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Im a lefty! My mom is too. I hate trying to take notes...I always have to take the paper out of my binder, or else the metal part gets in the way. It also sucks that everything smudges. I am left footed also though which really benefited me in soccer...I play in college and if I were right footed, I don't know that I would have gotten that opportunity.
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BTW, as a lefty, I would say that we are the bastards of the free world.
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I just found this...I thought it was neat!
Did you know that? 1 in every 10 people is left-handed. The only case where left-handers are the majority is among gorillas. There have been five left-handed presidents, four of them in the last half of the 20th Century. Bill Clinton George Bush Gerald Ford Harry Truman James Garfield In 1992 all three of the presidential canidates were left-handed. Bill Clinton George Bush Ross Perot If both parents are right-handed there's only a 2% chance that their children will be left-handed but if both parents are left-handed then there's a 50% that their children will be left-handed. It's against the rules to play Polo left-handed. Juniata College in Darby, PA offered a special scholarship exclusively reserved for left-handers. One out of every four Apollo astronauts turned out to be left-handed. Some Famous Lefty's: Jimi Hendrix Ben Hogan (golf) Whoopi Goldberg Jimmy Connors Martina Navratilova Billy the Kid Jim Henson Charlie Chaplin George Burns Lenny Bruce H.G. Wells 700 Benjamites (Book of Judges) |
I'm a leftie too! Here's my frustrations:
1)DESKS!!! For petes sake, why can't they make some desks with the armrest on the other side? 2)NOTEBOOKS!!! I love those lefthanded notebooks with the spiral on the other side but I can never find them! 3)REED KNIVES!!! I'm a saxophone player, and for those of you who don't know, a reed is the thing placed on the mouthpiece of the sax. If it's not the right strength or it doesn't sound good you use a reed knife to scrape it down. Well, a good portion of them are right-handed knives, so in our studio class, when our teacher shows us how to scrape down the reeds, he gets all pissy because I'm lefthanded and he has to go hunt down a special knife for me. 4)COMPUTER LABS!! They assume everyone is right handed, and so the mousepad and mouse are always on the right side. |
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I'm a music ed major, and I learned my freshman year that you conduct with your right hand, never your left. Ahhh! :mad: |
I'm predominantly a right handed gal but EVERY single guy that I have ever dated was a lefty.
When I broke my arm back in 2000 I had to learn very quickly how to do everything with my left hand. Funny thing is my husband broke his left hand a few months after me and had to learn how to write with his right hand. When I go golfing I swing right handed but when I putt I'm a lefty...I'm wierd. My husband is a lefty but he golfs right handed. When we go out to eat I always make him sit across from me or on the left hand side of me. If he sits on the right hand side of me his elbow is practically in my food! |
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any other GC leftys? :D
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ME ME ME I'm a lefty.
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There are a lot of mods who are left handed. :eek: |
I'm a lefty!! If I ever go out of the country I'll need to learn the ways of the people so my evil left hand doesn't get me in trouble. In some countries your left hand is the hand you use to wipe your ass so you can't eat with that hand.
