Man calls blu-ray purchase ‘a haul’ like he’s a buccaneering pirate returned from daring raid

A man on the internet has posted a picture of a pile of blu-rays, labelling them a ‘haul’ like he’s some sort of dashing pirate terrifying the high-seas with his daring blu-ray purchasing.

“My latest haul,” wrote the man, as if he were describing sea-sodden gold pieces robbed from the king’s own man-o-war in a brazen night-time raid instead of a discounted blu-ray of the Sopranos season 2 and a 4k version of 2005’s The Island.

Reading the caption, readers are naturally moved to imagine a chest of riches beyond imagining, nestled beneath an exotic palm tree on a beach of golden sands in the Caribbean as parrots swoop through the deep blue sky, not a blu-ray X-Men box set.

It’s easy to imagine a man who told of their ‘haul’ spending their evening carousing with salty, toothless sea-dogs and pretty but spirited wenches in a dissolute pirate tavern in a lawless cove and not, as the man did, settling down in front of his big telly with a shepherds pie and a couple of cans to watch the 2-disc 4k edition of Deadpool and Wolverine which he secured for two pounds off because of the slightly battered cardboard slip cover.

Perhaps tomorrow the man will set sail the wild ocean in search of another such ‘haul’ or perhaps he’ll just pop into HMV on the way home to see if the sale is still on.