How many of us are left handed here?
are left handed pips more artistic?
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 by homeryulo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Yesterday was the day for left handers..yes we have our own day..haha. It's a common fact that left handed people tend to be more artistic than right handers. Since this is a community full of artist, just wondering how many of us are included in the left hand group. Just to prove if that theory is correct once and for all. Ciao! 
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47songs
Reply #22 Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:47 PM
Reply #22 Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:47 PM
Koasati, Koasati, Koasati! Nothing gets by you, does it? 
jebro
Reply #25 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:09 AM
Reply #25 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:09 AM
I'm left handed.
(My son is, too)
Einstein was left handed...
(My son is, too)
Einstein was left handed...
starkers
Reply #26 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:27 AM
Reply #26 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:27 AM
I'm left handed for everything, as was my father, his father and grandfather, except when I'm using scissors, my mouse and carving the roast....I also used to bowl left arm but bat right handed in cricket. Don't know about being any more artistic for it, though....unless writing can be included, cos I can't paint or draw to save my life. 
When I was at school during the 50's and 60's the teachers were forever trying to get me writing right handed, and yes, I would frequently get a rap across the knuckles with a ruler or cane to get me writing with the other hand...that is until my father went to the school and put the fear of bejesus into 'em (and he did, literally). His theory was that if I'm naturally left handed, then it would be unnatural if I were forced into writing right handed. Dad also told them that he sent me to school to learn, not to bring it home, so thay had better not to give me any more homework as I had more than enough to do around the place as it was. As of that day I never got homework again...thanks dad!
Here's one for ya's! I have a nephew who can write equally well with both hands, but more than that he can simultaneously start at each end of the sentence and join it up in the middle to make perfect sense. Hows that for ambidextrous!
Another strange thing I inherited from my father, his father and several grandfathers before him, as did my brother, sister and most of my cousins on dad's side, is that the two toes next to the big toe are webbed on both feet. My children and grandchildren also have them, yet my sister, who does have them, did not pass it on to her children or grandchildren. How strange is that!
When I was at school during the 50's and 60's the teachers were forever trying to get me writing right handed, and yes, I would frequently get a rap across the knuckles with a ruler or cane to get me writing with the other hand...that is until my father went to the school and put the fear of bejesus into 'em (and he did, literally). His theory was that if I'm naturally left handed, then it would be unnatural if I were forced into writing right handed. Dad also told them that he sent me to school to learn, not to bring it home, so thay had better not to give me any more homework as I had more than enough to do around the place as it was. As of that day I never got homework again...thanks dad!
Here's one for ya's! I have a nephew who can write equally well with both hands, but more than that he can simultaneously start at each end of the sentence and join it up in the middle to make perfect sense. Hows that for ambidextrous!
Another strange thing I inherited from my father, his father and several grandfathers before him, as did my brother, sister and most of my cousins on dad's side, is that the two toes next to the big toe are webbed on both feet. My children and grandchildren also have them, yet my sister, who does have them, did not pass it on to her children or grandchildren. How strange is that!
Sea Hourse
Reply #27 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:11 AM
Reply #27 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:11 AM
Sir Starkers, you sound like you are from Arkansas. Just kidding. Hey, I'm left handed too. And I can't write at all. Never could. The teachers did a real number on me. Not only do I curve my hand downward but I can't move it across the page so I just mamage a few letters and then everything collapses. Thank goodness for computers now and typewriters in the past.
Just kidding. Hey, I'm left handed too. And I can't write at all. Never could. The teachers did a real number on me. Not only do I curve my hand downward but I can't move it across the page so I just mamage a few letters and then everything collapses. Thank goodness for computers now and typewriters in the past.
starkers
Reply #28 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:11 AM
So did mine, one in particular...which is why my father went to the school full of fire and brimstone, a dead-pan look on his face and the evil eye.....
One time I was writing with my left hand, as was instinctive and comfortable for me, when suddenly I was knocked unconscious by one of those wood/felt blackboard rubbers, thrown without warning at full pelt by a 6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6".
Arkansas, Arkansas?? Oh, isn't that where the original "Hills Have Eyes" was filmed, and those web-toed swamp creatures first started running amok? Nope, never heard of it...bin there neeether. But I came first a frog race once.