I can only cut with my right hand. I also read that left handed people are more likely to die sooner than right handed people because we are more likely to be injured bc doors etc are made for righthanded people. |
Being Left Handed
Being Left Handed
One out of every ten people walking down the street is left-handed. Everywhere they go, left-handed people come across tools that were designed for right handed persons. From scissors to camcorders to screw drivers to hockey sticks to baseball gloves, lefties learn early on that they need to develop skills to live in a world designed for right handed people. If you are a right-handed person, try this experiment sometime: Grab a scissors with your left hand and try cutting a piece of paper. Don't be surprised if the experience feels extremely awkward. Thankfully, there are companies that make left-handed scissors, left handed camcorders, and other left-handed tools. But often times left-handed persons find themselves in a situation where they have no choice but to use something designed for right-handed persons. In ages past, society was not sympathetic to left-handed persons. Young students who preferred using their left hand to write were punished for doing so. Some of these students eventually learned to write with their right hand, but only after enormous effort. These days parents and teachers are far more accepting and understanding. In almost every school in the world, students who are left handed are allowed to continue using their left hand to write. Medical researchers have searched long and hard for what causes people to be left handed or right handed. The researchers have concluded that left handed people are left handed for the same reason as brown eyed people have brown eyes. It's just one of those things that shows up in one out of every ten people. A really interesting question is whether there is any connection between left handed people and creative genius. Some of history's most creative minds have been left-handed. In the category of art, both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. In the category of music, Ludwig van Beethoven was left handed. In the field of science and invention, you find Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. In the field of motion pictures, Charlie Chaplin. Bobby Fisher, the modern chess genius, is left handed. So too musical geniuses Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Wynton Marsalis. Each of the these persons had a mind so exceptional as to be head and shoulders above anyone else in their field. So even though it may be more difficult for a left handed person to live in a right handed world, lefties can know that they are in good company. Beethoven and Einstein had it tough, too. http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/left.handed.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Famous Left-handed People Don Adams, actor/secret agent Eddie Albert, city farmer Buzz Aldrin, astronaut Alexander the Great, mega-man Kristian Alfonso Tim Allen, comedian/handyman June Allyson, actress Earl Anthony, pro bowler Dan Ayckroyd, conehead Carl Phillipp Emmanuel Bach, composer Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Boy Scouts founder F. Lee Bailey, legal eagle Ellen Barkin, actress Dave Barry, humorist Kim Basinger, actress Jason Bateman, actor Peter Berg, actor Yogi Berra, baseball star/linguist Larry Bird, basketball star Robert Blake, actor/Little Rascal Wade Boggs, baseball star Napolean Bonaparte, short mega-man Barry Bonds, baseball star David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust Bruce Boxleitner, actor Bill Bradley, intelligent basketball star George Brett, baseball star Lou Brock, baseball star Matthew Broderick, actor Carol Burnett, actress/comedienne George Burns, actor/cigar smoker George Bush, president Ruth Buzzi, actress David Byrne, talking head Sid Caesar, comedian Bruce Campbell, actor Milt Caniff, cartoonist Rod Carew, baseball star Jim Carrey, actor/comedian/pet doctor Lewis Carroll, author Fidel Castro, cigar smoker Charlie Chaplin, tramp Emperor Charlemagne, mega-man Bill Clinton, ? Kurt Cobain, now in Nirvana Ty Cobb, baseball star Natalie Cole, singer Phil Collins, musician Jimmy Connors, tennis star Tom Cruise, actor Billy Ray Cyrus, achey-breaky-flunky Wilson Cruz, actor Leonardo daVinci, renaissance man Clarence Darrow, legal eagle Robert DeNiro, actor Dustin Diamond, actor John Dillinger, bad guy Matt Dillon, actor (not the sheriff) Celine Dion, musician Bob Dole, loan shark Richard Dreyfuss, actor David Duchovny, actor Keith Duffy, musician (Boyzone) Lenny Dykstra, baseball star Bob Dylan, musician Albert Einstein, genius Ethan Embry-Randall, actor Phil Esposito, hockey star Don Everly, Phil's brother Phil Everly, Don's brother W.C. Fields, comedian/cigar