Left handed people

Fcukface

I noticed in work the other day that about 75% of the senior managers are left handed.

Is this just a strange coincidence or is this a common thing. Are left handed people more driven towards success?

bronte

I've heard they're more artistic.
One of my friends is a lefty and an amazing bassist.
Kinda jealous tbh!! :pac:

bazmaiden

bronte wrote: »

I've heard they're more artistic.
One of my friends is a lefty and an amazing bassist.
Kinda jealous tbh!! :pac:

And a certain Jimmy Hendrix, who revolutionised guitar, was left handed

o1s1n

Left handers are almost as bad as gingers. Fairly sure they only have half a soul. Perhaps the sold the other half to Satan in exchange for success.

cson

Damn lefties.

novarock

being left handed is the biggest pain in the arse you can imagine. I wouldnt wish it on anyone... I think it should be recognised as a disability - mostly so I can get a bus pass...

cson

o1s1n wrote: »

Left handers are almost as bad as gingers. Fairly sure they only have half a soul. Perhaps the sold the other half to Satan in exchange for success.

Exactly; see how Ned Flanders turned out to be the devil - coincidence? I think not. :cool:

bronte

bazmaiden wrote: »

And a certain Jimmy Hendrix, who revolutionised guitar, was left handed

Ahhh the Hendrix...who could forget...amazing.

I wonder what exactly the connection is?

General Zod

very sinister.

Mars Bar

My sister is a leftie and the rest of us are righties. It's funny watching her use a scissors...

hada

I never got left handed people.

Why don't they just cop on and use their right hand?

bullpost

mars bar wrote: »

My sister is a leftie and the rest of us are righties. It's funny watching her use a scissors...

I'm a leftie but use a scissors with my right hand :eek:

steve22

o1s1n wrote: »

Left handers are almost as bad as gingers. Fairly sure they only have half a soul. Perhaps the sold the other half to Satan in exchange for success.

- excellent!!

thebigbiffo

i've a left handed/legged son, he's 3. my wife told me the other day she'd heard on the radio about a study which said statistically left-handed people are more intelligent and driven - something to do with using different parts of yer brain...apparently a disproportionate amount of senior business people are left-handed or something.

anyone else hear this?

Mars Bar

bullpost wrote: »

I'm a leftie but use a scissors with my right hand :eek:

You're one of the lucky ones so!

She plays football with her right foot though.

I hold my fork and knife like a lefty though, oh the shame!

o1s1n

bronte wrote: »

I wonder what exactly the connection is?

Coincidence?

I think it's just one of those things where people see someone is good at something, they also happen to have another ability that's different and they put the two together.

I went to art college myself for years and to be honest really didn't notice an abundance of lefties about or anything.

littlefriend

bullpost wrote: »

I'm a leftie but use a scissors with my right hand :eek:

Yeah me too. I kinda like being left handed & I defo think lefties are different to righties

MardiB

I'm a leftie and I am just brilliant at everything :P

spinandscribble

I used to work in a residential facilitate for male teens with problems. EVERY staff member bar ONE was a lefty. Out of both day and night staff, so roughly 15!

It was really odd.

bronte

o1s1n wrote: »

Coincidence?

I think it's just one of those things where people see someone is good at something, they also happen to have another ability that's different and they put the two together.

I went to art college myself for years and to be honest really didn't notice an abundance of lefties about or anything.

Possibly ... I trained in drama and there were shedloads of them! Got a bit freaky actually! :pac:

It's kind of a cool quirky thing though.

krudler

bazmaiden wrote: »

And a certain Jimmy Hendrix, who revolutionised guitar, was left handed

so were/are Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney,Noel Gallagher,Bob Dylan,Mark Knopfler, Robert Plant, Sting, David Bowie, Beethoven and Bach.

music, we owns it

you can also add Da Vinci, James Cameron and Douglas Adams to famous lefties.

Captain Chaos

mars bar wrote: »

I hold my fork and knife like a lefty though, oh the shame!

I eat packets of crisps like a lefty, just can't do it the other way. I feels wrong and unatural. Me time is lefty too.:o

Other than that right is might all the way.

LordSutch

Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Jimmy Connors, McEnroe, Rocky Balboa, Marvin Hagler, Winston Churchill, J.F.Kennedy + pages & pages.

For a small minority, 'lefties' really do punch above their weight.

bonerm

o1s1n wrote: »

Left handers are almost as bad as gingers. Fairly sure they only have half a soul. Perhaps the sold the other half to Satan in exchange for success.

We're certainly a sinister bunch if that's what you mean.

