left-handed or right-handed....or?

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:47 am

curious what our proportions are here.

for purposes of the poll:

left-handed: write with left hand. do most 'handed' tasks with left hand.

left-handed with ambidextrosity: write with left hand. but can use standard 'right handed' scissors. might use computer mouse on the right. etc.

right-handed: write with right hand. do most 'handed' tasks with right hand.

right-handed with ambidextrosity: write with right hand. but might use computer mouse on the left, etc.

ambidextrous: can write with equal facility with left or right hand. no 'handedness' preference.

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:47 am

Right handed for me!

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:44 am

I chose Right-Handed with Ambidextrosity. When I started school I used to write with my left hand, but that was considered 'wrong'. There were 3 of us who wrote with our left-hand and we were all scolded or had our hands tapped with a ruler until we wrote with our right hand. Only one girl carried on writing with her left.

Now I write with my right but do most things with my left hand first - I'm just cackhanded! :wah:

Interestingly, my daughter is left handed! When she started to write she'd write from the top right of a page across to the top left and all her letters would be back to front - like a mirror image. Weird, huh? :rolleyes: :wah:

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:47 am

I can't write left-handed, but I'm ambedextrous with most things.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:17 am

I'm a righty, but I'm a mirror twin. That means that my twin Susie is a lefty. She was raised using righty scissors and righty baseball mitts (we were tomboys!), so I bet she would be left-handed with ambidextrosity . . . interesting! :-6

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:34 am

Right handed but I used to play cricket left handed. I used to let them set the fielders up for a right-handed batsman then turn as the bowler made his approach. :sneaky:

Can play golf or baseball left or right handed.

Learned to write left-handed for a while when I fractured my right thumb

I'm ambidextrous, but only with my right hand

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:39 am

Clancy wrote: I'm right handed, but any skill and dexterity on the guitar is done by my left hand. :guitarist

I also have an embalmed hand that belonged to one of Saddam's Red Guard...... That was brought back from the first Gulf War. I used to chase my young nieces and nephews around our house with it when they came to visit....there's a timex watch still on the wrist. My missus wanted it put in a drawer, but as a compromise, it's now wall mounted. I rarely see my nieces and nephews now, they've all grown up

Occasionally they'll stop by.....they don't come in, they just park and point up at our window for their friends, and then drive away.

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Oh you brought back a new family "member" from the war eh Clancy..

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:36 am

I voted left hand with ambiwhatever...........

One of my teachers also tried to make me write with my right hand, but my Mum being a left hander herself went banana's. My brother is also left handed as is my son.

I write and slice bread with my left, but most other things I do ambiwhateverly, depends how long before my wrist gets tired, then I swap!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:58 am

ArnoldLayne wrote: Sounds like you're cack-handed to me :sneaky:

:p Cheeky! You haven't said what you are Arnold

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:15 am

i am left handed. when i learned to write , everybody had to slant their paper to the left, it all had to look the same. so i learned to write up the lines. i stll write sideways. i play golf , softball, and all that right handed. :-6

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:50 am

Rapunzel wrote: I chose Right-Handed with Ambidextrosity. When I started school I used to write with my left hand, but that was considered 'wrong'. There were 3 of us who wrote with our left-hand and we were all scolded or had our hands tapped with a ruler until we wrote with our right hand. Only one girl carried on writing with her left.

Now I write with my right but do most things with my left hand first - I'm just cackhanded! :wah:

same story here! :-6

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:52 am

There is only one thing I do left handed.:yh_wink

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:02 am

Rapunzel wrote: I chose Right-Handed with Ambidextrosity. When I started school I used to write with my left hand, but that was considered 'wrong'. There were 3 of us who wrote with our left-hand and we were all scolded or had our hands tapped with a ruler until we wrote with our right hand. Only one girl carried on writing with her left.

Now I write with my right but do most things with my left hand first - I'm just cackhanded! :wah:

Interestingly, my daughter is left handed! When she started to write she'd write from the top right of a page across to the top left and all her letters would be back to front - like a mirror image. Weird, huh? :rolleyes: :wah:

They tried that with me - all they succeeded in doing was making my writing unreadable (described by one teacher as a spider having fallen in the ink pot and run around the page). It's only just recovering now.

Mirror writing is usually a sign of high intelegence so let her play

Erinna1112 · Post by **Erinna1112** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:30 am

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous..... :-2

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:32 pm

I am right handed. My dad was the family's only lefty till my niece, Nicole came along. So, it skipped a generation till it got to her, I guess.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:35 pm

my papa was left handed. none of his six kids were but all twenty two grandkids are left handed. now my kids are all right handed. wierd.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:49 pm

Clancy wrote: Thank goodness you saw that as, bollocks....I was getting concerned that some would be buying that embalmed hand bit...:rolleyes:

.

clancy, u mean it isn't true?

