Lefty or Righty?

[fitbabits]

The eternal question - are you a lefty or a righty? It's an unspoken belief among many that there's a lefty conspiracy.

Here's a list of famous lefties:


Albert Einstein - scientist
Phil Mickelson - golfer
C. Montgomery Burns - Homer Simpson's boss
George H.W. Bush - President of the US
Ned Flanders - Homer Simpson's neighbor
Jimi Hendrix - guitarist
Leonardo da Vinci - artist
Leroy Neiman
M.C. Escher - painter
Michelangelo Buonaroti
Hans Holbein the Younger
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Paul Klee
Peter Paul Rubens
Randy Johnson - MLB picther
Raoul Dufy
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton - former U.S. President
Jerry Seinfeld - actor/comedian

And this is what happens when you Google "famous right handed people." (http://www.google.com/search?q=famous+right+handed+people&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

So what are you?

[Blue]

I'm the first famous right-handed person is what I am.

[NoName]

I'm a righty, thus the reason I'm stuck in a cube all day and not famous.

Shouldn't there be a poll? :p

[squirrelTactics]

Famous Right-Handed People - Everybody else

That's why.

[fitbabits]

I'm a righty, thus the reason I'm stuck in a cube all day and not famous.

Shouldn't there be a poll? :p
There should, which is why there is! :)

[violent]

I'm right handed and I am far superior to all those mentioned.

[President Fred]

I'm right handed but I am ambidextrous when it comes to my feet, I don't have a dominant foot. That was fairly useful when I did sports, it's not any more.

[DangerousDaze]

Bit of both. Some things I can do best left handed (e.g. play pool), some things I do best right handed (e.g. write), and some things I can do with either hand (e.g. play tennis, cricket etc.)

[Rock Bandit]

Righty for business, lefty for pleasure.

[roboninja]

I'm a lefty.


Oh, you mean for writing and most everything else. Then I am right-handed.

EDIT Damn you, RB.

[NoName]

There should, which is why there is! :)

Haha, I'm not patient enough to give you time to create the poll before I start complaining about the lack there of.

Hopefully that made some amount of sense, I'm for some reason exhausted and it makes thinking coherently somewhat difficult.

[frederec]

The eternal question - are you a lefty or a righty? It's an unspoken belief among many that there's a lefty conspiracy.

Here's a list of famous lefties:

So what are you?

You think there's a "lefty conspiracy?" Sounds like someone so deep in the camp of the right-handed oppressors that he can't see what he's doing.

Go into a classroom. Notice the left-handed desks. I'm not talking about how many there are, but sit in a right-handed desk, then a left-handed desk. They're not quite mirror images. The desk portion that comes over the chair in a left-handed desk tends to dig into your side, whereas this doesn't happen in a right-handed desk.

Not to mention the fact that most things "made for left-handed people" are of shoddy workmanship in general. I've never seen a good pair of left-handed scissors. Left-handed pens (whose ink is supposed to dry faster) rarely live up to their promises. It's all just righty keeping us down.

Also note the poll, since it's expected that right-handers would win, is naturally flipping the bird to everyone not right-handed when you see the poll results.

All part of the conspiracy.

[harle]

I use my left hand for writing and my right hand for sports.

[Young Al Capone]

Righty, clearly, as I am not some wierdo...

[National Kato]

Lefty. Mom was a lefty until the nun's got a hold of her. I fight the good fight for dear ol' Mom. Of course, the right hand is very important as well because its job is to cup the balls.

[squirrelTactics]

What the hell is a "left handed pen"?

[fitbabits]

What the hell is a "left handed pen"?
A pen for left handed people, I would think.

[frederec]

Lefty. Mom was a lefty until the nun's got a hold of her. I fight the good fight for dear ol' Mom. Of course, the right hand is very important as well because its job is to cup the balls.

Did you mean to talk about cupping balls in the same paragraph as nuns and dear ol' mom?

