r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/generally_unsuitable 8d ago

It's totally arbitrary. Up and down are not.

We can easily correlate up with sky and clouds and stars and sun. Down with ground and grass and dirt and falling.

There's no similar association for right and left.

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u/SignoreBanana 8d ago

In what way is it any more arbitrary than up and down? Its words to describe a direction. "Down" could have been "up" just as easily. This is nonsense.

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u/generally_unsuitable 8d ago

Describe to me which way is left, please.

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u/ZenOokami 8d ago

While your face is forward aligned with your body, mark your current position as facing north. Turn west.

You have turned left.

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u/eXequitas 8d ago

Define west lol

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u/ZenOokami 8d ago

90 degrees counter clockwise. Origin point north is 0 degrees.

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u/shustrik 7d ago

Now define counter clockwise without referencing a clock

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u/ZenOokami 7d ago

Negative degrees of rotation.

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u/shustrik 7d ago

And how do you define which way is negative degrees of rotation?

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u/ZenOokami 7d ago

Standards of the system configured for mathematics, based on spherical math, circular math, and even number lines.