International Left-Handers Day

[Stephen_G]

Today. Have a great day to all the Lefties of AB (Of which I am a proud member)

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And remember, only left-handed people are in their right minds!

[aelmpvw]

// only left-handed people are in their right minds!//
that's strange because i'm a leftie

[zebo]

Do I celebrate or not? I'm one of the oddities who uses a different hand for different tasks. I peel, butter, slice with a knife in my left hand, writing, tennis in the day, etc I'm right handed. No-one noticed this, me included, until I was about 15! Does that mean that I am only in my right mind for a part of the day??

[ummmm]

Zebo - My ex was like that. Fascinating to watch. He's a carpenter and used both hands equally except he couldn't write with his right hand.

[Palustris]

I think we should campaign against anti-sinisterism

[Peter Pedant]

well here is the first left handed roundabout in England

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/12/drivers-baffled-arrows-painted-new-roundabout-wrong-direction-13118320/#

changed after a few hours

and there is a prof of left handedness
and here is the book he wrote
Left hand Right Hand - chris mcmanus

he ( but I repeat myself from last year but so what) wanted to estimate the lefties of yore and went around the museums looking at torques - copper and silver.
they twisted see? so it gives an idea (8%) L against 92% R

and I did a Harry Enfield - you doan wanna do THAAAT !
look at the rates of s and z hand spun wool. lefties create s spun wool strands. The strand looks essy when you look at the twist under a magnifying glass

so he did. - a few hundred thousand samples from Egypt where you all know I worked. still 8% Elisabeth Crowfoot (*)

did anyone see the bronze age stilt house on telly a few nights ago?
he Chris M even went there to see the textiles
( still 8% I think)

end of leftiness tutorial

(*) wasnt that textile expert the sister of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin nobel prize winner ? Yes and daughter of the textile expert who described the first found bit of Conti Silk - v v exp Roman age silk - from Dura Europos - in I think 1926. But I digress ( again)

[The Builder]

Respect, Stephen.
Don't talk to me about right-handed power tools (which is all of 'em apparently.)
Circular saws are the worst. The motor is on the wrong side, and all the sawdust blows up into your face.
And............... they have a little button which you have to press before the trigger will operate.
Designed for a right thumb, I have to press it with the inside of my left index finger. All they have to do is put the button on top so I can use my thumb......... grrrrrr

....and don't get me started on chainsaws..................... ;o((((

[woofgang]

Did you know that the vikings had a word for people who were ambidextrous fighters? And to be a left handed fighter was a bonus because all the defences were designed to defend against right handed warriors.....and did you know that whelks are right and left handed but left handed whelks are rare?

[The Builder]

In the Sagas, Woofters, they were called "the cunning".
The word came down to us eventually, to mean devious etc.

[woofgang]

they were also called "shifty" because they could shift the weapon from hand to hand...and yes, now also means devious, untrustworthy and so on.

[david small]

Four kids. Two left handed, two right handed.

[poorclare]

I am left-handed, I often wonder why most turn their hand
inwards to write ( I don't) it makes them look awkward.
Just a thought

[corylus]

Count me in!

[douglas9401]

Celebrate all you like but you'll never know what the right hand's doing. :-)

[bhg481]

My left-handed wife is one of the neatest and most legible writers I know and, like poorclare, doesn't distort herself to do it. Her writing is so good that, when it matters, I get her to write things for me.
Incidentally, any right-handers reading this thread, try writing backwards with your left hand. It's easier than you think and comes out remarkably similar to a mirror-image of your normal writing.

[Stephen_G]

My (Left-handed) handwriting is atrocious, and I got into trouble with my English teacher whilst at Secondary School because of it. He made me take a piece of chalk in my right hand (In front of the whole class) and write my name on the board - it looked like I had tried to do it during an earthquake!

[JimF]

"the vikings had a word for people who were ambidextrous fighters"

But they always put the rudder, or the "steer board" on the right side of their ships which meant that they always had to dock with their left side adjacent to the jetty, hence "port" and "starboard".