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.
Yea, I didn’t take it seriously, but my wife… really bad at left vs right
I mean, if it works, it works.
looks at pic
shrugs
Right?Right?
Do you mean Left?
No, your other left
It’s reft and light
Cosmo and Wanda hanging out on the thumbs, you can’t fool me this time
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.
The earliest memory of me playing a video game was some kids game where you had to water flowers to the left, right, etc. I remember being confused by it so I wrote left and right (or rather some scribblings) on a piece of paper so I could use it as reference.
I’ve made my own words for left and right using the image of the sun and shadows.
In Gaja we can see that shadows moves in one direction. We can call this direction sunwise. We can call the other other direction counter. So in fern to determine whether what is sunwise and counter, we have to know a little bit about the sun.
In this image, we can say that the hitten, that which is being hit, will always see their shadow move sunwise. The opposite direction would be counter.
What about at or beyond the equator from the language’s native region?
No way some tattooer wouldn’t have caught this unless they’re somehow just as dyslexic… Seems fake
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.
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?
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.
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.
Uhhh I have no idea
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.
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.
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.
Right/Left Confusion is very common. I have it, too.
People like us tend to say “No, your other left.”
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?
Them: just make an L with your fingers for left
Me as a kid: shit… Why can’t I remember which way L faces!?
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.
That’s actually why I learned to just tell
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)
Your left hand makes an L with your thumb and forefinger
I’m afraid the people who struggle to tell left from right apart will also have a problem remembering which way the letter L bends
Is the backwards L used in any languages?
J
In Japanese, the right quotation symbol is one: 」
Surprisingly, there isn’t one in Korean but there is a gamma for the k/g consonance: ㄱWow, that’s not a gamma at all. Apparently I need a tattoo of my own. Instead, Japanese once again comes to rescue with left quotation as gamma: 「Mandarin doesn’t have anything remotely like this.
not that I’m aware of. Γ (gamma) is sort of like an upside down L
Your left hand is where your thumb is on the right.
…Well, the years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’
🎵 I was LOOKIN’ kinda dumb with my FINGER and my thumb in the SHAPE of an L on my forehead 🎵
Looks at palm of hand to check
