Left handed people

Kermit.de.frog · 29-10-2020 10:28pm #1

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 · 29-10-2020 10:29pm

Mutants

And I say that as a ginger.

Pauliedragon · 29-10-2020 10:39pm

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 · 29-10-2020 10:45pm

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

COVID · 29-10-2020 10:46pm

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 · 29-10-2020 10:46pm

**** them.

I say that as a left handed person.

Eduard Khil · 29-10-2020 10:47pm

Sinestra SINESTRA

odyssey06 · 29-10-2020 10:48pm

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

jimmytwotimes 2013 · 29-10-2020 10:48pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

Mutants

And I say that as a ginger.

Whats a ginger leftie then?

Man with broke phone · 29-10-2020 10:50pm

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 · 29-10-2020 10:52pm

Never trust a Ciotog

mickdw · 29-10-2020 10:54pm

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

ruwithme · 29-10-2020 10:55pm

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

corner of hells · 29-10-2020 10:55pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:03pm

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

TheValeyard · 29-10-2020 11:05pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

Mutants

And I say that as a ginger.

At least lefties have souls.

screamer · 29-10-2020 11:10pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:11pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:13pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:16pm

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

monkeysnapper · 29-10-2020 11:19pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:21pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:22pm

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

I say that as a left hander myself

byhookorbycrook · 29-10-2020 11:23pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:23pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:25pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:28pm

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.

29-10-2020 11:30pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:31pm

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 · 29-10-2020 11:31pm

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

COVID · 29-10-2020 11:38pm

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

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

I say that as a left hander myself

Along with, Prince William, Charlie Dimmock and Chewbacca the Wookie...

ibFoxer · 29-10-2020 11:54pm

Lefty myself for the writing, but I noticed recently that I tend to open doors with my right hand carry heavier loads of shopping with my right, and I find using my phone one handed weird in my left hand, so again I tend to use the right. In fact, outside of cutting bread, eating with a spoon or fork, writing and operating a remote, everything else is with my right hand. Could always hurl off either side too. Kick with my left, if that makes a difference.

Guy:Incognito · 30-10-2020 12:24am

Pauliedragon wrote: »

We are people too. .

Bull****

uch · 30-10-2020 12:35am

Bit of trivial info, very few left handed people can read the printed writing on Pens because it's upside down

COVID · 30-10-2020 12:38am

uch wrote: »

Bit of trivial info, very few left handed people can read the printed writing on Pens because it's upside down

They're really missing out there, so they are Ted.

Plumbthedepths · 30-10-2020 12:41am

I'm a complete leftie , can't even w**k with the right.

Kaybaykwah · 30-10-2020 12:51am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

I'm a complete leftie , can't even w**k with the right.

You're sane then, using your right hand to click.

twowheelsonly · 30-10-2020 1:02am

I'm right-handed but one that a lefty friend pointed out to me was cameras.
They all have the shutter button on the top right and it just feels awkward and wrong.

COVID · 30-10-2020 1:11am

twowheelsonly wrote: »

I'm right-handed but one that a lefty friend pointed out to me was cameras.
They all have the shutter button on the top right and it just feels awkward and wrong.

Why doesn't your lefty friend just turn the camera around the other way!

SmartinMartin · 30-10-2020 1:14am

Complete lefty. I can't use a scythe. I've looked for a left handed one in vain. Same with bill hooks.

Zamboni · 30-10-2020 1:18am

In Thailand they have a word for left handed people “E SAI PAI KEE ” it's mean the people who use the hand which touch the [excrement]

Professor Moriarty · 30-10-2020 1:23am

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

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

I say that as a left hander myself

Aithníonn ciotóg ciotóg eile.

Plumbthedepths · 30-10-2020 1:25am

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Complete lefty. I can't use a scythe. I've looked for a left handed one in vain. Same with bill hooks.

I worked in a hotel years ago when I was in college. I had a left handed corkscrew. Great craic loaning it to the righties.

Fine Cheers · 30-10-2020 1:26am

Sign of brains and long life and yes I'm a left hand ginger !!
Signing in onto ring binders etc a disaster, especially in this climate of contact tracing !!
But I did make the school football team because of it !!

Zamboni · 30-10-2020 1:29am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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

The struggle is real.
They used to call me the silver surfer in school because of pencil marks on my hand. C*nts

antodeco · 30-10-2020 1:32am

jenneyk19 wrote: »

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

Now they just bum you #alllivesmatter

Dravokivich · 30-10-2020 1:35am

I'm trans right. I was originally ambidextrous with primary usage on the left. But then the nuns got their way and I'm pretty much right handed now, except for can openers. Can only use the left handed ones.

chooseusername · 30-10-2020 1:46am

Dravokivich wrote: »

I'm trans right. I was originally ambidextrous with primary usage on the left. But then the nuns got their way and I'm pretty much right handed now, except for can openers. Can only use the left handed ones.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

30-10-2020 2:45am

Lefties are better by design. Extend your forefinger and your thumb and it makes an L.

Kids should learn this to know left from right.

cj maxx · 30-10-2020 2:56am

As soon as I see someone is left handed I distrust them. More to do with knowing sneaky basterds who just happened to be lefties

.anon. · 30-10-2020 3:14am

Pauliedragon wrote: »

We are people too.

I wouldn't go that far.

Left handed people

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