Anyway you righty's, bow down before your left-handed overlords.

/clenches left-fist-of-power whilst surveying his domain.

Scarydoll

o1s1n wrote: »

Left handers are almost as bad as gingers. Fairly sure they only have half a soul.

I'm left handed and have red hair:eek:

krudler

scareydoll wrote: »

I'm left handed and have red hair:eek:

the antichrist has been revealed!!!

o1s1n

krudler wrote: »

so were/are Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney,Noel Gallagher,Bob Dylan,Mark Knopfler, Robert Plant, Sting, David Bowie, Beethoven and Bach.

music, we owns it

You can keep Paul McCartney & Noel Gallagher tbh

:P

Scarydoll

krudler wrote: »

the antichrist has been revealed!!!

That's actually very funny because my mam used to call me that when I was younger.

Banned Account

International Left-Handers Day
13 August

Left-Handed U.S. Presidents
James A. Garfield (1831-1881) 20th
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) 33rd
Gerald Ford (1913- ) 38th
Ronald Reagan (1911 - ) 40th
George H.W. Bush (1924- ) 41st
Bill Clinton (1946- ) 42nd
Barack Obama (1961- ) 44th

Left-Handed U.S. Politicos
Senator Bill Bradley, Rhodes scholar, basketball star
McGeorge Bundy, presidential advisor
Benjamin Franklin, statesman/publisher/scientist
Steve Forbes, businessman/publisher
Jean-Marc Froidevaux ?, Swiss politician
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court Justice
Senator Daniel Inouye
Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice
Alan Keyes, US Senator, US Ambasador
Brigadier Gen. Lee Hsien Loon, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
John McCain, US SenatorB
Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense
Col. Oliver North, White House aid
H. Ross Perot, businessman
William Perry, Secretary of Defense
Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President
Senator Hugh Scott
Robert Wagner, New York mayor
Henry Wallace, Vice President
[Senator Bob Dole - switched to left due to injury]

Miscellaneous Left-Handers
Joan of Arc (?), French heroine
Lloque Yapanqui (?), Inca monarch
Ramses II (?), Egyptian pharaoh
Tiberius (?), Roman emperor
Alexander the Great
Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor
Julius Caesar, Roman general
Napoléon Bonaparte (?), French emperor
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
Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime-minister
Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime-minister
Nicole d'Oresme, mathematician
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
David Rockefeller, banker
Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Davis Cup in tennis
Helen Keller, advocate for the blind
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary
August Piccard, inventor of stratosphere, bathosphere
Edwin Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Wally Schirra, astronaut
Dr. Mark Silver, surgeon
Paul Prudhomme, chef
Cecil Beaton, photographer/costume designer
Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (ambidexterous)
Dave Barry, journalist
David Broder, journalist
Edward R. Murrow, correspondent
Ted Koppel, journalist
Forrest Sawyer, journalist
Ray Suarez, journalist
John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer/publisher
Caroline Kennedy, lawyer/author
Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan
Vin Scully, sports broadcaster
David Letterman (?), host
Jay Leno, host
Lenny Bruce, comedian
Allen Ludden, host
Joel Hodgson, host of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Wink Martindale, game show host
Uri Geller, psychokinetic performer
Richard Simmons, exercise guru
Euell Gibbons, naturalist
Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Clarence Darrow, lawyer
F. Lee Bailey, lawyer
Melvin Belli, lawyer
Marcia Clark, lawyer
Alan Funt, television producer
Milt Caniff, cartoonist
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
Cathy Guisevite, cartoonist
Matt Groening, cartoonist
Jean Plantureux (Plantu), political cartoonist
Pat Oliphand, political cartoonist Ronald Searle, cartoonist
Pat Robertson, evangelist/politician
N.B. Forrest, Confederate general
John Dillinger, criminal/bank robber
Boston Strangler (Albert Henry DeSalvo), serial killer
Jack-the-Ripper, serial killer
John Wesley Hardin, Western gunslinger
Bart Simpson, cartoon character
[King Edward III of England, due to stroke]

Left-Handed Authors
James Baldwin, novelist
Bet Bowen, horror novelist
Peter Benchley, novelist
Lewis Carroll
Richard Condon, novelist
Jean Genet
Marshall McLuhan
Diane Paul
Helen Hooven Santmyer, novelist
Viktoria Stefanov
Samuel C. Warner (?), poet
H.G. Wells
Jessamyn West
Eudora Welty, see One Writer's Beginnings (1983:27)
[Thomas Carlyle - switched to left due to injury]

