Would you rather be a cowboy, a samurai, or a pirate 
cowboy
samurai
pirate
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lmao i love the immediacy people are responding to this poll with zero explanation, like this is a question everyone's just ready to answer 

every fucking poll has some smartass chiming in with “what about option D???” by now

nope, just cowboy, samurai, pirate

everyone's somehow got an answer locked and loaded

@lety
I choose pirate since their code is more of a guideline.
@meadow do cowboys have a code???

@lety @meadow

1) be rootin
2) be tootin
3) and by god be shootin
4) but above all, be kind

@PavelASamsonov @lety @meadow be kind to what? Their whole job is about hurting others

@lety
You know, I don't actually know for sure. I do know my memory banks have the phrase "That's (not) the cowboy way" stored in them. I can't find any notes to indicate if the familiarity of that phrase is from Hollywood, books and legends, or a factual historical reference, but that phrase comes from somewhere."

A search tells me I know the phrase from a film but also that Gene Autry published a cowboy code. The code, I must say, is respectable and one I would follow, but given he was an actor, it seems it's likely only a Hollywood thing

https://www.cowboyway.com/GeneAutry.htm

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