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:07 pm

the percentages are coming up about as expected - typically it's said that from ten to fifteen percent of the population is left-handed.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:30 pm

Clancy wrote: Dear Guppy It was just a wind up (tease...... kidding on)

i'm prone to doing that .....occasionally :yh_angel

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Believe me she knows that clancy, she didn't just swim in from the farm LOL:D

weber · Post by **weber** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:31 pm

right handed. Will that win me any treats of any kind, huh huh:-3

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:40 pm

Right-handed. But I often have to use my left hand instead of my right in my job, plus I do use my mouse with my left-hand.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:42 pm

zinkyusa wrote: Believe me she knows that clancy, she didn't just swim in from the farm LOL:D

I didn't?

weber · Post by **weber** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:42 pm

Anything else you use your left hand for OM....anything interesting:-3

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:55 pm

Betty Boop wrote: I voted left hand with ambiwhatever...........

One of my teachers also tried to make me write with my right hand, but my Mum being a left hander herself went banana's. My brother is also left handed as is my son.

I write and slice bread with my left, but most other things I do ambiwhateverly, depends how long before my wrist gets tired, then I swap!

Good Lord! - Do you think our demure Boops could possibly be getting a little suggestive here?:yh_ooooo

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:58 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: Good Lord! - Do you think our demure Boops could possibly be getting a little suggestive here?:yh_ooooo

:o Never Unc, never in a million years! I'm talking about when I bake a cake I'll have you know. All that creaming the sugar and butter takes a lot of hard work! :p

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:08 pm

Betty Boop wrote:

Never Unc, never in a million years! I'm talking about when I bake a cake I'll have you know. All that creaming the sugar and butter takes a lot of hard work! :p

Yeah...whatever......

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:13 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: Yeah...whatever......

:p :p

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:43 pm

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl Your poor wife I would have throw the ugly thing in the trash..

[QUOTE]also have an embalmed hand that belonged to one of Saddam's Red Guard...... That was brought back from the first Gulf War. I used to chase my young nieces and nephews around our house with it when they came to visit....there's a timex watch still on the wrist. My missus wanted it put in a drawer, but as a compromise, it's now wall mounted. I rarely see my nieces and nephews now, they've all grown up

Occasionally they'll stop by.....they don't come in, they just park and point up at our window for their friends, and then drive away. [/QUOTE]

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:00 pm

CARLA wrote: :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl Your poor wife I would have throw the ugly thing in the trash..

I'm sure she's not ugly in the slightest!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:17 pm

Why ? What are you up to ? How will you be using this personal information ? Want my social security # too ? Whats next, blood samples ? A swab for dna ? Whats your real name, big brother ? Last time I checked this wasnt Communist Russia ! Dont give him the info people, this is how it starts. Next thing you know there will be a camera in your biffy !

I bet your hero was Mussolini with a side of Stalin. God !

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:20 pm

Nomad wrote: Why ? What are you up to ? How will you be using this personal information ? Want my social security # too ? Whats next, blood samples ? A swab for dna ? Whats your real name, big brother ? Last time I checked this wasnt Communist Russia ! Dont give him the info people, this is how it starts. Next thing you know there will be a camera in your biffy !

I bet your hero was Mussolini with a side of Stalin. God !

Dipsey-doodles. Can't live with 'em... can't throw 'em out the door doin'

55...

:-5

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:21 pm

Nomad wrote: Why ? What are you up to ? How will you be using this personal information ? Want my social security # too ? Whats next, blood samples ? A swab for dna ? Whats your real name, big brother ? Last time I checked this wasnt Communist Russia ! Dont give him the info people, this is how it starts. Next thing you know there will be a camera in your biffy !

I bet your hero was Mussolini with a side of Stalin. God !

"left" in latin is "sinister".

need i say more?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:22 pm

anastrophe wrote: "left" in latin is "sinister".

need i say more?

and the opposite of dexter(ous)

I always new we cack-handers were clumsy for a reason :wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:22 pm

Damien !

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:27 pm

Pinky wrote: Righty with ambi tendencies.

When I was a hairdresser I could cut, dry, etc with either...when I use the longbow I'm lefthanded. I just can't shoot with my right!

Aw pinkster, hes probably already got your phone tapped. Ixnay on the phone sex.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:51 pm

a few fairly well-known left-handers, in no order whatsoever:

Alexander the Great

Babe Ruth

Hans Holbein

Betty Grable

Rock Hudson

Ted Williams

Danny Kaye

Casey Stengel

Dick Van Dyke

Peter Ustinov

Oprah Winfrey

Barry Bonds

Ty Cobb

Judy Garland

Charlemagne

Pablo Picasso

Lord Nelson

Steve McQueen

Paul McCartney

Ringo Starr

Michaelangelo

Raphael

Rod Steiger

Angelina Jolie

Leonardo Da Vinci

George H.W. Bush

Ronald Reagan

Gerald Ford

Bill Clinton

Harry S Truman

Robert Redford

Julius Caeser

Napoleon Bonaparte

Prince Charles

Marilyn Monroe

Alan Turing

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sting

Henry Ford

Helen Keller

Ludwig Von Beethoven

Greta Garbo

Clarence Darrow

Lewis Carroll

Charles Schultz

Albert Schweitzer

Bob Dylan

Gunter Grass

Mark Twain

H.G. Wells

Jimi Hendrix

Paul Klee

Winston Churchill

Cole Porter

Albrecht Dürer

Pablo Casals

M.C. Escher

Charlie Chaplin

Tom Cruise

W.C. Fields

Harpo Marx

Emanuel Bach

Robert DeNiro

Cary Grant

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:08 pm

Scratch with the left, pick with the right.