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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 17, 2011 6:44:48 GMT
My mouse is on the right. It is part of the category of "tools" for me. aaah....but I'm a numpty (as Myrt would say) when it comes to pooters. OH always likes to take charge when we have gadgets...and if I fiddled with the settings or anything he'd get quite cross. Now I have my own laptop so the mouse pad is central..so it isn't a problem. I can write with both hands altho admittedly the left hand isn't very neat. I think that most people are moderately ambidextrous....it's just easier to use the one hand...what comes first anyway? does left or right handedness develope because the right or left side of your brain dominates, or does the fact that you favour one hand to perform all the complicated tasks lead to the complimentary side of the brain to become dominant?....eeeh makes you think....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 16:00:56 GMT
Time for a tally/update here. It's been awhile and we have a slew of new members. The most recent major discriminatory device now prevalent that enrages me is the electronic signature device one needs to put their signature on. Most of them are designed to stay stationary, so, one cannot move them in any direction and subsequently, the signature I provide is not my 'true' signature. Now, I could give a rat's ass on the debit/credit devices but, the one that really bothers me is the one at the Motor Vehicle Dept. It is not my true signature because I am forced to sign the thing in an awkward position, designed clearly for right handed people. So, the signature on my drivers license could easily call into question as to whether I am forging my own signature and be refused at the bank or airport etc. of my true identity signature wise.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2014 6:20:05 GMT
A recent study apparently showed that lefthanders live something like 7 years less than righthanders. Then they realized that the generations that are dying of old age now date back to when most lefthanders were forced to change. That makes it look like there are tons of venerable old righthanders while a higher percentage of lefthanders are dying young -- just because you have to be younger to be a lefthander in the first place.
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Post by htmb on Aug 30, 2014 9:46:22 GMT
My twins are what's called "mirror image." The most obvious difference is that one is left handed, the other right handed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2014 15:48:14 GMT
I'm still right-handed! Coincidentally, last night I watched the first episode of The Village. It takes place in 1914 & a boy gets his hand smacked hard with a switch by a teacher for the crime of writing with his left hand. He's set the task of writing a sentence on a slate with his right hand & can't do it. Another teacher takes pity & writes the sentence for him, then realizes it looks too good to pass muster as the boy's writing. So then the kindly teacher writes the sentence with his left hand so it looks properly bad and childish. I just tried to write a sentence with my left hand. It came out almost legible, but interestingly tiny and sloping downhill. My normal writing is medium-large & slants uphill. Even though I am right-handed, I can read upside down. Can't write mirror images though. I can read upside down with effort, but can write backwards rather easily. Just day before yesterday I wrote "Respeta la cochera" in soap backwards on someones back car window.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2015 14:40:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 17:54:48 GMT
wonder if my little brother is left- or righthanded now. while ago they said he is probably left handed, but i didn't really spend attention to see if that is true or not. he is starting school next week... but i think these days there should be no problem no matter what hand he writes with. Just if we buy some of these special learning-pens for him, then we need to pay attention which one to buy... So, how did it turn out?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 9, 2015 12:18:23 GMT
When I played cricket left handers were rare. Now they are ten a penny.
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Post by rikita on Sept 11, 2015 21:40:30 GMT
well he is left handed and quite strongly so afaik, as it even took him a while to catch onto writing from left to right - when he wasn't spending attention, when he was younger, he would write from right to left, as that just came to him more naturally ... don't think it is a problem now anymore, though ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 10, 2020 20:22:55 GMT
I just want to make it clear that left handers are superior to you other people.
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Post by htmb on Mar 10, 2020 20:38:48 GMT
Where’s the data to back up that statement?
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Post by fumobici on Mar 10, 2020 21:05:23 GMT
Something sinister about all this.
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Post by htmb on Mar 10, 2020 21:13:35 GMT
Maybe left handed people are immune to the corona virus.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 11, 2020 0:08:26 GMT
Something sinister about all this. Good one!
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Post by questa on Mar 11, 2020 6:32:36 GMT
It sounds like our left-handers are unusually dexterous. My son who played cricket bowled right handed but batted left. He trained himself to do this from when he was 5 because he he saw lefties were more likely to be picked for teams.
I have been totally right-handed all my life but as my right side is getting weaker than my left, the left has comfortably taken over many of its daily activities.
