The "Lefty" thread (not political) [Archive]

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 04:05 PM

It seems to me that even in today's politically-correct environment, where everyone gets consideration, legislation, and even compensation for being in any way different from the majority, an important group that is a critical part of our culture, even our humanity, is being ignored.

Worse, they are often derided with belittling slang terms like "southpaw" or "wrong-handers". Is our society above the ignorance of discrimination or is it not? The world doesn't think in terms of black and white, so why is it still acceptable to think in terms of right and left?:nope:

Yes, the right-handed majority claims to acknowledge us; they even "graciously" allowed us a day to celebrate left-handedness, not that they even know what day that is! But what have they really done for us!? Virtually everything is made for right-handers. Sure, you can buy left-handed equipment, but it costs more!:down:

I, for one, am tired of being in the silent, shunned minority. I am tired of having a hard time with scissors! I am tired of being the goddamn pitcher in every baseball game! I am tired of people giving me that quizzical look and saying "You're left-handed?" and saying left in the same way one might say "ewwww..". More than anything, I am tired of being hit in the face with my own spent shell casings!

This thread is a place for we, the left-handed, to stand up and proudly say that we are indeed in our right minds. It is a place for us to remind the right-handed world that though we favor the left, we still have our rights!

I, gentlemen, am a left-hander, and I am proud to be called one.

August

03-09-11, 04:13 PM

Say it loud, say it proud. Down with right hander oppression!

Takeda Shingen

03-09-11, 04:20 PM

I'll join the ranks of the Lefty Liberation Front. Stand together my brothers. That is, unless the mouse is on the right-handed side of the keyboard. Then it's too hard.

papa_smurf

03-09-11, 04:25 PM

Left handed, and proud to be:salute:

That is, unless the mouse is on the right-handed side of the keyboard. Then it's too hard.

I got round that, by getting a ergonomic mouse that can be used left/right handed.

Weiss Pinguin

03-09-11, 04:26 PM

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Od3XwHrg6uc/S8cuPlbgbLI/AAAAAAAAAsM/kR0LTBub87M/s400/leftorium_400.jpg

HAHA, just kidding.
http://menwithpens.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Princess-Bride.jpg
"There is something I must tell you... I am not left-handed."

Tchocky

03-09-11, 04:28 PM

My God, they're everywhere.

I'm watching my damn canopener!

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 04:31 PM

Lefty Liberation Front. I like it. Makes me wish I could go back and put it in the thread title.:up: However, I have concerns about the acronymn "LLF"; maybe we could come up with something that forms the acronymn L.E.F.T.:hmmm:

Let's wait for some more left-handers and get some ideas and then we can decide whether to refer to ourselves as such.

Sledgehammer427

03-09-11, 04:33 PM

I use my left hand to talk on the phone, on account I'm about 85% deaf in my right ear. (I can hear certain inaudible frequencies, like silent dog whistles)

but hey, I have left handed friends, and I even dated a left handed girl.
more rights to the lefts!

:up:
(left handed thumbs up!)

Raptor1

03-09-11, 04:33 PM

What? Who gave you lefties the freedom of assembly? Back to your cages, everyone, nothing to see here. :stare: :O:

MaddogK

03-09-11, 04:36 PM

Mouse is on the left, but I'm ambidextrous.
:cool:
Who'se the minority now.

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 04:40 PM

What? Who gave you lefties the freedom of assembly? Back to your cages, everyone, nothing to see here. :stare: :O:
We will not be silenced by your right-hand fascism! We are coming at you out of left field!:stare:

Who'se the minority now.

Go form your own movement, then. This one is ours :P

edit-http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o264/charlie143james/fist.gif

Penguin

03-09-11, 04:47 PM

lol, lefties demanding rights, am I the only one who sees the irony here? You can have what's left!

