Pirates are awesome!

Almost makes up for the murdering, raping, and pillaging.

Almost but they also supported gay rights

For those wondering, wearing an eyepatch over one of your eyes helps get it used to darkness. So if they need to go where its dark, they just switch the patch over to the other eye and boom, they can see in the dark without the adjustment period. Its been confirmed by mythbusters

Also, helps with the whole double vision if you're drunk thing