[Young Al Capone]

A pen for left handed people, I would think.

Sounds more like a ploy to trick gullible left handers...

[frederec]

What the hell is a "left handed pen"?

Left-handed people tend to drag their hand on the paper, smearing what they're writing. Left-handed pens supposedly have ink that dries faster, minimizing the problem.

[AgtFox]

What the hell is a "left handed pen"?
I think it was explained well. It is a quick drying pen since your hand/arm moves horizontally over what you have just written as you go along. If it didn't dry fast enough you would get ink stains/smears.

I'm a righty and I see lots of interesting writing situations for lefties. I knew a co-worker that actually wrote with the paper at a 90 degree angle and wrote top/down and excellent penmanship.

[AgtFox]

I'm a righty, but can do many things with either hand. I mostly eat with my left hand for instance when using two instruments and sometimes when just using a fork.

[wyeast]

I've never seen a "left handed pen" but I have based my decision on pen purchases based on which smears the least. :o

[Cyndair]

I'm right handed. And I use my damn right hand to wield ninja stars and eat some friggin cake.

[bapenguin]

Lefty-fo-life!

Actually I'm pretty ambidextrous, but mostly a lefty.

[Stoke]

Naturally a lefty but when I was young one grandmother had some bad blood with another, left handed, grandmother. I spent the most time with the right handed granny so she made me use my right hand to be less like my other grandmother. Fucked up but there it is.

I alternate hands now based on which is more convenient so in the end I'm better than all of you. :D

[Psykoboy2]

What?! I can't view who voted for what?

I wanna find my Lefty Brethren.

[TrackZero]

The eternal question - are you a lefty or a righty? It's an unspoken belief among many that there's a lefty conspiracy.

Here's a list of famous lefties:


Albert Einstein - scientist
Phil Mickelson - golfer
C. Montgomery Burns - Homer Simpson's boss
George H.W. Bush - President of the US
Ned Flanders - Homer Simpson's neighbor
Jimi Hendrix - guitarist
Leonardo da Vinci - artist
Leroy Neiman
M.C. Escher - painter
Michelangelo Buonaroti
Hans Holbein the Younger
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Paul Klee
Peter Paul Rubens
Randy Johnson - MLB picther
Raoul Dufy
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton - former U.S. President
Jerry Seinfeld - actor/comedian

And this is what happens when you Google "famous right handed people." (http://www.google.com/search?q=famous+right+handed+people&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

So what are you?

And here's the list of famous righties:

EVERYONE ELSE

[Young Al Capone]

Post #4:
Famous Right-Handed People - Everybody else

That's why.

Post #28:

And here's the list of famous righties:

EVERYONE ELSE

Weird.

[TheKeck]

Righty, of course.

[itchyeyes]

I think it was explained well. It is a quick drying pen since your hand/arm moves horizontally over what you have just written as you go along. If it didn't dry fast enough you would get ink stains/smears.

I'm a righty and I see lots of interesting writing situations for lefties. I knew a co-worker that actually wrote with the paper at a 90 degree angle and wrote top/down and excellent penmanship.
I'm a lefty and do the 90 degree trick. Pen actually isn't too bad, it's pencil that really gets all over your hands. Oh and spiral notebooks suck ass. Nothing like a nice sharp piece of metal digging into your wrist.

Also, like most left handed people I do many things right handed. There's just no way that you can go through life in a right handed world learning to do everything left handed.

[TheKeck]

Does anybody deal left handed? There are a couple guys at work that deal cards left-handed for some reason, even though they are right handed.

[5y1v4r]

I'm a righty but I wish I was a lefty.... lefties are hot ^_^

[Generation ABXY]

Lefty. Mom was a lefty until the nun's got a hold of her.

That's what happened to me. I don't mean they beat my hands with a ruler or anything - in fact, I don't remember quite what they did - but it is pretty well remembered by everyone else how they exorcised the evil of my left-handedness out of my. So, now I'm a righty...well, barely.