smoker Laurence Fishburne, actor Peter Fonda, actor Gerald Ford, president (USA Co.) Henry Ford, president (Ford Motor Co.) Benjamin Franklin, statesman/electrician Morgan Freeman, actor Glenn Frey, musician Greta Garbo, actress James Garfield, president Judy Garland, actress Errol Garner, jazz pianist Bill Gates, owns your browser? Crystal Gayle, singer Lou Gehrig, baseball star King George VI of England, king Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supreme court justice Paul Michael Glaser, Starsky (or was it Hutch?) Whoopi Goldberg, actress Cary Grant, actor Peter Graves, Mr. Phelps Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball star Matt Groening, Bart Simpson Lefty Grove, baseball star Devon Gummersall, actor Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist ("Cathy") Marvin Hagler, boxer Dorothy Hamill, skater Mark Hamill, actor/skywalker Taylor Hanson, musician (Hanson) Zachary Hanson, musician (Hanson) Bob Hare, educator at SJS Woody Harrelson, actor Rex Harrison, actor Goldie Hawn, actress Isaac Hayes, musician Tippi Hedren, actress Jimi Hendrix, guitarist supreme Ben Hogan, golf star Herbert Hoover, president Rock Hudson, actor Dan Inouye, senator Joshua Jackson, actor Kate Jackson, Charlie's Angel Reggie Jackson, baseball star Bruce Jenner, olympic athlete Shirley Jones, Momma Partridge Immanuel Kant, heavy thinker Gabe Kaplan, actor Danny Kaye, actor Diane Keaton, actress Caroline Kennedy, daughter George Kennedy, actor Nicole Kidman, actress Val Kilmer, actor Albert King, blues guitarist Ted Koppel, newsguy Sandy Koufax, baseball star Lisa Kudrow, actress Michael Landon, Little Joe Hope Lange, actress Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager Rod Laver, tennis star Peter Lawford, actor Cloris Leachman, actor Jay Leno, comedian Cleavon Little, actor Christopher Lloyd, Jim Ignatowski Kenny Lofton, baseball star Greg Louganis, olympic athlete King Louis XVI of France, king Shirley MacLaine, psychic Melissa Manchester, singer Howie Mandel, comedian Chuck Mangione, musician Marcel Marceau, {; - |} Mary Stuart Masterson Wink Martindale, game show host Harpo Marx, harpist Marsha Mason, actress Don Mattingly, baseball star Bill Mauldin, cartoonist Andrew McCarthy Paul McCartney, musician John McEnroe, tennis star Robert S. McNamara, statesman Kristy McNichol, actress Steve McQueen, macho actor Michaelangelo, renaissance man George Michael, singer James Michener, author Demi Moore, Bruce's wife Julia Moore, actress Marilyn Monroe, actress Rick Moranis, comedian/actor William R. Moses Edward R. Murrow, newsguy Stan Musial, baseball star Martina Navratilova, tennis star LeRoy Neiman, artist Kim Novak, actress Ryan O'Neal, actor Peter Nero, conductor Ed O'Neal, actor Mel Ott, baseball star Gary Owens, Laugh-In Estelle Parsons, actress Pele, soccer guy Ron Perlman, actor Anthony Perkins, actor H. Ross Perot, financial wizard Luke Perry, actor Pablo Picasso, artist Joe Piscopo, comedian Brad Pitt, actor Robert Plant, singer Michael J. Pollard, actor Cole Porter, composer Paul Prudhomme, chef Richard Pryor, comedian Dennis Quaid, Randy's actor brother Randy Quaid, Dennis' actor brother Anne Ramsay, actor Maurice Ravel, composer Lou Rawls, singer Robert Redford, actor Ronald Reagan, the Gipper Timothy Reed, actor Keanu Reeves, actor Don Rickles, comedian Julia Roberts, actress Pat Robertson, evangelist/actor/politician Mickey Rourke, actor Babe Ruth, baseball star/beer drinker Christie Sager, dancer/basketball star Eva Marie Saint, actress Scott Saftler, Sultan of Select Deion Sanders, football star Gayle Sayers, football star Telly Savalas, Kojak Wally Schirra, astronaut Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, general Vin Scully, sports announcer Richard Simmons, buns of silicone Paul Simon, musician Jerry Seinfeld, comedian Christian Slater, actor Dick Smothers, comedian Warren Spahn, baseball star Brent Spiner, Data Mark Spitz, olympic athlete Ringo Starr, musician Casey Stengel, baseball manager Fisher Stevens Darryl Strawberry, baseball star Greg Swindell, baseball star Roscoe Tanner, tennis star Terry-Thomas, actor Alan Thicke, actor Tiny Tim, musician Rip Torn, actor Rachel True, actress Harry Truman, president Mark Twain, author Peter Ustinov, actor Brenda Vaccaro, actress Karen Valentine, actress Fernando Valenzuela, baseball star Rudy Vallee, crooner Dick VanDyke, Rob Petry Bill Walton, basketball commentator Wil Wheaton, actor Paul Williams, songwriter Treat Williams, actor Bruce Willis, actor Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess Scott Wolf, actor Joanne Woodward, actress Joel Wyner, actor Keenan Wynn, actor Steve Young, football star Ian Ziering, actor A lot of very talented people are left handed. :cool: |
Write left-handed, do most everything else right handed.
