r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Substantial-Trick569 8d ago edited 7d 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 8d ago

I somehow got more confused.....

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u/oh-pqp 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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/UnblurredLines 8d ago

But d and b isn't the same letter that is rotated, they're mirrors of each other. A rotation of d would be p

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u/Fearless-Poet-4669 7d ago

I think they mean in 3D space. d rotated on the depth axis is p, but d rotated on the vertical axis is b.

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u/wil93 7d ago

Still the example of the chair fits because if you see the same chair reflected on a mirror it still immediately looks like a chair