Being a ninja myself, I'm a firm believer in the superiority of actual martial arts training over boozing, buggering, and cursing. But those scurvy dogs, the pirates, have their partisans too. They're wrong, but they do exist.

So, who wins?

	11% (4)	Ninjas.
	20% (7)	Pirates.
	20% (7)	They all die.
	26% (9)	They make up, and Jesus buys them a smoothie.
	20% (7)	Neil and Bob.

Ninjas can't swim very well.

Pirates have cannons that can shoot stuff on land, from afar.

Also, you can't be a ninja with that long hair.

In Response to zamphir (#21217):

I happen to be in agreeance with Zamphir on this one.

And as we have come to know through Disney productions - The Pirates of the Carribbean - that some pirates are very hot. Where as you can never really tell with ninjas because they've always got their faces covered. Or you get Tumm Tumm or Colt...whatever.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21219):

Agreement, I think you meant.

Also, don't quote Disney productions as canonical truth. They've made a trainwreck of already-mistreated stories before, and proof enough of that. I mean, consider The Little Mermaid. First the Grimms twist a local tale into their own bizarre, gory, and rather asexual creation (I'll take complaints about their total lack of scholastic integrity in a tangent, please) and then Disney removes the perfectly reasonable, if melancholy, ending in favor of sappy 'romance.' Ugh.

In Response to sakuruth (#21221):

All of this misinformation is going to make somebody flip out. Remember, September 15th rapidly moves in upon us like a thunder cloud ready to explode in an intense rain of fury.

P.S. Pirates rule!

In Response to sakuruth (#21221):

I think you mean... "First Hans Christian Anderson twists a local tale"

And no "tale"/"tail" puns, please.

In Response to sakuruth (#21221):

Don't forget that Disney has so completely run out of public domain sources to rip off (Brothers Grimm, et all) that they have begun to rip off themselves by making movies based on their own rides.

This has the added benefit of not having to build a ride or setup a parade for the movie.

"I told him we already got one."

In Response to zamphir (#21223):

Damn, so I do.

I think my brain's been put in cold storage. Blasted weather.

In Response to Dynedain (#21225):

I like the fact that Disney, who make a habit out of getting Congress to extend their copyrights in perpetuity (because it's all about the artistic integrity and property rights) is perfectly happy to argue [cnn.com] that everything else in the world is in the public domain.

But that's par for the course for the smiling, mouse-eared fascists of Central Florida.

In Response to zamphir (#21217):

Sorry, any ninja that cannot evade a mere cannonball is no ninja.

He's just a confused man in black pajamas.

In Response to stilllwaiting (#21246):

black pyjamas wrapped around his head, no less.

In Response to stilllwaiting (#21246):

I'm not saying the cannons would be trained on the Ninjas themselves.

Just all their stuff.

The blunderbusses and muskets are for the ninjas. While they're trying to sneak out to the ship.

In Response to stilllwaiting (#21246):

Sometimes I feel like a confused man in black pajamas.

In Response to sakuruth (#21221):

Nah, I meant what I said.

And we can't really blame Disney for what they've done. Sappy romance endings sell and so why are they wrong for wanting to make money. And it also kind of goes along with the thought that a movie is only good if you leave the theater depressed.

I happen to like Disney movies, though I will admit that they have made their blunders - El Dorado. Of course, the company itself is now corupt and probably run by a group of evil monkeys from another dimension...but I just don't think about that when I watch The Little Mermaid or Pirates of the Carribbean.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21256):

Sometimes I feel like a confused man in black pajamas.

Wouldn't he be more fun out of his pajamas?

In Response to zamphir (#21258):

Maybe that's why he/I feel confused.

In Response to zamphir (#21258):

When a man is out of his pyjamas, he's usually not confused. I always think of it as one of few moments of clarity.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21257):

a) Road to El Dorado was a DreamWorks production.

b) It was not a blunder. Just lonely and misunderstood. How can teaming Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh EVER be a blunder?

"Well, the horse is a surprise."

In Response to unFalln (#21260):

one of few moments of clarity

...and if you're lucky, a fleeting moment without self-consciousness, carefree and genuine. "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind!"

In Response to Teledildonix (#21268):

I usually figure that if I'm running around naked, then anyone who looks and is offended, got what they deserved for looking.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21257):

I happen to like Disney movies, though I will admit that they have made their blunders

What, like 90% of their movies being banal shite?

Cheers,
Graham

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21257):

I happen to like Disney movies, though I will admit that they have made their blunders

Like shutting down the cel animation division because a piece of crap like Treasure Planet did poorly, therefore logical solution is to make future pieces of crap in CG? This resulted in them taking the best cel animator on the planet (Andreas Deja) and putting him on straight-to-video shovelware like the Bambi (shudder) "sequel"?

News flash to Eisner: the reason that Pixar is about to be six-for-six isn't because they use computer animation. It's because they have actual storytellers and writers instead of market researchers.

In Response to zamphir (#21269):

If you have a penchant for running around naked, don't expect me to bail you out of LA County Jail on Sunday morning.

In Response to zamphir (#21217):

I used to swim about a mile, once a week, as part of my workout cycle.

Who says ninjas can't use ranged weapons? And, who says the pirates would ever see the ninjas while they were still out at long range?

As for the hair, once it's tied up, it's not a problem.

In Response to sakuruth (#21221):

I never saw The Little Mermaid, bit judging from the cover, it is about a 1/2 fish, 1/2 girl girl and a giant underwater cock.

As far as ninjas vs. pirates, am I the only one who knows that face to face, every single one of the pirate's boners would explode while making a whistling sound, so it is not even a close fight. Ninjas are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

In Response to rmharman (#21284):

I used to swim about a mile, once a week, as part of my workout cycle.

Yes, but we've already established that you aren't a ninja.

Who says ninjas can't use ranged weapons? And, who says the pirates would ever see the ninjas while they were still out at long range?
Yes, because a big honkin' artillery shell is STEALTHY.

Ninjas can't use artillery.

As for the hair, once it's tied up, it's not a problem.
Until a real ninja uses it to hold your head back while he slits your throat from behind. Because he snuck up on you.