Happy Lefthanders' Day!!!

mansize

Go Southpaws!
Citeogs of the world unite
Great to to be gauche

Happy Lefthanders Day to my fellow southpaws!!!

Arcade_Tryer

Thanks.

Though I w**k with my right hand.

buried

Proud to be sinister

Dirty Dingus McGee

I initially read that as "happy Flanders day" which fits as well seeing as Flanders is one of the worlds most famous lefties.

byhookorbycrook

I hate the word ciótóg, it comes from the Irish word for awkward. I am of an age where a very evil nun tied my left hand to the back of the desk and repeated slapped me across the face until I would pick up a pencil in my right hand. I was 3 and a half.

mansize

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I hate the word ciótóg, it comes from the Irish word for awkward. I am of an age where a very evil nun tied my left hand to the back of the desk and repeated slapped me across the face until I would pick up a pencil in my right hand. I was 3 and a half.

Apparently we're the devil's children...

stupid superstitions...

buried

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I hate the word ciótóg, it comes from the Irish word for awkward. I am of an age where a very evil nun tied my left hand to the back of the desk and repeated slapped me across the face until I would pick up a pencil in my right hand. I was 3 and a half.

They did that to my father too. Thick ignorant backward taliban trash

Dirty Dingus McGee

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I hate the word ciótóg, it comes from the Irish word for awkward. I am of an age where a very evil nun tied my left hand to the back of the desk and repeated slapped me across the face until I would pick up a pencil in my right hand. I was 3 and a half.

Happened to my father as well, but he is now ambidextrous because of that so I guess every cloud has a silver lining.

byhookorbycrook

My mother was made to change as a child too. Even though she wrote with her right hand as a result, if she got flustered she changed to her left hand without realizing what she was doing.

Cortina_MK_IV

When did getting beaten stop? I started school in the 70's but I was left alone and not corrected. My mother-in-law calls me an awkward looking hoor.

byhookorbycrook

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

When did getting beaten stop? I started school in the 70's but I was left alone and not corrected. My mother-in-law calls me an awkward looking hoor.

I was also in primary in the 70s. Nuns made their own rules until into the 80s.

Vinculus

Zurdos as we're know as in Spanish. I guess it means the same as in Irish but Zurdo is one of the very few words that begin with Z in the Spanish language, so yay for us!

SebastianT

To the leftorium!

JupiterKid

Proud leftie here too. No problems using my left hand in primary school in the 80s. Nor did my dad either and that would have been the 40s/50s.

The nuns were evil b*tches.

my missus could never understand why she was happier whenever i used my left hand!
She used to say "you're right handed!" I prefer to think that I am ambidextrous, but I really just like to use both hands!

Arghus

"It's a lefthanded thing, you wouldn't understand."

Some day I'll get to say it

Esel

I'm ambiguous, me.

Rosie Rant

I'm a proud birthday card smudger . Happy "that's so weird, it looks like you're writing backwards" day to you too! *waves left hand*

mansize

My brother once gave out to me for writing with the page turned almost perpendicular - I was like wtf

lazybones32

You freaks make me sick!!
The rest of us (normal people) should be allowed beat you up, or at least insult you weirdos, for being the abnormal bunch of goat-f*ckers that you are. Your deformity is nothing to celebrate.

glynf

^Jog on then normie, nobody wants your type round here.:p

Southpaw as well, never got any grief in school, started primary in the early 80's. My father and uncle got the crap beaten out of them by the 'christian' brothers for being lefties, by all accounts the brothers were absolute animals.
Thats why we were sent to non religous schools I suppose.

Studies find that left handed people tend to have IQ's than right handed people, though we tend to die younger... still who wants to be old and thick

Your Face

I have hands.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I hate the word ciótóg, it comes from the Irish word for awkward. I am of an age where a very evil nun tied my left hand to the back of the desk and repeated slapped me across the face until I would pick up a pencil in my right hand. I was 3 and a half.

I too had my left hand tied back at school. I now write right-handed but use my left for most other things. Apart from writing, I favour my left but can use either hand when sawing, using a screwdriver, etc. When I played golf I used right handed clubs but a left handed putter. I used to change hands when playing tennis and it drove the other players mad.

Not quite ambidextrous but close.

Barry Badrinath

Freaks!

Burial.

Where's right handers day? Fair is fair and all.

mansize

Burial. wrote: »

Where's right handers day? Fair is fair and all.

See every other day of the year

Burial.

mansize wrote: »

See every other day of the year

That's strange, I never see anyone celebrating being right handed, didn't know it's celebrated every day... I must be asleep.

mansize

Burial. wrote: »

That's strange, I never see anyone celebrating being right handed, didn't know it's celebrated every day... I must be asleep.

Get a few slaps off tbf nuns and set one up

foxy farmer

Left handed people are members of the largest minority in the world apparently.

lazybones32

glynf wrote: »

Studies find that left handed people tend to have IQ's than right handed people, though we tend to die younger... still who wants to be old and thick

Duuuuhhh....us right-handers don't try to say we have a higher IQ than others and make ourselves look more stupid in the process.

looksee

Daughter was in school in the 70s, nun tried to make her write right handed. I went and had a word, or several. No more insistence on right handed writing.