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Post by questa on Mar 11, 2020 10:24:03 GMT
The custom throughout Asia and other countries was' the right hand was clean and the left was reserved for use at the toilet' . Even with modern plumbing and washing hands you keep the right for handing people something, touching someone or 'clean' things like books and writing. No exceptions are made for natural lefties. They must learn to eat, pat someone on the back with the right hand. I have seen High ranking officials hand certificates to poor students who had trouble taking them with left hand. Mothers and family will carry a baby with it sitting on the mum's right hip and the baby has its left arm tucked around the back of mum's body so only the right hand is free to play. Thus the child grows up using mainly right hand.
Maybe this custom was more widespread and the nuns were trying to make the kids right handed for hygienic purposes but didn't know why or how.
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Post by bjd on Mar 11, 2020 10:35:18 GMT
I think nuns were just following old superstitions about the left being "sinister".
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Post by casimira on Mar 11, 2020 13:44:10 GMT
With the advent of debit/credit card signing screens I am finding myself signing my name with my right hand because the vast majority of them are stationary and there is little to no room on the left to use my left hand. So, technically, it's not my "real" signature but, as long as the bank accepts it doesn't really matter. But, it's a contemporary version of living in a right handed world.
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Post by bjd on Mar 11, 2020 13:54:54 GMT
I had to sign for a registered letter today on a screen the size of a cellphone. Absolutely anybody could have signed it -- I can't even make it look like handwriting!
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Post by casimira on Mar 11, 2020 14:14:57 GMT
I think it's another example of technology taking over the world.
Gone are the days of calligraphy and fine penmanship.
I still write hand written letters and cards.
There's something about texting or e-mailing a thank you note or sympathy card etc. that just doesn't sit right with me. (of course, the exception perhaps of the intended recipient living overseas or in places where the postal system is so inadequate that it's a waste of time.) I am reminded of how many postcards I mailed to HWIPP from NYC over the course of several years and he never received a one.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 11, 2020 14:18:58 GMT
(Just so we are all on the 'same page', we are aware the excellent pun comes from the Latin for left?)
I was a small boy in Primary School, 1966. My brother is older and we were at the same school. His classroom was next to mine for some reason. My brother is left handed. His teacher, an elderly woman, was making his life a misery in enforcing him writing etc with his right hand. My mother found out due to him being miserable and not wanting to go to school. The next day she stormed up to the school, marched inside, banged the classroom door open and let rip at the teacher. I could hear her.
I think the whole school could hear her. My mother shouting you are a stupid out of date excuse for a teacher and you should have retired years ago. If you continue trying to force him I will come every day and shout at you. Or words to that effect. She then came into my classroom, apologised to my teacher, gave me a hug and said she'd see me later for tea. At 4ft 11in (150cm) she was a little whirlwind when wound up.
I'm right handed but my left side is my stronger side. Opening jars, jumping, arm wrestling etc, always my left side is better.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 11, 2020 14:56:49 GMT
No exceptions are made for natural lefties. Having spent 34 years working for the Saudis, I did notice over the years that there are quite a few left-handed young Saudis and nobody glares at them, so some of the things we have been told over the years are becoming out of date.
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Post by questa on Mar 11, 2020 23:08:11 GMT
It sounds like our left-handers are unusually dexterous. Mark, I thought you might have seen what I did there!
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 12, 2020 6:39:05 GMT
Yes, but I don't think they are sweet at all.
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Post by questa on Mar 12, 2020 7:08:03 GMT
Sweet? where does that come in? I thought dexterous simply meant right handed, with a nod to dexterity and right handedness.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 12, 2020 7:21:42 GMT
No, it is actually an excess of dextrose.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 12, 2020 16:51:02 GMT
Y'all leave Questa alone! She was on the right track, anyway. You two are just messing with her.
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Post by casimira on Mar 12, 2020 20:22:47 GMT
Is there a "left" track and where does it take one?
Mother Noelle in the second grade parochial elementary school who tied my left arm to the desk and would slam my knuckles with a yardstick when she caught me wriggle it out so as to keep up with the rest of the class would likely say the left track was leading me straight to hell!!
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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2020 0:20:24 GMT
Maybe her karma will see her reborn as a mosquito millions of times and get swatted to death each time.
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Post by casimira on Mar 13, 2020 0:47:28 GMT
AMEN TO THAT!!!!
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