Happy International Left Handers Day !

-Kenny- · 13-08-2011 2:56pm #1

Hurray !
From Obama to Castro, Clapton to Paul McCarney .
No doubt they will all be going on the lash for this great day!

py2006 · 13-08-2011 2:58pm

Devil's children!

Degag · 13-08-2011 2:58pm

YAYYYYY!!!

Although my right hand is my fapping hand.....

The Internet Explorer · 13-08-2011 3:00pm

Yeah Happy Left handers day.

El Weirdo · 13-08-2011 3:05pm

Fucking mutants.

Superbus · 13-08-2011 3:06pm

Only one way to celebrate.

Cill Dara Abu · 13-08-2011 3:06pm

Im off to the leftorium

The King of Moo · 13-08-2011 3:07pm

Happy International Left Handers' Day fellow lefties!

I remember feeling a misplaced sense of pride as a kid when I found out it was the same day as my birthday (and Castro's!)

flutterflye · 13-08-2011 3:11pm

Doubt this is even remotely true, but I read once that all lefties were twins at some point.
This made me sad as both my kids are lefties.
As is my sister, but she is a twin.

later12 · 13-08-2011 3:11pm

Citeogs, is it, ye are?

Noticed a lot of them living in this neighbourhood lately. I try not to say anything, you know how it is. But they do play their music very loud. A lot of them have trouble with paying car insurance. Ah, I try not to say anything...

The King of Moo · 13-08-2011 3:15pm

later10 wrote: »

Citeogs, is it, ye are?

Noticed a lot of them living in this neighbourhood lately. I try not to say anything, you know how it is. But they do play their music very loud. A lot of them have trouble with paying car insurance. Ah, I try not to say anything...

Sure, we may seem a little sinister, but we're still human beings!

Man, I'd open up a can of whoop ass on citeog-haters, if I could only get the tin-opener to work!

CardBordWindow · 13-08-2011 3:17pm

-Kenny- wrote: »

Hurray !
From Obama to Castro, Clapton to Paul McCarney .
No doubt they will all be going on the lash for this great day!

Sure at least we now have a good reason!!

pragmatic1 · 13-08-2011 3:17pm

Evil devil children.

ShadowGal · 13-08-2011 3:19pm

Ill have to stop doing the devils work for one day so to celebrate with the rest of the lefties

13-08-2011 3:20pm

yay lefties! go us :cool:

The King of Moo · 13-08-2011 3:21pm

flutterflye wrote: »

Doubt this is even remotely true, but I read once that all lefties were twins at some point.
This made me sad as both my kids are lefties.
As is my sister, but she is a twin.

I don't think I was, but my right-handed mother is a twin so there's a chance I was a twin at an early stage :eek:

Saila · 13-08-2011 3:27pm

Jimi and Kurt \o

13-08-2011 3:29pm

Amar J. Klar conducted research to see if there was a genetic link between handedness and hair-whorl direction. He found that 8.4% of right handed people and 45% of left handed people have counterclockwise hair-whorls. His research indicates that a single gene may control both handedness and hair-whorl direction.[1]

Any other lefties with annoying cowslicks?

RichieC · 13-08-2011 3:32pm

we are the more creative and average more intelligent than "normies"..

It's no wonder they think us evil.

:pac:

later12 · 13-08-2011 3:32pm

Ooh look at me! Mr left handed, queen of the alt community

I'm not jealous of your supposed creative superiority.
mumble mumble mumble.

Lapin · 13-08-2011 3:32pm

So are the other 364 days of the year Righter Handers Days ?

Sounds about right ?

alcomoholic · 13-08-2011 3:35pm

-Kenny- wrote: »

Hurray !
From Obama to Castro, Clapton to Paul McCarney .
No doubt they will all be going on the lash for this great day!

clapton is over twenty years sober.

he certainly won't be going on the beer to celebrate some silly day to celebrate being a freak mutant sperm.

ShadowGal · 13-08-2011 3:37pm

later10 wrote: »

Ooh look at me! Mr left handed, queen of the alt community

I'm not jealous of your supposed creative superiority.
mumble mumble mumble.

*swats away your negativity with my superior left hand*

:pac:

4zn76tysfajdxp · 13-08-2011 3:39pm

Hurray!

*faps*

mattjack · 13-08-2011 3:39pm

py2006 wrote: »

Devil's children!

yes we are.........and the Latin for left handed is sinister..Happy Left Handed Day...to ya all.........

Thrill · 13-08-2011 3:41pm

ShadowGal wrote: »

*swats away your negativity with my superior left hand*

:pac:

The left hand is stupid. It never knows what the right hand is up to.

ShadowGal · 13-08-2011 3:42pm

Thrill wrote: »

The left hand is stupid. It never knows what the right hand is up to.

The right hand is easily led in fairness..

later12 · 13-08-2011 3:43pm

ShadowGal wrote: »

The right hand is easily led in fairness..

Well that's no excuse. The left hand shouldn't be spreading ideas.

ShadowGal · 13-08-2011 3:44pm

later10 wrote: »

Well that's no excuse. The left hand shouldn't be spreading ideas.

The left hand wouldnt have to spread ideas if the right hand would just f*ck off and do its own thing every now and than.

Wait.. what ? :pac:

The King of Moo · 13-08-2011 3:46pm

I knew my sinister side would pay off for me someday!

