OleGoatBrewing
Well-Known Member
When doing what?
I don't know what you lefties are complaining about, it could be worse.
Wow, I never thought this subject would get responses so quickly. But I'm glad it did.
When I was in First Grade, back around, in or somewhere around 1969. My teacher, a brutal assed skinny spinster; actually let me be left handed. You know at one point left handedness was some sort of sinister sign.
More than one Catholic Nun or any denomination school teacher, (40 years ago and further) beat left handedness out of a person.. Thing the poor and foolish girls didn't understand was they could NOT change the had you write with. Everything else, lefty's learn right handed.. it's screwed up but is how it is.
I had to qualify on a shooting range when I was a military man. I shot a pistol left handed and shot poorly. Did the same test a year later and shot right handed. I scored "Expert". Same type pistol, same range, everything was the same less the date and the hand I shot with.
I enjoy the saying about left handed people are the only ones in their right minds.. but its just a saying.
I'm trying to remember great athletes who were lefty's. Not sure but I think Babe Ruth was one.
I agree with you WayFrae. I thought of putting it up for one. Please do.
Don't forget about the writing desks in college. They are all setup for righties. Lefties are forced to write with the paper sideways from top to bottom with their elbow dangling in mid air.
Don't forget about lawn mower, chainsaw, and snow blower pull cords.
My wife just bought a set of spoons made by Rachael Ray. They are silicon with a notch so you can hang them on the side of a pot. I can't even use them. They are bow-shaped, but the bow makes it impossible for a lefty to use it. The spoon bends away from me.
I always get yelled at because whenever I put a card in an envelope and give it to righty, when they open it the card is upside down.
It's a righty world!
I used to think that in soccer 'left footer' was a playful term for a gay player. The original term left footer was a Scot and Irish reference to a Roman Catholic but that evolved over the years to other meanings .. not limited to soccer.
The urban dictionary has this entry ...
Left footer
Slang term for a homosexual male, usually used as a polite reference to a gay rather than as a derogatory term
'I began suspecting he was a left footer when I found his stash of homosexual porn'
Cheers - you Left Footers
Left handed, and left footed. I do most things with my left, including scissors, but play musical instruments like a righty. When I played baseball in my younger years (never actually on a team though) I needed my left to throw, and preferred batting left handed but could bat either way. Golf clubs I could do right handed, but golf sucks anyway. Pool, bowling, guns, anything involving throwing or kicking, it's left handed. Writing is left handed. Pretty much everything.
Back before I got fat when I was a badass left midfielder, my coach referred to me as his secret weapon since I had a powerful and accurate enough left foot kick to score from the halfway line on a couple occasions.
I actually never thought about eating. It always seemed natural to me to have the fork in the left hand and the knife on the right, as tables are usually set, which made me question that. Apparently my wife (right handed) will hold with fork with left while cutting with right, and then transfer fork to the right to eat. I've just never paid attention to it. Huh.
Right handed, though I eat with the fork in my left hand & the knife in my right, no switching. I've been told the whole switching eating utensils thing is almost exclusively an American thing, not necessarily a left/right thing. When I was a kid, riding a skateboard, my right foot was forward, whereas most other kids rode with their left foot forward. I called them "left footed." These days, I'm called "goofy footed" by other snowboarders, cuz I still put my right foot forward. For some reason, I tend to box southpaw though, no idea why.
Regards, GF.
Right handed, though I eat with the fork in my left hand & the knife in my right, no switching. I've been told the whole switching eating utensils thing is almost exclusively an American thing, not necessarily a left/right thing. When I was a kid, riding a skateboard, my right foot was forward, whereas most other kids rode with their left foot forward. I called them "left footed." These days, I'm called "goofy footed" by other snowboarders, cuz I still put my right foot forward. For some reason, I tend to box southpaw though, no idea why.
Regards, GF.
Lefty here too, so far the responses are way out of proportion, considering we only hold 10% of the population.
I do everything left-handed, except for bowling, which seems odd.
I only use zebra pens, because they don't smear. I built a lefty AR-15 because I was tired of the gas exhaust and ejected shell hitting me in the face. Next is a left-handed skill saw...also tired of sawdust in the face from right-handed saws.
lefty all the way, goofy foot on a skateboard and surfboard
shoot right in hockey, shoot left in golf, bat left.
Drink beer left handed but can use my right if I have to double fist.
Lefties make up about 10 percent of the general population. But researchers have found that in populations with certain mental disorders, that rate goes up.
I was left handed for 60 years but after a CVA I'm now right handed.