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Pitcairn Island - potential gay paradise?

English speaking island in the South Pacific, all descendants of Mutiny on the Bounty hunks. Only 50 people live there and they desperately want more people to inhabit it. Gay marriage is legal. If only 51 gays go there, we would be the majority.

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by Anonymousreply 107February 27, 2021 3:30 AM

Living with inbred descendant of British mutineers? I think not.

by Anonymousreply 1March 25, 2017 6:03 PM

Paradise alright!

"On 30 September 2004, seven men living on Pitcairn Island (including Steve Christian, the mayor, and representing a third of the male population of the island) went on trial facing 55 charges relating to sexual offences. On 24 October, all but one of the defendants were found guilty on at least some of the charges.[1][2][3] Another six men living abroad, including Shawn Christian, the current mayor of Pitcairn, were tried on 41 charges in a separate trial in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2005."

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by Anonymousreply 2March 25, 2017 6:06 PM

[quote] they desperately want more people to inhabit it

and you know this how? link? I am gay but most places want families with children to inhabit, to perpetuate the population. Yes there are gay families with children, but that certainly isn't the majority of gay men.

by Anonymousreply 3March 25, 2017 6:08 PM

There have been many stories on this, R3, they need a population of least 80 to be sustaining. Doesn't have to be families.

by Anonymousreply 4March 25, 2017 6:13 PM

[quote]Shawn Christian, the current mayor of Pitcairn,

Mike Kasnoff can sexually assault me anytime he likes.

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by Anonymousreply 5March 25, 2017 6:14 PM

R5, is Kasnoff from the Pitcairn Islands? What does he have to do with what we're talking about?

by Anonymousreply 6March 25, 2017 6:18 PM

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

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by Anonymousreply 7March 25, 2017 6:18 PM

R6, he's the actor Shawn Christian, who played Mike Kasnoff on ATWT (with which you are obviously unfamiliar).

by Anonymousreply 8March 25, 2017 6:20 PM

R7 they are still inbred. They just happened to start off with an ethically diverse gene pool. It's been the same small group of mixed people breeding for many generations.

The abuse charges involved girls. Don't get your hopes up R5.

by Anonymousreply 9March 25, 2017 6:24 PM

I can't believe that QEII is still Queen of that dump. It doesn't seem to have any strategic value. She really ought to get rid of some of these places. Talk about desperate: "In 2004, the islanders had about 20 guns among them, which they surrendered ahead of the sexual assault trials. [Wikipedia]"

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by Anonymousreply 10March 25, 2017 6:31 PM

Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?

Only one person has responded to an appeal for islanders on the British colony settled by the HMS Bounty mutineers

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by Anonymousreply 11March 25, 2017 6:35 PM

[quote]If only 51 gays go there, we would be the majority.

We get along so well. You see this daily on DL (& on DL we're not even in the same room)

by Anonymousreply 12March 25, 2017 6:38 PM

Didn't some woman writer move there? Maeve Pinchy maybe?

by Anonymousreply 13March 25, 2017 6:44 PM

Electricity (240V/50Hz) is available only for 5 hours in the morning and 5 hours in the evening.

The island is out of range of all evacuation helicopters. Needless to say, this is no place to have a heart attack, stroke, and so on.

There is a small co-op general store which stocks imported foodstuffs from New Zealand or French Polynesia, mostly ordered by customers in advance. It is open 3 mornings/week, an hour each.

it has very little of what would be called a "beach"

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by Anonymousreply 14March 25, 2017 6:54 PM

I've been there. It's very small and in the middle of the ocean. You can't even go ashore on many days because of rough seas. It's pretty and the people seem nice, but the isolation is intense.

by Anonymousreply 15March 25, 2017 6:56 PM

"Internet There is one government-sponsored satellite internet connection, with networking provided to the inhabitants of the island. Pitcairn's country code top-level domain is .pn. Residents pay NZ$ 100 (about £50) for 2 GB of data per month, at a rate of 256 kbit/s.[77] The Pitcairn Miscellany reports that despite the bandwidth being doubled[when?] to 512 kbit/s this is not per user but is in fact shared among all families on the island, making normal internet use extremely difficult."