Left-Handed Musicians
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Glen Campbell
Vicki Carr
Natale Cole
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Bela Fleck, jazz musician
Glenn Frey (the Eagles)
Eric Gale, guitarist
Noel Gallagher (Oasis) (?)
Errol Garner, jazz pianist
Judy Garland
Crysal Gayle
Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)
Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician
Jimi Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath)
Albert King, guitarist
Melissa Manchester
Chuck Mangione, trumpet
Martina McBride ?, country music singer
Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings)
Christie Marie Melonson (opera)
George Michael (Wham!)
Peter Nero, conductor
Joe Perry ? (Aerosmith)
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
Cole Porter, song-writer
Sergei Rachmaninoff ?, composer
Maurice Ravel ?, composer
Lou Rawls
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
Rich Szabo, trumpeter
Seal
Ringo Starr (?) (the Beatles)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
Tiny Tim
Rudy Valee
Lenny White, drummer
Paul Williams, song-writer

Left-Handed Artists
Albrecht Dürer
M.C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
LeRoy Neiman
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci (RH paralyzed?)

Left-Handed Actors
Don Adams
Dan Aykroyd
Eddie Albert
Tim Allen
June Allyson
Harry Anderson
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
Herschel Bernardi
Robert Blake
Matthew Broderick
Bruce Boxleitner
Carol Burnett
George Burns, comedian
Ruth Buzzi, comedienne
Keith Carradine
Khaled Chahrour, Egyptian actor
Charlie Chaplin
George Gobel, comedian
Chuck Conners
Hans Conreid
James Cromwell
Tom Cruise
Quinn Cummings
Daniel Davis
Bruce Davison
Matt Dillon
Marty Engles, comedian
Olivia de Havilland
Robert DeNiro
Michael Dorn
Fran Drescher, comedian
Richard Dreyfuss
W.C. Fields
Larry Fine ? (of the Three Stooges)
Peter Fonda
Greta Garbo
Terri Garr
Paul Michael Glaser
Whoopie Goldberg
Betty Grable
Cary Grant
Peter Graves
Mark Hamill
Rex Harrison
Goldie Hawn
Joey Heatherton
Tippi Hedren
Jim Henson, puppetteer
Kermit the Frog
Rock Hudson
Angelina Jolie
Shirley Jones ?
Gabe Kaplan
Danny Kaye
Diane Keaton
George Kennedy
Nicole Kidman
Lisa Kudrow
Michael Landon
Hope Lange
Joey Lawrence
Peter Lawford
Cloris Leachman
Hal Linden
Cleavon Little
Shirley MacLaine
Andrew McCarthy
Kristy McNichol
Steve McQueen
Howie Mandel, comedian
Marcel Marceau, mime
Harpo Marx
Marsha Mason
Mary Stuart Masterson
Anne Meara, comedian
Sasha Mitchell
Marilyn Monroe
Robert Morse
Anthony Newley
Kim Novak
Ryan O'Neal
Sarah Jessica Parker
Estelle Parsons
Anthony Perkins
Ron Perlman
Luke Perry
Bronson Pinchot
Joe Piscopo, comedian
Robert Preston
Michael J. Pollard
Richard Pryor, comedian
Robert Redford
Keanu Reeves
Don Rickles, comedian
Julia Roberts
Mickey Rourke
Eva Marie Saint
Telly Savalas
Jean Seberg
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
Christian Slater
Dick Smothers, comedian
Brent Spiner
Slyvester Stallone ?
Terence Stamp
Jessica Steen
Rod Steiger
Alan Thicke
Terry Thomas, comedian
Emma Thompson
Rip Torn
Peter Ustinov
Brenda Vaccaro
Karen Valentine
Rudy Vallee
Dick Van Dyke
Graham Walker a.k.a. Grumbleweeds, English comedian
Wil Wheaton
James Whitmore
Treat Williams
Bruce Willis
William Windom
Oprah Winfrey
Mare Winningham
Joanne Woodward
Keenan Wynn
Stephanie Zimbalist

Mr Benevolent

I bet Hitler was a lefty too. Sinister people.

RoyalMarine

MardiB wrote: »

I'm a leftie and I am just brilliant at everything :P

im a lefty, but im shíte at everything...

i should trade my other half soul for success..

witnessmenow

scareydoll wrote: »

I'm left handed and have red hair:eek:

Jesus, im sorry

bonerm

Left Handed Presidents
Ronald Reagan (1911 - ) 40th
George H.W. Bush (1924- ) 41st
Bill Clinton (1946- ) 42nd
Barack Obama (1961- ) 44th

There's one president missing from this sequence .... .... oh yes, that's right.

