Left handed people

Graces7 · 30-10-2020 7:28am

Eduard Khil wrote: »

Sinestra SINESTRA

sinistra; which is where the word sinister comes from... It was partly that they were in a minority etc. Always the unique and different get picked on.

I should say "we"' ; in my far off school days, left handers were forced into using their right hands for writing. I only realised much later that I am left handed; that was why my handwriting was always appalling and got me into trouble …

The happy result is that now I am ambidextrous

NB Is there a link between lefthandedness and wordblindness?

Turquoise Hexagon Sun · 30-10-2020 8:07am

Lord love a leftie.

I'm left handed and but do many other things with the right. So I'm basically ambidextrous.

Some psychologists believe left handers are make up a large portion of creative types because we use the right side of our brain more. Not only that but being left handed forces us to be creative with challenges being left handed has in a right handed world.

I don't know about that. Half those "facts" about left handers are bollox and created to make us feel better because we're semi-retarded.

TuringBot47 · 30-10-2020 8:16am

At least it's easier to catch left handed killers.
How many drama shows had a plot line that the killer held the knife in their left hand.

Must be loads of leftie psychos killing innocent people to alleviate their frustration.

eviltwin · 30-10-2020 8:16am

Never had as issue with anything but then I grew up in the 80’s where it was normal to be forced to use your right hand. I can write with both now and never struggle with anything apart from those pens in the bank or post office which are bolted to the right side of the table.

corner of hells · 30-10-2020 8:17am

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

Lord love a leftie.

I'm left handed and but do many other things with the right. So I'm basically ambidextrous.

Some psychologists believe left handers are make up a large portion of creative types because we use the right side of our brain more. Not only that but being left handed forces us to be creative with challenges being left handed has in a right handed world.

I don't know about that. Half those "facts" about left handers are bollox and created to make us feel better because we're semi-retarded.

At least we're only semi-retarded.

corner of hells · 30-10-2020 8:18am

TuringBot47 wrote: »

At least it's easier to catch left handed killers.
How many drama shows had a plot line that the killer held the knife in their left hand.

Must be loads of leftie psychos killing innocent people to alleviate their frustration.

You're on the list.

chooseusername · 30-10-2020 9:20am

Benefits of being left handed;

Attacking medieval castles.
Driving on the right .
Boxing.
Arm wrestling.

and so on.

breezy1985 · 30-10-2020 9:23am

If they are not a category on Pornhub then they are not really a minority

Allinall · 30-10-2020 9:28am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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.

Just on this.

I do the stationery order in our place, and I always order about 20% of the pens to be left-handed.

They're more expensive, as obviously have to be made in smaller batches.

Badly Drunk Boy · 30-10-2020 9:35am

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

Somebody said that left-handed people are more likely to have dyslexia, so is there a chance that if they did the 'L' forefinger/thumb thing with their right hand, they may think they are correct in thinking it's the left? :pac:

RachelsCousin · 30-10-2020 9:45am

SmartinMartin wrote: »

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

They're easily got. Give Fruit Hill Farm a call and they'll order in a left handed scythe for you with whichever blade you want. There's probably lots of other places to get them.

Lots of higher quality bill hooks can be used in either hand. You just need one that's sharpened from both sides rather than one.

Get back to me on using a chainsaw or angle grinder safely!

SmartinMartin · 30-10-2020 10:39am

RachelsCousin wrote: »

They're easily got. Give Fruit Hill Farm a call and they'll order in a left handed scythe for you with whichever blade you want. There's probably lots of other places to get them.

Lots of higher quality bill hooks can be used in either hand. You just need one that's sharpened from both sides rather than one.

Get back to me on using a chainsaw or angle grinder safely!

Ill try that, thanks. I don't have any problem using chainsaws or angle grinders, funnily enough. As for the billhooks, I have a lot of older farm tools and the hooks have a step in the shaft, so even if I sharpen them for a lefty they still can't be used. I just have to buy new, which I hate.

galvo_clare · 30-10-2020 10:46am

As a left hander I can't say I have too many issues.
Scissors are awkward and a few other things like that. The few times I play golf I use right handed clubs and maybe that explains why I'm no Tiger Woods but somehow I don't think I could get on with left handed clubs.
I naturally dismount a bike from the 'wrong' side, which causes problems with my Brompton as I have to be on the 'correct' side to fold it.

School was ok beyond writing with proper ink pens which blotted and smudged everywhere. Chequebooks were an issue but haven't written a cheque in years.
I do have a clear memory of being hit hard enough in senior infants and being knocked to the ground. I remember opening my eyes and seeing the ceiling.
That teacher wasn't a cruel woman and I encountered her many times after leaving school. I genuinely don't have any issues with her but isn't it disgraceful that even up to the early seventies we thought it acceptable to beat left-handedness out of children.

