Chris@feddit.uk to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFriday the 13th [War and Peas]files.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1706arrow-down115file-text
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minus-squareLowtierComputer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoThere’s a really weird thing in the Southeastern US where people will hand you pocketknives with the blade out always and you can’t hand it back closed. I don’t understand it.
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIs that to do with showing the condition it was in, and that you didn’t break it?
minus-squareLowtierComputer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoNope, is apparently a superstitious thing, but I have a feeling it’s roots are in some masculinity BS.
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There’s a really weird thing in the Southeastern US where people will hand you pocketknives with the blade out always and you can’t hand it back closed. I don’t understand it.
Is that to do with showing the condition it was in, and that you didn’t break it?
Nope, is apparently a superstitious thing, but I have a feeling it’s roots are in some masculinity BS.