Flickr celebrated International Talk Like A Pirate Day, but some didn’t quite get it.

And by didn’t “get it”, I mean “hostilely responded to a mystery solved by a simple mouseover:

The skull and crossbones is an international symbol for poison and death. This is supposed to be funny?

I created an awesome image yesterday, which I felt was destined for Explore:

Instead, Explore today is filled with boring, bad, pirate images, with no views, faves, or future, beyond mothers of the photographers.

I think this was a mistake, and not very amusing.

Ummmmmmmm this is not what Flickr is suppose to be about and most of us don’t appreciate it; you have enough glitches in your software that keeps popping up all of the time!! Sooooooooo maybe I will be contacting Yahoo which allows you to operate and moving all of my stuff to Photobucket or Ringo; especially disappointed after I just deleted my Yahoo Photo Album and put it all over here!!

Seconded. Sense of humour failure alert - piracy still exists in some parts of the world to this this day, nothing strikes me as particularly amusing about present-day sailors being killed or injured by pirates or their cargo stolen at gunpoint. I don’t think it’s the business of a big corporation to impose a frat house joke that not everyone appreciates on all flickr members whether they like it or not.

# 2007 Sep 19