I hold my pen oddly apparently (everyone comments on it), my print is absolutely atrocious and my after seeing the bizarre symbols that are my cursive, all of my teachers told me never to do that to them again. Perhaps that's my own bit of resistance. :D

[Atepsflame]

The eternal question - are you a lefty or a righty? It's an unspoken belief among many that there's a lefty conspiracy.

Here's a list of famous lefties:


Albert Einstein - scientist
Phil Mickelson - golfer
C. Montgomery Burns - Homer Simpson's boss
George H.W. Bush - President of the US
Ned Flanders - Homer Simpson's neighbor
Jimi Hendrix - guitarist
Leonardo da Vinci - artist
Leroy Neiman
M.C. Escher - painter
Michelangelo Buonaroti
Hans Holbein the Younger
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Paul Klee
Peter Paul Rubens
Randy Johnson - MLB picther
Raoul Dufy
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton - former U.S. President
Jerry Seinfeld - actor/comedian

And this is what happens when you Google "famous right handed people." (http://www.google.com/search?q=famous+right+handed+people&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

So what are you?

See, you say that all proudly, but all that means is that every other famous person not on those lists, is right handed. Check and mate.

[Bad Buddha]

If I'm wearing boxers... usually to the right.

[LongStepMantis]

All you lefties and your "sinister" hands. Stay back!

To clarify: The left hand used to be referred to as the gauche, or sinister, hand. It was common belief that left-handed individuals were inherently evil. Lefties were often persecuted for being witches. The more you know.

[opsin]

Righty. Though I'm left footed for some things.
High jump, skating and snowboarding I'm goofy... Football I'm either.

That and I can only use left handed tin openers. Despite being very much right handed!

[Lithium Flower]

Hmm. I can't seem to remember the last time I used a pen. I type with both hands though.

[Zero]

Righty for business, lefty for pleasure.

I call lefty "The Stranger."

[DigitalFirefly]

Lefty FTW!!!

[Suave Peanut]

str8 reppin' tha LEFT SIDE!!

[fitbabits]

str8 reppin' tha LEFT SIDE!!
Apparently left handers are grammatically challenged as well. :)

[KingGorilla]

Depends on the activity, I am left eye dominant, but I writ with my right hand. I shoot left handed, I play left handed in Hockey.

[Suave Peanut]

Apparently left handers are grammatically challenged as well. :)
I take offence at your assertion, James. Clearly, as opposed to being "grammatically challenged," as you call it, we left-handers are rather adept at paralleling the left-hand/right-hand rivalry with similarly arbitrary rivalries (e.g. East coast/West coast) and juxtaposing inappropriate colloquialisms to great comic effect, at least to those that understand us. Your ignorance thus displays a right-handed inability to discern my subtleties.

Also: LOL LEFTY 4 LYFE BITCHEZ!!!

[civil]

Lefty. Mom was a lefty until the nun's got a hold of her. I fight the good fight for dear ol' Mom. Of course, the right hand is very important as well because its job is to cup the balls.
Uh, ditto. At least the part about your mom and the nuns. As for the cupping of the balls I'll let her tell you when it's time. ;)

I write with my right hand, but do everything else with my left side, including kicking, batting, etc. I'm old enough that when I started school being left-handed was seen as "wrong". One of my goals for next year is to teach myself to write with my left hand so I can get back to my roots.

Stupid ass-backward people.

[fitbabits]

I take offence at your assertion, James. Clearly, as opposed to being "grammatically challenged," as you call it, we left-handers are rather adept at paralleling the left-hand/right-hand rivalry with similarly arbitrary rivalries (e.g. East coast/West coast) and juxtaposing inappropriate colloquialisms to great comic effect, at least to those that understand us. Your ignorance thus displays a right-handed inability to discern my subtleties.

