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03/08/2013 07:17:36 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by alohadave:
The left hand is used to handle defecation, and is the unclean hand. |
Well its a ood thing your freak aren't Arabaic.
btw, im kidding, my comments stems form when i chide my wife for being a left handed "freak". I really don't think you guys are freaks, you may have sort of genetic imbalance but you aren't freaks. |
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03/08/2013 07:18:47 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
We're kind of dumb. We put our fork in our left hand to use our knife with our right hand. Then we switch the fork to the right hand to eat. |
Seriously?
You poor, poor, righties ;0
I'm just like Mark up above. When I was younger I taught myself to write respectably with my right hand just for fun, but after elementary school I never really kept it up and it's since suffered.
Oh, and there are those of us who DON'T hold the pencil all crazy, because I'd rather smear the living hell out of my writing instead. Actually, I'm just really really careful about my pen choices and avoid pencil if I can. |
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03/08/2013 07:57:39 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Originally posted by vawendy:
We're kind of dumb. We put our fork in our left hand to use our knife with our right hand. Then we switch the fork to the right hand to eat. |
Seriously?
You poor, poor, righties ;0 |
I'm lefty, and I do the same thing, reversed.
It's something that everyone does, and really doesn't affect much, so no one really thinks about it, except on the internet. |
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03/08/2013 09:08:34 AM · #29 |
For me, which ever hand gets the fork first wins.
And gets to keep it. |
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03/08/2013 11:00:50 AM · #30 |
I'm right handed but discovered in college, after a shoulder injury, that I can play tennis left handed - and it is even a bit more comfortable. Likewise with racquetball and ping pong. Not that I am very good at any of them.
I have a nephew that is right handed but does all things sports lefty.
My son is right handed, but can bat either way. (I can't swing a bat left handed if I try) |
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03/08/2013 01:38:53 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by alohadave:
Interestingly, Arabic is written from right to left with the right hand.
The left hand is used to handle defecation, and is the unclean hand. |
I been Norman Mailer'd, Maxwell Taylor'd.
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd.
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind.
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed.
That's the hand I use, well, never mind!
-Paul Simon, "A Simple Desultory Philippic" |
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03/08/2013 05:08:15 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by Neil:
Ok, just for fun, let's see who's left handed here! Ambidextrous people and part time lefties may also apply :)
Interestingly, I am left handed, not very ambidextrous. But I learned when I used to share a computer with someone at work (back when not everyone had their own!) to use the mouse with my right hand, so we didn't have to keep switching things around. Now I can only use my right for the mouse. But everything else, my left. |
Same here! Even when using Photoshop, if a mouse is involved, it's right hand all the way...weird. I tried switching back to left handed use, and it just felt strange. |
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03/08/2013 05:16:48 PM · #33 |
| So, with the cutlery thing, you hold the knife and fork conventionally to cut up food and put it on the fork then lay the knife down on the plate and transfer the food filled fork to your other hand, put it in your mouth, return hand to plate level, transfer over to the other hand, pick up knife, and then repeat? Seems a remarkably complicated method! If we (British) aren't using a knife at all, say curry and rice or perhaps a shepherd's pie, then we hold the fork in the right hand rather like a spoon. I really am quite intrigued by this difference... |
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03/08/2013 05:20:22 PM · #34 |
| Left-Handed People in Their Right Mind |
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03/08/2013 05:33:02 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by SaraR:
So, with the cutlery thing, you hold the knife and fork conventionally to cut up food and put it on the fork then lay the knife down on the plate and transfer the food filled fork to your other hand, put it in your mouth, return hand to plate level, transfer over to the other hand, pick up knife, and then repeat? Seems a remarkably complicated method! If we (British) aren't using a knife at all, say curry and rice or perhaps a shepherd's pie, then we hold the fork in the right hand rather like a spoon. I really am quite intrigued by this difference... |
No, it's even better than that. You hold the knife and fork conventionally, cut the food up, lay the knife on the plate, switch the fork to the right hand, then and only then put the food onto the fork....and you have the rest pretty much correct. |
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03/08/2013 05:39:10 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by Ann:
You hold the knife and fork conventionally, cut the food up, lay the knife on the plate, switch the fork to the right hand, then and only then put the food onto the fork....and you have the rest pretty much correct. |
If you've impaled a piece of meat and cut it free, it often remains on the fork held with the left hand while the knife is set aside.
Originally posted by SaraR:
I really am quite intrigued by this difference... |
I wish I could remember when and how I first heard about this, but it seems like it would have been at least 50 years ago ... I don't know how the difference came about, or if it is universal or regional in the USA. |
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03/08/2013 06:13:53 PM · #37 |
| All this fork/knife hand switching is insane. That's all I have to say. I sit on the left end of tables so I don't elbow people, but that's the extent of my zany eating habits. |
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03/08/2013 06:35:49 PM · #38 |
Funny how the topic of this thread has changed.
