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The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

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[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Gas valves famously use the opposite direction

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

I can't think of an equivalent phrase in Bulgarian for that, but it's known that [most] threads tighten when turning clockwise... and if you don't know what direction the clock goes, what are you even doing with screws or bolts...

And again there are special cases even outside of threads - for example in plumbing there are some valves that are open when the handle is parallel to the pipe and closed when the handle is perpendicular - and it might just happen that the closing motion happens counterclockwise.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

reverse threads are also found on things like bicycles and cars which have parts that spin counter clockwise

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yep, I'm familiar with those - on almost any bycicle the left pedal would tighten to the crank counterclockwise.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Except for the stupid friggin discount stationary bike my wife bought. That must be the exception you're referring to...

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

That's why it's discounted...

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 10 hours ago

The German version as actually survived its original time frame: "So lang das Deutsche Reich besteht, wird Schraube fest nach rechts gedreht" - "As long as the German Reich exists, a screw is tightened by turning right"

[-] squiidoink@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 9 hours ago

yeah, this one is only for inside voice. I won't be teaching it to anyone anymore.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago

I'm German, and I've never heard that before. I'd be seriously weirded out by someone saying that or teaching it to their kids

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago

I have to admit that this is rather old. So old, in fact, that it does not refer to the Third Reich but the Kaiserreich.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

That's better but not that by much. A few years ago Germany raided some very rich and very well-armed wackos who wanted to bring back the Kaiserreich.

[-] eunieisthebus@feddit.org 7 points 9 hours ago

Never heard of this. We say 'auf links, rechts zu' and simply order the words alphabetically

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

So ... shouldn't German screws now turn to the left?

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

See!!! This is why communism is bad!! Since you’ve started turning everything to the left, it’s all come apart!!

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Nar. A statement and its converse are not equivalent.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

"Eins og kókflaska" or "Same as a Coca Cola bottle", not universal in Iceland though

[-] dunz@feddit.nu 2 points 7 hours ago
[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Just like the screws ;D

[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 123 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

"La derecha oprime y la izquierda libera"

The right oppresses, the left liberates

[-] Debardosbae@leminal.space 8 points 9 hours ago

I love Spanish, damn that's a good way to say it.

[-] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Never heard of that. When attending a trade school there was never the necessity of a mnemotechnic to know in which direction turn the tool.

As other mentioned this kind of phrase is useless if you are in the opposite side.

What I always heard is “la regla del destornillador” (the screwdriver rule), as a substitute for the right hand rule.

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