by Anonymousreply 16March 25, 2017 7:13 PM

"There is, however, no assurance of the migrant's right to remain on Pitcairn; after their first two years, the council must review and reapprove the migrant's status.[67] The migrants are also required to take part in the unpaid public work to keep the island in order: maintain the island's numerous roads and paths, build roads, navigate the island longboats, clean public toilets etc.[68]"

by Anonymousreply 17March 25, 2017 7:15 PM

R15, tell us more. Could you imagine gays making it more hospitable to live?

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by Anonymousreply 18March 25, 2017 7:28 PM

But there would be nothing to do there. Unless you're born there it would be very boring.

by Anonymousreply 19March 25, 2017 7:30 PM

Quick, where can I apply: "unpaid public work to [...] maintain the island's numerous roads [...] clean public toilets etc.[68]" ?

by Anonymousreply 20March 25, 2017 7:33 PM

I mentioned a while back, in another thread, that I worked with a gorgeous young chef from Hawaii, who was now living in Ohio. When I asked him why he left Hawaii, he just said, "Because, dude, there isn't anything to DO there. Nothing ever happens!" And here, I always felt that way about Ohio. So take Hawaii and it's beautiful boredom, and multiply it by 10K. That's what I would imagine it would be like living there.

by Anonymousreply 21March 25, 2017 7:34 PM

Let me know when they get a Trader Joe's; then I'll think about it.

by Anonymousreply 22March 25, 2017 7:40 PM

Here's your Shawn Christian, mayor of Pitcairn. I am supposing he is a descendant of Fletcher Christian, the original mutineer. More towards the Marlon Brando Fletcher. than to the young Mel Gibson.

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by Anonymousreply 23March 25, 2017 7:45 PM

This should not be a British Overseas Territory, it should be handed over to NZ immediately but I suppose NZ doesn't want to know, quite understandably.

by Anonymousreply 24March 25, 2017 7:49 PM

The Pitcairn Islands had been inhabited by Polynesians before the crew of The Bounty arrived, but the original settlers had already died out. The current settlement should be allowed to die out, too, and let the island revert to being a nature reserve.

by Anonymousreply 25March 25, 2017 8:09 PM

Can't we chip in for this instead. You can fit a 1000 people on there that would only be $30 000 per person.

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by Anonymousreply 26March 25, 2017 8:39 PM

or this?

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by Anonymousreply 27March 25, 2017 8:41 PM

Potential applicants will be selected based on W&W votes over the last 3 months.

& DON'T TRY to fake it - we'll KNOW.

by Anonymousreply 28March 25, 2017 9:50 PM

Life on a small island is unhealthy. Think Bermuda. When the mists close in, all that wife-swapping, not to mention the cost of a bottle of gin.

by Anonymousreply 29March 25, 2017 9:51 PM

I thought we were going to go to a Scottish Island.

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by Anonymousreply 30March 25, 2017 9:55 PM

Oh no, limited internet availability means limited porn and celebrity gossip. This will not do.

by Anonymousreply 31March 25, 2017 10:18 PM

[quote]Oh no, limited internet availability means limited porn and celebrity gossip. This will not do.

We'll tell each other the stories.

WE will be the entertainment.

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by Anonymousreply 32March 25, 2017 10:20 PM

It sounds like it has potential. Is it a colony of Great Britain?

by Anonymousreply 33March 25, 2017 10:23 PM

R33 Scotland is definitely NOT a colony of Great Britain you MORON.

by Anonymousreply 34March 25, 2017 10:31 PM

[quote]I can't believe that QEII is still Queen of that dump. It doesn't seem to have any strategic value. She really ought to get rid of some of these places.

It isn't the gift, it is the giving. One doesn't wish to be Impolite at any time, under any circumstances.

by Anonymousreply 35March 25, 2017 10:36 PM

R32,

"Remember the time that BITCH Jessica Lange was compared to Faye Dunaway? The AUDACITY!!!"