I am calling all fellow righteous right-wing-paw normal people to fight the evil spread of leftism in this forum! Now is the right time! :arrgh!:

gimpy117

03-09-11, 04:50 PM

fittingly and ironically, I am left handed

Raptor1

03-09-11, 04:57 PM

razark

03-09-11, 04:58 PM

Yes, we should form a reactionary righty movement to counter the new militant leftyist revolution.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=442&pictureid=3753

:D

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 05:02 PM

Do you see how the oppressionist right takes what we say and turn it around to fit their preconceptions!?

razark

03-09-11, 05:05 PM

Do you see how the oppressionist right takes what we say and turn it around to fit their preconceptions!?
I thought you wanted rights? I'm just fixing your sign for you.

mookiemookie

03-09-11, 05:05 PM

I never realized how much trouble left handers had with everyday things until I got engaged to one.

Rockstar

03-09-11, 05:07 PM

razark

03-09-11, 05:09 PM

I never realized how much trouble left handers had with everyday things until I got engaged to one.
My boss is left handed. We went to San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf last year, and he was very excited to see a left handed specialty store.

I tried out various things such as scissors, can openers, etc. I can see why they would want such things. For me, they were extremely awkward, and some were downright painful to try to use.

mookiemookie

03-09-11, 05:18 PM

My boss is left handed. We went to San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf last year, and he was very excited to see a left handed specialty store.

I tried out various things such as scissors, can openers, etc. I can see why they would want such things. For me, they were extremely awkward, and some were downright painful to try to use.

:rotfl2: We went to Fisherman's Wharf last year and went into that same store!

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 05:20 PM

I thought you wanted rights? I'm just fixing your sign for you.

I'm just operating in your biased world where a "right" is considered to be good.:O:

Thomen

03-09-11, 05:21 PM

Yes! Down with the Right Handed oppresion! :arrgh!:

On a similar note: For that we lefties are supposed to be 'rare', there sure are a lot of us. Most of the people I personaly know here in the US are lefties too. Very odd.. :hmmm:

razark

03-09-11, 05:23 PM

Armistead

03-09-11, 05:25 PM

I'm left handed and have been since birth, but do many things right handed.

Through school I alway wrote with my hand curved over the paper, took me forever to break that habit. When I went to school, they never really taught us left handies how to correctly hold our hand.

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 05:33 PM

I'm left handed and have been since birth, but do many things right handed.

Of course. This rightist world forces you to adapt! It forces you to be someone other than who you are!

Through school I alway wrote with my hand curved over the paper, took me forever to break that habit. When I went to school, they never really taught us left handies how to correctly hold our hand.

Same here. My handwriting is still terrible and I often smudge what I have written with my wrist. Thank heavens for keyboards.:rock:

MaddogK

03-09-11, 05:35 PM

We will not be silenced by your right-hand fascism! We are coming at you out of left field!:stare:

Go form your own movement, then. This one is ours :P

edit-http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o264/charlie143james/fist.gif

How fitting- the 'left-overs' fall in line behind the battle flag of a hand struggling to grasp his apple mouse.

CLASSIC !!!

Penguin

03-09-11, 05:36 PM

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 05:39 PM

What else do you want? You have your little special shops to satisfy your perverted demands! Where does this end?
Next those sick lefties want to ride in the same busses like normal people. :nope:

Right is alright and brightens the day!

How fitting- the 'left-overs' fall in line behind the battle flag of a hand struggling to grasp his apple mouse.

CLASSIC !!!

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o264/charlie143james/haters_gonna_hate.gif

Platapus

03-09-11, 05:39 PM

I fear that this thread will have sinister implications.

Penguin

03-09-11, 05:44 PM

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o264/charlie143james/haters_gonna_hate.gif

ha, got you! :O:
This guy is clearly right-handed and -footed!
Just take a look how elegant, sappy and powerful he swings his right leg and arm and how wimpy his left arm moves and how he hobbles on his wrong leg! :rotfl2:

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 05:58 PM

Your attempts to demean us will not destroy our resolve. Besides, conflict does not determine who is right, only who is left.

edit- I have a homework assignment that needs working on but I'll be back to join the revolution later.

