It’s reft and light
I hate that I’m saying this, but this would be handy for my wife. Except like, correct, ya know?
Picture is edited. She did it right, I mean her tattoo maker wanted to get paid ofc.
Cosmo and Wanda hanging out on the thumbs, you can’t fool me this time
I mean, if it works, it works.
looks at pic
shrugs
Right?Right?
Do you mean Left?
No, your other left
just make em a little thicker and it can be port and starboard
Nah, all need to do for that is remember the port and left are both four letter words.
Front = Bow, fore
Back = Stern, aft
If you don’t get it right, I’ll throw your ass out the little round window on the side!
but which side??!??!?
Why do we need a different word for left and right when we ready have the words left and right?
Because port/starboard refers to the left/right side of the ship, regardless how the person orientated. If you are facing the front of the ship, then yes, port = left. If you are facing the back of the ship, port = right. So it is very handy to have words that always refer to the same part of the ship.
(All the other terms, like front/bow and stern/rear, who cares? I dunno.)
If I turn my head around and look backwards the right and left side of my body don’t change. It’s always in relation to the front of me.
If I referred to something being on the right side or left side of my car, anyone would know which side I meant.
In a car, sure, since 99% of the seats face the front. Same for an airplane. Left is left, right is right.
How would you do that with for instance a classic rowboat? Then your left is on the right side, no matter how you turn your head?
your car also has a left and right side / driver’s right and driver’s left, mechanics are often looking at the engine bay from the front looking back so left is their right.
Actually the sides of a car would be referred to as the driver and the passenger sides of the car, but if I said left and right side everyone would know what I was talking about.
I never really understand nautical terms. Wall? No, that’s a bulkhead. Port, left, starboard, right. Bow, front, aft, rear. There are so many more, and I truly believe it is just to show who’s a sailor and who isn’t. (I also enjoy every time Dresden makes fun of this then slowly starts to do it himself)
No way some tattooer wouldn’t have caught this unless they’re somehow just as dyslexic… Seems fake
Wow yeah, I found the original, and you can see the L is on the left and R is on the right:
But why is it in Russian?
Ah, good to know :)
Fuck is this shit?
I got: “Verifying your device, please wait. Verification failed. Please try again” behind a vpn.
They can go eat a bag of dicks.
ERROR! Please drink verification can.
It wants to play a video which has DRM protection, so it wants to know stuff about you in case the DRM should block your access to the video.
They can kiss my ass.
Uhhh I have no idea
slow news day huh
The Sun is trash. They will straight up lie to post stories like this and they thrive on people sharing them on social media. Same with Daily Mail and other British rags. It is a very successful tactic. These stories seem to get a lot of mileage online.
Didn’t open it huh. They show L and R correctly. Some memer is the one that swapped them.
I still feel like it’s kind of mean for the Sun to post this?
What if a future potential employer goes and Google’s her full name and finds it in the article saying “this person literally cannot tell the difference between left and right”
Why did they do that?
i literally don’t know, I just saw her name while looking for the photo, I can’t be arsed to read all that because I’m higher than midair kangaroo backflip pussy
They straight up lose defamation suits, “mean” is table stakes
News is News.
Holy shit what a scummy kind of pay wall. “Pay to reject personalized advertisements.” No, fuck off The Sun.
Who do you think switched them as a joke?
It’s been mirrored.
Wouldn’t the letters be backwards then? Or the watch on the other wrist? I feel more like “photoshopped” to be swapped
It’s mirrored twice so the letters are facing the correct way.
Next time just explain that.
No it’s from The Sun.
I see you haven’t met very many shitty tattoo artists. Many of them don’t give a shit and will just give the client exactly what they asked for.
Playstation controller prompts with L/R solved this issue for me in English, but on my main language the directions are called “Sağ/Sol” which I still sometimes get wrong
To me it worked with mouse clicks. Right click does X left click does Y. The mouses right is the same as my right.
Which language is that? I want to check the etymology.
Turkish apparently
Turkish
i think you got it wrong there again :p
Holy shit, the comments on this post have me worried for you all.
I hear that all the time.
Them: just make an L with your fingers for left
Me as a kid: shit… Why can’t I remember which way L faces!?
That’s actually why I learned to just tell
If I need to write certain single capital letters for labeling purposes there’s like a 30% chance I need to look up which way the letter faces because both ways feel correct to me.
My wife has a freckle on her right hand. It’s the only way she can tell left from right. Ask her for directions and watch her eyes check the back of her hands.
I still hold my fingers in the L shape like I was taught as a kid to figure it out a lot of the time!
I tried this but im dyslexic so it didnt help much
I’m not even dyslexic but remembering which direction a letter goes in just on its own is lowkey so hard. I’d never mess it up in normal writing but ask me what direction the letter L or R goes in, and I’ll have to think for an embarrassing amount of time. Or even worse, lower case D and lower case B. I do actually mess those up if I think too hard about them. Oh and I get N confused sometimes too, but that’s just because technically Russian is my native language and the Cyrillic alphabet is all kinds of fucked up.
Friend you might be dyslexic xD
Its pdbq and nu for me
My daughter is learning to write and gets about half her numbers backwards. After I’ve corrected her on a 2, a 3, and a 7, I’ll look at a six and genuinely not know which way it’s supposed to face.
I know two people who have done the same thing. Both are blonde and named Matilda.
To this day I have problems telling left from right.
I will go the correct direction when I’m driving, and point the correct direction, but I will often say the wrong direction.
One friend tried to help me by telling me that “Right is the hand that you write with”, but I’m left-handed.
Fortunately, I have a massive scar on my arm from where my arm was shattered into three places, and that scar is on my right arm, so every time I’m about to tell someone directions, I end up tapping the scars on my arms until I find the correct scar, and then I know that direction is right so I can point in the right direction.
Right/Left Confusion is very common. I have it, too.
People like us tend to say “No, your other left.”
I had real trouble for a long time, but I can always glance down at my hand and see the L made by my left index finger and thumb. Eventually I could see it in my head. I memorize things with visual cues somehow IDK.
I try that method but then have to sit there and think about what direction L should be pointing.
I wrote so much as a child that my middle finger on my dominant hand is actually slightly deformed. Sometimes I still catch myself touching that messed up bone to remind myself which direction is which. :/
think of it like their alphabetical order (assuming reading left to right, of course). L is left of R, R is right of L.
This is so bizzare to me. I can easily memorize people’s phone numbers, I can remember what I did a month ago, I can learn fucking JavaScript, but remembering which is my left hand? Hardest job ever
Have you considered getting a R tattoo on your left hand and a L tattoo on your right hand?
That would unironically work since in my language L means right
Are you me? My scar is from breaking it in 2 places, but all the rest lines up exactly. Left handed, good sense of actual direction, and even useless advice that only makes it more confusing.
It’s entirely possible. Are you a six foot one Native American dude?
If so, like, hate to break it to you, but we might have dissociative identity disorder.
What if it’s the opposite of DiD? Like it’s two bodies that believe they’re the same person?
Righties loosies lefties tighties
Until you get confused with reverse thread bolts.
Or Lefty losie righty tighty
No because I remember when I learned it i said not to remember it the easy way
In the time and country I grew up, almost everyone had the same Converse style trainers at school for gym class. I thought I would mark mine to prevent mixing them with the rest, so I put my initials on the front: first initial on the left, second on the right. When I was done, I looked down at my feet and realised I had just written (the equivalent of) L and R on the according sides. Not smort.
