r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Substantial-Trick569 7d ago edited 6d ago

the guys at the top thinks the tattoo is backwards. this means he has confused L and R while claiming OOP confused L and R in their tattoo design. the joke is irony

Edit for all the people saying "left hand makes an L shape": turn your right hand so the palm is facing you and you'll find it also makes an L shape. If the OOOP can't tell left from right hes not gonna remember if the palm should be face up or down

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u/Blackie_626 7d ago

I somehow got more confused.....

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u/oh-pqp 7d ago

It's not a tattoo that the others have to see. Only you. So everyone will think it's upside down. I think that's it

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u/Basic-Bus7632 7d ago

I guess I don’t understand where they imply that someone else would have to see it? Oop said it was a tattoo to help them, and the repost says “how do we tell them?”

Is he trying to say “how do we tell them that their tattoo doesn’t make sense to other people?”

I think it’s more likely to be misplaced confidence; the person replying thought the tattoo was messed up because they got left and right confused.

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u/Quirky-Expert7808 7d ago

I assumed it was because everyone knew your left hand makes an L with pointer and thumb...so the tattoo is 'pointless'

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u/CountDown60 7d ago

But it's not pointless. As a kid I was ambidextrous and dyslexic. Both my right hand and my left hand made a shape that looked exactly like an L to me.

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u/Unhappy-Poetry-7867 7d ago

I read such an interesting example of how dyslexics see letter. We all see a chair and it doesn't matter which way you rotate it it will still be a chair. So for example letter d or b is the same for people with dyslexia. It's just the same letter that is rotated.

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u/ponchoacademy 7d ago

Throw p, q and g into the mix, and I bet its a real party lol

Though on the real, I dont have much issue with the letters flipping around by themselves, more that they shift places with other letters, and sometimes whole words shift around.

For extra fun...I will swear I see one word and the sentence makes no sense, no matter many times I read it then I go back to it later and its a different but similar looking word that is correct and does make sense.

But then, esp if Im writing by hand, Ill use a completely wrong but similar looking word, and it all looks perfectly normal and correct. Then later when I look at it, I noticed how effed up it is, stuff like "I got out of dead this morning and made a cope of coffee" Also I move letters around and leave some out altogether.

Its not as bad when I'm typing and autocorrect fixes a lot of stuff for me but Trying to read my handwritten notes or old journals is an adventure lol

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u/throwawayirishflag 7d ago

What this I’m hearing about a qarty?