Tchocky

03-09-11, 06:14 PM

Lefty thread (not political)
I think that needs a "yet!", knowing this forum.

Platapus! Cheeky!

Gargamel

03-09-11, 06:41 PM

I never realized how much trouble left handers had with everyday things until I got engaged to one.

:o :D :rotfl2:

Freiwillige

03-09-11, 06:48 PM

I once went Bass fishing with a good friend. On a warm and sunny Arizona spring my pole broke so I asked to borrow a spare. He nervously handed me one of his back up poles and I noticed then that the reel was backwards. I nervously laughed at his attempt at humor and asked why he gave me a god damned left handed pole! It was then that my eyes noticed that his pole too was left handed! He must have noticed the rage in my eyes :stare: as he first froze :o then like a rabbit dropped his pole and beer and fled. I caught up to this lefty easily and knocked him to the river bank. As I pushed his face into the mud I was incoherent with rage as I screamed about his closet leftism.

After giving him a proper thumping I kicked his lifeless carcass into the river.
As he stumbled to find his footing I gave him a warning. His kind isn't welcome in these parts and he needs to go back to where he belongs!

It was a real nice fishing pole and after melting down that bastardized reel into a necklace of right handed victory I put a proper RIGHT handed reel on and added it to my collection.:arrgh!::rotfl2::D

razark

03-09-11, 07:17 PM

I think that needs a "yet!", knowing this forum.
So be it.

Guess who's a lefty:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Barack_Obama_signs_at_his_desk2.jpg/700px-Barack_Obama_signs_at_his_desk2.jpg

Bort

03-09-11, 08:54 PM

Left handed leftists! Incorrigible!

Buddahaid

03-09-11, 09:10 PM

Left handed leftists! Incorrigible!
Yeah! Soon they'le be demanding more KEEP LEFT signs!

August

03-09-11, 09:10 PM

http://citythatbreeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/left-hand-shake.jpg

Bort

03-09-11, 09:13 PM

Yeah! Soon they'le be demanding more KEEP LEFT signs!

Bastards!

I know of only one way to solve this problem.

http://eppingymcacc.nsw.cricket.com.au/files/3861/images/Mr_Burns_of_Japan.gif

"Release the hounds!"

Edit: They can smell the left handedness!

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 09:33 PM

Stay strong lefties! Do not be cowed by the attempts of the right-handed elite to insult us and belittle us! They call our gift a "recessive" trait! They force our left-handed children into schools made for right-handers!

It is time to stand up and show them that we are not genetic defectives! We are men! We are women! We are people!

Freiwillige

03-09-11, 09:49 PM

We must fight! Before you know it they will be demanding left handed rifles in the military! Left handed Marriages!

Lets show them who's right!

mookiemookie

03-09-11, 09:56 PM

:o :D :rotfl2:

:rotfl2: Not quite what I meant, but well played, sir.

Freiwillige

03-09-11, 10:06 PM

:rotfl2: Not quite what I meant, but well played, sir.

I too just GOT that context. Indeed well played.

August

03-09-11, 10:08 PM

Before you know it they will be demanding left handed rifles in the military!

Funny you should mention that. 30 years later I still have visible scars in the crook of my arm caused by hot brass ejected from my right handed M16.

The darn things would get into my sleeve through the cuff placket and end up against my skin where they burned like heck.

UnderseaLcpl

03-09-11, 11:03 PM

Funny you should mention that. 30 years later I still have visible scars in the crook of my arm caused by hot brass ejected from my right handed M16.

The darn things would get into my sleeve through the cuff placket and end up against my skin where they burned like heck.

My sleeves were rolled up tightly so I didn't get any of that. Most of mine ended up hitting me in the face and then finding their way down the back of my blouse collar, especially when I was shooting from the prone position. I may have scars from that, but I wouldn't know because they're on my upper back, which I can't see.

What really sucked was when I had my M-249. That biatch would shower so many casings on my right arm that even the sleeves of my utilities couldn't keep the burns out. Reloading it quickly was also a pain in the ass, as was changing the barrel, but I got it down.

