The Leftie Thread

Kold

Are you a lefty like me? How awesome are we, like? Conquering adversity in this right handed world that doesn't cater for 7-10% of the population. Rise up and let yourselves be known.

In some other cultures we would have been oppressed so we'll cut the normies in this country some slack (a little bit). My mother was forced to use her right hand in school but it's alright, she isn't a schizophrenic after it. I come from a family of 6, 4 of whom are lefties.

So what kind of problems have you faced as a lefty? Can't use scissors? Clumsy as hell? I am.

I'm only left handed when it comes to writing and drawing really. For the most part, my right arm is stronger. I also use my mouse in my right hand but that's probably because I find it better to be entering commands with my left. The rumour is that we're better off in sports and arts and I'm pretty awesome at both In my year in art college there are about 9 lads of which 4 or 5 are lefties.

So this is a thread for us special people, normies feel free to praise our plights. It's not easy being so great in a world not made for us you know.

CountingCrows

Kitog and proud of it!

stovelid

Ambidextrous FTW.

Xavi6

Kold wrote: »

So what kind of problems have you faced as a lefty? Can't use scissors? Clumsy as hell? I am.

You need this place

I'm a leftie for opening bottles and when my right arm gets tired.

Michellenman

Kold wrote: »

I come from a family of 6, 4 of whom are lefties.

Kold wrote: »

I'm only left handed when it comes to writing and drawing really.

Ditto for me.

Both my parents are right handed but me and all my siblings are left-handed. Three against two, We win!!

tallaght01

Thank god Christy Brown was a left footer, by the way. Otherwise he'd have been screwed.

phasers

I'm the only leftie in a family of seven, and I don't have to do any ironing because they all think left handed people can't iron

dee8839

Yay, finally, people more like me! Polar bears are left handed! Kurt Cobain and other good musicians were left handed. And so on.

When I was younger I used to really want to write with those cool felt type pens in school. But I can't. Because my hand smudges what I've just written! Grr...

My right hand actually genuinely feels weaker than my left all the time. I can carry more in my left hand, etc. I can't even hold a mug of tea with my right hand, its too heavy or something!

Did you ever notice though, that a lot of lefties have a very odd way of holding a pen when they write? Very awkwardly? I just hold it normally, but some I know wrap their fist around the pen like its a snake they're grabbing around the neck!

mikemac

phasers wrote: »

I'm the only leftie in a family of seven, and I don't have to do any ironing because they all think left handed people can't iron

Genius!

Leftie too, I hate most tin openers :mad:
Can't use those felt pens either

Kold

Artists:
Albrecht Dürer
M.C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
LeRoy Neiman
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci (looks like we had the Renaissance locked down

Musicians:
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
Jimi Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
George Michael (Wham!)
Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
Seal
Ringo Starr (the Beatles)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)

Footballers:
Johan Cruyff
Pelé -Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Diego Armando Maradona
Romario

Misc:
Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Benjamin Franklin
Joan of Arc
Ramses II
Tiberius
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Napoléon Bonaparte
Josephine de Beauharnais
King Louis XVI of France
Queen Victoria of England
King George II of England
King George VI of England
Prince Charles of England
Prince William of England
Jack-the-Ripper
Matt Groening, cartoonist
Bart Simpson
Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

tbh

I'm a leftie, and have been learning to play guitar right-handed. Would it be easier to re-string it upside down? anyone know?

Kold

tbh wrote: »

I'm a leftie, and have been learning to play guitar right-handed. Would it be easier to re-string it upside down? anyone know?

I've been learning to play right-handed too. I think it's whatever is easier because as I said, my right arm is stronger but I have more control over my left hand.

tbh

chords = easy, strumming=so hard!!

FunkZ

I have the best mix. Right handed 'cause I'm not a plank. But left footed so I almost always have a place when I play football!

captainzapp

my friend got me left handed tin opener there. and my sister got me a left handed writing pad from the leftorium in sanfrancisco. its awesome. the spiral thing is on the right so i can write all the way across! i work in the process department in an engineering firm and loads of them are lefties here, its very bizarre.

jor el

dee8839 wrote: »

I just hold it normally, but some I know wrap their fist around the pen like its a snake they're grabbing around the neck!

I've always thought that was to stop your hand from smudging the ink when writing, lefties tend to have their hand up around over where writing.

I'm a rightie, but do lots of things with my left hand. Never noticed till recently that when I brush my teeth I hold the brush in my left hand, no idea why. I use a calculator with my left hand too, something I've not noticed other righties doing. My computer mouse is always on the left, which is hilarious when you see a right handed person try to use it. I also swap the knife and fork every time I pick them up, though I've noticed this is something a lot of people do.

Maybe I'm actually left handed, or just a spaz? I can't right with my left hand though.

Lefties live shorter lives though.

Kold

jor el wrote: »

Lefties live shorter lives though.

