International LEft Handers Day!

[Matthew Morris]

Been so busy at work, I forgot to share

Huzzah for those of us on the sinister side of life!

[Turin the Mad]

o7

[John Kretzer]

I approve of this....being left handed. Left Power!!! Left Power!!! Left Power!!!

[Set]

Woo! Southpaw pride!

[Krensky]

* Starts making a list...

[Digitalelf]

We lefties, are in our right mind!

[yellowdingo]

Now all we need do is invade Poland and round up all the right handers and stick them in concentration camps...

[Turin the Mad]

yellowdingo wrote:

Now all we need do is invade Poland and round up all the right handers and stick them in concentration camps...

Nah. There aren't enough southpaw guards available.

What we have to do is demonize the northpaws as an inferior version of humanity. Make them feel bad about themselves. That kind of thing.

[Pillbug Toenibbler]

Krensky wrote:

* Starts making a list...

{starts piling up firewood}

[Sissyl]

Whatever. When I become World Empress, I am going to remember this petty aversion to right-handed people. Left-handed people everywhere are going to pay the price (tm). But, by all means, continue your depraved and senseless celebration for now.

[Ensirio the Longstrider]

I ain't afraid of your price! I ain't got no money!

[Sissyl]

Heh heh heh...

[Beholder-ona-steek]

If you pick on me about being left handed, you get pimped by the right.
Although to keep up with the times it should be you get the L.J.G with the right.

[Evil Lincoln]

That's some suspicious capitalization there in the thread title.

I mean, I knew all lefties were evil... but Lawful?

[Turin the Mad]

We must establish a tyrannical regime ... for the good of the poor, somewhat imbecilic northpaws, you see. ;)

[Bill Lumberg]

You know that us orthodox folk live about nine years longer on average, right? And you know that the standard explanation for this is that you degenerate sinister-oriented types suffer more "accidents", right?

Yeah, "accidents".

[Set]

Bill Lumberg wrote:

You know that us orthodox folk live about nine years longer on average, right? And you know that the standard explanation for this is that you degenerate sinister-oriented types suffer more "accidents", right?

Yeah, "accidents".

Leftie scissors are no joke.

[Turin the Mad]

The only thing done right for us southpaws is that, in the States, the drivers' side of the vehicle is on OUR side of the vehicle.

HAH!!

We die earlier because of the lifetime of stress in dealing with endless backwards-ness. Teachers trying to force us to write with the wrong hand.

'Ambidexters' and southpaws, living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!!

Madness, I tell you, madness!!

^_^

[A highly regarded expert]

I, too, suffer from this horrid affliction. :(

[Matthew Morris]

Turin the Mad wrote:

The only thing done right for us southpaws is that, in the States, the drivers' side of the vehicle is on OUR side of the vehicle.

HAH!!

We die earlier because of the lifetime of stress in dealing with endless backwards-ness. Teachers trying to force us to write with the wrong hand.

'Ambidexters' and southpaws, living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!!

Madness, I tell you, madness!!

^_^

Actually, since our left arms are normally stronger than our right arms, it's a trap, since if you jerk on the wheel (say when trying to avoid an accident) we're more likely to careen into traffic.

[Sissyl]

Dammit! Another secret plot gets revealed. Crap dammit!

[Freehold DM]

What a sinister day....

[Pillbug Toenibbler]

{eyeballs numerous lefties, glances at duck in hand, nods at the equivalent weights, contemplates plans for constructing a balance to weigh the sinister witches}

[Bill Lumberg]

Since one of you mentioned it already, I want to ask a question. Did any of you experience being forced to do things like a decent right-handed person? If so, who tried to fix you and how old were you at the time? And how long ago was that?

Although I have heard of this happening in the past, I only know of two people who experienced it. One was my aunt who is now in her eighties. The other is someone I used to know from the gym. He is probably in his mid-thirties now. He said his aunt tried to make him do things right-handed and he believes that he suffered some ill-effects from it.

[Matthew Morris]

I had a couple teachers try to teach me to write right handed, they have up. We also used slate tablets that made writing difficult. My dad's a 'broken leftie' which arguably saved his life. (Doc said the stroke should have been lethal, but because our brains are normally more diffused, it didn't take out the 'right' areas.)

Here is a nice article about the effects of right handed desks, for example.

[A highly regarded expert]

I had a teacher in 1st grade who tried to make me write right handed in 1966. My mom set her straight.

[Set]

Bill Lumberg wrote:

Since one of you mentioned it already, I want to ask a question. Did any of you experience being forced to do things like a decent right-handed person? If so, who tried to fix you and how old were you at the time? And how long ago was that?

The kindergarten I went to in Arizona (back in 1971 ish?) didn't have any left-handed desks, scissors, etc. and the nun that ran it would whack my hand with a ruler when I drew or wrote with my left hand.

I'm pretty much right-handed now, the only real bother it's been is that when I reconnected with family in New England post-college they were all lefties and I felt kind of like an oddity at Thanksgiving dinner, banging elbows with the person to my right. Still, while writing with my left hand is no longer an option (everything comes out backwards), I can eat with my left hand fine and 'act normal' for a single dinner a year.

These days, thanks to a decade or so of 'writing' on the computer, I can barely read the chicken-scratch I produce when I write with my right hand anyway, so it's probably a bit disingenuous to whine about not being able to write with my left hand anymore... :)

'Broken' leftie would be a bit overwrought for my experience, although I wouldn't use my experience to discount others experiences.

[Bill Lumberg]

Oddly, I tend to eat like a leftie except for things like spaghetti, because I cannot twirl it around a fork in my left hand. I prefer to hold a drink in my left as well.