August

03-09-11, 11:20 PM

My sleeves were rolled up tightly so I didn't get any of that. Most of mine ended up hitting me in the face and then finding their way down the back of my blouse collar, especially when I was shooting from the prone position. I may have scars from that, but I wouldn't know because they're on my upper back, which I can't see.

I recall that the BDU's had cuff solid plackets probably for that exact reason. The old OD fatigue sleeves that I wore were split halfway down the forearm and they were like a brass magnet when I shot left handed.

frau kaleun

03-10-11, 12:01 AM

and then finding their way down the back of my blouse collar

Good grief man even I don't wear blouses and I'm a grrrrl. And here I thought Marines were so... rugged. :wah:

Gargamel

03-10-11, 12:17 AM

Quit yer bitchins....

they make guns for you freaks.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JvpwUz1nl4A/TKP8INeohwI/AAAAAAAACUc/8VHuWsnZTGo/s1600/Left_Handed_Gun_%281958%29.jpg

Now that we've given you that.... Dont expect anything else!

Us NORMAL (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1614900&postcount=4894) people have given you enough! NOW BACK IN YOUR CAGE!

But be careful... the latch is on the right.... need help with that gimpy?

papa_smurf

03-10-11, 05:51 AM

Been left handed in a right handed world is a form of oppression...everything is right handed form scissors to cheque books:nope:

Heres my left handed idol:
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTas6uD7xqeOUlaSG6sEHwZTdbZ0L326 xSGZ58eWE-3p9P6D_6T

Penguin

03-10-11, 06:46 AM

So be it.

Guess who's a lefty:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Barack_Obama_signs_at_his_desk2.jpg/700px-Barack_Obama_signs_at_his_desk2.jpg

This explains it all: anybody wondered why we don't see the leader of the free, right world anymore?

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/106/sgbushlarge.jpg

I bet they put him into one of these reeducation camps which this Obama guy built.
I heard one is called Leftanamo Bay. They do sick things with the people there, like feeding the people with left chickenwings and the only thing those poor people get to read is the Bill of Lefts...

UnderseaLcpl

03-10-11, 08:20 AM

I recall that the BDU's had cuff solid plackets probably for that exact reason. The old OD fatigue sleeves that I wore were split halfway down the forearm and they were like a brass magnet when I shot left handed.

Thank goodness for the MARPAT and digi utility uniforms, then. I don't know what kind of KD course the army shoots, but having an open placket would have totally ruined my day at the range, especially with the stance I use in the kneeling stage of fire. I don't even want to think about what it would have been like in combat, or while using an LMG.

Good grief man even I don't wear blouses and I'm a grrrrl. And here I thought Marines were so... rugged.

Hey, I didn't come up with the name, k? In the Corps, the shirt for the utility uniform is called a blouse. A hat is called a cover. The pants are called "trousers". A helmet is a "kevlar". Referring to any one of these items by any other name is actually a punishable offense.

But we're getting off-track here.

VipertheSniper

03-10-11, 08:43 AM

Hey I'm a lefty too, and I object to paying premiums for "specially" manufactured products for lefthanders.

On the issue of shooting:
Having never handled a rifle before the army, it was quite easy for me to shoot it with the right hand, as I didn't learn it any other way, so no burn marks from ejected shell casings for me.

I think the notion that the left hand is the "bad" hand comes from the ambiguity of the latin word sinistrum, or rather it's change of meaning from left in latin to malign in English or German. Even today when somebody tries to take advantage of you, it's said "Er dreht eine Linke", "Linke" stands for a fraud in this case, if somebody behaves/moves "linkisch" he's clumsy or inept.

I'm just glad I wasn't born in a time where lefties were forced to do it the "right" way, with tying their left arm behind their backs.

LEFTIES UNITE!!! :salute: <--- that smilie should be available the other way round.

