Left or right handed?

[OleGoatBrewing]

When doing what?

 

[Melana]

I am right handed yet I eat with my left when using a knife and fork.

 

[neild5]

Another southpaw here. I do everything left handed except play hockey.

 

[Tin4]

I don't know what you lefties are complaining about, it could be worse.

Or better if I'm looking at this pic correctly.

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.

Lots of us in positions of power.

I agree with you WayFrae. I thought of putting it up for one. Please do.

I'm adding it now.

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 cook, and have taught myself to be ambidextrous in the kitchen, but come on righties? Really? Spoons?!?

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

So why do you pass the Dutchie to the Left hand Side?

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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.

Knife in left, fork in right, and I don't switch if I'm going to constantly use it, but it took time to teach myself how to do that.

I "play bass" left handed, but I don't really play bass at all. I do play harmonica, but I'm uncertain it that has a hand preference.

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.

I put my left forward. I started skateboarding a few months ago. So far so good.

 

[Qhrumphf]

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.

I skateboarded (briefly) right foot forward always. Snowboarding (also briefly) I was perfectly competent with both (switchfoot, is that what that was called?)

I never paid any attention to people switching utensils. Just never noticed it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette

Apparently this is a thing. And my eating is firmly "hybrid".

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Apparently I eat in the European style.

 

[Psylocide]

I just stab things with my knife and eat it off the blade.

I think that's the "Christopher Lloyd in Dennis the Menace" style.

 

[unionrdr]

When using a knife & fork, I cut with my left & switch the fork back to my left. Especially after having the ends of both index fingers sewed back on down to the 1st knuckle!

 

[hunter_le five]

"Mostly Armless"

 

[lump42]

I'm mostly ambidextrous, except for writing. Though I've always been told that I make my letters backwards like a left-handed. I reach for thing with my left; lead off with my left foot; eat & shoot (pool and firearms) equally with either hand. I can't throw with either hand and neither eye is dominant, which made using microscopes tricky.

 

[Dolomieu]

Right handed and footed, though I use to skate board goofy foot.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Right handed except for using a fork in my left to eat (use the spoon with my right hand). Oddly I have always kept my pocket knife in my left pocket and use my left hand for cutting boxes open.

 

[soccerdad]

What are these knives and forks of which you all speak? Don't you have fingers for crissake?

 

[edroberts]

I go both ways... uhm, with my hands... um, that still doesn't sound good...

A lot depends on what was available growing up. Write left. Few left handed scissors at school, so I cut with my right. Swing a baseball bat best left, but no left golf clubs at my disposal so I golf right.

 

[Singletrack]

Right foot in front: goofy.

It's crazy. I can drink beer with either hand!

 

[AndytheBeave]

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.

 

[Tin4]

Question for our single arm-less member.

Do you click with the power of your mind, and if so, will you teach me?

 

[hottpeper13]

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.

Just buy the worm drive, they are all left handed.

 

[b-boy]

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.

I'm considering quitting golf because I'm sick of hearing 'Hey - you're standing on the wrong side of the ball' at least 20 times per round.

It gets annoying after the 2000th time you hear it.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Just turn and face the person who said it. Then you will be standing on the correct side. (Now where is the black eye smilie face) :cross:

 

[Homercidal]

Mostly Right, although I have been known to use my left hand for certain things when my right hand was occupied, like eating nachos while flipping channels, that sort of thing.

 

[Aileen]

Very left-dominant. Eye, foot, hand, you name it. My mom is also a lefty but both of my kids are right-handed.

 

[Natdavis777]

Lefty here. Though Ive always batted and golfed right handed. Kick with my right foot too. Throw, write, start iv's, and other things left handed though. Whats crazy is that I work in medical imaging and the plethora of leftys in that field is atronomical... I would say over 50% of the people I work with are leftys...

 

[Fatman_Brew]

Right handed, however I can only shoot a firearm and billiards left handed. Me shooting (pool or weapon) right handed is like trying to do so with my feet instead. It is a weird mechanical thing for me vs eye dominance. I didn't even know I shot billiards left handed until my father pointed it out when I was a young adult.

Of courses catching a shell casing in the face also leads to people asking why am I shooting left handed.

 

[Homercidal]

Hockey stick is mostly left, but I can go either way. I shoot better right, but handle better left.

 

[ColoHox]

If this was on the internet, then it's true:

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.

Now that I know this group is shockingly 54% left-handed, some things written on this forum are less surprising.

 

[b-boy]

I work in the IT field. I'd say 50% of my colleagues are lefties and about 75% have mental disorders, so that makes sense.

 

[Qhrumphf]

The only mental disorder associated with lefthandedness is AWESOMENESS. Seriously look it up.

 

[thatjonguy]

Lefty!

 

[benco]

Hard core lefty! I can't do much anything with my right hand.

 

[drainbamage]

Right-handed, but left-eye dominant for shooting and such.

 

[ColoHox]

I know from other lefty threads that AZ_IPA and Yuri should be in here too, and their votes probably count for 2.

 

[govner1]

I was left handed for 60 years but after a CVA I'm now right handed.

 

[Natdavis777]

I was left handed for 60 years but after a CVA I'm now right handed.

That sucks. Sorry to hear... At least you are still brewing though!

 

[govner1]

It's why I started brewing. All my other hobbies went away.

 

[bobeer]

Righty here. Although my left hand seems to be just as good except i cant write or throw with it.