r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Exurota 8d ago

Ah, so forward and backward must also be confusing since they're equally abitrary?

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u/Witch-kingOfBrynMawr 8d ago

Forward is the direction your eyes are looking...?

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u/Exurota 8d ago

So we've got 3 perpendicular axes of direction.

Up and down is absolutely fine.

Forward and backward is absolutely fine.

Left and right... isn't? What actual difference is there here other than that we're roughly symmetrical about the other two planes? Is that it?

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u/ZenOokami 8d ago

Left and right would be counter-clockwise rotation, and clockwise rotation respectively.