Platapus

03-10-11, 08:45 AM

I am a righty but I shoot rifles lefty and yes it is a pain.. literally. :nope:

My left eye is considerably more dominant than my right eye, but the common military rifles are made for rightys :yep:

Tchocky

03-10-11, 08:46 AM

Good grief man even I don't wear blouses and I'm a grrrrl. And here I thought Marines were so... rugged. :wah:

"Now, the kilt was only for day-to-day wear. In battle, we donned a full-length ball gown covered in sequins. The idea was to blind your opponent with luxury."

August

03-10-11, 10:51 AM

:salute: <--- that smilie should be available the other way round.

See, even the Smileys are biased! :stare: :DL

yubba

03-10-11, 11:15 AM

The only thing I can't do with my left is write, but drink and shoot with both.:woot:

Sailor Steve

03-10-11, 12:02 PM

I think the notion that the left hand is the "bad" hand comes from the ambiguity of the latin word sinistrum, or rather it's change of meaning from left in latin to malign in English or German. Even today when somebody tries to take advantage of you, it's said "Er dreht eine Linke", "Linke" stands for a fraud in this case, if somebody behaves/moves "linkisch" he's clumsy or inept.
How gauche. :O:

Sailor Steve

03-10-11, 12:14 PM

Heres my left handed idol:
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTas6uD7xqeOUlaSG6sEHwZTdbZ0L326 xSGZ58eWE-3p9P6D_6T
Even us righties have some southpaw heroes.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/sir-paul-mccartney.jpg

jumpy

03-10-11, 06:47 PM

http://citythatbreeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/left-hand-shake.jpg

Now we know your sign, you will be easier to identify in a crowd... we also have a foolproof method* of drawing out your identity with the double bluff handshake: if we offer you the left or right hand which will you choose? the right, so as not to give yourself away? Or the left, in the feeble hope you are about to shake the hand of one of your own kind?
Either way it will go badly for you lefties - you either conform, or you suffer the consequences of revealing yourself!

* based on tried and tested techniques, right-handed down through generations of honest right handed people.

Even us righties have some southpaw heroes.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/sir-paul-mccartney.jpg

He's not the best icon for their diabolical cause. He's just a wrong 'un... end of.
Can't really comment on jimi, perhaps a special dispensation could be posthumously awarded? We are not ungrateful of his greater contribution and his exemplary endeavour, in overcoming his obvious disability.

:O:

August

03-10-11, 08:27 PM

Now we know your sign, you will be easier to identify in a crowd...

Except that the picture does not show what we're doing with our right hands.... Muahahahahahaha! :up:

jumpy

03-10-11, 09:17 PM

Mayhap it would be impolite to ask what the other hands are doing whilst you're engaged in your secret 'nod's as good as a wink' lefty handshake?
:oops: :D

Sailor Steve

03-10-11, 09:17 PM

He's not the best icon for their diabolical cause. He's just a wrong 'un... end of.
Can't really comment on jimi, perhaps a special dispensation could be posthumously awarded? We are not ungrateful of his greater contribution and his exemplary endeavour, in overcoming his obvious disability.
Hey, my heroes are all the people who made me want to play. It stands to reason that some of them would be deformed. :D

August

03-11-11, 12:47 AM

Mayhap it would be impolite to ask what the other hands are doing whilst you're engaged in your secret 'nod's as good as a wink' lefty handshake?
:oops: :D

It indeed mayhap. :O:

Sailor Steve

03-11-11, 01:53 AM

I see this thread has taken a left turn, and I'm feeling left out. Am I right?

Gargamel

03-11-11, 02:06 AM

I see this thread has taken a left turn, and I'm feeling left out. Am I right?

Well, don't feel bad... Rights are far superior to Lefties...

We all know that 3 lefts make a right... so rights are 3x better than lefts.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4CWvZnK_fh6umufHu1ASxkWrfgJENz sgJYB6DSa1mCQ6QAx3rDQ

August

03-11-11, 08:23 AM

...blatantly false Righty propaganda...

We all know that each side of the body is controlled by the opposite side of the brain so left handers are the only people in their right minds.

