Left handed people die younger?

10-05-2006 08:36PM #1

My friend who is doing 2nd med reckons that right handed people live on average about seven years more than left handed.Is this true or is the wool being pulled over my eyes?

GrumPy · 10-05-2006 08:37PM

Deleted User wrote:

My friend who is doing 2nd med reckons that right handed people live on average about seven years more than left handed.Is this true or is the wool being pulled over my eyes?

L....M........A......O

gilroyb · 10-05-2006 08:40PM

Apparently it's true. I remember reading it somewhere recently, but seeing as I can't remember where then it's not much use.

It might be due to all the stress of having to shake hands with their weak hand?

10-05-2006 08:43PM

ah im fcuked!Im a lad and a citeog!Ill prob be dead by the age of 40!:(

seamus · 10-05-2006 08:52PM

It's true or it's a statistical anomaly, but he's not just pulling it out of his ass.

Oriel · 10-05-2006 08:57PM

I'm sure the beer and smoking will kill me before my left hand does...

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 08:59PM

But hey who cares we make up for it by being more intelligent and creative...like einstein!! plus left handed people are supposed to be created by the devil

Amazotheamazing · 10-05-2006 09:08PM

It's true, apparently in part becuase most power tools etc are made for right handed people. Being left handed myself I consider each day another day of living dangerously.

fuzzywiggle · 10-05-2006 09:09PM

Also heard that left handed people are more intelligent!? Don't think there's any thruth to that though! :P

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 09:10PM

well being a lefty i have serious trouble opening doors specially the ones with the twisty door knobs or with writing cuz the ink smudges all the way across the page

10-05-2006 09:11PM

We have the intelligent ones, then we also have a higher percentage of learning diffuculties!

fuzzywiggle · 10-05-2006 09:14PM

Juicebox wrote:

well being a lefty i have serious trouble opening doors specially the ones with the twisty door knobs or with writing cuz the ink smudges all the way across the page

One of my friends is a lefty and she kind of hooks her hand when she's writing.. so it's facing her body. Doesn't smudge that way..but looks funny

10-05-2006 09:16PM

Even when I hook my hand, I get smudges all over it
and then it smudges the page

my finger is smudged right now actually

it's really annoying

maybe we kill ourselves out of annoyance for this!

edit: 1000th post! hell ya!

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 09:17PM

haha ya tried that but bgan to suffer from repetitive strain injury.easons actually sell pens for leftys that are designed so u grab them up further to not smudge just havent got round to gettin em yet.David bowie,bach,mozart,and jimmi hendrix were all lefties highly intelligent

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 09:27PM

best is when u smudge a word and the print of the word gets printed onto your hand and as you continue to write across the page somewhere along the lines you have a smudge of a word that u wrote 3 sentences back

secret_squirrel · 10-05-2006 09:37PM

Probable myth - google is the lefties friend.

http://www.google.ie/search?q=left+handers+die+earlier&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official

example :

http://www.junkscience.com/news2/leftmort.htm

fuzzywiggle · 10-05-2006 09:42PM

Oh.. well that's this thread gone out the window

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 09:43PM

nah man one day we do die earlier then the next day a new study proves we dont,its a vicious circle their leaving us hanging

indiewindy · 10-05-2006 10:04PM

Right handed propaganda against us lefties:)

Guy:Incognito · 10-05-2006 10:08PM

Well seeing as left handed people are born broken in the first place, it would stand to reason that their bodies would pack up earlier.

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 10:11PM

no not really apparently its all got to do with genetics so just go back along the family tree and find out

smemon · 10-05-2006 10:13PM

yes

get in there, 7 more years for me.

i hate my left hand and left foot, i even hold the fork in my right hand.

i just use my left side for show and to balance on.

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 10:19PM

i cant use inky pens, play piano with the left as it totally overpowers the right hand. theres such a huge difference between my hands plus im discriminated against as there isnt a hope in hell i can use a normal scissors have to get a lefthand one and the just dont come that handy(excuse the pun);)

Pepe LeFrits · 10-05-2006 10:26PM

Darwinian theory is a beautiful thing!

Juicebox · 10-05-2006 10:27PM

please nooooooooo not natural selection

Civilian_Target · 10-05-2006 10:50PM

I think I was born left handed but my parents tried to beat it out of me by making me write with my right hand. Now they're both equally useless! I'm sure cycling will kill me first though!

Debbio69 · 11-05-2006 08:41AM

nnooooooooo

im a leftie
i do not welcome this news at all

BoozyBabe · 11-05-2006 09:30AM

Quite a few lefties here!!!

I'm another!

Yip, the writing thing bugs the hell out of me, big blue hand everytime you write anything, plus my writing is appalling!!!

But, I play all musical instruments (don't mean I can play every single musical instrument, just that all the instruments that I do play) with my right hand, play camogie as a right-handed person (though it means I can only hit from one side), & I'm right-eye dominant (which apparently is a bit strange), oh, & I use the mouse as a right-handed person, (this thing of changing button configurations & moving the mouse to the left side of the PC bugs me) but defo left footed, though I can't kick a ball for sh!t anyway!!!

11-05-2006 09:41AM

Yeah left-handed mouse on the pc is just taking things too far...

I write better on msn handwriting with my right hand

Spalk0 · 11-05-2006 11:45AM

So what if your Ambi-dextrous(sp?) then?

does get halfed and you live on average 3 1/2 years shorter?hehe;)

CyberGhost · 11-05-2006 11:59AM

Who cares really? life sucks after 60 anyway.

Left handed people die younger?

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