Are you a ciotóg?

Dionysus · 01-09-2011 08:27PM #1

A few days ago Seán Moncrieff was interviewing some randomer who had studied left-handed people and how they've been treated in history. It seems fairly harsh the way they were discriminated against.

I know two people well who are ciotóga. They are both female, and highly intelligent and motivated. There was always this story growing up about lefthanders being more intelligent than righthanders. It would seem, however, that that's a very new trend and lefthanded people were often beaten because they didn't write with their right hand.

Are you a ciotóg, and in what way if at all have you been discriminated against?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-09-2011 08:29PM

Dionysus wrote: »

A few day's ago Seán Moncrieff was interviewing some randomer who had studied left-handed people and how they've been treated in history. It seems fairly harsh the way they were discriminated against.

I know two people well who are ciotóga. They are both female, and highly intelligent and motivated. There was always this story growing up about lefthanders being more intelligent than righthanders. It would seem, however, that that's a very new trend and lefthanded people were often beaten because they didn't write with their right hand.

Are you a ciotóg, and in what way if at all have you been discriminated against?

I was beaten because I couldn't speak Irish and feel discrimated against - I assume cioto-fada-g is a left-handed person?

deathrider · 01-09-2011 08:30PM

The guitarist in my old band was a lefty, yet he played right-handed guitar. He got some slagging back in school when he first picked up the intrument, told how he'd never pull that off. He went from there to simply being a fantastic guitarist years later!

senorwipesalot · 01-09-2011 08:31PM

http://youtu.be/N5hNVT-pfeM

AnamGlas · 01-09-2011 08:31PM

No, I'm righthanded

Táim

ballsymchugh · 01-09-2011 08:32PM

am a citeog. apparently more creative than right handers, but not sooooo sure!

Rented Mule · 01-09-2011 08:32PM

Left handed people are MUTANTS !!!

TouchingVirus · 01-09-2011 08:32PM

No, I'm righthanded

It was suggested I not take up guitar because I'm left handed, probably because the person knows me well enough to know I'll not play a right-handed guitar just like I don't use a mouse with my right. Left 4 life!

Captain Havoc · 01-09-2011 08:33PM

Not a ciotóg but I do certain things left handed, such as eating, this used to drive my father mad, "learn to eat properly". Back when he was growing up ciotógs were considered a bit "special".

deathrider · 01-09-2011 08:33PM

TouchingVirus wrote: »

It was suggested I not take up guitar because I'm left handed, probably because the person knows me well enough to know I'll not play a right-handed guitar just like I don't use a mouse with my right. Left 4 life!

Wasn't Hendrix a lefty?

Temptamperu · 01-09-2011 08:34PM

Lefties are the spawn of rthe devil himself... for the bible tells us so. :pac:

El Guapo! · 01-09-2011 08:34PM

My mam is left-handed and when she was in school she was beaten and told to learn to write with her right hand. So for the rest of the year in that class she wrote with her right instead.
Some people are crazy!

themadchef · 01-09-2011 08:35PM

No, I'm righthanded

I look a bit dangeroud with a knife, and watching me sharpen the blade you'd be forgiven for thinking i was about to take the hand off myself.

Teachers heart was broke in national school trying to teach me to knit, and as for musical instruments, not a hope. Too akward.

Dionysus · 01-09-2011 08:35PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I was beaten because I couldn't speak Irish and feel discrimated against - I assume cioto-fada-g is a left-handed person?

:rolleyes: This shít arís. Perhaps you were beaten because you were talking shíte through the chip on your shoulder to the extent of disrupting the class/thread?

MrStuffins · 01-09-2011 08:36PM

!!deedni ma I seY

Dionysus · 01-09-2011 08:36PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

am a citeog. apparently more creative than right handers, but not sooooo sure!

Interestingly, the two ciotóga whom I know are very creative, as opposed to merely book intelligent.

Krusader · 01-09-2011 08:37PM

No, I'm righthanded

Is ciotóg mé agus tá bród orm as

OneArt · 01-09-2011 08:38PM

I wouldn't associate with such Devil's children!

On a serious note, I'm ambidextrous but when I was in primary school the teachers kept freaking out saying that I had to have a 'dominant hand' because I kept switching when my hands got tired. So I got sent to 'physical therapy' (*shudder*) and they made me use only one hand and guess which one it was! Yep the right hand!

I can still use my left hand though so it's no big deal, I'm just a bit slower at writing though I can draw better with my left than my right.

