The Left (handed, that is)

[Alex De Kok]

Prompted by a couple of answers on Perdita's thread on sentence diagramming (which I certainly don't remember from 1950s UK schooling) I started to wonder (always dangerous). How many of us are left-handed?

Me, for one. The_Fool, minsue and Liar admitted the aberration, too.

How many others? Is writing erotica a left-handed thing? The world holds its breath . . .

Alex

 

[The_Fool]

Next, we will have to have a poll on those of us that are in their right brain....

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

I'm a righty. Not sure about the brain.

(Hi Fool! Good to see you! )

Lou

 

[Guest]

Another sinister one here.

"Dex... Dex... Dex, sin, dex."

A Roman guy marching.

Do you know why it's called "Sinister"?

Cos that's the hand the Roman Soldiers wiped their bums with!!!

(Sorry, was told that by a guy in a Roman Army uniform. )

Lou

 

[The_Fool]

I'm a righty. Not sure about the brain.

(Hi Fool! Good to see you! )

Lou

Thank you darling, always wonderful to be in your ghostly presence as well...

 

[Guest]

 

[minsue]

Hmmm, that's not what I remeber from parochial school and the mandatory Bible classes. My memory is a little rusty (okay, a lot rusty, I spent most of that class with my mind elsewhere) but here goes.

The act of shaking hands in greeting originally developed to demonstrate that you were not holding a weapon. There's a book in the Old Testament about two men meeting each other. They shake hands, but one of them is a lefty, pulls a dagger from his cloak, stabs and kills the other. Since the Bible was originally written in Latin, the killer was described as "sinestro" (left handed). Hence the evolution of the word in English to mean evil.

At least that's the way I heard it.

Maybe there's a Biblical scholar about who can remeber the exact book from the OT and the guys' names.

Still trying to figure out which side of my brain retained this bit arcane memory,

Lime

Tis the way I was taught, too

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Another left handed deviant here.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm, that's not what I remeber from parochial school and the mandatory Bible classes. My memory is a little rusty (okay, a lot rusty, I spent most of that class with my mind elsewhere) but here goes.

The act of shaking hands in greeting originally developed to demonstrate that you were not holding a weapon. There's a book in the Old Testament about two men meeting each other. They shake hands, but one of them is a lefty, pulls a dagger from his cloak, stabs and kills the other. Since the Bible was originally written in Latin, the killer was described as "sinestro" (left handed). Hence the evolution of the word in English to mean evil.

At least that's the way I heard it.

Maybe there's a Biblical scholar about who can remeber the exact book from the OT and the guys' names.

Still trying to figure out which side of my brain retained this bit arcane memory,

Lime

Not as amusing to say to a group of kids at a "Roman Fun Day" though, is it?

 

[Guest]

 

[English Lady]

Well I am left handed too in EVERYTHING I do. (except eating with a knife and fork) Can you imagine how frustrated I was when I broke my left wrist? I couldn't masturbate with the right for love nor money.

It took a while till I could have sex as well. And I couldn't write properly..or eat properly...or do anything at all really. it sucked.

but yeah..left handed here too. Glad to see i'm in good company

 

[Guest]

Nope.

Twat

Thank you.

 

[cloudy]

I'm right-handed, but do a good many things the way lefties do.

I tie my shoes left-handed - that comes to mind real quick because someone just mentioned it to me yesterday.

When I was competing at water-skiing, people always remarked on how weird it was that I was right-handed, but skied "goofy foot." Normally, a right-handed person will slalom ski with their right foot in back, but not me. Just had to be different, I guess.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Righty

-Colly

 

[snooper]

Well I am left handed too in EVERYTHING I do. (except eating with a knife and fork)

Can anyone explain why tables are always laid left handed in the USA? For a naturally right-jhanded person the fork should be in the left to hold the food still (Stop wriggling, bastard chicken) while the right hand does the technically more difficult job of cutting things up.

 

[Guest]

 

[oggbashan]

I voted ambidextrous but ambisinistrous would be a better description - equally bad with either hand.

I have two left-handed daughters and one ambisinistrous one.

My brother is ambidextrous. He can write, sketch or paint with either hand.

Both of my parents were lefties forced to write with their right hand - schools in the 1910s and 20s were like that.

Og

 

[Alex De Kok]

I voted ambidextrous but ambisinistrous would be a better description - equally bad with either hand.

That's me playing table tennis. The one area where I am truly even-handed

I have two left-handed daughters and one ambisinistrous one.

My brother is ambidextrous. He can write, sketch or paint with either hand.

Both of my parents were lefties forced to write with their right hand - schools in the 1910s and 20s were like that.

Og

I'm pleased to say that I was never coerced in any way, in fact in secondary school they even provided me with slant-cut nibs for calligraphy lessons (few though they were).

I write, paint (badly), draw (equally poorly), throw darts, left-handed. I eat (European style) with fork in left hand, knife in right. I throw balls, spears, etc. right-handed. I'm no good at ball games, but I'm equally bad with either foot at kicking a soccer ball.

Alex

 

[TheEarl]

Right handed, except in the case of passing a rugby ball, where I am left handed (finding it easier to pass with my left hand to my right side where the left hand controls the spin and direction of the ball, as opposedto passing with my right hand to my left side, where the right hand controls the movement and direction of the ball), despite the fact that I throw with my right. Due to the necessities of sport I have developed a bit of ambidextrousity, meaning that I can pass and throw adequately with my bad hand and can kick with my left.

The Earl

 

[LadyJeanne]

I use both hands...on the keyboard. Otherwise I'm right-handed, except for driving where I mostly use the left.

I've heard that women who give birth later in life are more likely to have left-handed kids.

 

[Edward Teach]

Right handed.

Left legged.


Ed

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Totally Southpawed.

But I am ambidextrous and multidigital with a computer.

When I save up enough money I am going to open up in opposition to Joe's, and call it The Bar Sinister.

I'll serve beer in a left-handed stein.

 

[Guest]

I'm left shouldered. Does that mean anything? (That's the shoulder I hang my handbag on. )

 

[gauchecritic]

Oddly enough I am able to write with my left hand although it comes out more scrawly than my write (sorry right) but, I can write mirror legibly with my left hand.

I also tend to dress to the left too.

Gauche