Avast ye swabs and shiver me timbers, it's Arrr-gust -- International Pirate Month

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Were you to hop into the Hot Tub Time Machine and travel back to the 1700s, wouldn’t it be fun to hang out for a while with real pirates of the Caribbean?

Uh, maybe not so much.

Real pirates of that era tended to be just as nasty, murderous, and terrifying as pirates today. Although their boats were a lot cooler, for sure.

So what’s this fascination with b…