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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
First world problem.

Next thing you know they will want the swirl in the drain to go the other way too.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Yep, use one everyday.

Us lefties have learned to adapt in a wrong-handed world. Case in point: scissors. Some years ago, my wife happened upon a left-handed-only store and bought me a pair of left-handed scissors. They feel odd, when using them with my left hand. I keep them above the bench and use them right-handed, but have to remember they cut on the right side (wrong side) of the blades. You righties ought to try scissoring with your left hand and you'll see what I mean.

Now, consider a tape measure. Purely by accident it is perfect for leftie usage, but righties have to use it backwards. Us lefties can read and make a mark while reading left-to-right -- the natural way -- but righties have to do the opposite with the numbers are inside-down. Hmmm . . . wonder if that left-handed-only store sells
right-handed tape measures.

While in that store, my wife also bought me a left-handed spiral-bound table. Spiffy, man.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Yep, use one everyday.

Us lefties have learned to adapt in a wrong-handed world. Case in point: scissors. Some years ago, my wife happened upon a left-handed-only store and bought me a pair of left-handed scissors. They feel odd, when using them with my left hand. I keep them above the bench and use them right-handed, but have to remember they cut on the right side (wrong side) of the blades. You righties ought to try scissoring with your left hand and you'll see what I mean.

Now, consider a tape measure. Purely by accident it is perfect for leftie usage, but righties have to use it backwards. Us lefties can read and make a mark while reading left-to-right -- the natural way -- but righties have to do the opposite with the numbers are inside-down. Hmmm . . . wonder if that left-handed-only store sells
right-handed tape measures.

While in that store, my wife also bought me a left-handed spiral-bound table. Spiffy, man.

Hhmmm . . . Wrong handed world? I googled it . . .

The majority of people are right-handed — somewhere between 70 and 90 percent, depending on which study's findings you accept. The other 10-30 percent are primarily left-handed or ambidextrous. Scientists aren't really sure why people favor one hand over the other, though theories range from genetic predisposition to trauma in the birthing canal.

Uh oh, trauma in the birthing canal. :eek: So that explains lefties huh?
 

Michael

Active Member. Uh/What
Our cats show a preference, right paw vs left. Taught them how open a flip top treat bottle. They use their right paws.

I can see the commercials now "Are you letf handed, this may have been caused by birthing canal trauma, and you may be entitled to damages!
For your free initial no obligation consultation, call the law offices of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe at 800-LEFTIES."
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
to trauma in the birthing canal.
I was a breech baby. Don't know if it is what caused my left-handedness, but much prefer the theory say's lefties are inherently more intelligent.
 
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Rick

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Staff member
I was a breech baby. Don't know if it is what caused my left-handedness, but much prefer the theory say's lefties are inherently more intelligent.

A theory thought up by and advanced by lefties worldwide. :rolleyes:
 

david s

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I may have told this before. I'm left-handed and when about 5 or 6 years old the Florida neighborhood we lived in had a father, son home building team. As kids we would go over there and be kids. In other words, nuisances. Once to get rid of us the older builder asked us to go ask our fathers if they had a left-handed monkey wrench that could be borrowed. I asked the builder how come he couldn't use a right handed monkey wrench upside down. I messed up his whole plan when he didn't have an answer.
 
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Charles Graff

Moderator Emeritus
Left handed people have long suffered discrimination and denigration. It is baked into our language. The Latin root for right is "dexter" and the root for left is "sinister. Therefore a person who is ambi-dexterous has two right hands. The evil person "sinister" is left. Does Jesus sit on the left hand of God?.....No, he sits on the right hand of God. I could go on and on, but you get it.

In the days of Identity Politics, lefties should get legal protection and even reparations for all the abuse we and have ancestors have received over the generations.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Ask any chiropractor about the ratio of right vs left hand preference of the patients who present with UPPER back problems.

I hold a coffee cup the normal way, with the dumb side. That leaves the smart side hand free to do useful things like manipulate a fork or pen.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I hold a coffee cup the normal way, with the dumb side. That leaves the smart side hand free to do useful things like manipulate a fork or pen.
Same as I do. Allows me to manipulate the mouse with the left.
 

Dusty Bannister

Well-Known Member
I never hold a cup while at the computer. I have a friend that sometimes sends stuff to me that if I were drinking liquid would be a disaster to the screen and keyboard.
 

david s

Well-Known Member
If the bar on your family crest goes to the left, Bar Sinister, it means your a bastard in the correct sense.
 
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