It’s easy, the sun rises in the… oh wait no it sets in the… erm… so what time is it?
Noon 😏
Just think of the beauty and the beast song. I’m not even joking thats how I do it
When you’re lost, walk downhill, or downstream, until you reach the sea, or a McDonalds.
If you reach an Arby’s, you’ve gone the wrong way, crawl back into the wilderness, it’s safer there.
I have problems telling right from left. At least I’m the moment, if I take my time I can tell.
But I almost always know my cardinal directions
If you extend your thumb and first finger, the L shape that is the correct way around is on your left hand.
Yeah I know when I have time to think about it.
It’s just when people say: ‘go left here’ or me throng to indicate direction in a split second that my change of getting it right reduced to 50%. My brain doesn’t grok that left right isn’t absolute but related to orientation.
Just remember that port is a 4 letter word and so is left. So left is port and right is starboard.
Thnx, very helpful.
What helped me as a kid is imagine to write. That’s my left hand and than I know which is which without thinking too consciously (in case you’re right handed, it’s the other way around obviously).
But interesting that you know absolute directions easily. That’s a cultural thing actually. I think Australian Aborigines will say things like “my western foot hurts” because it’s more intuitive for them that way.
If I think for it for s second I know, I’ll think about my dominant hand too (although my dominant feet is on the opposite side so I don’t have a clear dominant side).
Yeah the aboriginal method seems way more intuitive to me, yet it probably won’t replace the left right system anytime soon :p
Do you “write” with your “right” hand? That’s how I remember.
Like I said repeatedly. If I get to think about it I know what side is what. It’s only in the moment when I falter
I only mention it as for the last forty years or so every time that someone has said left or right I’ve twitched my hands to work out which one I hold a pen(cil) with. Takes less than half a second and I don’t need to look at them either. It’s not unique not immediately knowing which is which. Live with it.
What have the pop band from the 80s got to do with the direction? Is there some code in their lyrics that will point her the right way?
What, doesn’t everyone have a haptic compass belt?
Should’ve just put one motor on each nipple and to direct you if north is left or right.
No but I do have something haptic in the back.
That one’s for chess moves.
All roads lead to East New Westersouth.
If I learned anything in geography class than that west is on the left
And North is in space
Your phone is a compass
I don’t know why, but the phone compass is always so shit.
I think it depends on how you hold it.
That’s what I said
It’s easy. When you imagine south as a north being on the top then west is on the east side from it.
Great. I’m laying in bed, and now I’m lost. Thanks.
Go west. Life is peaceful there. Go west. Lots of open air.
OK but no you know where the sun rises and sets if youre in a familiar place atleast
No. I keep trying to go but its always too far!
It hurts me that people don’t realise you know where the sun rises and sets (roughly), anywhere, by looking up and roughly knowing what time it is. Other than midday, then fair enough.
Do I look like the person who would get lost in a familiar place?
Actually, don’t answer that.
The brainrot is strong in that one.
What are you on about? Try making sense next time.
Village people intensifies
Petshop Boys actually.
Which one is the cover? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc-AQJ2MYo
oh. I didn’t know that.
I only started remembering which side west is (relative to north) when I started thinking of “the wild west” and then thinking of where the wild west was. Still can’t use it in the real world for anything though. At most if I’m at my own town I know approximately where north is, but anywhere else I’ll quickly lose the sense of which direction is which.
You’re not supposed to intrinsically have your sense of direction in an unfamiliar location. Some people can do that but assuming you’re not paying full attention on your way to a new location it’s actually normal and expected to have to get your bearings which means taking a moment to orient yourself and figure out what direction is what. And then it’s easy to forget (let’s say you step into a store) until you build a sense of landmarks. Also the more dense a location the harder it is because it’s more complex.
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That’s was also what my fifth grade teacher taught us. But we got a new teacher shortly afterwards.