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I'm left handed and my big sis in my sorority is a lefty too! My dad is also left handed.
The only problems I have with being left handed is when I'm writing with pencil and also if I'm painting something. Jess |
i can't remember if i've already replied to this but i'm a lefty---the only one in my immediate family. I have 3 uncles and 5 male cousins who are lefty-i'm the only female lefty in my extended family that I am aware of. My friends always get irritated when they try and use my computer to get online because my mouse is adjusted for the lefty factor. I don't use pencil unless it's a test, and i have never ever been ably to cut anything straight in my entire life because of those d*mn lefty scissors that don't cut anything. I still can't figure out which way i should hit a baseball. I used to get yelled at in elementary and high school for sitting crooked in my desk so that I could wrtie comfortably. I never even saw a lefty desk until college (at least not that I can remember). My dominant eye is my right one though.
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I am a lefty too!
I do almost everything with my left hand. I do things a lil strange compared to right-handed people. (like the way I tie my shoes and stuff like that) It was a lil difficult in dance class when I was younger because I favored my left foot (but it helped in soccer ;) Also, I always am forced to sit on the outside of the booth when we go to dinner. :( I used to play softball with my left hand but I was told to switch in 4th grade. I now play with my right but I can bat either (very cool if you ask me) I also play waterpolo with my right hand but it is never a problem to play with my left hand (you can only hold the ball with one hand at a time in waterpolo--just an in case you didnt know) Oh and I can't cut anything!! I hated the horrible green sisscors I always asked to use the "teacher's sisscors" because they worked better ;) (I think I just liked the special treatment) And I hate how everything smears when you write. Once I helped out in an elementary school and some of the kids could not get over the fact that I wrote "backwards" hee hee Gotta love being a lefty! |
I cannot stand how everything smears when you write.
In 2nd grade my teacher tried to teach me how lefties write with the page tilted like 45 degrees but I could never figure it out. Does anyone know how to do this??? |
I'm a lefty too!!!!
It also took me forever to learn to tie my shoes!!!! it makes me feel so much better to know that I'm not the only one!!! and the ink smearing thing? I feel you! whenever I get out of blue-book exams my pinky is always covered in ink (I have an inky pinky..hee!), but it is really kind of a pain. My school happens to be filled with lefthanded people though (it's kinda weird) so I don't feel too alone! maybe we should start a GC lefty support group, fo all of us who tied our shoes late and have inky pinkies!:D |
is the lefty thing why my 2 year-old righty sister could tie her shoes when i was 4 and i still couldn't do it until i learned the bunny ears trick when i was almost 5?
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Yeah, I'm a lefty too...
When I write, I have to turn my paper to a 45 degree angle to write up and down (it's really weird). Otherwise, I would get ink on the side of my palm (when I used an inkpen). But pretty much everything else is right handed, so I'm lucky! |
See? Explain this to me! How does this work, this 45 degree magic you speak of?
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Oh man, i hate math class... my left hands gets silver... and people in the next class are like.. "OMG what did u do?'. But i have real neat handwritting.... til it all gets smeared
and im the ONLY one on BOTH sides of the family for every down the line that is lefty |
I'm not left-handed but EVERY guy that I've ever dated has been.