"Honey, Faye's performance as Joan Crawford ruined her career. When's the last time you had your IQ checked, bitch?"

Night after night....

by Anonymousreply 36March 25, 2017 10:38 PM

Why move to the middle of the Pacific Ocean when there are plenty of island paradises that are more accessible? Pitcairn is so remote and the government so insular that you'd go mad from the isolation.

by Anonymousreply 37March 25, 2017 10:40 PM

R35 Noblesse oblige, dahlink - not a good enough reason not to dump those trashy perverts on Pitcairn

by Anonymousreply 38March 25, 2017 10:41 PM

Bora Bora is much better - EU welcome (not Brexiteers tho)

by Anonymousreply 39March 25, 2017 10:43 PM

How about Easter Island? Do they have a lot of fluffy bunnies who hide eggs?

by Anonymousreply 40March 25, 2017 11:02 PM

I don't think an outsider would ever really be accepted. They are a very inbred and insular society.

Easter Island is grim! They cut all the trees down to us in building their monuments, so it is a pretty desolate landscape.

by Anonymousreply 41March 25, 2017 11:03 PM

R7, but they are inbred, because they had sex with people who were blood relatives and gave birth to the result. Incest = inbred.

The photo you posted is a still from a Clark Gable movie about the Bounty...I mean, c'mon, at least try.

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by Anonymousreply 42March 25, 2017 11:09 PM

[quote] Easter Island is grim! They cut all the trees down to us in building their monuments, so it is a pretty desolate landscape.

Thanks for sharing Moai, but way to look a gift horse in the mouth!

by Anonymousreply 43March 25, 2017 11:22 PM

[quote]Easter Island is grim! They cut all the trees down to us in building their monuments, so it is a pretty desolate landscape.

We'll plant our own trees - and we'll sing as we do it.

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by Anonymousreply 44March 25, 2017 11:25 PM

C'mon DLers, let's get a move on. That place is crying out for a dynamic community theater group!

by Anonymousreply 45March 25, 2017 11:28 PM

Easter Island belongs to Chile: want to go there?

by Anonymousreply 46March 25, 2017 11:28 PM

R23, that man is definitely a descendant of the Clark Gable Fletcher Christian.

by Anonymousreply 47March 25, 2017 11:41 PM

I was quite happy in the Sandwich Islands until the coup d'etat.

by Anonymousreply 48March 25, 2017 11:43 PM

Oh, dear Lili, that's because ya didn't know any better, sweet thing!

by Anonymousreply 49March 25, 2017 11:44 PM

I suggest Porto Santo, the Portuguese island in the north Atlantic, a ferry ride away from the far more glamourous Madeira, which the gays can escape to when they need a fix of civilization.

It has a population of just a few thousand, so it won't take that many homosexuals to take it over.

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by Anonymousreply 50March 25, 2017 11:49 PM

R50 Butcha caant live there Blanche unless you're an EU citizen. Pitcairn will take you whatever your citizenship to mend the roads and no doubt fornicate with their girls and women.

by Anonymousreply 51March 26, 2017 12:04 AM

So you're proposing to blend an island of the inbred with the bitches of this board? Why not just kill yourself at home and skip the hassle at the airport?

by Anonymousreply 52March 26, 2017 12:10 AM

R52 I have passed on your details to Pitcairn and they want YOU, bravo ! the rest of us can skip the hassle at the airport, they said.

by Anonymousreply 53March 26, 2017 12:16 AM

I can't quite follow your point, R53, but am fairly sure I hope you step on Lego.

by Anonymousreply 54March 26, 2017 12:21 AM

R49 Liliuokalani was in London in the company of Victoria RI when she (L) learned of the coup d'etat.

by Anonymousreply 55March 26, 2017 12:25 AM

R52, Oh, I know, I was just having fun with R48's post.

And the whole history of Hawaii's coup d'etat deserves its own thread.

by Anonymousreply 56March 26, 2017 12:31 AM

Is there a Starbucks?

by Anonymousreply 57March 26, 2017 12:33 AM

R49 you are flippant. As your penalty you must now open a thread re Hawaii's coup d'etat.

by Anonymousreply 58March 26, 2017 12:38 AM

I don't think this Pitcairn thing is going to work out. I have a funny feeling about it.