Also: LOL LEFTY 4 LYFE BITCHEZ!!!
Um, shut yer yap. :)

[Stoke]

I write with my write hand,

You don't say? :p

[biosc1]

Righty with everything in life.

Lefty with a hockey stick. Being Canadian, I'm of the belief that when I was born, doctors mistakenly put the hockey stick that all newborn Canucks receive into my left hand.

My mother refuses to verify if my claim is correct :(

[Bone]

I'm a lefty, but only for drawing and writing. Sports, I tend to use my right. Throwing, bat-swinging, tennis/ping-pong... I even kick with my right foot. This may be why I suck at sports, but my left side is naturally worse for all those tasks.

So technically ambidextrous, but I voted lefty because it's how I write and draw.

[rinichanraar]

All you lefties and your "sinister" hands. Stay back!

To clarify: The left hand used to be referred to as the gauche, or sinister, hand. It was common belief that left-handed individuals were inherently evil. Lefties were often persecuted for being witches. The more you know.

In Latin, the adjective sinister, -a, -um, means "left" and sometimes "left-handed."

(Ah, shit, with fifty posts per page, this bumps me as the first post on the second page...)

[Bone]

Nice work on the Latin, Rini! I took two years of it, and it's been helpful for deconstructing a word I don't know offhand. Still, I missed this one.

I guess this is also why I smoke left-handed cigarettes.

[Squidbot]

Persecute the left handed mutants.

[Mastergeo7]

I'm Righty, as my mother. But my brother and my father are lefties... They are so weird.

[Gerbs]

I call lefty "The Stranger."

Do you sit on it till it gets numb? That's the classic version.

[Rakael]

It is very sad that I clicked both, when in fact I am right handed.

After such a politically charged time, I honestly thought this thread was about how you leaned politically.

Sad.

[Urizen]

I'm a righty and I see lots of interesting writing situations for lefties. I knew a co-worker that actually wrote with the paper at a 90 degree angle and wrote top/down and excellent penmanship.

I do that. I'm glad I write like that rather than those weird-ass lefty contortionists who force a concentric circle with their left arm to so they move across the page they write on like righties....

Oddly, my wife is a rightie who does the concentric circle thing.

[Wilkz07]

Right handed but play all sports Left... go figure. Could never borrow anyone's golf clubs.

[Disgustipated]

I'm a lefty, but lean towards ambidextrous. Each of my hands are better at different things. For example, I go towards picking things up and throwing stuff with my right hand, but write with my left. Weird, I know.

[Zonkuya]

I'm left-handed, but society dictates that I use my MOUSE with my right hand. Also guitars. No lefty was willing enough to teach another here. That always irked me.

[court12b]

our new prez elect is a southpaw.

[Fubl]

Im actually very much ambidextrious. Block letters i write better left, Curved letters i write better right....If i were probably to actually write more id probably write lefty. But since its usually quick like to sign name or something its what ever hand is available.

[Zonkuya]

Btw, I'm a lefty, but is it so wrong for me to wish that I had TWO left hands? Just so that my chances of becoming one of those "famous people" go up by 50-100%.

[TheEpicOfTyler]

I am right handed everything except batting in baseball. Batting right handed feels un-natural and wrong, so I would bat left handed (pretty well too). Oddly, I cannot golf left-handed, and right handed feels perfect.

[Xerxes]

I think I read Obama is left handed.

[MagGnome]

Go into a classroom. Notice the left-handed desks. I'm not talking about how many there are, but sit in a right-handed desk, then a left-handed desk. They're not quite mirror images. The desk portion that comes over the chair in a left-handed desk tends to dig into your side, whereas this doesn't happen in a right-handed desk.

You reminded me of something that used to really piss me off - right-handed people sitting in left-handed desks in some of my college classrooms. Bastards! :mad:


Yes, the Gnome is left-handed.

[MagGnome]

All you lefties and your "sinister" hands. Stay back!

