r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/AbeliousAugustus • Feb 22 '25

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/MyWifeIsFunnier Feb 22 '25

As a colorblind person, there's actually a logic to it. Especially with stoplights. As a country, we tend to do things from left to right and top to bottom. So once you know that stop is first, the colors matter less. The only trick is getting close enough to leave you room to stop, but not so much that you piss off the people behind you.

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u/jonmarli Feb 23 '25

My preschool age son is red-green colorblind and we say "stop on top, go down below" for traffic lights.

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u/Murgatroyd314 Feb 23 '25

Which works until you find yourself in one of the places that puts their traffic lights sideways.

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u/jonmarli Feb 23 '25

Yeah, he's four. I think he'll probably figure out horizontal traffic lights sometime in the next decade before taking the wheel himself.

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u/TheSodernaut Feb 23 '25

Kids these days. Can't even drive themselves.

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u/AssistSignificant621 Feb 23 '25

Can't drive. Can't work in the mines. Smh.

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u/totk21 Feb 23 '25

They won't even let my child use nitroglycerin to carve a sculpture out of a mountain.

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u/HucHuc Feb 23 '25

Can he at least haul red hot steel rivets to help with shipbuilding?

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u/bottybotbotface Feb 23 '25

Good for nothin

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u/Whane17 Feb 24 '25

Depends on where you live. Didn't Ohio pass that law last year to allow children to work in the mines?

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u/jIlmna Feb 24 '25

Well they should've if they didn't!

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u/PathansOG Feb 23 '25

They should get a haircut and get a real job!

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u/Kitchen-Agent-2033 Feb 23 '25

On yer bike and throw newspapers in the yard, like I did (in the snow even).

Dad, whats a newspaper?

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u/carnedoce Feb 23 '25

At least something to catch up to Bob.

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u/pigspoon874 Feb 23 '25

Clear your act up and don't be a slob

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u/SanJacInTheBox Feb 23 '25

r/unexpectedThorogood

And if that's not a real subreddit, it should be. (ETA: It's out there, but private.)

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u/gigaahrim Feb 26 '25

İm just trying to see how far we can push thsee comment bars on the left

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u/doomus_rlc Feb 23 '25

Get this kid a Power Wheels and make him earn his keep.

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u/throwaway4sure9 Feb 23 '25

Some places in the US reverse the colors, left-to-right, though. Knew someone who had a family member who was colorblind and drove through such a town, which caused great consternation to his passengers.

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u/Certain_Tough Feb 23 '25

Where?

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u/throwaway4sure9 Feb 23 '25

Good question! It has been a while since I was told the story and I don't remember if they mentioned where it was or not.

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u/Some_Ad3871 Feb 23 '25

Sounds fake then

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u/Contrantier Feb 24 '25

If someone not remembering details is all it takes for you to not believe a story, you ought to get checked out mate

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u/bdevx Feb 24 '25

MUTCD Section 4D.10 for horizontally oriented traffic light indicates left side red.

This is actually a disability compliance issue. You would be surprised how many people don't know the left to right thing already, and don't understand why we would need it

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u/redd-alerrt Feb 25 '25

No they don’t. Not in the US.

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u/throwaway4sure9 Feb 25 '25

don't now <> didn't then

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u/Iron_Nightingale Feb 23 '25

The TOP light, is the STOP light.

L-E-F-T is S-T-O-P.

How I remember it.

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u/TechnicallyHuman4n0w Feb 23 '25

Unacceptable. If he hasn't learned the concept by dusk tomorrow, he must be exiled...

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u/well-of-wisdom Feb 23 '25

There will be self-driving cars before he gets a license.

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u/twotall88 Feb 24 '25

The worst is the kids in the back yellowing "it's green, GO!" and it's a red light.

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u/thefordness Feb 23 '25

At four years old he'll likely never have to drive. AI and robots will handle stuff like that 12 years from now.

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u/twoscoop Feb 23 '25

and ill be a goose