Just curious, Are you lefty or righty... - Page 2

lashbear · 03-12-2007, 05:58 AM

Shoelaces: Left over right and under, then Right over left and under.

Hands - Righty. Mother was leftie and nuns slapping knuckles with rulers made her ambidexterous. She could write two copperplate letters to people at the same time with two pens.

Moonliner · 03-12-2007, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

Oh...wait. Are we talking politics or what hand we write with?

Seesch, is everything politics with you?

Besides I think we all know the results of the political lefty-righty poll already.

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Originally Posted by RStar

I like the "I don't know" option! How could you not know???

That's just a subtle dig at ambidextrous crowd. Most people with ambidextrous skills are still left or right handed but have worked to train their non-dominant hand (LashMom for example). Even people who are born ambidextrous (and that's extremely rare) still favor one hand over the other.

Funny story about Left vs right...
As a college freshman I took Psych-101. One of the exciting parts of that class was the opportunity of being forced to volunteer for a grad student experiment. I was late to sign-up so all the fun electroshock experiments were full but there was one "study" looking for a few lefties so I went with that. It turned out they were looking to figure out how many lefties had been forcefully subjugated by the evil righty education/religion cabal. The looked at hundreds of righties and just a few lefties (as a control of sorts) to determine their natural handedness. After I finished all the tests they were frankly shocked. According to their data I was rather unique and it had them all a twitter. I was a lefty who was in fact a natural righty. A rare thing to be sure... and in this case not even close to being true.

The first test they had was a strength test: Squeeze the gauge and see how much force you generate with your left vs right hand. The problem for me was that I had just come from fencing practice (if you are tall and a lefty, you should really should try fencing!) so my left hand was pretty much jelly. In the test my right easily won the day.

Next up was a dexterity test. How many times in 60 Seconds can you press a button with your left hand VS your right hand. Are there any old school video game players out there? I was the Asteroids champ for my college (top score over 5 Million). For those not familiar with the game, your left hand controls the Left and right buttons while the right controls the thrust and fire button. You press the "fire" button a lot in that game and the faster the better. I was a finely tuned asteroids playing machine. I could group fire lines tighter than scrooges purse strings. So in this test my right once again took home the prize.

I had quite a time convincing them I really was not the missing-link of lefty vs righties.

Kevy Baby · 03-12-2007, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

Oh...wait. Are we talking politics or what hand we write with?

I thought he was talking the angle of the dangle.

Moonliner · 03-12-2007, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I thought he was talking the angle of the dangle.

That could work, however if you are going to claim "Ambidexterity" on that one we're gonna need some photographic evidence.

Kevy Baby · 03-12-2007, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner

That could work, however if you are going to claim "Ambidexterity" on that one, well we're gonna need some photographic evidence.

My Bearded Dragons can claim that ambidexterity.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-12-2007, 08:23 AM

I'm mostly a lefty except I throw (and bat and golf) right handed. As a result I have more strength in my right hand so I tend to rely on my right hand for anything that needs strength. But when it comes to dexterity, what little of it I have is in my left hand.

Though I'm trying to train myself to shoot pool (left handed, currently) ambidextrously.

Not Afraid · 03-12-2007, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

My wife is pseudo-ambidextrous. When she was in high school, her dad broke his neck and wasn't able to use hjis right arm for wuite a while. As a show of support, she started doing everything left handed as well. She still does with a few things, like eating.

Are you hitting the sauce again, Leo?

I'm VERY right handed.

Ponine · 03-12-2007, 08:50 AM

Very LEFT here.

Except similar to GD, I throw, bowl, and mouse right handed.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-12-2007, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Ponine

Very LEFT here.

Except similar to GD, I throw, bowl, and mouse right handed.

I mouse right handed 'cause that's how I was taught. I bowl left handed, though.

DreadPirateRoberts · 03-12-2007, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I mouse right handed 'cause that's how I was taught. I bowl left handed, though.

mouse? (sorry, never heard of it a a verb before)

View Poll Results: Are you left or right handed?
Lefty	5	15.15%
Righty	27	81.82%
Don't know	1	3.03%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

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Ponine Virgin Ears Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,075	Very LEFT here. Except similar to GD, I throw, bowl, and mouse right handed. __________________ There's something strange, There's something wrong. I see a change - It's like when love dies.
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