Kermit.de.frog · 30-10-2020 5:44pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NNT0TBCIE

corner of hells · 30-10-2020 5:46pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Somebody said that left-handed people are more likely to have dyslexia, so is there a chance that if they did the 'L' forefinger/thumb thing with their right hand, they may think they are correct in thinking it's the left? :pac:

Dyslexia has urined my life.

JupiterKid · 30-10-2020 6:40pm

Leftie here, out and proud.

I can use my right hand for lots of things like scissors, tin openers etc. so that's not really any hassle. In college the little writing platforms attached to chairs were a bit of a problem - very hard to find one for a ciotog like me. Also, my tennis hand is my right hand unless I hold the raquet backhand which is with the left.

Started kindergarten in 1979 and never any problem with using my left hand.
The idea that left-handed children were forced, usually through violence to use their right hand is beyond despicable. :mad::mad::mad:

My father was also left-handed and in primary school in the late 1940s Belfast the teachers tried to force him to use his right hand but my grandmother went up to the school and gave them a piece of her mind and he was left alone after that.

Ireland really was one of the most backward countries in Europe less than two generations ago.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 30-10-2020 6:47pm

Imagine being an accidental leftie?

I write with my left hand but it’s a mistake. I do everything else with my right hand (pipetting when I worked in a lab, using scissors, playing sports, sexy time stuff). My older siblings and mother are true lefties and I think I saw them writing with that hand and thought it was the right way. And my mother didn’t think to check because she’d had such a horrible experience in school with the nuns trying to force her to write with her right hand so she didn’t want to correct me.

I hate writing because my hand tires really quickly. Like after only a few sentences.

byhookorbycrook · 30-10-2020 6:57pm

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

I teach in a Gaelscoil, I'm glad to say this has never happened in our school. I had a parent-teacher meeting years ago and mentioned that the child needed to write a little bit more neatly. Parents went on a tirade on how schools and teachers were so unfair to left handers etc. I picked up my pen and asked was it ok to take notes. Parents copped the pen was in my left hand and were embarrassed to say the least.

My MIL tried to " change" a grandchild and got the benefit of my forthright views. My late mother was made to change as a child and to the weeks before she died, if she got muddled, she would revert back to her left hand.

Gamb!t · 30-10-2020 8:10pm

Not enough left handed guitars in shops.

Xtrail14 · 30-10-2020 8:11pm

They finger with their right hand.

jimmytwotimes 2013 · 31-10-2020 12:42am

Xtrail14 wrote: »

They finger with their right hand.

I'm sorry, they what now?

Sgt Hartman · 31-10-2020 2:24am

Lefties seem to make great free kick takers in football for some reason

31-10-2020 4:13am

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Lefties seem to make great free kick takers in football for some reason

Goal kickers in rugby too.

Johnny Wilkinson, Dan Carter...

thesimpsons · 31-10-2020 11:24pm

Am I the only leftie who doesn't write hooked or smudges their page ? I hold the page sightly to the side but can never understand the hooked or upside down writing I see loads of lefties doing. Pet hates are scissors and knives. I use computer mouse with right hand as I can then write with left hand at same time when need to.

thesimpsons · 31-10-2020 11:33pm

galvo_clare wrote: »

........
I naturally dismount a bike from the 'wrong' side, which causes problems with my Brompton as I have to be on the 'correct' side to fold it.

What's the wrong side ? I'm fairly ambidextrous but dismount bike from the right side. Is this 'wrong' or right ?

I can play table tennis with either hand, never tried hurling or tennis or other racket sports

km991148 · 31-10-2020 11:35pm

jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: »

Whats a ginger leftie then?

Fcuked

mossie11 · 31-10-2020 11:36pm

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

in the old days the priests and nuns and christian brothers would beat you. full stop.

Church on Tuesday · 31-10-2020 11:38pm

They have a right to exist.

Spanish Eyes · 31-10-2020 11:53pm

Don't wish to generalise, but Citoigs are the dogs blx at work anyway. Plenty of experience dealing with them.

Walk away now! LOL.

Spanish Eyes · 31-10-2020 11:59pm

I taught myself to use my left hand for writing. It was not in any way easy or understandable. But I am now ambidexterous apart from power tools lol.

charlesanto · 01-11-2020 12:03am

Apparently ...

A study at Durham University — which examined mortality data for cricketers whose handedness was a matter of public record — found that left-handed men were almost twice as likely to die in war as their right-handed contemporaries.[83] The study theorised that this was because weapons and other equipment was designed for the right-handed. “I can sympathise with all those left-handed cricketers who have gone to an early grave trying desperately to shoot straight with a right-handed Lee Enfield .303,” wrote a journalist reviewing the study in the cricket press.[84] The findings echo those of previous American studies, which found that left-handed US sailors were 34% more likely to have a serious accident than their right-handed counterparts.[85]

corner of hells · 01-11-2020 12:03am

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I taught myself to use my left hand for writing. It was not in any way easy or understandable. But I am now ambidexterous apart from power tools lol.