I can't imagine going through all this fuss changing hands with a my knife and fork. I'm so glad I was born in a place where people don't eat that way.
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03/08/2013 06:57:28 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by GinaRothfels:
Funny how the topic of this thread has changed. |
OK ... how many of you natural lefties have purchased a pair of left-handed scissors?
And, more relevant to our situation here, how do you deal with almost all cameras being right-handed -- at least I've never seen one with the shutter button in the middle ... |
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03/08/2013 07:31:40 PM · #40 |
I've never needed to buy anything made specially for lefties. My scissors can be used with either hand but I struggle to cut through anything using my left hand.
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03/08/2013 07:56:11 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by GinaRothfels:
Funny how the topic of this thread has changed.
I can't imagine going through all this fuss changing hands with a my knife and fork. I'm so glad I was born in a place where people don't eat that way. |
ROFL!
I first became aware of this difference on a trip to Canada when I was 12. I found the whole idea of having a utensil permanently ensconced in each hand intriguing, to say the least. |
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03/08/2013 07:58:22 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by GinaRothfels:
Funny how the topic of this thread has changed. |
OK ... how many of you natural lefties have purchased a pair of left-handed scissors?
And, more relevant to our situation here, how do you deal with almost all cameras being right-handed -- at least I've never seen one with the shutter button in the middle ... |
Most lefties have been using right handed stuff for so long that we're pretty good with our right hands. The only exception I can think of is my neighbor, who had a stroke and lost much of the use of his right hand when he had a stroke at age 25. He struggles with things like scissors and cameras. His iPhone is a godsend, since he can take pictures with either hand. |
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04/28/2013 01:06:09 PM · #43 |
Lefty but I eat with my right hand
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04/28/2013 03:31:34 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by GinaRothfels:
Funny how the topic of this thread has changed. |
OK ... how many of you natural lefties have purchased a pair of left-handed scissors?
And, more relevant to our situation here, how do you deal with almost all cameras being right-handed -- at least I've never seen one with the shutter button in the middle ... |
I don't bother. With lefty scissors, you can't use them in your right hand. I've gotten to the point where it's usually easier to just use my right hand.
I look at cameras as being two handed devices, it's not like you can realistically use a camera with only one hand anyway. It would be just as weird using a flipped camera with my left hand because my mind isn't trained for it.
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04/28/2013 04:35:40 PM · #45 |
Regarding the fork-and-knife comments: It is customary to hold the knife in the right hand, fork in left, and use the fork (in your left) to eat each piece after you cut it. It's easy if you're eating things that don't need scooping up, because you can keep it in what you could call the "point" position - index finger pressing on it. It gets awkward if the side to your steak is mashed potatoes and you have to rotate it to the position in which you'd hold a spoon (because it's hard to scoop things up with your left hand if you're right-handed), so many right-handed people do all the cutting first, then hold the fork in the right hand to actually eat.
Regarding camera-holding: I kinda wish I were left-handed. Shooting manual a lot of the time requires quite a bit of left hand dexterity, but not much in your right hand (just scroll/push buttons with 1-3 fingers). I remember how stupid I thought it was for right-handed violin players to use the left hand for fingering... Then, when I actually learned how to play, I realized it's great because bow control requires much more dexterity than putting down fingers on the finger board (same goes for guitar playing, with finger picking and using a pick both requiring precise control).
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04/28/2013 05:47:41 PM · #46 |
| Right handed, but brushing teeth exclusively with my left hand. Right one simply doesn't work. |
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04/28/2013 07:00:38 PM · #47 |
I'd give my right hand to be ambidextrous! :)
Right handed for most things except typing where both hands are used equally.
Focussing is done with the left hand, as is holding my fork ;p
Message edited by author 2013-04-28 19:02:43.
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04/28/2013 07:15:55 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by HarveyG:
Right handed for most things except typing where both hands are used equally. |
Actually, if you use the traditional touch-typing method on a standard keyboard you do about 60-65% of the work with the left hand. The original purpose of the wacky "QWERTY" keyboard layout was to slow down typists, who had a tendency to jam the old manual typewriters when they got going ... |
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04/28/2013 09:37:31 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by Ann:
Originally posted by markwiley:
I am left handed but right armed. For fine motor skills I use my left hand (e.g., writing with pencil and paper). Large motor skills I use my right (e.g., throwing, swinging a bat or racquet). I am ambidextrous doing things like writing on a chalkboard -- start with my left hand and finish with my right. |
This^ Except for the chalkboard thing. That's just kooky.
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Same here, without the chalkboard...
Now that I look at my profile pic, I'm drinking lefty...
Message edited by author 2013-04-28 21:38:10. |
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