• ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 days ago

    The Spanish version is my favourite: la derecha oprime y la izquierda libera (the right oppresses and the left liberates)

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    In austrian german dialect, “Mit da Ua, draht ma zua.” which in standard german would be “Mit der Uhr, dreht man zu.” and in english “With the clock, turn it closed.” or something like that.

  • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
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    18 days ago

    Not for screwing/unscrewing but in France we have a satire mnemonic for remembering right and left:

    The right hand is the one with the thumb pointing left.

    Works only if you look at the back of your hands, and obviously not useful. We use it mainly to mock someone who mix right and left

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    17 days ago

    I’m Norwegian. I never learned a rule in my language and always just went by instinct. Until ~3rd year of university in physics where someone told me tha the right-hand-rule applies to screws. Now I use that everywhere for screws in strange positions.

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        17 days ago

        Grab around a screw with your right hand and extend your thumb (like a thumbs up). Then rotating the screw in the direction which your fingers are pointing will result in the screw moving in the direction your thumb is pointing.

        Thumbs up for lifting the screw upwards, thumbs down for screwing the screw downwards. And you can move your hand around to figure out screwing directions for any tricky spots.

  • Deadlytosty@feddit.nl
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    18 days ago

    In Dutch we have DROL, Dicht recht, open links. So close right, open left as a very strict translation. But DROL is also Dutch for turd.