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EASY WAY TO REMEMBER HOW TO USE YOUR SCREWDRIVER
[a screwdriver is unscrewing a screw by turning counter-clockwise]
The LEFT liberates the screw from its oppression
[a screwdriver is screwing a screw by turning clockwise]
The RIGHT tightens the screw's place in the social order imposed to it
But as a screw I have a single purpose to be screwed. If not I am just living out my days in a sack of screws, never screwing. Being screwed is cozy.
I think this is the first time I've seen this joke, which now that I've seen it seems crazy and like it should be everywhere. Was this your original joke idea, Bad? Or were you just illustrating an old classic that I've never heard? Cos if you came up with this, damn, its a legendary one
It's not an original idea, but rather a direct translation of how some spanish speakers remember how to use screwdrivers.
Thanks though :)
Based Spanish
Learned it from a colombian, so based Colombia, !que chimba este pais!
screws*
😋
Too many people feel bored and are getting screwed so it's easy for them to mistake who they are in this diagram.
"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera,"
Idk i never understood left or right for turning a screwdriver, like depends which way you are facing it goes left or right so it never helps me.
I'm rarely tasked with screwing a screw into my eye, so it typically points away from me. And then it's just associating clockwise rotation with ‘right’.
When you are asked to turn left or right, you instinctively know where to turn your body. Now, imagine you are looking at it from above, seeing yourself from the top. When you turn left or right, your head and the rest of your body turn in a specific direction, which should be easy to visualize. That’s the same movement in which you’d turn a valve / turn a steering wheel / rotate a screwdriver when asked to turn it left or right.
And what if im looking at from below now it's the opposite, i dont have a problem knowing how to turn a screwdriver, i have a problem with understanding people saying left or right, because the top half turns one way and the other half of the rotation the opposite. Like when you turn right in a car the bottom of the steering wheel goes left, so idk you guys keep talking about it and ill just keep turning it the way i need to turn it without ever using the words left or right lol
Then it doesn't work for you, which is fine.
Everyone has their own way of visualizing things.
Left/right is deeply ingrained in a lot of people for steering and screwing. Makes "natural" sense to me so I use it.
But the right side will also remove the screw with the left-hand thread pictured.
Whoops, not anymore 😅
There we go!
Thanks for pointing it out :)
Mirrored by dumb ai or dumb human?
Dumb human in this case, OP is OC. It's a throwback to his original (bad) art style /s.
I think it would be better if the left picture had left hand thread, and right picture right hand thread. It would be more realistic where both were beating you down, just one was a bit more obvious about doing it.
Left and right to describe rotation is like the least helpful mnemonic ever.
And the picture above is a clear example why. The one saying left has an arrow pointing to the right and vice versa.
Reposting this as a direct response to you in case it's helpful:
Try using your right hand directly to figure out which way to turn a screw. Make a loose thumbs up. Point your thumb in the direction you want the screw to go. The way your fingers are curling is the way you turn your screwdriver. If it helps, try to imagine there are arrows pointing out of your fingertips. Works just like the right hand rule in physics.
EDIT: here's a picture of what I mean:
I absolutely love this method. Whenever you're screwing anything (unless it's reverse threaded ofc), just point your thumb in the direction you want it to go and twist it in the direction or your fingers. Really helps when you're all turned around like lying on your back under the kitchen sink and need to tighten a nut.
It's such a godsend. I wish people would teach both methods. It's great that the "righty-tighty" thing works for so many people because it's probably much faster than using your hand, but I spent so many years thinking I was shit at mechanical stuff because I couldn't figure which way to turn a screw. I probably wouldn't have a fucking obnoxious complex about it nowadays if I had learned this when I was five.
When you are asked to turn left or right, you instinctively know where to turn your body. Now, imagine you are looking at it from above, seeing yourself from the top. When you turn left or right, your head and the rest of your body turn in a specific direction, which should be easy to visualize. That's the same movement in which you'd turn a valve / turn a steering wheel / rotate a screwdriver when asked to turn it left or right.
Not everyone has this instinct. There are many people who are unable to differentiate left from right. For those people, this doesn't really work. I'm in my thirties and I still give shitass directions because I suck at telling left from right. I can do cardinal directions pretty well as long as I have a reference like some mountains, but like, I still have to think about left versus right.
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but the only thing that's ever worked for me was the right hand rule, where you use your right hand to physically demonstrate to yourself which way a screw needs to go.
Also, TIL that there's a specific term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-right_confusion
How about S-rotation and Z-rotation (imagine ends of letters being arrows)? Been thinking about this recently.
CW and CCW (or anti-clockwise) don’t alliterate with loose or rhyme with tight though.
Plus there was a whole generation that never bothered to learn to read clocks…
I always say clock in, counter out.
"Righty tighty, Lefty loosey" has been working for me all these years, I don't see a reason to change now.
Lefty locky, righty removey. Alliterates better.
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Same, and English is not even my native language. It’s just such and easy and effective phrase to remember
Your pants seem a bit too right.
Can we get one more rotation on the arrows. Left one points right.
I like it. Reductionist, as the left has potential to be just as authoritarian, but it works.
.. and fucks babies. Rapes and kills babies. One policy does that too, which also can make it easy to remember
When turning left, the side close to you is all about rights.
When turning right, the side close to you is going sinister.
Aaaaaaaaand now I screwed with the screwdriver screwing screws thing. Sorry~
(I usually remember the opening/closing rotation by picturing myself opening a jar. Then my hand moves in the right direction.)