Your go to mnemonics!

Bill Door said:
I think you may want to censor your pump as well! I am intrigued if that is a typo or a genuine thing, but no way am I googling that at work.

One from Community that has stuck with me is 'Kevin Please Come Over For Gay Sex' for biological classifications.
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Whoops that was meant to be Fuel Pump :eek:
 
HecFam said:
but if you have a screwdriver, you would rotate it left to loosen or rotate it right to tighten.
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No you don't. The 'top' part of your hand turns left to loosen but your thumb and other part of your hand goes the opposite way. It's a circle.

Hikari Kisugi said:
What?

Place your hand on said lid on jar, turn LEFTY to loosen.
Turn RIGHTY to tighten...

What part of that do you not get?
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Read above. If the top of your 'thing' is turning right then the bottom is turning left. Hence, for someone who for some unfathomable reason doesn't understand how to open a jar, this could be confusing! (And more importantly, is not technically correct). Yes, I'm splitting hairs but my god it is annoying.

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Scam said:
No you don't. The 'top' part of your hand turns left to loosen but your thumb and other part of your hand goes the opposite way. It's a circle.

Read above. If the top of your 'thing' is turning right then the bottom is turning left. Hence, for someone who for some unfathomable reason doesn't understand how to open a jar, this could be confusing! (And more importantly, is not technically correct). Yes, I'm splitting hairs but my god it is annoying.

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So which way do you turn a steering wheel to go left?

I turn it left, personally.

(I know what you mean, but I think the reason for the mnemonic is that most people understand the steering wheel relationship)
 
cheesyboy said:
So which way do you turn a steering wheel to go left?

I turn it left, personally.
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Anti-clockwise, duh ;) But you see my point about it not being correct.

Zogger said:
we should definitely change it to anti-clockwise loosey clockwise tighty
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My real problem with it, is that every time I see someone say it because they're confused -- it confuses them even more.
 
a few teachers at school used these

Physics:

colours - reverse order:

Virgins In Bed Give Yells Of Rapture

Planets:

My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets

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Maths - Trig

we had a story about some Red Indians dancing around a camp fire shouting out 'SOHCAHTOA, SOHCAHTOA, SOHCAHTOA...' was about 11 years old... the teacher got the whole class to chant it for a minute or so - has been stuck in my memory ever since

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days in a month:

thirty days have September
April, June and November
all the rest have thirty one
except for February alone

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setting up a radio

Oh Boy A Horny Female

(OFF, Battery, Antenna, Headset, Frequency)

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Navigation - grid to mag add, mag to grid get rid

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StriderX said:
When referring to 'lefty and righty', isn't it the translation instead of rotation...
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When we refer to left or right we are generally referencing our body. If you think about it, holding out your left arm, fingers and thumb out stretched your left hand makes an L shape(Index finger perpendicular to the thumb). So L for left can be referenced from that. However, it becomes difficult to explain the concept to a person with no hands. Left and Right are concepts that don't exist in the material world. Without any referennce point there can be no Left or Right.
 
Scam said:
This doesn't work and it annoys me. What's going left? What's going right? A circular thing such as a screw lid doesn't have a left and right!
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How hard is it to remember that you're referring to the top of the bolt/screw/nut? If that moves to the left, it's loose. If it moves to the right, it's tight. I think you're overthinking this. Or I'm a simpleton. Whatever.

This however:

Scam said:
My girlfriend uses it and surprise surprise surprise when it comes to jars, radiators etc she gets confused.
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I remember one for the value of colour bands on resistors which I came up with while doing electronics at school but it's not exactly very family friendly... lol
 
I recall that when wiring a plug the colours with an L in go on the left (Blue or black) and the colours with R in go on the right (red or brown)

An odd poker related one that helps me remember the order from highest value to lowest value of some of the middle ranking hands. "At a party with a full house, if you need the loo then remember to flush things straight down.
 
I sometimes find they work, but sometimes I just look for a memory hook. Recent one for me, "E-Type Delayed fluorescence is unimolecular... as you need to be single to afford an E-Type."

RMIVUXG - electromagnetic spectrum. "Red Monkeys In Vietnam Under eXtreme Guidance"
LEN - when facing a plug for Live, Earth, Neutral.

Mostly Physics. :p
 
I remember using Never Eat Shredded Wheat loads in school, as well as the knuckle-month one.
The one I always hated was "Remember, remember the 5th of November".. all it does is help you remember that the month ends in "-ember" - still loads of days to choose from!

On a side note - the German word for a mnemonic is Donkey Bridge which I always found really amusing :D
 
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