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Just so some of you won't feel left out:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/international-lefthanders-day-2014-origin-purpose-ways-celebrate-notable-lefties-1460944
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Aktungbby
08-13-14, 01:11 PM
https://cdn3.volusion.com/4jdsg.2wu4y/v/vspfiles/photos/596954-2.jpg?1354201021http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc10/joeymagaines/IMG_20110628_180904.jpg for lefties...like Einstein and Da Vinci!:woot:
*looks at the watch mark left on his right wrist*
Don't judge me! :O:
Yeah, I'm wierd, I'm right handed but I wear my watch on my right hand. :doh:
Do you wear it with the face under your wrist? I wear mine that way and find it easier to deal with, although I have gotten a few comments over the years about how I am wearing my watch the "wrong way"...
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Aktungbby
08-13-14, 01:55 PM
No Need! as invented in the trenches of WWI; the wristwatch with shrapnel protection or general bangn' around, workin' the bolt on an Enfield for 'the mad minute' http://www.antiquewatchcouk.com/military/gratewatch4.jpg$800 +- throw in the 'hack' mechanism...and all the Pals could go 'over the Top' in unison:doh: welcome to horology WWI 101
Do you wear it with the face under your wrist? I wear mine that way and find it easier to deal with, although I have gotten a few comments over the years about how I am wearing my watch the "wrong way"...
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Can't admit I do, but I can understand the reasoning behind it, although I'd be terrified of smashing the face on a work surface or something.
Skybird
08-13-14, 03:11 PM
We also need a day to remember people with one leg only. I imagine that all the majority of people with two legs for one day will hopp around on just one leg, becasue according to the website's text, which I slightly adapted to the one-leg-celebration day: >>"the idea of One-Leg-Day is of everyone to celebrate in fun, practical ways, making two-legged family members / friends / colleagues realise how 'athletic' and physically well-coordinated we have to be because we are constantly adapting a two-legged world to work for a one-legger," states the website."Getting two-legged people to move one-legged for the day is a great way to make the point!"<<
:88)
Doctors also will welcome the immense additional income they can earn that day.
Sailor Steve
08-13-14, 03:23 PM
Today is a Sinister Day...
How gauche of you. :O:
Is that one of those left-handed compliments?... :D
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Sailor Steve
08-13-14, 04:55 PM
If that's the hand you use, well, never mind...
Apologies to Paul Simon
I'm a lefty, but I do not wear my watch on either of my wrists. No thank you, I don't want to be shackled by time. I carry it on a belt-loop of my pants (on the right). I guess that makes me a hipster too?
The worst drawback of this 'orientation' was dragging your hand through the wet ink from a fountain pen all the time when I was a kid in school. The thinking was that using a fountain pen improves one's handwriting skills. Yeah, left! It's never been any good. I hate those pens.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/izzy-left-handed-595x452.jpg
Platapus
08-13-14, 06:03 PM
How gauche of you. :O:
:salute:
The worst drawback of this 'orientation' was dragging your hand through the wet ink from a fountain pen all the time when I was a kid in school. The thinking was that it improves one's handwriting skills. Yeah, left! It's never been any good. I hate those pens.
It used to be some schools would try to "cure" a kid of left-handedness by forcing them to use only their right hand. IIRC, Paul McCartney was so abused in school...
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It used to be some schools would try to "cure" a kid of left-handedness by forcing them to use only their right hand. IIRC, Paul McCartney was so abused in school...
<O>I know, I guess I'm young enough to never have needed to experience that teaching method. Thankfully.
Stealhead
08-13-14, 07:42 PM
I am right handed but can use my left hand just about as well. What do they call that? Ambidextrous. Anyway they(my parents) let me choose which hand I wanted to write with and I choose right of course I was a bit better writing with my right hand.
I wear my watch on my left wrist. I use both hands about equally though.
@ Pisces aren't you shackled by time anyway if you choose to carry a timepiece even if it is not directly on your wrist?:hmm2:
Sailor Steve
08-13-14, 08:57 PM
Something that has always intrigued me is the technique for playing stringed instruments. They make "backwards" guitars for lefties. The reason I find this odd is that in a so-called "right-handed" instrument it's the left hand that does the hardest part. I would have thought that a southpaw would find this easier. Then again, I don't know how the brain really works in these matters, so I accept the apparent reality for what it is.
I knew someone in high school who fractured their right arm pretty badly and had to have it in a sling for a few months, during that time they started writing with their left hand. When the sling and cast came off, they stayed writing with their left hand.
Stealhead
08-13-14, 10:21 PM
They really adapted quickly. I would think most people would take several months or so to swap hands if they had lost the dominant hand.
They really adapted quickly. I would think most people would take several months or so to swap hands if they had lost the dominant hand.
I was surprised too, I don't know if they still use their left hand, it's been a while since then, but I remember their hand-writing started off terrible but steadily improved, even our English teacher commented on it.
swamprat69er
08-13-14, 11:52 PM
My Dad was a southpaw. He told me of the many times he would get the yardstick cracked across his knuckles, arm,back or whatever other body part the sadist (teacher) chose to hit just because he was writing with his left hand. Fortunately for me I am right handed.