Dionysus · 01-09-2011 08:39PM

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Not a ciotóg but I do certain things left handed, such as eating, this used to drive my father mad, "learn to eat properly". Back when he was growing up ciotógs were considered a bit "special".

It's weird how righthanders insist you use the fork in your lefthand. I'm a righthander and had to learn to use the fork in my left hand. I wonder how that developed.

It was definitely more natural for me to use the fork in my right hand.

The King of Moo · 01-09-2011 08:39PM

No, I'm righthanded

Hells yeah I'm a ciotóg. I wouldn't say I've faced much discrimination, just many nuisances - getting ink on my hand when I write, difficulty with scissors and can openers etc. The worst was in secondary school where the arm rest was only on the right-hand side and the main part of the desk was fairly small so my left hand was on the desk when I wrote but my arm had nothing to rest on.

But on the other hand, I firmly believe that left-handers are not only more creative and intelligent than right-handers, but far more beautiful as well, both physically and spiritually.

Krusader · 01-09-2011 08:40PM

No, I'm righthanded

deathrider wrote: »

Wasn't Hendrix a lefty?

and paul mccartney
kurt cobain
noel gallagher (though plays with his right-hand)

Snakeblood · 01-09-2011 08:44PM

deathrider wrote: »

The guitarist in my old band was a lefty, yet he played right-handed guitar. He got some slagging back in school when he first picked up the intrument, told how he'd never pull that off. He went from there to simply being a fantastic guitarist years later!

If he choked on his own vomit then hello, Noel Redding.

deathrider · 01-09-2011 08:44PM

Crosáidí wrote: »

and paul mccartney
kurt cobain
noel gallagher (though plays with his right-hand)

So that's a yes then?

solerina · 01-09-2011 08:46PM

Im right handed but I have often heard this (esp to left handed kids, struggling with right handed equipment).
All people are born right handed, only the truely great overcome it !!

Where To · 01-09-2011 08:46PM

All these public polls and foreign languages are making me nervous:(

Meirleach · 01-09-2011 08:51PM

No, I'm righthanded

I'm going to draw a diagram.

A bad diagram, but still.

Correct way to seat and left and right handed person at a two person desk.

[_Desk_]
\o o/

The way every single teacher, without fail seated me in school.

[_Desk_]
o/\o

I still remember one teacher after I'd informed them of the slight downside to sitting this way(arms constantly knocking with the person to the left of me), telling me to switch to my right hand to write with....because it's that easy :rolleyes:

Terry · 01-09-2011 08:59PM

No, I'm righthanded

Left handed and ginger.
My first class teacher used to punch me so hard that I'd be lifted out of my chair. Old school bastard. This happened just after corporal punishment was banned. He had a tough time letting go of it. Ruler across the knuckles and that sort of crap.
Not nice when you're 6/7 years old.

As for the creative thing, I'll just say now that it either skips some people, or it's complete and utter crap. I'll go with the latter.

Intelligent?
Depends on how you define intelligence.
Mostly A's all through school, but I was still thrown out when I was 15. My behaviour wasn't very smrt.

Miss Olenska · 01-09-2011 09:04PM

No, I'm righthanded

Yes, I am. Shouldn't be though, I do everything else with my right side, think I was just mimicking my ciotóg mother and older siblings. But they are all true lefties, whereas I am not. My brother used to write backwards as a kid, as in it could be read by holding a mirror up to the page. My mother was told off by the nuns in school for writing with her left hand until my granny marched into the school and gave them a peace of her mind. Formidable woman.

My maternal granddad was ambidextrous.

EDIT: Jaysus, loads of ciotógs on boards! I've never experienced that ratio in real life.

rain on · 01-09-2011 09:08PM

No, I'm righthanded

I'm left-handed in that I write with my left hand - I do most other things with my right hand though. My parents are both left-handed too - my father very strongly so, though he writes with his right hand becuase he was made to in school. His handwriting is atrocious though.

As for us being more creative, it's true in our sample size of 3 anyway - my father is a craftsman, my mother is a writer with a degree in music, and I play in a band and do photography on the side from my day job as a writer.

Da Shins Kelly · 01-09-2011 09:08PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

But on the other hand, I firmly believe that left-handers are not only more creative and intelligent than right-handers, but far more beautiful as well, both physically and spiritually.

They're also blessed with the gift of modesty too.

fontanalis · 01-09-2011 09:12PM

I remember seeing a show about the abuse in a some institution, one of the youngboys who was abused was in the place because he was left handed. I've heard older people say they were beaten by teachers because they were left handed.
Just to think only a generation ago we were in cave man territory.

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