Reply #28 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:11 AM
| Starkers, you sound like you are from Arkansas. The teachers did a real number on me. |
So did mine, one in particular...which is why my father went to the school full of fire and brimstone, a dead-pan look on his face and the evil eye.....
One time I was writing with my left hand, as was instinctive and comfortable for me, when suddenly I was knocked unconscious by one of those wood/felt blackboard rubbers, thrown without warning at full pelt by a 6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6".
Arkansas, Arkansas?? Oh, isn't that where the original "Hills Have Eyes" was filmed, and those web-toed swamp creatures first started running amok? Nope, never heard of it...bin there neeether. But I came first a frog race once.
_02
Reply #29 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:38 AM
Reply #29 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:38 AM
I have read the stories, well horrors of people trying to change you from what you are to what they think you should be. It is so sad to me. What is even sadder is that it will probably never end in time or in subjects. I would love to elaborate on this, but that is not what this thread is about. 
starkers
Reply #30 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:40 PM
Sorry about this but I need to correct myself....the aforementioned weights should have been in kgs not lbs. Me sometimes finds converting the different measures so darned confusing...this was one of those times. Durrrr!
Reply #30 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:40 PM
| 6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6". |
Sorry about this but I need to correct myself....the aforementioned weights should have been in kgs not lbs. Me sometimes finds converting the different measures so darned confusing...this was one of those times. Durrrr!
katiebugb
Reply #32 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:20 PM Would you believe, I am both. I can write with both left and right. I was suppose to be a leftie but I went to school and was forced to learn with my right. 
That was then, this is now. 
BTW, that was in the late fifties.
Reply #32 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:20 PM
Would you believe, I am both. I can write with both left and right. I was suppose to be a leftie but I went to school and was forced to learn with my right. 
That was then, this is now. 
BTW, that was in the late fifties.
jebro
Reply #34 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:08 PM
It sounds quite "handy" but I'm not sure it will be much "left" to use...
Reply #34 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:08 PM
| I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous... |
It sounds quite "handy" but I'm not sure it will be much "left" to use...
jazzymjr
Reply #35 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:04 PM
I am very left-handed! The nuns tried to break me of it...but, I was (and still am) more stubborn than they were...I won out! Of my 5 children, only one of them is left-handed.
Reply #35 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:04 PM
| and it also became common for left handed children to be forced to become right handed |
I am very left-handed! The nuns tried to break me of it...but, I was (and still am) more stubborn than they were...I won out! Of my 5 children, only one of them is left-handed.
gooberbean28
Reply #36 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:06 PM
Reply #36 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:06 PM
I can use both, I was left-handed, but in school the teachers smacked your hand with a ruler to force you to write with your right- hand! 
jazzymjr
Reply #37 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:13 PM
Reply #37 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:13 PM
The edit button isn't working... 
My mother was broken of being left-handed.
The only things I do right-handed are bowl, toss a ball, and move the computer mouse. Everything else is lefty.
My mother was broken of being left-handed.
The only things I do right-handed are bowl, toss a ball, and move the computer mouse. Everything else is lefty.
Creakybones
Reply #39 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:38 PM
Reply #39 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:38 PM
Ambidextrous - I can draw pictures equally bad with either hand.
Seriously, I think I started out to be a southpaw but was gently but firmly forced into using the right hand by family and teachers. No erasers up the side of the head but verbal pressure works just as well, trust me. Now I tend to do things 'my way' which means I use tools, hammer, broom, saw, wrench or what ever left-handed but write or eat right-handed.
Seriously, I think I started out to be a southpaw but was gently but firmly forced into using the right hand by family and teachers. No erasers up the side of the head but verbal pressure works just as well, trust me. Now I tend to do things 'my way' which means I use tools, hammer, broom, saw, wrench or what ever left-handed but write or eat right-handed.
homeryulo
Reply #40 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:00 PM
Reply #40 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:00 PM
okey my turn...I am left handed in everything I do..except when I am eating..we Filipinos used spoon in our rigth and fork in our left. My Mom used to tell me that I should eat like everyone else or I will never be accepted if I travel abroad. Ha! Now I'm in Japan..and Japs are praising me when they realized Im a left handed..hehe. Man they are weird!.
And Citizen skinhit..you are welcome.
And Citizen skinhit..you are welcome.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:25 PM
I'm not left handed here, or anywhere.....