FlagDUDE08
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Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
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Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
You're welcome. Just don't get left behind in the rush to the mega-sales today.To all my fellow southpaws out there.
MarkEagleUSA
C'mon Q!
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
I guess I can celebrate for half of the day. I write and eat right-handed but play all sports left-handed. Never been able to figure out how that happened...
I guess I can celebrate for half of the day. I write and eat right-handed but play all sports left-handed. Never been able to figure out how that happened...
French Rage
NICKERSON HAS [CENSORED]
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
We haven't eliminated all of them yet?!
We haven't eliminated all of them yet?!
FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
It doesn't matter if you do everything or just one thing. You're still one of us.
It doesn't matter if you do everything or just one thing. You're still one of us.
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
I'm confused and a former stutterer.
I'm a right shot. throw left, bat right. swing golf club right. write right. bowl right.
I'm confused and a former stutterer.
FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
Throw left? Good enough for me. HILHD!
I actually know someone who only putts left-handed, but plays the rest of golf, and does practically everything else, right-handed.
Throw left? Good enough for me. HILHD!
I actually know someone who only putts left-handed, but plays the rest of golf, and does practically everything else, right-handed.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
I'm capable of batting left handed, and I play hockey/broomball/etc. left handed, but that's it.
I'll celebrate it for about an hour and be done with it.
I'm capable of batting left handed, and I play hockey/broomball/etc. left handed, but that's it.
I'll celebrate it for about an hour and be done with it.
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
This post is only for those who have a sense of humor.
If you are thin-skinned and can't take a joke, stop reading now please.
Hmm....isn't it the case that the root of the word "sinister" is from the Latin sinistra, or "left-handed"?
the French word for "left-handed" is gauche, which in English is a word meaning "socially awkward", as in "did you see FF's gauche post in a thread devoted to left-handers day?"
According to Wikipedia, the proportion of left-handers as part of the total population is higher in primitive cultures.
Just messin' with ya folks. Enjoy your day.
This post is only for those who have a sense of humor.
If you are thin-skinned and can't take a joke, stop reading now please.
Hmm....isn't it the case that the root of the word "sinister" is from the Latin sinistra, or "left-handed"?
the French word for "left-handed" is gauche, which in English is a word meaning "socially awkward", as in "did you see FF's gauche post in a thread devoted to left-handers day?"
According to Wikipedia, the proportion of left-handers as part of the total population is higher in primitive cultures.
Just messin' with ya folks. Enjoy your day.
Proud2baLaker
Master of Science
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
I play pool left handed. Right handed at everything else I do (learned to play pool watching my dad who was a lefty).
Also and Im not sure what "handedness" this would mean...but when I am eating food (say a steak) I hold the fork in my right and knife in my left and never do any switching. I know that most people who are right handed cut with the right hand and then swtich the fork from left back to right, but I have never done that.
I play pool left handed. Right handed at everything else I do (learned to play pool watching my dad who was a lefty).
Also and Im not sure what "handedness" this would mean...but when I am eating food (say a steak) I hold the fork in my right and knife in my left and never do any switching. I know that most people who are right handed cut with the right hand and then swtich the fork from left back to right, but I have never done that.
MarkEagleUSA
C'mon Q!
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
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Left (even though I don't skate
)I have a right-handed pool shot.
FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
And you get 364 (sometimes 365) other days to gloat this discrimination. Give him the red-handled scissors!
This post is only for those who have a sense of humor.
If you are thin-skinned and can't take a joke, stop reading now please.
Hmm....isn't it the case that the root of the word "sinister" is from the Latin sinistra, or "left-handed"?
the French word for "left-handed" is gauche, which in English is a word meaning "socially awkward", as in "did you see FF's gauche post in a thread devoted to left-handers day?"
According to Wikipedia, the proportion of left-handers as part of the total population is higher in primitive cultures.
Just messin' with ya folks. Enjoy your day.
And you get 364 (sometimes 365) other days to gloat this discrimination. Give him the red-handled scissors!
FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
I know someone else who is the same way.
I learned to play pool right-handed, but now play ambidextrous (though predominantly left). No behind-the-back shots for me.
As for eating, the Americans call you right-handed, while the Europeans call you a stupid American.
I know someone else who is the same way.
I learned to play pool right-handed, but now play ambidextrous (though predominantly left). No behind-the-back shots for me.
As for eating, the Americans call you right-handed, while the Europeans call you a stupid American.
FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
Southpaw fact: It is because of a left-handed person that you drive on the right side of the road (assuming you're in a country that does so). Napoleon Bonaparte wanted his dominant hand, the one where he primarily used his sword, to be out towards the enemy as he stood to the outside of his marching troops. Therefore, those under his empire became used to marching on the right side of the road, as opposed to the left.
Southpaw fact: It is because of a left-handed person that you drive on the right side of the road (assuming you're in a country that does so). Napoleon Bonaparte wanted his dominant hand, the one where he primarily used his sword, to be out towards the enemy as he stood to the outside of his marching troops. Therefore, those under his empire became used to marching on the right side of the road, as opposed to the left.
MountieBoyOz
Eater of Worlds
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
Party at the Leftorium later?
Party at the Leftorium later?
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
You know, it really is discrimination. Think about those stupid desks in college classrooms with the desk part on the right. I had to cross my legs and put a notebook in my lap to take notes. You'd think they could invest in one or two lefty desks. When I was a kid, ball points hadn't yet taken over the pen world. It was impossible for me to use a fountain pen, since my left hand would drag through what I'd just written and smear it (and my hand).
I remember a guy in 5th grade going through all sorts of changes because the teacher was trying to change him to a righty (obviously with his parents' permission, since nobody ever said a word to me). All sorts of common implements make life somewhat more difficult for lefties. The one real advantage is baseball both hitting and pitching. How many marginal lefty relief pitchers can hang on a couple of extra years because they've got a statistical better chance of getting the big right hand hitter out?
Old Pio: bats right, golf right, throws left, tennis left, bowls left, writes left, eats and one other thing with either hand.
And you get 364 (sometimes 365) other days to gloat this discrimination. Give him the red-handled scissors!
You know, it really is discrimination. Think about those stupid desks in college classrooms with the desk part on the right. I had to cross my legs and put a notebook in my lap to take notes. You'd think they could invest in one or two lefty desks. When I was a kid, ball points hadn't yet taken over the pen world. It was impossible for me to use a fountain pen, since my left hand would drag through what I'd just written and smear it (and my hand).
I remember a guy in 5th grade going through all sorts of changes because the teacher was trying to change him to a righty (obviously with his parents' permission, since nobody ever said a word to me). All sorts of common implements make life somewhat more difficult for lefties. The one real advantage is baseball both hitting and pitching. How many marginal lefty relief pitchers can hang on a couple of extra years because they've got a statistical better chance of getting the big right hand hitter out?
Old Pio: bats right, golf right, throws left, tennis left, bowls left, writes left, eats and one other thing with either hand.
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FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
At least at RPI in the large lecture halls, the chairs furthest to the left of each aisle have the desk on the correct side. Still not enough (not even close to 1 out of 10), but a step in the correct direction.
At least at RPI in the large lecture halls, the chairs furthest to the left of each aisle have the desk on the correct side. Still not enough (not even close to 1 out of 10), but a step in the correct direction.
Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012
I'm exactly the opposite. Sports are all right but writing and eating is left. One hand is stronger and one hand is more precise.
So I like the celebrating half a day.
Left is right!
I'm exactly the opposite. Sports are all right but writing and eating is left. One hand is stronger and one hand is more precise.
So I like the celebrating half a day.
Left is right!