Most of them have been engineers so they did the hand/wrist at an angle thing to avoid smearing/smudging their handwriting and not getting the side of their hand dirty. |
My daughter is left-handed, but can do a lot of things with her right hand (eat, use scissors, etc.). Her father and I are both right-handed, so I guess she fell into the 2% category (chances that she would become left-handed). I wouldn't change anything about her writing abilities. She's also a great artist. :D
My nephew started off as a lefty, but my sister forced him to be a righty. However, when he played little league baseball, he would always hit from his left side - perhaps some latent lefty tendencies still remained with him. |
Met a guy on a bar yesterday, and I could guess right away he was a southpaw - he was wearing his wrist watch on his right wrist. When I asked him about this, he took it by surprise. If you're a southpaw, do you wear your watch on your left, or right wrist?
I wear mine on right wrist, simply because then if I write or do anything with my left hand, I won't get tangled doing something :) Long live the southpaws ;) |
My 9-year old daughter is a southpaw. Her dad and I (both right handed) knew that she would be a lefty since she was able to sit up. We would put an object on her right side, and she would reach over with her left hand and pick it up! Each and every time!
I caught her sitter switching her spoon to her right side one day, (because I forgot something in the house and came back to retrieve it) and told her that she was more comfortable using her left hand, so don't change it. She is a lefty through and through! She writes, eats, brushes her teeth, etc. and everything else with her left hand. She even kicks a ball with her left foot. Fortunately, there are more things out now for left handed people. She even has her own left-handed ruler! :) |
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Y'all sho' is normal to be left handed. The lefties I know IRL are kind of out in...leftfield.
Anyways, I'm a righty and still out in leftfield. :D |
I'm a lefty! The only one in my family - not my parents, grandparents, either side of relatives...I guess I'm just in that abnormal 2%!
I hate the lefty desks, never use them. I like being able to prop my right elbow up on the desk and lean on it while still being able to take notes. I tried to use one of those left-handed computer mice but that just didn't work right. I still write all curled over the paper, at a 45 deg. angle, but I still always seem to get ink smudged all over my left hand. I wear my watch on my right wrist: it feels more natural there. I also can't stand to wear rings on my left hand. Guess I'm going to have to get over that one if I ever get engaged/married. Playing sports, I can never seem to figure out if I am left- or right- handed/footed, so I just switch off depending on what feels best at the time. Drives my opponents crazy. :D |
I'm not left-handed, but I've always had left-hand tendencies.
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WOO HOO GO LEFTIES!!!!!! WE ARE ALWAYS IN OUR RIGHT MIND (or so we tell people)!!!!!
I never have liked left handed scissors though! Plus finding stuff for us is never easy and when I do its always twice as high in price GRRRR.:mad: |
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for some reason i have always been attracted to left-handed guys..... weird, i know
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I found some interesting facts about lefties: Around ten percent of Americans are left-handed, and of those, there are twice as many lefty males as females. Cats and parrots have general tendencies toward their left paws and claw; rats and monkeys tend to be right-pawed. A study of ultrasound pictures of 270 fetuses (from 1 month to 9 months) revealed that 92% sucked their right thumb while in the womb. What does left-handedness mean, practically speaking? Medical literature reports that lefties more accident prone, are more likely to have their fingers amputated by power-tools, suffer more wrist fractures. Lefties are more susceptible to allergies, auto-immune diseases, bed-wetting, depression, drug abuse, epilepsy, hypnotism, low birth weight, schizophrenia, sleeping disorders, suicide attempts, and certain learning disabilities. Lefties are six times likelier to die in an accident, and four times to likelier to die while driving. :eek: |
I find it quite amusing that my boyfriend regularly teases me about being lefthanded...I know he's just joking but I can't help it that I like everything backwards ;)
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oh no!! so not only are less then 10% of men left handed, but then he's gotta evade that whole list of problems, including not committing suicide, dying in a freak accident or in a car accident!! im never gonna find my lefty... in fact its a wonder there are any left-handed men left on this earth!! lol jk :-D |
My mama was one of those lefties who was forced to become right-handed in school, with the attending problems. So, when I started showing signs of being left-handed before I was one year old, she started switching me then. I'm considered right-handed, but I do a LOT of things left-handed, such as play softball and most other sports (I was going to say soccer, but I'm left-legged in that). I'm ambi-dextrious for the most part, but in a way, I'm glad I was switched. It's a right-handed world.
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