Left or right handed?

[bobthedrummer]

Are you left-handed, right-handed, or ambidextrous?
I'm a lefty.

[amandae]

1. Lefty!

:hi:

[Sandpiper]

2. Right-handed child of two left-handed parents

n/t

[stevebreeze]

3. sorry no personal offense intended but left handed people are evil

left handed complement? evil
that came out of left field? evil
gauche means socially awkward it's French for left
Both my mother-in-law and father were beaten to encourage them to write with their right hand as the Church punished people for their handedness.

The good sit on the right hand of God therefor the evil are on the left.

[bobthedrummer]

6. You share the opinion of Ashcroft and Gonzales then-lol, so be it.

We lefties are evil.

[stevebreeze]

9. My daughter is a lefty

I suspect I would have been if left to my natural devises as a child, but my mother forced me into right handedness from infancy knowing how my father had been treated.

[amandae]

14. My son is a lefty also ...

My mom is, I am and now my son is. I'm really happy that I ended up with one of my kids being a lefty like mom and I!

:hi:

[amandae]

11. The Latin word for left is the root for the word "sinister"

I believe it's "sinistra" (but it's been more than a decade since my last Latin class!). I would assume that whole argument had something to do with people getting their hands slapped with rulers several decades ago.

:hi:

[hyphenate]

12. My Dad would have been a lefty

but the nuns used to smack his hand and make him write with his right hand.

I'm a lefty, as is my brother. My sister and other brother turned out as right-handed.

I'm really ambidextrous, but writing is a lefty thing.

[Cheswick2.0]

21. my mother was forced to write with her right and too

and now she has a very hard tme with right and left directions. Most of us know right from left because we automatically identify with our dominate hand. My mother would have been a lefty as is my son Ian.

[patdem]

15. Do not forget 'sinister'..that being from the left

Read the book "Sinister People" about being left handed..and seems since I am left handed and my mother is also left handed, I am a mirror image of a right handed person! I am not the awkward person I should be, in fact I do not slant my hand to write.

[stevebreeze]

19. my understanding is that it is like many biblical restrictions

based on the reality at the time. You ate with the right wiped you butt with the left. Think about that the next time you relive yourself.

[patdem]

22. Honey, when I stop washing my hands after each meal I will think about

it. I understand...the 'at the time' reference...but I wipe with my RIGHT hand, and suspect even 'at that time' people like me wiped with their right hand?? I do so hate to give out such personal information!

[stevebreeze]

26. I wash too but 2000 years ago there was not the kind of plumbing we enjoy

[politicat]

37. did you have to study to be that prejudicial?

If that was sarcasm, it was lost. It sounds like the fundy speak that passes out of fundy asshats in some of the more extreme Xtian churches in this state.

Pcat

[stevebreeze]

46. I am not at all prejudiced against left handers

I was simply pointing out how much society is that we seldom even think about.

[Deja Q]

4. That depends on what I'm doing at the time...

All things considered: I'm an ambi.

[JVS]

5. Bat left, everything else right

[KalicoKitty]

10. My two gradsons bat left, also.

They are both right handed, but bat left. To me, that seems so awkward.

[Nomad559]

7. I am

right-handed :)

[corksean]

25. I'm bisexual, I use both

[BlueJazz]

32. come on!...funny feeling!

[vixengrl]

8. Write left,sew left, crochet left (but very poorly)

paint left, throw a softball left, but have adapted to most "right-handed" things. Can openers. Scissors. Mousepad to the right. Can write backwards better than forwards with right hand--trick I learned to impress people. Politics left because I enjoy being right.

[bobthedrummer]

13. Welcome to DU, my lady.

:hi:

[vixengrl]

18. Thanks!

[Roon]

16. I do everything with my left hand..

throw,hammer,bowl, cut veggies, etc. But for some reason I write with my right hand, I don't know why.

[bobthedrummer]

17. I even drum left-handed. Kick with left foot, cymbals and snare on right

floor tom on left and I don't use "the crossover" with my wrists.

[johnnie]

20. It seems like there are a lot of left handed people

I would guess that since it isn't being forced to be right handed these days, there are more left handed people. My nephew is left handed and my friend's child. I'm thinking that soon it will be about 50-50.

[brentspeak]

23. I associate left-handedness with a skewed creativity

I'm righthanded, but I've always kind of envied left-handed people.

I've associated left-handedness with a kind of skewed, unusual creativity. Musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney, for instance. It's like their being left-handed has enabled their brains to think of things that otherwise would be impossible.

I admit -- I am very weird on this point.

[IHeart1993]

24. LEFT HANDERS ROCK!!!!!

I'm one.

[Left Is Write]

27. I'm a lefty politically, and I'm left-handed too. VERY left-handed!

[aQuArius]

28. LEFTY GIRL ALL THE WAY!

[leftofthedial]

29. I'm ambiguous

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[Solon]

30. "Lefty's are the only ones in their right minds."

This applies to handiness, though I guess politically too. :)

[last_texas_dem]

31. Looks like we've got our fair share of left-handers here

More than one-third of DUers are left-handed. For some reason I thought only about one-tenth of people were left-handed, so that's kind of a surprising result. Not sure where I'm getting that one-tenth figure from, though, so it may not be all that much of a surprise. Cool, though... I tend to like lefthanders 'cause I feel like they're underdogs or something. I'm a righty myself, though.

[Tweed]

35. I think left-handers are more likely to vote in this poll.

I'm right-handed and I don't care about voting. I'm still not voting even though I'm here.

[BlueJazz]

33. Lefty here also

[Lone Pawn]

34. We all know there's only one "right" way to hold a pen.

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[Rapcw]

36. right handed

[Wapsie B]

38. Lefty here!

There's a few of us in our right minds. I do everything left-handed, eat, write, brush my teeth, performing certain acts of self pleasuring...... :evilgrin:

[Lone Pawn]

40. Oh, I use my left hand for that

always have.

[Wapsie B]

41. Yeah

it feels like someone else is doing it. To me anyway. Almost like a reach-around.

[deadparrot]

39. Lefty, like my politics. nt

[messyca]

42. Lefty

I've always been proud of my left-handedness, being as my family tried very hard to convert me. They couldn't break me! It does suck having to write in 3 ring binders, which is something I have to do daily at my job.

[chefgirl]

43. I'm a lefty

I'm also a product of Catholic school which means I was strongly encouraged to write with my right hand. Never could get the hang of it though.
My mother was left handed too and complained to Mother Superior about them pressuring me and it ceased to be an issue after that.

-chef-

[bobthedrummer]

44. 10 ambidextrous! Wow.

[derby378]

45. I write with my left hand...

...but I bowl and use the mouse with my right hand.