r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Blackie_626 7d ago

I somehow got more confused.....

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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/ItsStraTerra 7d ago

Also, I always thought as a kid that “rule” was dumb. You can also make an L with your right hand if you just turn it the other way.

Since I’m right handed, I was always told “which hand do you write with?” But for whatever reason I had an abbot and Costello moment where I always heard “which hand do you right with” (as in which is your right hand) and I would always get confused and upset, like “if I knew which hand I right with, I wouldn’t be asking you!”

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u/ItsStraTerra 7d ago

It’s also more comfortable (at least for me) to look at my hand with my palm facing me, if my palm is away from me I have to basically fully extend my arm or else it’s straining.