In fairness, while the nuns taught them some fairly daft things, (Sister says there are devils under the ground, is that true?) on the whole we did not have any problems and the left/right handed thing was amicably resolved.

mansize

That just made me see what a crock of corrupt shít the church was

Frynge

looksee wrote: »

Daughter was in school in the 70s, nun tried to make her write right handed. I went and had a word, or several. No more insistence on right handed writing.

In fairness, while the nuns taught them some fairly daft things, (Sister says there are devils under the ground, is that true?) on the whole we did not have any problems and the left/right handed thing was amicably resolved.

amicably

Winterlong

We should have our own leftie forum. Secret handshake, the works.

byhookorbycrook

I wonder how many of ye have crossed laterality? Do you use your left hand and have a dominant right foot for example (pretend you are about to kick a ball) ?To see which eye is dominant , roll up paper, pretend it's a telescope and look through, which ever eye you automatically put the "telescope" is the dominant one. Likewise, pretend you are answering a phone, which ear do you put the phone to?

More left handed people tend to have dyslexia than right handed people. Crossed laterality is also very common in people with dyslexia.

Captain Chaos

I'm right handed/footed and very left eye dominant. Makes clay shooting hard as you are ment to shoot with both eyes open, but my left eye take over fully in my normal vision. So to look down over the barrel I have to close my left eye to aim properly with just my weak eye. If I shoot from my left shoulder the ejecting shells smack my face.

mansize

Left handed left footed
Right eye dominant

riffmongous

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I wonder how many of ye have crossed laterality? Do you use your left hand and have a dominant right foot for example (pretend you are about to kick a ball) ?To see which eye is dominant , roll up paper, pretend it's a telescope and look through, which ever eye you automatically put the "telescope" is the dominant one. Likewise, pretend you are answering a phone, which ear do you put the phone to?

More left handed people tend to have dyslexia than right handed people. Crossed laterality is also very common in people with dyslexia.

Writing - left hand
Kicking - right foot
Phone- left ear
Telescope - right eye
Hurling,cricket- left hand top and right handed style
Throwing a ball- right hand
Saw - left hand
Fork - left
Buttering knife - also left

byhookorbycrook

Interesting
I kick and write with my left,
Right eye dominant
Left ear dominant.
Mind you the MS hit my left leg hard so leaning a bit to the right now.

The Pheasant2

Left power! Left power!

Cortina_MK_IV

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I wonder how many of ye have crossed laterality? Do you use your left hand and have a dominant right foot for example (pretend you are about to kick a ball) ?To see which eye is dominant , roll up paper, pretend it's a telescope and look through, which ever eye you automatically put the "telescope" is the dominant one. Likewise, pretend you are answering a phone, which ear do you put the phone to?

More left handed people tend to have dyslexia than right handed people. Crossed laterality is also very common in people with dyslexia.

In football I favoured right for power and accuracy but could use left to pass and it drives me nuts to see one-footed players on £150k per week that can't "tap home" a cross and need to get on their favourite foot. I'm definitely left-eyed and left-eared, I could never answer a phone with my right hand/ear.

On a different forum (not Boards) some guy thought I was taking the pi55 when speaking of left-handed guitars, he thought you just change strings around. I also used to play drums left-handed.

thesimpsons

schooled in late 60s and never made to change - probably due to the ma going down and giving the nuns a bit of advice about leaving my leftie sister alone or else :0 can write quite well with both hands - love to see the confusion on people's faces when in a meeting and change the pen between hands depending on how interesting the topic is. phone to right ear - so I can write with my left. mouse in right hand too - same reason.

riffmongous

Does anyone actually use the mouse with their left hand?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

riffmongous wrote: »

Does anyone actually use the mouse with their left hand?

All the time.

Keane2baMused

Leftie here and proud!

I hated when we were made use fountain pens in school though and the page would get all smudged, only a leftie gets that Weirdly enough I can only use a scissors with my right hand though!

My grandmother is in her 90's and she was forced to use her right hand by the nuns as a child also. As a result her writing ended up terrible and it really knocked her confidence, to this day she hates writing cards or anything because she feels it's like a child's writing!

Keane2baMused

riffmongous wrote: »

Does anyone actually use the mouse with their left hand?

Yes, feels really weird using a mouse with the right hand, you strange right handed mouse holding folk!

Tin openers are biased against Lefties also.

glynf

riffmongous wrote: »

Does anyone actually use the mouse with their left hand?

All the time at home, have a few lefthanded razer death adder mice; also use a lot of different PC's at work so am used to switching between standard and reversed left and right buttons. I cannot use right hand for mousing at all.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

glynf wrote: »

All the time at home, have a few lefthanded razer death adder mice; also use a lot of different PC's at work so am used to switching between standard and reversed left and right buttons. I cannot use right hand for mousing at all.

I use the mouse left handed but don't change the buttons.

JupiterKid

Left hand dominant, left foot dominant, left eye dominant, but I hold a tennis racquet in my right hand and also a mouse in my right hand.

Kermit.de.frog

If, as the saying goes, most people sit at the right hand side of God where do lefties sit?

I'd be of the sound opinion we should go back to the days of the church and have lefthandedness beaten out of the yoof before it is too late and their writing is smudged forever.

yellowcandle

Hitler was left handed.