VipertheSniper

03-11-11, 09:24 AM

We all know that each side of the body is controlled by the opposite side of the brain so left handers are the only people in their right minds.

QFT

Sailor Steve

03-11-11, 11:25 AM

We all know that each side of the body is controlled by the opposite side of the brain so left handers are the only people in their right minds.
:rotfl2:

Ouch, touche and brilliant! :rock:

Growler

03-11-11, 12:51 PM

We all know that each side of the body is controlled by the opposite side of the brain so left handers are the only people in their right minds.

Which suggests that Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, William Clinton and now Barack Obama were/are all in their right minds. (Five of the last eight presidents were wrong:O:-handed.)

That's gonna muck with some people's political theories.

UnderseaLcpl

03-13-11, 02:05 AM

Hardly.:O: Left-handers are generally abstract thinkers, which is something that serves them well in the creative areas of society they often end up in. Politics are an art, and lefties tend do well for themselves in such areas, relatively speaking.

Platapus

03-13-11, 07:55 AM

My mother, who is left handed, used to tell us that when she was in grade school (1930s-1940s) she was punished for writing with her left hand and the teacher tried to force her to "learn to write the correct way". :nope:

As a consequence my mother writes "under" the line as opposed to "over" the line. The picture, in this thread of Obama writing is an example of the more common writing over the line. I wish I could find a picture of the other way.

For reference, a right handed person writes under the line: Their hand is under the line they are currently writing.

Anyway, does any other lefty write under the line? Or is that just a thing of the past?

VipertheSniper

03-13-11, 08:04 AM

Krauter

03-13-11, 03:10 PM

More than anything, I am tired of being hit in the face with my own spent shell casings!

:haha:

For some reason this just kind of made my day.

Edit: Now that I've read the whole thread and see that it caused scars I might take that back..

I just remember playing some mindless FPS with a friend and seeing how some of the characters shot lefty and got sprayed by shell casings and the two of us wondered to the other.. oww that's got to be annoying at least.

RickC Sniper

03-13-11, 03:43 PM

My mother, who is left handed, used to tell us that when she was in grade school (1930s-1940s) she was punished for writing with her left hand and the teacher tried to force her to "learn to write the correct way". :nope:

I am a lefty
When in school (50's and 60's) I had nuns for teachers through the first 8 grades. They made me write with my right hand for 3 years. In Grade 4 I won my freedom to use my natural left.

Even after they let me use my left, they required me to slant the paper so the writing ended up looking like it was written by a right hander.

In the movie Saving Private Ryan I found it interesting that Spielberg cast a left handed shooter as the sniper. (was that Barry Pepper?) I can still see him up in that tower trying to shoot that bolt action rifle quickly but using his left hand to reach over the top of the rifle to work the bolt to chamber rounds. It looked incredibly odd. (I shoot right handed)
How many of you noticed this? :cool:

RickC Sniper

03-13-11, 03:51 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY61XmDJ-1w

There's the scene. :ping:

Gargamel

03-13-11, 07:38 PM

Interesting.... must be why he missed so much......

RickC Sniper

03-13-11, 08:41 PM

Interesting.... must be why he missed so much......

His accuracy, and anybody's accuracy in a movie is dependent upon how accurate the director wants him to be.

He really was not shooting at anyone. They could have him never hit or never miss...up to the editing room.

I was just speculating whether Spielberg deliberately cast a lefty for that role or if it just ended up that way by chance.

BTW...Pepper does a very good job of handling the rifle in that scene imo.

Gargamel

03-13-11, 08:42 PM

His accuracy, and anybody's accuracy in a movie is dependent upon how accurate the director wants him to be.

He really was not shooting at anyone. They could have him never hit or never miss...up to the editing room.

I was just speculating whether Spielberg deliberately cast a lefty for that role or if it just ended up that way by chance.

BTW...Pepper does a very good job of handling the rifle in that scene imo.

Oh yes, I agree on all points....

Just poking fun at you lefties.....