Sorry, OP - I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I feel I have to say this.

by Anonymousreply 59March 26, 2017 12:45 AM

R39 missed the point.

Bore-a-Bore-a.

by Anonymousreply 60March 26, 2017 12:47 AM

Wikipedia:

Electricity

Diesel generators provide the island with electricity from 8 am to 1 pm, and from 5 pm to 10 pm. A wind power plant was planned to be installed to help reduce the high cost of power generation associated with the import of diesel, but was cancelled in 2013 after a project overrun of three years and a cost of £250,000.[56]

The only qualified high voltage electricity technician on Pitcairn, who manages the electricity grid, reached the age of 65 in 2014.

by Anonymousreply 61March 26, 2017 12:48 AM

R59 How right you are - they need evacuating but to where: the UK would appear to be the obvious place but even they might take exception despite all their disgusting immigrant-rape-honor-killing culture - fact is, tiny minorities tend to get refused by the UK. NZ - they're too clever to fall for this garbage; Oz too. My feeling is that if Pitcairn citizen has any hope they have to come to the US.

by Anonymousreply 62March 26, 2017 12:52 AM

Minnesota

by Anonymousreply 63March 26, 2017 12:57 AM

Rosebud.

by Anonymousreply 64March 26, 2017 12:59 AM

Why not make it a gay resort, that men will visit for a few days, rather than live there?

by Anonymousreply 65March 26, 2017 1:05 AM

How about Catalina? Much closer to home, developed infrastructure, current population around 4,000.

by Anonymousreply 66March 26, 2017 1:09 AM

r62 , I'm afraid with their 7th Day Adventist exteriors and child-raping hidden lives, they'd fit right in in lots of places in the US. How about sending them to Norfolk Island?

by Anonymousreply 67March 26, 2017 1:11 AM

Gross. I'm leaving DL it's too gross.

by Anonymousreply 68March 26, 2017 1:15 AM

We should build a gay Club Med there

by Anonymousreply 69March 26, 2017 1:16 AM

There are plenty of islands in the Pacific that are being lost to global warming. Those people will need to move somewhere. Why don't they move to Pitcairn?

by Anonymousreply 70March 26, 2017 1:55 AM

Will you guys make up your minds?! I'm fine with wherever you decide.....AS LONG as my Ship'n Shore wardrobe will fit right in.

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by Anonymousreply 71March 26, 2017 2:09 AM

The Channel Islands off of Santa Barbara/Ventura would've made great resorts. With their Mediterranean climates and proximity to the mainland, they would've been to California what Ibiza and Mallorca are to Spain--party islands. But instead, they're wildlife preserves. Like the world needs more of those. 😉

by Anonymousreply 72March 26, 2017 2:16 AM

Did someone say Catalina??

by Anonymousreply 73March 26, 2017 2:20 AM

Must be able to live on bread(fruit) and water daily.

by Anonymousreply 74March 26, 2017 2:24 AM

R72, The Channel Islands (as well as the Balearic Islands) have been host to all sorts of endemic species and sub-species, that have existed before the human species. The gay variety of the human species can make a party island anywhere they want. That's actually one of the first thoughts that crossed my head, but didn't want to say out loud. Some rich cunt would buy all the other humbel Pitcairn Island emigrees out, and kick us out to turn it into another Palm Springs XXX resort.

by Anonymousreply 75March 26, 2017 2:25 AM

^^humble, obviously.

by Anonymousreply 76March 26, 2017 2:30 AM

The Pitcairn inhabitants know they need outsiders to survive, but they don't really want outsiders invading their island. I studied at Uni in New Zealand with a Pitcairn Islander and she planned to never return.

An island of Gladys Kravitzes

by Anonymousreply 77March 26, 2017 2:32 AM

R72 Catalina IS one of the Channel Islands.

by Anonymousreply 78March 26, 2017 2:45 AM

r78 - It is also the island of romance....romance....romance....roMANCE.

