Comment on That Damn Smile

• just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A jib is a type of sail. And I think the cut is talking about the shape. Beyond that I can’t explain.

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    IIRC, the shape of the jib sail indicated the origin of a sailing vessel, so it could show a friendly ship from a distance.

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    • mobyduck648@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah age of sail lookouts had incredible eyesight, they had to since every minute you lost determining friend or foe was a minute you’d delay beating to quarters and running out your guns.

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought the cut means the angle at which it’s hung. Source: This landlubber

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    • just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It could be. I didn’t feel like looking it up, and that was as close to the answer as I could remember.

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• michaelalf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Promote this man!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What do you want out of life?

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well it’s not quite a nib, and it’s not quite a jiffy, but man!

  So to answer your question I don’t know

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Jib is meth they’re saying they like the substances she bulks out her illegal substances with.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why is your tuna canned, instead of swimming in the sea?

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because it makes for great sandwiches

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