The "Lefty" thread (not political) - Page 5

August · 03-10-11, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by jumpy

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!

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?

Sailor Steve · 03-10-11, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jumpy

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.

August · 03-11-11, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by jumpy

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?

It indeed mayhap.

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

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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.

August · 03-11-11, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

...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

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Originally Posted by August

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

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Originally Posted by August

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.

Ouch, touche and brilliant!

Growler · 03-11-11, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by August

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

-handed.)

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

UnderseaLcpl · 03-13-11, 02:05 AM

Hardly.

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".

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

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Originally Posted by Platapus

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".

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?

Wouldn't know how to do that... at least not in a way that is fast, but that's most probably because I didn't learn it that way. Also my writing leans to the left when I try to do that

Krauter · 03-13-11, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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

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

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Originally Posted by Platapus

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".

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?

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jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	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? __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I see this thread has taken a left turn, and I'm feeling left out. Am I right? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Hardly. 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. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,375 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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". 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? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.