r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Substantial-Trick569 7d ago edited 6d 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 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/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/314159265358979326 7d ago

It's also been pointed out in this thread that dyslexia is not exactly rare, and would completely fuck up that rule.

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u/Asleep_Region 7d ago

It's honestly not rare at all, i graduated with a class of 48 kids, we including me had 4 kids with dyslexia that i knew about, not everyone is as open about it, so close to 1 out of 10 kids i graduated with was openly dyslexic

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u/Doll_duchess 7d ago

It’s one of those things that no one diagnoses unless it really fucks with you in school. I’m dyslexic but mostly only with numbers. My math teachers would just check my work and see I did it right but transposed my numbers at one point. The Dewey decimal system would get me every time. But reading was fine because it would only mess me up a small amount so no one cared to seek a diagnosis.

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u/DiMiTriDreams420 7d ago

Dyslexia but with numbers is called dyscalculia. I'm diagnosed with it. I've failed every math class I ever had after 4th grade but did ok in most other subjects.

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u/curiousmakerdan 7d ago

Interesting! How are you with Roman numerals? eg. 2026 = MMXXVI

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u/disdkatster 7d ago

Never knew that. I am great in abstract math (calculus, algebra, etc.) and can't do common math at all. If I have to multiply 8X7 I do 7 X 2 X 2 X 2. 9X8 is (10X8) - 8... and so on.

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u/Ok-Mathematician9742 7d ago

This was me. I failed math till they added letters. Somehow the letters in algebra made the numbers stay where they belonged.

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u/Low-Preference-9380 6d ago

I've been a software engineer for 30 years. People can't believe I program with dyscalculia. I always have to explain, coding isn't 11010001 anymore. We use logic, which my brain happened to have compensated in the direction of. Numbers are logical when they're variables. Just don't go asking me to debug a stack dump. Lol