Stealhead
08-14-14, 12:41 AM
I always wonder if it was a regional/time period thing. My dad is a lefty and he born in 1939 during his younger school years he went to school in Pennsylvania the teachers seemed not to care too much.I think he said that his kindergarten and 1st grade teacher sort of suggested using the right but if the kid did not switch they would not bother forcing them. Of course this was in a predominantly German Protestant community.
My dad is so hardcore lefty he even has his mouse on the left side of the keyboard.
Recon the mistrust of the left hand goes back a long way. I know some in cultures the left hand is the "dirty" hand.
Here, I think, we never had the imposition of changing a left-hand persons to use the right hand.
My father is a both ambidextrous, he only trouble is that in shooting if a left hand, so the caribine and other rifles had to be for left handed. He also shoots bows and 2 of them are also for left handed.
The good thing for me is that he loves shooting long bows!
MadCowMoo
08-14-14, 04:43 AM
I have a left handed piano when I've had too much sauce :Kaleun_Cheers:
Jimbuna
08-14-14, 04:59 AM
On holiday
Make Left-Handers Day an excuse for a fun game – left-handed volleyball on the beach, or left-hand only drinking at the bar – with forfeits for the losers!
Never been a problem...world champion at that :smug:
swamprat69er
08-14-14, 07:54 AM
Dad was born in '22 and went to school in the '30's in Toronto, ON.
It's the hand o the De'il yi ken, strap yon left appendage behind yer back NOW! The right hand is the hand of the Lord!.
Well that was the old days....
Now I believe yoo can get a cream for it http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/image/s2.gif
Cheers
Jev
erm Gary :arrgh!:
Copy of my post over at Matrix Games :woot:
Remember probably the greatest ever right-hander who adapted to left-handedness: Lord Horatio Nelson...
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gordonmull
08-17-14, 06:56 PM
Something that has always intrigued me is the technique for playing stringed instruments. They make "backwards" guitars for lefties. The reason I find this odd is that in a so-called "right-handed" instrument it's the left hand that does the hardest part. I would have thought that a southpaw would find this easier. Then again, I don't know how the brain really works in these matters, so I accept the apparent reality for what it is.
With the bass, from the beginning the dominant hand needs to be able to pluck the strings leaving you to forget about it and concentrate on the recessive(?) hand. It's hard to explain something that just "feels" right but I don't ever think about my right hand on the bass, it just does its thing. The left, which makes the actual notes, has all my focus. Unless I'm slapping. My right needs a bit more attention then because I'm not really practiced enough with that style. I think what I'm trying to say is that I can let my dominant hand get on with the easy stuff and not have to worry about it allowing me to concentrate on manipulating my other hand with my full attention.
Platapus
08-17-14, 07:19 PM
I remember my mother telling us stories about when she was in school; being told that she was writing "wrong" and being forced to write with her right hand.
Of course, mothers being what they are, they may just be stories.
I'm left handed and used to wear my watch on my left wrist but I found that the buttons kept getting pressed accidentally whenever I pulled my hand back.
Now I wear it on my right wrist. Just took a little getting used to.
It's the hand o the De'il yi ken, strap yon left appendage behind yer back NOW! The right hand is the hand of the Lord!.
Well that was the old days....
Now I believe yoo can get a cream for it http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/image/s2.gif
Cheers
Jev
erm Gary :arrgh!:
Copy of my post over at Matrix Games :woot:
I remember my mother telling us stories about when she was in school; being told that she was writing "wrong" and being forced to write with her right hand.
Of course, mothers being what they are, they may just be stories.
Nope, it was quite common in the black and white days..:know:
Cheers
Gary
Something that has always intrigued me is the technique for playing stringed instruments. They make "backwards" guitars for lefties. The reason I find this odd is that in a so-called "right-handed" instrument it's the left hand that does the hardest part. I would have thought that a southpaw would find this easier. Then again, I don't know how the brain really works in these matters, so I accept the apparent reality for what it is.
I gave this a bit of thought (an excruciating experience I reserve for only major matters) and I may have a theory: the evolution of what is now the guitar comes from a time when melody was more important than rhythm or strumming. Players used to just clamp on a chord with their left hand and very actively fingerpick with their right, or dominant, hand. The need for a high degree of agility more or less mandated the use of the dominant hand. You can still see this in the guitar styles of folk and country players...
This is just a theory; please feel free to debunk it at will. I will now busy myself getting a cold compress for my fevered, over-thought, brow...
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Aktungbby
08-20-14, 03:06 PM
I gave this a bit of thought (an excruciating experience I reserve for only major matters) and I may have a theory: the evolution of what is now the guitar comes from a time when melody was more important than rhythm or strumming. Players used to just clamp on a chord with their left hand and very actively fingerpick with their right, or dominant, hand. The need for a high degree of agility more or less mandated the use of the dominant hand. You can still see this in the guitar styles of folk and country players...
This is just a theory; please feel free to debunk it at will. I will now busy myself getting a cold compress for my fevered, over-thought, brow...
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NOT AT ALL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxSxeKfIFE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxSxeKfIFE) :O:a little melody in black and white and a right hand too!
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