Right or Left?

You, kind sir, must not be a mechanic. (I know you're not, but I won't tell anyone-promise)
I have always had the hardest time understanding "to the right" or "to the left". Something that pivots about an axis or center doesn't actually go either right or left ... there is always an equal&opposite angular mass going the other way. The only way I can make it work for myself is to introduce a wholly arbitrary but non-negotiable restriction: the right or left is referent to the upper portion of the article being turned. It strikes me as ... prejudiced somehow, "toppist". I have memorized "right means clockwise" and now I am good to go.

Toilet paper = over the top, forward.
TP that hangs back isfromtheDevil. cn
 
i have great difficulties turning ANYTHING. ever since i was a kid, bottle caps, jar lids, all that stuff gave me a hard time. i end up screwing it on crooked ever time so i end up having to turn it back the other way to get it unstuck. 4 or 5 tries later i get it.

ordinary every day stuff that's not threaded gets turned to the right. toilet paper is to be balanced atop the dispenser in a vertical position.
 
Rednekistan would that be Arkansas?

Edit: no, wait. Alabama? No, wait. El Paso, TX. No, wait...

Technically I live in California ... but it's the part of the state that tends to not get mentioned/featured whenever California reaches either the news or pop-cultural awareness in general. It most emphatically ain't "Cali"! I usually refer to it as "westernmost Rednekistan" to distinguish it from the other mountainous regions of the USA that more typically figure in the description of the Redneck Rodina.
This guy could so totally be a neighbor ... cn
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Soon I'll be in the prune state, you know, Florida, where you either look like a prune or take them (regularly, if you get my drift)

I love how you write. You shoulda been an author.
 
i have great difficulties turning ANYTHING. ever since i was a kid, bottle caps, jar lids, all that stuff gave me a hard time. i end up screwing it on crooked ever time so i end up having to turn it back the other way to get it unstuck. 4 or 5 tries later i get it.

ordinary every day stuff that's not threaded gets turned to the right. toilet paper is to be balanced atop the dispenser in a vertical position.

if its vertical do u have the flap on the left or the right?
 
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