Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 24, 2012
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April 25, 2012
Transcript:
Girl: Ah. Whatever happened to "left loosy, righty tighty"? Frazz: I was wondering what happened to sandwich bags with twist ties. Girl: Evidently my mom hoarded them all.
Has anyone ever seen a sandwich bag with a twist tie? Sandwich bags without ziplock mechanisms use a flip top, not a twist tie.
But I’m with jerak on the right-tighty nonsense. It requires you to assume a paricular vantage point is the only valid choice, when, in fact, it is absolutely arbitrary.
The comment on physics and righthand rules made me recall a physics prof reminding us during a test to “make sure we were doing the right-hand rule with our right hands.” He had right-handed students in the past who— in trying to work as quickly as possible— had used their left hand to do the righthand rule (that way they didn’t have to put down their pencils). Unfortunately, if you apply a righthand rule with your left hand, you end up with your fields/forces going the wrong directions.