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Am I the only one bothered by the two screws being out of order? They need to switch places.
Tell them, in a nice deep british voice:
ORDER, You Screws, ARE OUT OF ORDER.
You don’t want to know what it is in german 💀
spoiler
Solange das Deutsche Reich besteht, werden Schrauben rechts gedreht!
As long as the German Empire persists, screws will be turned to the right!
German
“Rechts-Strumpfhose, Links-Strumpfhose”
Back to English
“Right tights, left tights”
🤣
the top turns that way, but the bottom turns the other way. I have no idea why americans think this makes sense.
The full phrase is “Righty tighty, lefty loosey when looking at the top of the circle.”
If you stand still and pivot clockwise, what side of your body are you turning towards?
Clockwise Lockwise
If I use a screwdriver to turn the head of a screw to the left, the “bottom” of the screw also turns to the left.
As for the saying, “lefty loosey, righty tighty” is a mnemonic for how to tighten or losen screws based on the direction you turn the screw, as most (not all) screws have threads that cause them to tighten when turned to the right (right rhymes with tight), and modems when turned to the left (both start with L).
~But most importantly, it’s also used to determine which side Eddie slept on.~
Maybe they’re thinking not of the tip, but the bottom of the head.
You know how a circle is endless, right? Take your finger and make a circle in the air. One part of the circle goes one way, the other part goes the opposite. Keep doing it until you realize what they’re saying.
First of all that’s not an American exclusive thing. Also the top is just what you face when you’re screwing or unscrewing something.
Also the top is just what you face when you’re screwing or unscrewing something.
Wat?
First of all that’s not an American exclusive thing.
I have never heard this outside of US media
Wat?
This man is skillfully operating a screwdriver. Notice how he’s naturally facing the screw head? Dat.
I have never heard this outside of US media
Except earlier when you read on Lemmy that a Spanish version exists too. Also assuming that something doesn’t exist because you personally haven’t heard of it doesn’t make sense.
When I was little I had trouble remembering which way was left(counter clockwise) and right (clockwise) because, if you turn to the left, at 12 o’clock it’s turning to the left, but at 6 o’clock it’s turning right.
So I was taught to think clockwise and counter clockwise instead. Maybe that’s their confusion as well.
Oh you’re probably right. But in that case they meant the concept of turning a screw “to the right” to tighten it is unique to the US which also is blatantly incorrect 😅
Driving a car with a automatic transmission is the same as politics, you shift into D to progress forward and you shift into R to go backwards, off a cliff or into a ditch…
This joke only works in American
only if you’re not looking
More like progress somewhere to the right of where you are with occasional short swerves to the left that immediately get overcorrected.
You should co sider going back to driver’s ed if you’re struggling to back your car up that much
¡Viva la Revolución!
If only…
Viva la Gulags!
Why would you viva the gulags?
Why not? USSR was left wing so gulags must be great!
congrats! you let soviet propaganda convince you their brand of fascism was leftist in nature!
I don’t think anyone thinks the gulags were great, left or right. Are you sincere or trying to make some kind of point?
You are so intelligent