Do you wipe your arse with your left hand or right hand or do you use bog roll ?

ShadyAcres · 01-11-2020 1:13am

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 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.

You should have gave her so many lefts that she'd be begging for a right ðŸ™‚

CUCINA · 01-11-2020 1:52am

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

StupidLikeAFox · 01-11-2020 2:21am

thesimpsons wrote: »

Am I the only leftie who doesn't write hooked or smudges their page ? I hold the page sightly to the side but can never understand the hooked or upside down writing I see loads of lefties doing. Pet hates are scissors and knives. I use computer mouse with right hand as I can then write with left hand at same time when need to.

I hold the pen with the tips of my fingers resting the heel of the palm on the lower page. Barack Obama is a famous leftie and has the hooked writing style and almost certainly learned to write this way to avoid smudging the page

chooseusername · 01-11-2020 9:18am

chooseusername wrote: »

Benefits of being left handed;

Attacking medieval castles.
Driving on the right .
Boxing.
Arm wrestling.

and so on.

Just thought of another one;
Cutting the sheaves for the feeder on the threshing mill.
A right handed cutter on the feeders left side was dangerous.

Guy:Incognito · 01-11-2020 9:27am

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

They have a right to exist.

Why do the rest of us have to put up with this constant barrage of pro leftie propaganda.

_Brian · 01-11-2020 9:35am

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

I’m in my late 40’s and endured torture from a teacher. Slapping and general abuse. My handwriting never recovered as a result.

square ball · 01-11-2020 10:19am

charlesanto wrote: »

Apparently ...

I found shooting with a right handed gun the worst thing I have had to do as a left hander. Frightened the bejaysus out of me every time I had to load it. Swapping it over and back between hands, super dangerous.

I don't think I have ever cut a straight line with a scissors or cut a slice of bread or cake straight either. My handwriting is abysmal and embarassing and trying to write something away from a desk or table is near impossible. Used to hate writing on the whiteboard at school.

Play hurling and golf right handed for some reason.

Also hate the word 'ciotog' it's a personal insult if anyone calls me one. Usually from someone that has the dexterity of a manatee.

Jen Pigs Fly · 01-11-2020 2:27pm

I’m left handed and use my left for most things.

Except the computer, I use the mouse with my right hand, I am able to write and scroll/click on the PC at the same time, it freaks people out. It’s like a weird computer ambidextrous thing and is very handy!

I also turn ring binders around, so the ring part is to my right. So whenever anyone looks in any of my notes, it’s all written upside down

mickdw · 01-11-2020 4:00pm

Jen Pigs Fly wrote: »

I’m left handed and use my left for most things.

Except the computer, I use the mouse with my right hand, I am able to write and scroll/click on the PC at the same time, it freaks people out. It’s like a weird computer ambidextrous thing and is very handy!

I also turn ring binders around, so the ring part is to my right. So whenever anyone looks in any of my notes, it’s all written upside down

Im left handed and do the righted computer mouse also. That for me is a learned thing though because back in college in the days of wired mouse, it was always setup right handed and never long enough to reach the left hand position without alot of shuffling.
It has worked out very good as for drawing on autocad, its alot of mouse use together with keyboard commands so the left hand is best for the keyboard.

OscarMIlde · 01-11-2020 6:09pm

thesimpsons wrote: »

Am I the only leftie who doesn't write hooked or smudges their page ? I hold the page sightly to the side but can never understand the hooked or upside down writing I see loads of lefties doing. Pet hates are scissors and knives. I use computer mouse with right hand as I can then write with left hand at same time when need to.

I remember reading that the hooked handwriting thing is genetically linked (often co-inherited) with left handedness but is not caused by left handedness itself. Not all lefties write like that and 5% of righties do it. I'm one of those righties, constantly smudged hands when in school, and I had no good excuse for it!

santry · 01-11-2020 6:28pm

My dad was left handed and it was beaten out of him at an early age. My brother, in his 40's is left handed but does a lot of stuff with his right.

My son is right handed but left footed, and can't kick with his right foot. Second son kicks with both feet but would probably favour right.

Daughter is left handed and left footed, as we say there is no right in her at all. Her handwriting is the best in the house, absolutely lovely. I still say the best thing that happened to her when she started school was that her teacher was left handed, there were 4 lefties in the class and she seated them all in the right seat so they didn't have a problem learning their letters. She is also the most tempermental one in the house !!

02-11-2020 12:21am

It was always kinda fun in work to see someone sit at my desk and I'd ask them to drive the mouse - situated to the left of the keyboard - and watch them try to figure out how to make it move using their left hand.

Left handed people

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