Pirates v Cowboys.

[Makeo]

I ripped this off from another forum but I thought it needed our careful deliberation.

Pirates v Cowboys, who would win in a fight.

We can assume both parties are armed, in equal numbers, and present in a neutral and unbiased arena (such as a nightmare futuristic gameshow environment).

With that made clear, whaddya say?

[Solly]

What about 100 Brits versus 100 Greeks?

Easy..

[Immortal Wombat]

Pirates! YAARRRRRR!!!1!!

Muskets and Cutlasses beats Smith & Wessons any day. Plus pirates have no mercy. Probably sold it.

[Makeo]

No Mercy good point.

Bodds only if they are Greek pirates and British cowboys.

[SlowwHand]

What a farce of a question.

To even consider a pirate besting a cowboy is hilarious.

[Makeo]

Why whats so tough about cowboys. Where is your evidence. You can't march in here throwing bald statements about without anything to back them up.

[SlowwHand]

Bald statements?
I don't care if the pirate has hair or not.

[Seeker]

Pirates can use guns AND swords AND cannons.

They can also deploy their parrots for air power advantage.

They can use their hook arms as unconventional weapons.

They can conceal firearms/use as a firearm their wooden peg legs.

Pirates can swing on ropes and are very acrobatic as shown in the movie "The Crimson Pirate".


On the other hand....the cowboys have both Clint Eastwood and Lee van Cleef.

The pirates are done for I'm afraid.

[Seeker]

And, by the way....

....I'm going limp again...

Do It.

[SlowwHand]

To say nothing of John Wayne.

[Sava]

It depends where the fight is. On the open sea, John Wayne would be dog meat. In a desert town, Eastwood would make minsmeat out of any peg-legged dork.

[SlowwHand]

Let's look at this objectively.

Who's the baddest of the bad, pirate-wise ?
Would have to be Captain Hook.
He can't even dust a crocodile.

[CerberusIV]

The historical fact is that the native americans would wipe the floor with the pirates and the cowboys. The Spanish used to be terrified of the tribes in Florida who would kill strangers landing on their beach within a few minutes. As for the cowboys, they were no match for sneaky injuns with rapid fire bows and arrows.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Makeo
Why whats so tough about cowboys. Where is your evidence. You can't march in here throwing bald statements about without anything to back them up.

You can't? But I thought this was the Apolyton OT!

[Sava]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Let's look at this objectively.

Who's the baddest of the bad, pirate-wise ?
Would have to be Captain Hook.
He can't even dust a crocodile.

oh please, John Wayne was a *****