UltraHamster64@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWey hey and up she riseslemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down11
arrow-up1240arrow-down1imageWey hey and up she riseslemmy.worldUltraHamster64@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareBarbarian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoThe “captain’s daughter” was a euphemism for the cat o’ nine tails. So in other words, that line meant give the drunken sailor a lashing as punishment.
minus-squareUltraHamster64@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 months agoYooo really?? I never knew, always interpreted it literally
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoThat sounds like something a prude would invent to reconcile their strict moral code with their desire to join in singing sea shanties.
minus-squareSotuanduso@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoIt seems more likely to me than that a captain would bring his daughter onto his ship with a bunch of untrustworthy men and career violence.
The “captain’s daughter” was a euphemism for the cat o’ nine tails. So in other words, that line meant give the drunken sailor a lashing as punishment.
Yooo really?? I never knew, always interpreted it literally
That sounds like something a prude would invent to reconcile their strict moral code with their desire to join in singing sea shanties.
It seems more likely to me than that a captain would bring his daughter onto his ship with a bunch of untrustworthy men and career violence.