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by Anonymousreply 79March 26, 2017 2:58 AM

Pitcairn is the new San Francisco!

by Anonymousreply 80March 26, 2017 3:01 AM

Did you bitches miss this part?

[quote]... this teetotal, God-fearing little society

You want me to live on a rock in the middle of nowhere with NO BOOZE?!

by Anonymousreply 81March 26, 2017 3:08 AM

Wonder how I'd feel, living on a hillside, looking on an ocean, beautiful and still....

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by Anonymousreply 82March 26, 2017 3:08 AM

Are you a cock-eyed optimist? Or an optimist with an eye for cock, R82?

by Anonymousreply 83March 26, 2017 3:13 AM

I don't know, r83. Will Stewpot be there?

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by Anonymousreply 84March 26, 2017 3:28 AM

Waiter! There's a hair in my stew!

by Anonymousreply 85March 26, 2017 3:54 AM

This is a fun documentary I watched about Pitcairn the other day.

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by Anonymousreply 86March 26, 2017 3:59 AM

Is it one of those islands that's gonna get swallowed up by the ocean with global warming?

by Anonymousreply 87March 26, 2017 4:04 AM

Shhhh!, r85. Don't be so loud or everyone else will want one too.

by Anonymousreply 88March 26, 2017 4:07 AM

I get nervous just looking at its location on a map - no way I could even visit.

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by Anonymousreply 89March 26, 2017 4:24 AM

There's no there there.

by Anonymousreply 90March 26, 2017 4:48 AM

R89, when I click on your link, the pointer lands smack dab on Henderson Island, which is uninhabited. The actual inhabited Pitcairn Island, with its settlement at Adamstown, is several miles southwest and is even smaller! No way would I feel secure being that far out in the ocean.

by Anonymousreply 91March 26, 2017 5:12 AM

I'll only go if Pita lives there.

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by Anonymousreply 92March 26, 2017 5:22 AM

People want beaches not rocks

by Anonymousreply 93March 26, 2017 5:42 AM

How are they not all two-headed by now?

by Anonymousreply 94March 26, 2017 5:53 AM

I want to see hunky native boys

by Anonymousreply 95March 26, 2017 3:58 PM

The Polynesian genes among the Pitcairnese have been so diluted that they no longer look Polynesian, yet they claim to have a Polynesian culture; hence, their defence of sex with minors as a cultural thing.

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by Anonymousreply 96March 26, 2017 5:08 PM

They should let pitcairn die, it's too much trouble to live there.

by Anonymousreply 97March 26, 2017 8:56 PM

Pitcairn's out - the search continues.

by Anonymousreply 98March 26, 2017 10:38 PM

R13, Maeve BINCHY lived in Ireland; Colleen McCullough moved from Australia to the similarly remote Norfolk Island for a period. They’re both dead.

by Anonymousreply 99February 25, 2021 10:25 PM

Real estate titan and disgraced, twice-impeached former potus, donald t., announces groundbreaking ceremony...

by Anonymousreply 100February 27, 2021 2:23 AM

Gay men can't populate the island. You would need to bring your straight friends.

by Anonymousreply 101February 27, 2021 2:30 AM

I watched this the other week, was really interesting about the island.

If I remember right, Pitcairn has one of the largest marine protection areas in the world.

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by Anonymousreply 102February 27, 2021 2:35 AM

Here are over half of the residents.

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by Anonymousreply 103February 27, 2021 2:35 AM

R103 didn't work out so well, but it did for some other reasons... This is half of the residents.

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by Anonymousreply 104February 27, 2021 2:37 AM

Another sampling. Still interested?

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by Anonymousreply 105February 27, 2021 2:39 AM

I have it on a very reliable source that Bouvet Island is going to be the next big gay destination.

by Anonymousreply 106February 27, 2021 2:58 AM

Is there anything like a Sandals or Beaches all-inclusive resort there?

by Anonymousreply 107February 27, 2021 3:30 AM
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