Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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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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You know this has always confused the fuck out of me. You are going around a circle, how is there left and right? There is up-and-left, down-and-left, either way is left. If I am starting on the right of the circle (assuming I'm looking at it) which way is right? Up or down?

Imagine it like a car steering wheel.

You'd say turning the wheel to the right turns the car right.

Think of it like this. Like your hand is holding on the top of the steering wheel.

ok but what is behind this picture? I see fur and old matted flesh? a paw with no nails or an old dogs snout?!?!

Clockwise = Righty

Or imagine a bottle cap instead of a screw... Muscle memory kicks in.

Thank you! Clockwise looking down at a bottlecap makes sense!

This has always annoyed me too. I know why it works, but it's clockwise and counter-(or anti-)clockwise. If you were turning from the bottom, left and right are mixed up. Maybe it's just too hard to come up with a phrase using those terms?

I always think about the direction that the top of the circle turns to apply left or right rotation, though I usually use muscle memory.

It's the top part. So if you imagine a little dot at the top (12h) position it would move to the right/clockwise or left/anti-clockwise

Yeah, but once you get one quarter of a rotation through your dot is now moving left.

Use right hand thumb rule. There is no right, there is no left, there is no clockwise or anticlockwise. All of them depend on the way you looks. Rught hand thumb rule fixes it for humans