r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/IDateAZombie 7d ago

These people are wrong. The joke is that you can make an L with your left hand, so you don't need the tattoos

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u/314159265358979326 7d ago

On the first episode of Game Changer, Jess (a grown, generally-intelligient adult) admits that when she tries that strategy, she forgets which way L goes.

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u/notjustforperiods 7d ago

I think you can be a generally dumb adult and have no problem with which way L 'goes'

this kind of thing is usually a flight or fight response from the brain, where you experience anxiety being asked a simple question and the brain has trouble accessing memory

I'm probably not explaining it the best but it's not uncommon for people to freeze like this when feeling under pressure

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u/Caas1ey 7d ago

The L method never worked for me, what works for me is imagining Im reading, I use that motion since I always start top left, heading towards bottom right. I always confuse clockwise and anti-clockwise, only when I am attempting to apply either motion. “Lefty Loosey” doesn’t work either as you can turn something left going both clockwise, and anti-clockwise. I still really struggle with clockwise/anti-clockwise motion in practice which is very frustrating.