls on the island. A reporter went and lived on the island for a short while to cover the story. The Island paradise was not all that it appeared to be. It was interesting in the reporters description of life and the people on the Island. It may sound like an idyllic life but it certainly isn't in reality. The island has very little to offer...

As well as this from the site:

Certainly the stark contrast between the pleasures of Tahiti and the bleak life aboard the Bounty played a role in igniting the mutiny, but the blame seems to rest largely on Bligh's failings as a captain. The fact that Bligh was later involved in yet another mutiny and again accused of "oppressive behavior" makes the occasional attempts to rehabilitate his reputation unconvincing. In 1805 he was appointed governor of New South Wales, Britain's colony of Australia. The colonists, well accustomed to harsh leaders and conditions, found Bligh's rule intolerable. Within three years, they mutineed; Bligh was imprisoned and sent back to England.

Ironically, having two mutinies on his record did not stymie Bligh's career—he was eventually promoted to Vice Admiral. Although he was arrogant and cruel, he was also courageous and intelligent, as well as an excellent navigator, astronomer, and cartographer—he could never have survived the seven-week, 3,600-mile post-mutiny voyage otherwise.
Landing on Pitcairn Island in 1790, the mutineers and Tahitians remained invisible to the world for eighteen years. Despite the fledgling society's opportunity to invent itself from scratch, island culture more closely resembled Lord of the Flies than a Rousseauvian utopia. When an American whaler discovered the island in 1808, murder and suicide had left eight of the nine mutineers dead.

Piratical · Post by **Piratical** » June 16, 2006 3:02 pm

I voted for Bligh.

When you read the real history and ignore the Hollywood spin I think the more interesting story is Bligh’s.

Christian didn't find paradise. He and his men all ended up murdering each other for one stupid reason or another while Bligh sailed his men 3618 nautical miles over 47 days in a 23' open boat without any loss of life.

Christian might have been the fun guy, but when it comes down to brass tacks I would rather have Bligh over Christian.

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » June 16, 2006 3:14 pm

Bubbaphan wrote:Can't we have ANY fun?

No soup for you! Come back one year!

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