The light that shines twice as bright etc.

I hold my pen/pencil/paintbrush fairly low down but keep it above so my hand is not trailing from the side. Like a dart almost.

dee8839

dee8839 wrote: »

When I was younger I used to really want to write with those cool felt type pens in school. But I can't. Because my hand smudges what I've just written! Grr...

jor el wrote: »

I've always thought that was to stop your hand from smudging the ink when writing, lefties tend to have their hand up around over where writing. .

So that's what I've been doing wrong!!:D It looks sore to write that way though!

jor el wrote: »

Maybe I'm actually left handed, or just a spaz? I can't right with my left hand though..

When you were learning to write were you forced to use your right hand? If so maybe by nature you're a lefty!

jor el wrote: »

Lefties live shorter lives though.

I knew it was a matter of time before someone said that! But if what I said about you being a natural lefty is true, you're coming with us!:P

TheTubes

FunkZ wrote: »

I have the best mix. Right handed 'cause I'm not a plank. But left footed so I almost always have a place when I play football!

+1

take that, mutants.

Piste

I'm a leftie and I hate that smudgie thing, no nice pens for me You can always tell a leftie from the ink smudge all over the side of their hand.

I'm a bit spastic with my right hand, if I try to feed myself I just get food everywhere.

Bard

Leftie here too - and I don't get the problems lefties have with tin openers, etc.

padi89

Im a leftie but i do things with my right too, the most fvcked up is i play hurling left handed but if i give tennis a lash i play right.....WTF?

Zulu

My father and mother were beaten to use their right hand when writing in school. All my bor's and sister are lefties as am I.

Smudging the ink never bothered me, but if you are worries about it, put a post-it under your little finger. It's a trick I learned using charcoal and pencils in art. No more smudging.

boneless

I was a lefty when I was young but some lovely Christian nun decided it was the mark of Satan so she tied my left hand to the desk and forced me to use the dexter... as a result my hand writing is sh!te and this used to get me in trouble with other teachers later in my educational days.

However, I still use the sinister for a number of things; knife, guitar, pistol in my military days and also shot off the left shoulder with the SMLE and Bren.

Whyner

It's more difficult for lefties to write as they are pushing the pen across the page where as rightsers pull the pen.

I'm a lefty for writing, brushing teeth, eating but right for just about everything else, also right footed. I could barely throw a tennis ball with my right hand. My sister is also the same where as our parents and 2 other sisters are purely right.

I'm decent at sport but useless at art.

At school, I always had to sit on the far left so as not to bang elbows with the enemy. Can't really think of much else, you don't need much strength at all to use a can opener.

Piste

I used to always switch the mouse to the left when I was younger cos I couldn't handle it on my right, though I stopped bothering when I started using computers in school/work so I can manage it with my right hand now.

Rob_l

Kold wrote: »

Artists:
Albrecht Dürer
M.C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
LeRoy Neiman
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci (looks like we had the Renaissance locked down

Musicians:
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
Jimi Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
George Michael (Wham!)
Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
Seal
Ringo Starr (the Beatles)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)

Footballers:
Johan Cruyff
Pelé -Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Diego Armando Maradona
Romario

Misc:
Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Benjamin Franklin
Joan of Arc
Ramses II
Tiberius
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Napoléon Bonaparte
Josephine de Beauharnais
King Louis XVI of France
Queen Victoria of England
King George II of England
King George VI of England
Prince Charles of England
Prince William of England
Jack-the-Ripper
Matt Groening, cartoonist
Bart Simpson
Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

And now,
Some famous Right handed people!

Everyone not named on the above list

Lord Muck

huzzah for Lefties !
I'm a 100% leftie for everything , i'm out there and i'm loving every minute of it ! In work , out of 7 lads in the office 4 are lefties , we like to sit around moaning about the rightist facists and how 'the man' likes to keep us down

Malice

I'm a leftie, as is my sister and my father. That's 3 out of a family of 5. I hope that's not a sign that we're in-bred .

I've never had a problem with computer mice, I can use it in my right hand pretty much as fast as your average user. Scissors drive me nuts though whenever I have to use them which thankfully isn't all that often.

Go Lefties!

Kold

Rob_l wrote: »

And now,
Some famous Right handed people!

Everyone not named on the above list

Man that list and the people I didn't include (me for example) are way more than 7-10% of awesome people.

Alexander the Great, pretty much the most successful person ever.

brianthebard

tbh wrote: »

I'm a leftie, and have been learning to play guitar right-handed. Would it be easier to re-string it upside down? anyone know?

if you've started right handed don't change now.I play rh and feel it works in my favour for fingering,but you'll need to do extra work on picking.I did a play writing module in final year and we were nearly all lefties.Although i was the best obv!

gazzer

My mum is left handed. I am right handed but when I eat my dinner I have my fork in my right hand and knife in my left hand. I am always getting told I should have them the other way around.

