Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

Write right, throw right, shoot left, bat left and right (better left), golf right, shoot pool right...

 

[Proud2baLaker]

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 try to play pool right handed at times too so that I dont have to do any of that behind the back crap. It makes a lot of shots easier.

 

[St. Clown]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

Left (even though I don't skate )

I have a right-handed pool shot.

A left-handed hockey shot means you're using your right hand as the dominant for control. That's why I asked. People who are left-handed for writing and such, *should* be taught to shoot right-handed and then righties should should left. Most people aren't taught to logic as kids, and thus you get people like me who grow up right-handed at everything including hockey (and you with left/left) who use their dominant, dexterous hands as the guide/power side and not their control side.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

A left-handed hockey shot means you're using your right hand as the dominant for control. That's why I asked. People who are left-handed for writing and such, *should* be taught to shoot right-handed and then righties should should left. Most people aren't taught to logic as kids, and thus you get people like me who grow up right-handed at everything including hockey (and you with left/left) who use their dominant, dexterous hands as the guide/power side and not their control side.

Which is why I play stringed instruments "right-handed". Witha mouse, I use an external right, pointing stick left (I can't use the touchpads).

 

[FreshFish]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

What about footedness?

Does it match handedness?

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

What about footedness?

Does it match handedness?

If you're left-footed when it comes to soccer, that's good enough for me.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

What about footedness?

I kick with my left foot.

 

[Kepler]

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.

This was true at Cornell, too. In a row of 20 chairs the far left would be the only good one. Now combine that with being legally blind in your right eye, and you have an impossible situation.

OTOH, it was always a good excuse to sit on the far right, swivel, and use the corner of the pretty girl to the left's desk.

 

[Kepler]

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.

This sounds urban legendy.

The (also probably urban legend) story I had always heard was that horsemen rode to the right so they could hold the reins in their dominant (right) hand while gesturing to oncoming horsemen with the (inside) left hand.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

OTOH, it was always a good excuse to sit on the far right, swivel, and use the corner of the pretty girl to the left's desk.

There were pretty girls at Cornell?

Sorry... couldn't let that meatball go without swinging (left-handed, of course)! ')

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: Happy International Left Handers Day 2012

This sounds urban legendy.

The (also probably urban legend) story I had always heard was that horsemen rode to the right so they could hold the reins in their dominant (right) hand while gesturing to oncoming horsemen with the (inside) left hand.

That doesn't explain why the English drive on the left.