# "Moshe Dayan wore a patch on his left eye." Wait, don't you mean right eye? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100 "2017-05-20T19:02:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/21 "2017-05-22T08:23:59Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Will this new paradigm unite all four forces of physics? Only after it distinguishes between chirality and helicity. OTOH, if the particles are aimed at your face, you might end up with an eye patch. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/22 "2017-05-22T08:45:51Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Because it’s their head not yours. Moshe Dayan wore a patch over his missing left eye. He did not wear a patch over your missing right eye. Exactly. Look at it this way: the right eye and the left eye are completely different organs. Saying that he lost his left eye isn’t saying that he lost the eye on the left side of his face; it means he lost the organ called “the left eye”. Your lower intestine doesn’t become your upper intestine if you stand on your head, right? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/23 "2017-05-22T12:37:00Z")
> [@Clothes](#): > > I’m only being mildly frivolous. Left and right being absolute terms, let them remain so when captioning, say, a photo in a book or magazine. It will take some effort to adjust to the new paradigm, but we’ll all be happier for it. What is faulty with the the existing standard? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/24 "2017-05-22T12:42:59Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Will this new paradigm unite all four forces of physics? No, but it will get lots of pyramids built. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/25 "2017-05-22T12:48:38Z")
> [@Clothes](#): > > I’m only being mildly frivolous. Left and right being absolute terms, let them remain so when captioning, say, a photo in a book or magazine. It will take some effort to adjust to the new paradigm, but we’ll all be happier for it. Your new paradigm is less useful than the prevailing one. A person’t left eye is their left eye, regardless whether we’re facing them or not, or, for example, when they are standing on their head. If you really are confused about the captioning you describe in the OP, you’re the one that needs to adjust, if you can. If you can’t adjust, well, we’re not changing to suit you - after all, your view is just > [@](#): > > the frame of reference of one person out of billions ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/26 "2017-05-22T12:52:37Z")
> [@Clothes](#): > > I’m only being mildly frivolous. Left and right being absolute terms, let them remain so when captioning, say, a photo in a book or magazine. It will take some effort to adjust to the new paradigm, but we’ll all be happier for it. How would that work when you’re talking about, for example, “the tree on the left”? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/27 "2017-05-22T13:02:51Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Your lower intestine doesn’t become your upper intestine if you stand on your head, right? Thanks for making my day! For verily, thou hast spoken a profound truth, which I shall carry with me forever. (yes, I’m having a bad day at work. Thanks for cheering me up 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/28 "2017-05-22T13:32:34Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > How would that work when you’re talking about, for example, “the tree on the left”? It’s the trees’ left side. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/29 "2017-05-22T14:07:12Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > No, but it will get lots of pyramids built. But only if space-time is a fluid. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/30 "2017-05-22T15:55:01Z")
> [@Clothes](#): > > …Left and right being absolute terms… I missed this earlier. They’re just _not_ absolute terms. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/31 "2017-05-22T21:27:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Apparently Clothes is our first [Guugu Yimithirr](http://nowiknow.com/the-people-that-have-no-rights/) member. Neat cite. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/32 "2017-05-22T22:01:29Z")
> [@Clothes](#): > > Moshe Dayan wore a patch over one eye. If you were to ask him which eye, he would tell you it was his left. But facing him, you could correctly say that you see a man, and on the man’s face there’s a patch on the right side, therefore he wears a patch on his right eye. But suppose you met Moshe Dayan and told him he’s wearing his patch of his face on the right side of his face because it’s on your right. And Moshe Dayan said, “Don’t be foolish. That’s not the right side of your face. That’s the left side of your face. Because it’s on my left.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/33 "2017-05-22T22:17:47Z")
No, your \*other \*left. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/34 "2017-05-22T22:54:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > How can somebody who’s only got one eye have a left eye and a right eye? He wore a patch opposite his eye. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/35 "2017-05-23T05:45:00Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > How can somebody who’s only got one eye have a left eye and a right eye? It’s like Davy Crockett all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/36 "2017-05-23T06:39:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He wore a patch opposite his eye. That’s just silly. Why would he wear a patch on the back of his head? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/37 "2017-05-23T06:40:34Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Only after it distinguishes between chirality and helicity. That’s the beauty of the new paradigm - it explains how those two things are not different at all. I just need someone to make the math work. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/38 "2017-05-23T16:08:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s just silly. Why would he wear a patch on the back of his head? It’s called a yarmulke. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moshe-dayan-wore-a-patch-on-his-left-eye-wait-dont-you-mean-right-eye/787100/39 "2017-05-23T16:45:41Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > It’s called a yarmulke. Wait, don’t you mean kufi? ---
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