Are you right or left handed?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-09-2014 09:31PM

Ambidextrous. I just write with my right hand because the teacher tied my left hand behind my back to stop me using it! Sinister was the old word for left.

Why are we excluded from the poll?

stek · 17-09-2014 09:38PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Most of the recent US Presidents have been left-handed so is richest man in the world Bill Gates, one of the richest women in the world (Oprah Winfrey,) and Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s greatest artists.

yes, but everybody else, outside of the aforementioned people, in the world that has achieved anything of merit is right handed...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-09-2014 09:39PM

Mr.Pinchy wrote: »

On a sidenote, to figure out your dominant eye, make a triangle with your thumbs and index fingers, hold it head height and at arms length, close one eye and look through...the eye you are looking through it is your dominant eye...

Why? It's equally off centre with each eye, just in a different direction. Hence what we have is called binocular vision. If both eyes aren't functioning at equal strength you can't see 3D

Tokyo · 17-09-2014 09:43PM

Beatrice Fierce Trefoil wrote: »

Why? It's equally off centre with each eye, just in a different direction. Hence what we have is called binocular vision. If both eyes aren't functioning at equal strength you can't see 3D

Your brain still picks one eye to give a frame of reference. Much like hand dominance, most people are right eye dominant, with a small percentage left eye dominant. The text described above is used to figure out which you are - alternatively you can just open both eyes and point at something at the other side of the room. With your finger still pointing, close your left eye. If your finger is still pointing at the object, you're right dominant. if it had moved, you're left dominant. Repeat the test by closing your right eye to verify.

Adyx · 17-09-2014 09:45PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I played bass guitar with a small Liverpool combo that went places with my left hand. I tend to **** with my right hand. I have been known to talk out of my arse.

Did you ever get your hand back?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-09-2014 09:48PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Your brain still picks one eye to give a frame of reference. Much like hand dominance, most people are right eye dominant, with a small percentage left eye dominant. The text described above is used to figure out which you are - alternatively you can just open both eyes and point at something at the other side of the room. With your finger still pointing, close your left eye. If your finger is still pointing at the object, you're right dominant. if it had moved, you're left dominant. Repeat the test by closing your right eye to verify.

No, still the same. The object moves to one side or the other depending on which eye is closed. Maybe my eyes are ambidextrous like my hands - or something.

Tokyo · 17-09-2014 09:51PM

Beatrice Fierce Trefoil wrote: »

No, still the same. The object moves to one side or the other depending on which eye is closed. Maybe my eyes are ambidextrous like my hands - or something.

Which eye do you hold a camera viewfinder up to?

my3cents · 17-09-2014 09:53PM

Beatrice Fierce Trefoil wrote: »

No, still the same. The object moves to one side or the other depending on which eye is closed. Maybe my eyes are ambidextrous like my hands - or something.

Line a finger up with a distant object then close one eye then the other. Closing one or other of your eyes will loose the alignment thats not you dominant eye.

You have to start with both eyes open when you line things up.

retro:electro · 17-09-2014 09:53PM

I can write with both hands. Ambidextrous they call it. Used to get some funny looks from supervisors when I was doing exams!

Donald73 · 17-09-2014 10:03PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Years ago they tried to force left handed children to use their right hand - often with disastrous results. Were any lefties here forced to use their right hand for writing?

This happened to me. I got an infection in my thumb on left hand and it was bandaged and the nuns tried to get me to write with the right which was a disaster and they told me I 'should be writing with the right hand anyway.'

I'm still a citog though they could not break me.

fleet_admiral · 17-09-2014 10:06PM

Right handed. I do hardly anything with my left

Rogaine2 · 17-09-2014 10:12PM

Mr.Pinchy wrote: »

On a sidenote, to figure out your dominant eye, make a triangle with your thumbs and index fingers, hold it head height and at arms length, close one eye and look through...the eye you are looking through it is your dominant eye...

I just did that. Closed the right eye. I'm fooked if I ever take up shooting lol. Right handed with a dominant left eye...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-09-2014 10:16PM

my3cents wrote: »

Line a finger up with a distant object then close one eye then the other. Closing one or other of your eyes will loose the alignment thats not you dominant eye.

You have to start with both eyes open when you line things up.

Gee, , I know that. When shooting I do so with both eyes open. There is no dominant eye in my case.
I will look through a camera with either eye.
I kicked with both feet at rugby years ago. I played badminton with both hands. All equal. Oh and I have 2 full sets of kidneys(4 in total) to boot!

jack of all · 17-09-2014 10:23PM

I write with my left but I am predominantly right handed in that I use all tools, implements and such like with my right hand. The only exception being a paintbrush- I can paint using both hands (painting of the decorating kind). I know of one lefty that cannot use "right handed" powertools with their right hand and seeing him use a portable circular saw with his left hand is scary!

ErnieBert · 17-09-2014 10:49PM

Ambidextrous. I always write with my left, hammer with my left, punch with my left but play guitar with my right, wipe my ar$e with my right (with toilet paper, of course) and saw wood with my right.

My 2 kids are both lefties too.

Tony EH · 17-09-2014 11:08PM

Hmmm...more lefties than I thought there would be.

twinytwo · 17-09-2014 11:16PM

I'm right handed, the twin brother is a leftie

Lenin Skynard · 17-09-2014 11:45PM

Left handed people are evil incarnate. The devil himself is left handed.

FloatingVoter · 17-09-2014 11:52PM

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Left handed people are evil incarnate. The devil himself is left handed.

...and he owes me money. That card game was going so well and what happens...the dumb twat forgets to put shoes on his hooves.

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius! · 18-09-2014 12:01AM

twinytwo wrote: »

I'm right handed, the twin brother is a leftie

Im a twin too and shes right handed while im left

csallmighty · 18-09-2014 12:02AM

I'm a leftie, but I can throw with my right too and play golf. When playing football and gaelic football I can pass with both feet but use my left when I need power behind my kick or when shooting.

My right eye is dominant though(lazy left eye) so when aiming (shooting or archery) I do it the same way as a rightie.

monkeysnapper · 18-09-2014 12:08AM

Never thought about which eye I use in camera .

I write left handed,

Kick a ball right footed

Left eye for taking photos in camera

I play squash and use right hand to hit a hard shot but change hands to hit a skill shot.

My stronger side is on my right side tho .

I'm all fecked up

Greenmachine · 18-09-2014 12:17AM

No Atari Jaguar?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-09-2014 12:30AM

Right handed

Summer wind · 18-09-2014 12:40AM

I'm right handed so when I broke my left arm when I was going to school there was no time off from writing all those lovely long so very interesting essays!

con___manx1 · 18-09-2014 12:50AM

I write with my left hand but I am right handed doing everything else.

Lenin Skynard · 18-09-2014 04:05AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

...and he owes me money. That card game was going so well and what happens...the dumb twat forgets to put shoes on his hooves.

Serves you right for playing cards with a citóg. I hope you showered in holy water as soon as you got home for your own sake.

man on a BOAT · 18-09-2014 04:58AM

Right handed, but I surf with my left

Turtwig · 18-09-2014 05:02AM

Supposedly right, but left has caught up in a big way - it helps that my handwriting is equally sht!

Only imbalance is balance. My left leg is the definition of rubbish.

Esel · 18-09-2014 05:23AM

I'm ambiguous.

I read somewhere, sometime, that whichever hand you wipe (or whatever) with is it.

Are you right or left handed?

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