MardiB

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

im a lefty, but im shíte at everything...

i should trade my other half soul for success..

Ah shucks......

Degag

My father was left handed when younger but they beat it out of him in school and made him write with his right hand. Common enough occurance apparently.

Tail Wagger

Fcukface wrote: »

I noticed in work the other day that about 75% of the senior managers are left handed.

Is this just a strange coincidence or is this a common thing. Are left handed people more driven towards success?

There all called ******s

Ms. Captain M

bronte wrote: »

Possibly ... I trained in drama and there were shedloads of them! Got a bit freaky actually! :pac:

It's kind of a cool quirky thing though.

Ok I have to stop reading the Lost threads, coz I read that as "I trained in dharma"

Degag

Tail Wagger wrote: »

There all called ******s

That post shows why you'll probably never be one of them.;)

opinion guy

Fcukface wrote: »

I noticed in work the other day that about 75% of the senior managers are left handed.

Is this just a strange coincidence or is this a common thing. Are left handed people more driven towards success?

I, for one, welcome our Leftie Overlords....

LoanShark

I'm a leftie and damn proud to be one too!

When I was younger, my school mates use'd to say to me "How can you write like that?" and I would say "Well, how can you write with your right hand?" (Damn righties wouldn't be able to answer) 1-0 ME


On my mothers side of the family all her brothers (5) have a child who is a leftie and now my 3 brothers all have kids and two of them have a child that is a leftie!!
My Father and Brother in law are also lefties!!

"BECOME A LEFTIE.....ITS A NEW WAY OF THINKING!!"

ash23

I'm a rightie with a leftie kiddo.

She's a total clutz, you've only to look at her and she falls over and she has zero co-ordination, can't kick a football to save her life and has serious problems multi tasking. She's a messy eater and seems to always have food on her clothes and in her wild curly crazy hair.

She is however, a genius. She reads at an 11 year old level (she's 7) and she's in the top 98 percentile for maths and english.
She asks the most scarily profound questions and quite frankly, she scares me :eek:

I think she'll become a mad scientist. She has the looks for it anyway. Think a younger female Dr. Emmett Brown from back to the future.

Mr.Applepie

pff I can use either hand for most things.

Anyone who can't is defective in my unhumble opinion

Oracle

I think many left-handed people seem to have a prodigious talent in one particular area, so it maybe art, music etc... but could also be business, social work, nursing etc... I can't claim to be left-handed, although I do use cutlery with the opposite hands to most. The fork in the right hand, knife in the left. It's more comfortable for me that way, fork in the left hand is crazy.

gazzer

I know a fair few gay guys and they are all bar one left handed. My mother is left handed and used to be beaten by the nuns in school because of it.

I am right handed but when eating dinner I put my fork in my right hand and knife in my left.

opinion guy

gazzer wrote: »

I know a fair few gay guys and they are all bar one left handed. My mother is left handed and used to be beaten by the nuns in school because of it.

I am right handed but when eating dinner I put my fork in my right hand and knife in my left.

Are you saying your mother was a gay man until the nuns beat it out of her ?

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Left handers are almost as bad as gingers. Fairly sure they only have half a soul. Perhaps the sold the other half to Satan in exchange for success.

My daughter is a ginger leftie >.<

brummytom

hada wrote: »

I never got left handed people.

Why don't they just cop on and use their right hand?

I do. ****, bat, play instruments etc. right-handed.

Can cut with left or right, but can only write well with my left hand

gazzer

opinion guy wrote: »

Are you saying your mother was a gay man until the nuns beat it out of her ?

Ha ha. Well I am gay myself but right handed so who knows. There is a high proportion of left handed gay people though. I remember reading about it just after I came out and one night I was in a gay bar and I decided to put this theory to the test the amount of left handed people was unreal.

novarock

it just angers me when it comes to buying guitars.. Zero selection in any civilised country.... the worst thing is all I do with my left is write and play guitar. Everything else is righty.

brummytom

brummytom wrote: »

I do. ****, bat, play instruments etc. right-handed.

Can cut with left or right, but can only right write well with my left hand

Stop trying to confuzzle with my head tom!

bonerm

gazzer wrote: »

Ha ha. Well I am gay myself but right handed so who knows. There is a high proportion of left handed gay people though. I remember reading about it just after I came out and one night I was in a gay bar and I decided to put this theory to the test the amount of left handed people was unreal.

No need to tell us *precisely* how you put it to the test tho.