Left handed people

Kermit.de.frog

Isn't it time they got a fairer deal?

A lot of things still don't cater to lefties.

Ring binders and pens come to mind but in all walks of life.

The ring binders are a scandal and pens in left hands leave smudges everywhere (unless you're Chinese).



If we have any devil worshippers left handers out there - in what way does society most let you down? Do you feel oppressed, ignored, feared? How can we turn things around?

Anyone else think they get a raw deal?

El Weirdo

Mutants

And I say that as a ginger.

Pauliedragon

As a leftie it's sad how we are so misunderstood. We are people too. The devils minion yes but we aren't all evil. School was a nightmare. Try using a fountain pen with your left hand.I'm 40 and I'm still traumatised and have nightmares about that let alone making me sit to the right hand side of the table in school elbowing my tablemate nonstop let alone the constant taunting at lunchtime. I'm also left footed which doubled the abuse at the lunchtime soccer match. Please just treat us as equals.
#leftlivesmatter.

TuringBot47

Aren't lefties more likely to be homosexual too?
Politically lefties as well.

COVID

You lefties are a sinister lot.
Not for nothing is 'sinistra' the Italian word for 'left'.
Paul McCartney, Barack Obama..... and other names easily found on Google.

Rodney Bathgate

**** them.

I say that as a left handed person.

Eduard Khil

Sinestra SINESTRA

odyssey06

Need 4 of them for a GAA team.
Even crap ones.

jimmytwotimes 2013

El Weirdo wrote: »

Mutants

And I say that as a ginger.

Whats a ginger leftie then?

Man with broke phone

Any lefty I know is a bit weird or sinister. Usually I notice they are left handed and say ah that explains it.
Its probably confirmation bias.

suicide_circus

Never trust a Ciotog

mickdw

Ring binders, cheque books, inky pens, scissors,
tin openers. That is about it as far as Ive had issues.

ruwithme

Left hand,right mind.so don't concern for us op.

corner of hells

Any lefty I know is at the very least weird and right up to dangerous.

I say that as a left hander myself.

Kermit.de.frog

Didn't the priests/nuns/teachers use to "bate the sh!te" out of any child using their left hand to write?

TheValeyard

El Weirdo wrote: »

Mutants

And I say that as a ginger.

At least lefties have souls.

screamer

I have 2 ciotig kids. They’ve actually developed ambidextrously so that they can use their right hands with knives/ scissor etc, but left for other things. Copies are crap for left handed kids too, Smudges and hard to see what they’re writing

humberklog

A beautiful skill to see is scissormanship, seeing seamstresses or tailors gliding the scissor blades effortlessly through fabrics or watching a gift wrapper slice through wrapping paper whilst retaining tautness on the paper with the other hand. It's so graceful, it's a marvel.
I don't get jealous but I am very, very envious of right handed peoples' ability to handle a scissors without having to use both hands whilst holding ribbons and tape and other stuff under our chin and between our knees and cramping up our fingers into a tangle of flesh and metal like one of those brain puzzles you get in expensive Christmas crackers.

jenneyk19

in the old days the priests and nuns and christian brothers would beat you
if you wrote with your left hand


those were the days

Snails pace

Not severely left handed. I write with it but other than that I can use both hands.

monkeysnapper

Yeh I'm left handed but can write to some extent with right hand .... I kick a ball with right foot .... plus play racket sports and can play with either hand ..... I was asked one day why I didnt do back hand with racket .... just never needed it.

At school in the early years it was a knightmare learning to write with a fountain pen and remember teacher making me stand in front of room because of the mess I'd made of my writing ...... bitch!!!! I hated that hag . In later years it turned out my sister bought her house off the bint and after a month she turned up at door demanding the curtains from the upstairs!!!!! But that's another story.... maybe she should have punched her in head with left hand.

Mr Meanor

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Didn't the priests/nuns/teachers use to "bate the sh!te" out of any child using their left hand to write?

Yep.. know all about it.
Love to hear them explain it to St Peter at the their pearly gate

StupidLikeAFox

Any left hander I know is very talented and extremely good looking

I say that as a left hander myself

byhookorbycrook

Yes, aged 3 and a half , my hand was tied to the desk and I was slapped repeatedly across the face until I picked my pencil up on my right hand .

TheValeyard

Mr Meanor wrote: »

Yep.. know all about it.
Love to hear them explain it to St Peter at the their pearly gate

Well if a lefty writes his name down on the guest list, St. Peter probably wont be able to read it.

byhookorbycrook

screamer wrote: »

I have 2 ciotig kids. They’ve actually developed ambidextrously so that they can use their right hands with knives/ scissor etc, but left for other things. Copies are crap for left handed kids too, Smudges and hard to see what they’re writing

Ciotóg comes from the Irish word for awkward . In our school we use the term clé-lámhach/ left handed .

byhookorbycrook

monkeysnapper wrote: »

Yeh I'm left handed but can write to some extent with right hand .... I kick a ball with right foot .... plus play racket sports and can play with either hand ..... I was asked one day why I didnt do back hand with rackets.

That’s known as crossed laterality. Roll up a page and use it like a telescope- which eye are you using ? If you answer your mobile , which ear do you use ?
Children with crossed laterality are more likely to have dyslexia.

Another leftie here, in my mid-thirties so narrowly missed stigmata stigma. My older brother is a few years older and also left-handed, he wasn't as fortunate. Pious teacher in local gaelscoil forced to write with his right, my parents eventually got wind of it and pulled him out of there. All I got was a few cracks about the divil, rolled off my back. Sticks and stones. Sure I'm Damien's cousin after all. And yes the Catholic Church were an abhorrent shower of cowards the way they treated ciotógs in the past. Bastards.

Feisar

I’m left handed and it’s a pain in the hole, the young lad is starting to strongly favour his left hand although it’s not set in stone at his age. It’s not like my heart sank but more of a ah bugger, the poor fúcker.

IrishLad90

Is this a thread to round up the feared left handers of society?

COVID

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Any left hander I know is very talented and extremely good looking

I say that as a left hander myself

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