Are you left handed?

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GNTLGNT

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Tracy is absolutely right!

I find it funny how many lefties eat with their right hand - I'm thinking it's because we end up bumping elbows with the person on our left if we don't. I can't do anything (except my computer mouse) right handed. I'm an utter slob when I try to eat right handed. Not worth the mess - I just try to always sit on the very left of the table.
...Tracy is also ambivalent, amphibian, amplitude...dammit!...ambee-dexter-us...
 

ZombieDrama

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Leftie I guess. They tried to convert me as well in kindergarten. I don't know if that's why I can do a lot of things with both hands, some things exclusively with my left hand, and some things exclusively with my right hand. I can write with my left hand only, but I can't use the mouse left-handed, only my right. I can't bat or sweep left-handed, only my right. I eat with either hand.
 

The Nameless

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I may be wrong but a long time ago, left handedness was viewed as sinister.... help me out guys, am I right in thinking the word sinister even comes from a very old word meaning left handed? Sure I read that somewhere..
Do you ever watch QI? Stephen Fry tells us that Sinister is indeed Latin, meaning left. He also tells us that where ambidextrous people are good with both hands, ambisinistrous people are bad with both hands. Here is the clip, along with some other funny bits about lefties from Jack Dee and Ross Noble.
Sorry guys :lol:
 

FlakeNoir

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Do you ever watch QI? Stephen Fry tells us that Sinister is indeed Latin, meaning left. He also tells us that where ambidextrous people are good with both hands, ambisinistrous people are bad with both hands. Here is the clip, along with some other funny bits about lefties from Jack Dee and Ross Noble.
Sorry guys :lol:
:laugh: I love this show.
 

The Nameless

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:laugh: I love this show.
So do I usually, but I can't stand Alan Davies - he just kills every joke, jumps in on everyone elses gags and over acts them. Certain other guests can make it unwatchable too, mostly Sarah Milican and Sandi Toksvig. New Zealand's own Cal Wilson has been on it a few times, she was quite good.
 

HollyGolightly

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Do you ever watch QI? Stephen Fry tells us that Sinister is indeed Latin, meaning left. He also tells us that where ambidextrous people are good with both hands, ambisinistrous people are bad with both hands. Here is the clip, along with some other funny bits about lefties from Jack Dee and Ross Noble.
Sorry guys :lol:
That was great! Thanks!
 
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jacobtlong

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I am a left handed. I can play guitar right handed, though. And using a mouse with my left is easy enough, but I don't do it that way since my right hand needs at least something else to be proud of. I also keep my wallet in my right pocket and swipe my cards with my right hand.

So righty is good for something.
 

mal

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I'm right-handed. When I was a boy my grandpa had a set of golf clubs in the garage which were left-handed. I knocked around stuff with those old clubs (stones, dirt, hardball...never had a golf ball). When I got a bit older I found I played hockey as a leftie. In baseball I batted as a leftie and caught and threw as a righty. I'm not really ambidextrous but got trained due to circumstance.