To clarify: The left hand used to be referred to as the gauche, or sinister, hand. It was common belief that left-handed individuals were inherently evil. Lefties were often persecuted for being witches. The more you know.

"Gauche" is the French word for left. :p


I do some things with my right hand - such as using a computer mouse. I can't use a mouse with my left hand for some reason, it just doesn't feel right. I do most things with my left hand though.

Edit - As far as writing goes, I usually turn the paper at an angle, and/or raise my hand up while I'm writing. I hold my pen in kind of an awkward manner to avoiding smearing ink/graphite.

[Purple Santa]

I have no hands. Thanks for reminding me of that ;)

[Variable Gear]

Well, if I'm feeling creative I'm a lefty, but I'm a righty for the most part.

[LongStepMantis]

"Gauche" is the French word for left. :p


I don't know French.

It doesn't change the fact that you lefties are plotting against us in our sleep. :p

[pomeroy]

I don't know French.

It doesn't change the fact that you lefties are plotting against us in our sleep. :p

Sweet dreams, Scurvy. :D

[Whunpo]

Right handed for life.
However, I used to only throw a disc with my left hand. I switched when I started playing competitively.

[civil]

You don't say? :p
What? What are you talking about?

Damn, quoted! Gah.

[Disgustipated]

I usually do the shocker with both hands. Ladies love it when I bust out a left-handed shocker on their nearby friends whilst the right-hand is in the act of shockering.

[Raen]

We left-handers are awesome :D I write and eat left-handed but I do some other stuff right-handed (play golf, play guitar, use a mouse) for convenience. It's great being left-handed :)

[Dukefrukem]

Lefties have shorter life spans than righties. fact

[muddi900]

I'm a righty.

It's a widely known fact that lefties are insane and sociopaths!

[TheKeck]

Hey, thought of a question the other day when I saw a left playing UT3. I thought about creating a new thread for it, but I'll see if I can just get the answer here.

Do all you lefties use a computer mouse in your left hand all the time and swap the left/right click and map all your keys in games to something on the right side of the keyboard?

[Bone]

Nope, I'm a lefty and I use a right-handed mouse. In fact, even though I draw with my left hand (pencils and pens)... all of my Photoshop drawing skills are in my right mouse hand. I guess I'm more ambidextrous than I realized. I never even thought about it much.

[Sandman]

I'm a righty but I can switch hit with a few things...not handwriting though...could never write with my left hand.

[Suave Peanut]

I use a mouse with my left hand, but leave the left- and right-click buttons default. Playing games, I always use the direction keys for movement instead of WASD.

[Press Ninja]

Right is right, you damned left handed communists!

[Bone]

Yeah, well us left-handers are the only ones in our right minds!

[TheKeck]

I use a mouse with my left hand, but leave the left- and right-click buttons default. Playing games, I always use the direction keys for movement instead of WASD.
The numpad, or the arrow keys? I have done both at different times in my life, even though I'm a righty.

[Schnoogs]

I write with my right but I use my left hand for....you know

[Young Al Capone]

Nah, you gotta switch hit it, or you run the risk of getting a funny curve.

[Voodoo]

I am both.

[Suave Peanut]

The numpad, or the arrow keys? I have done both at different times in my life, even though I'm a righty.
The arrow keys, usually. I typically leave the numpad for camera control.

[TheKeck]

The arrow keys, usually. I typically leave the numpad for camera control.
Hmmm, I wonder what kind of games you're referring to. I think of camera control being all in the mouse. Then again, I mostly play FPS. :)

[Suave Peanut]

Hmmm, I wonder what kind of games you're referring to. I think of camera control being all in the mouse. Then again, I mostly play FPS. :)
Specifically, I was referring to FFXI, which I haven't played in a year. Yeah... I don't play many PC games.

[squirrelTactics]

My parents, step-parents, sister, and grandparents are all left-handed. I'm right handed. I suppose I've always been a little different.