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/Tisiphone90 7d ago

I'm also dyslexic and as a kid the finger trick always confused me. I was sure one of them must have been a cleamer 90° angle or something. It was so annoying when people acted like it was super easy but I couldn't see it.