I remember reading on the interweb before that high percentage of gay people are left handed. Funnilly enough out of 5 of my friends who are gay 4 of them are left handed.

The Master

leftie and proud

Rob_l

gazzer wrote: »

My mum is left handed. I am right handed but when I eat my dinner I have my fork in my right hand and knife in my left hand. I am always getting told I should have them the other way around.

I remember reading on the interweb before that high percentage of gay people are left handed. Funnilly enough out of 5 of my friends who are gay 4 of them are left handed.

the internet backs up your claims
http://www.narth.com/docs/lefthand.html

Whyner

gazzer wrote: »

My mum is left handed. I am right handed but when I eat my dinner I have my fork in my right hand and knife in my left hand. I am always getting told I should have them the other way around.

I remember reading on the interweb before that high percentage of gay people are left handed. Funnilly enough out of 5 of my friends who are gay 4 of them are left handed.

Is left-handed fisting more difficult on the one right hander?

Dudess

I'm left-footed - was a bit of a nuisance for dance/floor routines when I was doing ballet and gymnastics as a kid.

gerTheGreat

CountingCrows wrote: »

Kitog and proud of it!

+1

pvt.joker

test

TheTubes

the emails to my gmail from this thread triggered some left handed google ads for left handed people.
was having a look at one site, and i never realised ye had it so bad...
ye need special clocks?

CtrlSource

Whenever i meet a fellow lefty, i feel a certain kinship with them! We're rare enough, ye know!

My Dad was making tea recently and handed me a mug in such a way that was damn difficult to take it from him with my left hand. My right arm is stronger and i use it for more manual activites, but writing and lifting mugs / cups are all done with my left

Piste

I hate when you have novelty mugs with hilarious pictures and phrases on them but only you can see them because of the left-handed way you hold the cup

ojewriej

GF told me that apparently a lot of scientists (or maybe just medical scientists) are left handed. In the lab she works in, about 25 out of 30 people are left handed.

Creature

Kold wrote: »

I'm only left handed when it comes to writing and drawing really. For the most part, my right arm is stronger. I also use my mouse in my right hand but that's probably because I find it better to be entering commands with my left.

Aye me too. Though the mouse thing is the only real instance where I use my right hand. I use a fork, throw, play guitar etc left handed.

I think we got the best people of each field when you look at it:

Leonardo Da Vinci - Best artist ever/generally smartest most greatest human being ever (well besides me of course)
Jimi Hendrix - Best guitarist ever.
Pele - Best footballer ever.
Alexander The Great - Best conqueror/military commander ever.
Jack The Ripper - Best serial killer ever
John Dillinger - Best bank robber ever.
Bart Simpson - Best Simpson child.
Paul McCartney - Best Beatle.
Robert DeNiro and Steve McQueen- Joint best actors.
Seal - Best singer named after a marine mammal.


The righties should really just bow down and serve us. It makes sense.

ojewriej

Creature wrote: »

Leonardo Da Vinci - Best artist ever/generally smartest most greatest human being ever (well besides me of course)

Wasn't he ambidextrous?

BaconZombie

I'm a lefty as well.

One thing I also do when setting up a new PC or Laptop for somebody is make sure it set-up for a lefty.

Mouse of the left {with to cable tied so it's just to short to reach the other side, Phone on the right and the whole system tilted more to the right of the desk....

Creature

ojewriej wrote: »

Wasn't he ambidextrous?

Well ok he may not have been pure but as far as I know he was mostly a leftie. I think we can let him away with it.

Bongomc

CountingCrows wrote: »

Kitog and proud of it!

Azphyxi8

I'm a leftie!

Play left handed guitar.
I can't use a right handed ice cream scoop.

Lefties rock!

Kold

ojewriej wrote: »

Wasn't he ambidextrous?

No he was a lefty, there's a theory that his right hand was paralysed.

Kold

It's kinda funny though, I'm the only lefty in my life drawing class which is hilarious when my teacher gets us to do some of the exercises.

She likes to get us to switch hands a lot so it means that my easel is always turned the other way and she also gets us to rotate to eachother's drawings so I end up turning the easel that I move to and whoever's behind me has to switch it back, these are big easels too so it's a lot of bashing about.

lucylu

another Citéoig here!

the Nuns bet it out of my mam but my siblings are lefties too..

The stupid B of a teacher I had bet the crap out of me for drawing my e's backwards. She blamed her morning sickness and got away with it. :mad:

I was never asked up to the black/whiteboard in school as when I would write I would deliberately smudge what had wrote.
I always tend to burn my arms when ironing as the cord of the iron is positioned on the wrong side so my OH does it all
An Electric lawnmower is a disaster as us lefties tend to get caught up in the fecking wire.. we do at home anyway so my OH does it

i am artisitc I paint,I play a fiddle with the strings backwards also bless myself with the wrong hand and don't know my left from right (this way and that way)