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Are you right-handed, left-handed, or ambidextrous?
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Valerunner
Probably shouldn't be here.
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Murkrow
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Left handed!
The world is so right handed, it's not fair. I look around and most things have been designed for righties.
My laptop - USB ports on the right so I have to have the mouse wire either stretched around the back or completely in my way.
Zelda Twilight Princess for the Wii: Flipped :(
Gamecube controllers (and almost every other game controller ever): The control stick is on the left and buttons on the right. I never realized that these were the wrong way round until I got a Wii and couldn't decide which hand to hold the nunchuck with.
Counter (just a little clicky thing that adds one to the current number every time you click it): The button is on the right side.
Computers & misc technology: The eject button for CDs and floppies are on the right.
Can openers
etc.
On the bright side, some things are made for us lefties, like my calender. It gives random facts about left handed people and birthdays of famous left handed people. (although mostly baseball players that I've never heard of)
The world is so right handed, it's not fair. I look around and most things have been designed for righties.
My laptop - USB ports on the right so I have to have the mouse wire either stretched around the back or completely in my way.
Zelda Twilight Princess for the Wii: Flipped :(
Gamecube controllers (and almost every other game controller ever): The control stick is on the left and buttons on the right. I never realized that these were the wrong way round until I got a Wii and couldn't decide which hand to hold the nunchuck with.
Counter (just a little clicky thing that adds one to the current number every time you click it): The button is on the right side.
Computers & misc technology: The eject button for CDs and floppies are on the right.
Can openers
etc.
On the bright side, some things are made for us lefties, like my calender. It gives random facts about left handed people and birthdays of famous left handed people. (although mostly baseball players that I've never heard of)
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coughsalot
I have returned!
I was actually left handed once, but my parents "corrected" it. :(
Murkrow
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That's just cruel. :D
Not really, maybe some people want to know these things.
Although I do generally use these threads to bitch about that. xD
Not everything is right handed. QWERTY keyboards are easier for lefties iirc.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
Well, uh, it is.
Plus, I think brain-dominance is really interesting. Like how right-handed people tend to be better at mathematics, while lefties are more creative. And how, apparently, lefties are 39% more likely to be gay.
Not to mention that
and
:D
Murkrow
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I've heard this as well, but that's weird because I'm one of the best at maths in my class and I don't have a creative spark in my entire body.
Maybe it's the other way around xD.
#1 bro
FEELING GREAT, FEELING GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
I'm right handed, but I hate math and most people would say that I'm one of the most creative people they know. Although for the last year and a half or so my creativity has pretty much been dead. :(
uh... why? :PMurkrow said:
Murkrow
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I hate it too, but just because you hate it doesn't mean you're not good at it. (are you?)
Because people are weird? I dunno.
Anyway, as I asked in the old forums. Some people have a rare condition that makes their organs on the other side (heart on the right etc.) I've just been wondering if left handed people are more common with them.
Tailsy
if the nineth lion ate the sun.
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tendency =/= THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS AND YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE DIFFERENT LOL
good lord
Murkrow
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I hate that too. I'm bad at the subjects I like and good at the ones I hate. >.<
Anyway, more on-topic
According to my calender (<_<) left handed people excel at athletics, (which I don't) and that's why it's good to have a few left handed people in a while; to hunt better and help the race survive.
The thing is, if this is true then why isn't everyone left handed?
Silversnow
You dress like an acid trip.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
As far as I know, lefties have an advantage in situations where people are expected to be right-handed. In a game like cricket, a leftie hits the ball in a completely different direction than a right-handed person would, giving them an advantage.
I read somewhere that shaking hands is traditionally done with the right hand so that it is impossible to draw a weapon like a sword on the person while you're shaking hands. Unless, of course, you're left-handed.
Of course, this isn't always true. Spiral staircases, for example, are rigged against lefties. A person who uses their left hand to wield a gun has to completely expose themselves around the curve, while a righty only needs to move out a little.
Clearly, I know too much about this.