Actually, you should survive meetings with pirates if you always eat your Vegemite and carry many spare jars in a Vegemite belt on your person, so you can be strong and ready to toss them at the pirates. That'll stop 'em cold and then you can take THEIR boat and give it back to whoever they stole it from and you can collect the reards. See, you'll have that side income to top up your main income! Brilliant!