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posted on 2005-4-10 at 23:38
Right v.s Left
Are you right handed?
Are you left handed?
This thread is for you.
Post and tell us about your experiences as a right/left handed person and what obstacles (if any) you face on a regular basis.
Personally, I'm left handed.
What's ridiculous is that every person that I've ever dated is left handed, too. And it's not like I pick a guy for being a lefty,
it just happens and we find out half through the relationship. Odd.
I do believe my left handed scissors were more expensive than the regular ones.
I suppose there's a million of these places, but in Texas when I was younger we went to this store within a mall, and it had everything for left
handed people. Scissors, knives,rulers, etc.
I still have my lefty ruler and scissors...
Speaking of scissors. I cannot cut with right-handed scissors for the life of me. I don't know what happens. I put it on paper and it just folds
it, as if there were no blade at all.
I am the only left-handed person in my whole family. Which is...interesting. I've grown accustomed to living in a house full of
'righties', but whenever I used to visit my godfather's house in Mexico, it'd get crazy. Both him and his wife are left
handed, and so everything would be done to aid lefties...door handles, fridge doors, cutlery, etc. It was so much easier.
There.
That's enough ramble on my end. Let's get some participation rolling.
P.S: Lefties have scientifically been called to be smarter than righties.
They're also more musically inclined if I am not mistaken. take that. jk...seriously.
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posted on 2005-4-10 at 23:44
...Depends on what I'm doing....
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 00:01
Yeah the whole smart thing is apparantly true, due to left handers using the right side of the brain and right handers using the left. Apparantly
lefties are more artistic and Righties tend to be sportier (or something, can't really remember the right handed one). This could also just be
an urban myth.
Anyway, I'm left handed and generally don't have a problem with anything. One of my sisters is left handed, my mum is ambidextrous and my
other sister and dad are right handed, perfect symmetry.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 00:03
my mum's left handed but none of the rest of us are. as for your scissors crisis: you're holding the scissors in such a way that
you're moving the blades away from each other a little bit. a right handed person holds the scissors in the same way but with the other hand,
and that pushes the blades together tightly rather than pushing them apart.
this may be a load of bullshit but it seems to make sense.
however, i know this bit for sure and in fact it's probably pretty obvious. anyway, it's really hard to cut something accurately when
using the wrong hand because you're looking along the opposite edge to where the blade cuts.
how does a left-handed ruler work?
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 00:41
My guess would be the numbers would start at the right hand side of the ruler and get larger towards the left. Since if you have the ruler in front of
you horizontally so you can read the numbers hold it with your non preferred hand and pretend to draw a line. You will find it's more
comfortable to start at the opposite end to the hand your using and bring it across your body. This works fine for a right hander, but a leftie will
be starting their line at the bigger number end.
Basically, no matter how you want to draw a line, it would seem (as a left hander) it's instinctively easier to go down the numbers than it is
to go up. I don't know if that's true for everyone, but that's what I just realised from my little experiments just then.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 01:07
im a righty. i do everything with my right hand, i write with it, i brush my teeth with it, i used to play tennis with it, i hold my video camera with
it, i use my right foot to kick when i play soccer (though i am learning to use the left as well), and i play guitar the standard way, however, i play
pool the way lefties do. i dont know why, just i always thought it made sense to hold the stick with your right hand, and direct with your left. this
tends to help a lot when we play with teams, cause im always paired up with a right handed player, so we can hit balls on both sides of the table
easily, without having to do any behind-the-back nonsense. but alas i have rambled enough. interesting thread dez.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 01:39
i'm pretty sure right handers hold the cue with their right. i always have anyway.
that sounds right sin.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 02:02
Depends what you mean Armour, as a left hander I hold the back of the cue with my left hand and position the tip on my right. Is that how you do
it?
The only thing I do right handed is play bass, as I'll be damned if I'm spending the extra cash to buy a left handed bass. It is more
difficult though, I can play faster left handed than right (a mate has a left hander which I had a go at).
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 02:26
yeah, that's the way i do it sin, i just got confused.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 05:10
wow thats what i do too, wait all right handed people hold the end of the cue with their left hand and the tip with their right
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 05:14
no that's what left handed people do. all the righties i know do it the opposite.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 05:24
weird seems to me everyone i know shoots the way you've said
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 05:36
Wierd, armour is right, that's the left handed way, because you're using your left hand to control the cue, the right hand is just a
support.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:07
thats opposite of what you said the first time sin.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:11
no that's definately the way he said it before.
to avoid confusion, this is the way right handed people do it.
[Edited on 11-4-05 by armour_guitarist]
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as a left hander I hold the back of the cue with my left hand and position the tip on my right. Is that how you do it?
you're using your left hand to control the cue, the right hand is just a support.
are those not opposite?
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:19
It's your rear hand that controls the cue, not your front hand, the front hand is to support the cue and keep it in line with whatever
you're trying to hit, it's your back hand that is for aiming and firing. Thus, the hand at the back of the cue (my left) controls the
cue.
At least that's how everyone I know plays pool.
[Edited on 11-4-05 by Sin Ogaris]
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:22
yeah so basically lefties (Sin, Jorge) do the exact opposite of the picture above. and me, being a retarded righthander also do the opposite of the
picture.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:23
i get ya,i had it all mixed up. i'm a righty ian.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:28
I used completely different wording which would confuse most anyone.
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:34
well thank you for making me look less foolish
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:36
quotation:Originally posted by SideO_JR
as a left hander...
quotation:Originally posted by SideO_JR
i'm a righty ian.
what the hell?
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:42
haha wow i musta still been on some kinda drug when i said that cause i am pretty sure i have never been left handed
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:43
maybe you meant as a left hander in pool...?
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posted on 2005-4-11 at 06:51
Im a righty and suck in all sports... but i do well in art, and music. I do have a dumb part of me, so im not all that smart.
.::Lullaby::.
xX*I am sorry now (but will I ever let you go…)
Things seem so wrong (I had something worth living for)
I cant go on, but its something we’re suppose to do
My heart is crushed, now that I’m without you
I’m without you *Xx
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