I hate that I’m saying this, but this would be handy for my wife. Except like, correct, ya know?
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?
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!
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.
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)
Holy shit, the comments on this post have me worried for you all.
I hear that all the time.
No way some tattooer wouldn’t have caught this unless they’re somehow just as dyslexic… Seems fake
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. :/
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
think of it like their alphabetical order (assuming reading left to right, of course). L is left of R, R is right of L.
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
Or Lefty losie righty tighty
No because I remember when I learned it i said not to remember it the easy way
Until you get confused with reverse thread bolts.
She’s a keeper
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?
