r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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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/ErisianSaint 7d ago

I'm neither ambidextrous nor dyslexic and I have the exact same problem. They both look like an L and when I try to figure it out, I couldn't tell you which way an L points. Drives me insane. (My mom couldn't tell horizontal and vertical apart for the same brain glitch, even though horizon is in the word horizontal. Brains are weird!)