*Sits patiently and waits for money to arrive in recognition of previously-unrecognised genius*

http://www.slate.com/id/2147842/?nav=ais

Sinister and Rich
The evidence that lefties earn more.
By Joel Waldfogel
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, at 12:19 PM ET

It's well-known that many societies hold lefties in low esteem. In Christian tradition, the devil is generally associated with the left hand; the word sinister comes from the Latin for left, sinistra. Arabs have historically used the right hand for eating and the left for, er, activities at the other end of the alimentary process. More scientifically, left-handedness is related to a number of physiological conditions. Lefties have higher rates of high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, and schizophrenia.

On the other hand, if you'll forgive the inevitable bad pun, left-handedness is also linked with creativity. Leonardo da Vinci was a lefty, as were Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. Psychologists confirm that left-handedness involves different brain function: While right-handed people seem to have better cognitive skills on average, studies find that lefties are more common among the highly talented.
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What's the economic effect of left- and right-handedness—who makes more money, lefties or normal people? Thanks to two new studies, one from the United States and another from the United Kingdom, we have some answers. At least as far as earnings are concerned, lefties have been unjustly slurred—if they're men.
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There are two reasons to expect lefties to earn less, not more. About 11 percent of the American population is left-handed (with slightly more men than women). Learning and working in a world of machines designed for majority righties, lefties are at a disadvantage. Tools like the screwdriver work well for both. But others, like the scissors and the standard classroom writing desk and the electric food slicer and the band saw—not to mention writing from left to right, with all the smudges and blackened fingers that entails—are explicitly designed for righties. This ought to make lefties less productive. (Hence the basis for Ned Flanders' Leftorium, the fictional store for left-handed people on The Simpsons.) In addition, given the studies showing that lefties are more prone to certain illnesses, they would be expected to spend less time in productive activity and, therefore, to earn less.

But that's not the case. In the new U.S. study, authors Christopher S. Ruebeck of Lafayette College and Joseph E. Harrington and Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University looked at a representative sample of 5,000 men and women in the United States. Across the board, they found no discernible difference between the average hourly earnings, and other characteristics, of left- and right-handed people. Both groups earned an average of $13.20 per hour in 1993. They also had identical average intelligence scores. The British study, by Kevin Denny of University College Dublin and Vincent O'Sullivan of the University of Warwick, looked at about 5,000 people born in 1958 and found modest earnings differences: 5 percent higher pay for male lefties relative to their right-handed counterparts and 5 percent lower pay for female lefties compared to female righties.

What's more noteworthy is that the pay difference appears to increase with college education. In the U.S. study, college graduates overall earned an average of 30 percent more than high-school graduates. And after accounting for other determinants of pay—age, intelligence, marital status, and race and ethnicity—lefties with college education earned 10 to 15 percent more than their right-handed counterparts. (The U.K. study did not look at the effect of college education on the earning power of lefties and righties.)

The identification of two styles of thinking may help explain why college-educated lefties make more. Psychologist Stanley Coren defines "convergent" thinking as "a fairly focused application of existing knowledge and rules to the task of isolating a single correct answer." "Divergent" thinking, by contrast, "moves outward from conventional knowledge into unexplored association." There may be an outsize number of lefty geniuses because lefties are more likely to engage in divergent thinking. In an experiment in which subjects devised uses for pairs of common objects, such as imagining that a stick and a can could together be a birdhouse, lefties on average came up with nearly 30 percent more uses.

But the tendency toward greater aptitude in divergent thinking holds only for male lefties. Psychologists don't know why this is the case. One hypothesis concerns differing levels of fetal testosterone. This is just a possibility: Psychologists agree that the relationship between left- and right-handedness and brain function is still not well-understood. Whatever its cause, though, the male lefty advantage may have an economic effect: The boost in earnings found in the U.S. study was associated with left-handedness only for men. The study found no systematic difference between the pay of women lefties and women righties, regardless of education or other factors.

These results suggest that education and an edge in divergent thinking are a potent mix that put college-educated male lefties on top in the earnings game. Any practical consequences? If your family's college fund runs short, you might send your lefty sons to college and the rest of the brood to trade school. And if you're at a college mixer or alumni reunion looking for a mate with high earning potential, you might keep an eye out for the guy who wears his watch on his right wrist.

mikemac · 13-08-2011 3:46pm

Citeogs abú

All the best people are left handed
Like Michelangelo and Ned Flanders

El Weirdo · 13-08-2011 3:47pm

RichieC wrote: »

we are the more creative and average more intelligent than "normies"..

Hmmmm...

pablomakaveli · 13-08-2011 3:51pm

The greatest mind in human history Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed.
The greatest guitar player in history Jimi Hendrix was left handed.
The greatest soccer player Pele was left handed.

Lets face it, all you common right handed people are just jealous.

mattjack · 13-08-2011 3:54pm

even my dog is left pawed...

later12 · 13-08-2011 3:58pm

ShadowGal wrote: »

The left hand wouldnt have to spread ideas if the right hand would just f*ck off and do its own thing every now and than.

Wait.. what ? :pac:

It's ok buddy <rubs cheek against right hand> he didn't mean it.

Lets face it, everyone loves the right hand, everyone thinks the left hand is a tight c*nt. have you ever seen a left handed person giving money to charity? Nope.

Saila · 13-08-2011 4:00pm

pfft..what use is it if you dont get presents

4zn76tysfajdxp · 13-08-2011 4:02pm

pablomakaveli wrote: »

The greatest mind in human history Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed.
The greatest guitar player in history Jimi Hendrix was left handed.
The greatest soccer player Pele was left handed.

Lets face it, all you common right handed people are just jealous.

What if you're left handed but useless at everything?