Are you left handed or right handed?

[brooksieb]

I'm Unique!

left handed for me but i can use both feet

and if you use both hands choose the one you use most.

[jnd94]

LEft handed!! Lefties unite!

[jonesthecurl]

My son is left-handed when he writes, but right-handed for some other stuff like tennis. It took him a while to decide at baseball.
He is also right-footed.

[pimpdave]

With an appropriately large enough sample (at least 1,000 respondents) it should work out to 10% left handed and 90% right handed.

Which of course underscores another 90/10 split I've always wondered about, homosexuals. I just really don't think that 10% of the population is gay. I really think it's more like 2%. There are so many more lefties out there than fairies.

Unless of course we are discussing the population of the Double Rainbow Society. In that case, it's only 2% that are straight. (I hope this sheds light on the "Not as Gay as you Think" signature, because it is accurate. 2% are not gay, meaning they are not as gay as everyone thought)

[muy_thaiguy]

A righty with my hand and foot. Though I can switch feet and hands with kicking and such, but not writing.

[jonesthecurl]

Actually, you'd be surprised at trends in handedness - the percentage of lefties amongst younger people is growing. I've seen claims of 30-40% or more.
Why this should be, and whether its a delayed result of the decay of prejudice against lefties is an interesting question.
I have twin nephews, one of whom is a lefty, one a righty.

[glide]

I consider myself left handed because I write that way. But I am right footed....and I swing a bat, and golf club right handed, as well as play hockey right handed. However, I throw a baseball left handed, yet throw a football right handed. Nope...I don't know why either....lol

[pimpdave]

Actually, you'd be surprised at trends in handedness - the percentage of lefties amongst younger people is growing. I've seen claims of 30-40% or more.
Why this should be, and whether its a delayed result of the decay of prejudice against lefties is an interesting question.

Meaning what? That more lefties concealed their "sinister" nature, or is it actually a proliferation of the genetic trait? As in, more lefties are able to breed now that it is against the law to identify them as witches and burn them?

And you're right, that is surprising. Also fascinating. My dad is a lefty, but his right side is his power side. So he throws left but bats right. He writes left but eats with his right hand (I think the utensil thing was from forced training, not natural inclination).

I have twin nephews, one of whom is a lefty, one a righty.

I think I know which one is the evil one.

[jonesthecurl]

My dad is a lefty, but his right side is his power side. So he throws left but bats right. He writes left but eats with his right hand (I think the utensil thing was from forced training, not natural inclination).

Well when it turned out my boy was a lefty, we always laid the knife and fork out for him left-handedly, as well as buying lefty scissors etc. But he naturally eats right-handed - no pressure, quite the opposite.

[MeDeFe]

Where's the option for ambidextrous people?

[Juan_Bottom]

With an appropriately large enough sample (at least 1,000 respondents) it should work out to 10% left handed and 90% right handed.

Which of course underscores another 90/10 split I've always wondered about, homosexuals. I just really don't think that 10% of the population is gay. I really think it's more like 2%. There are so many more lefties out there than fairies.

Unless of course we are discussing the population of the Double Rainbow Society. In that case, it's only 2% that are straight. (I hope this sheds light on the "Not as Gay as you Think" signature, because it is accurate. 2% are not gay, meaning they are not as gay as everyone thought)

Hey, I like the DRS(obviously, not as much as I like me). And that sig is the greatest.

[pimpdave]

Hey, I like the DRS(obviously, not as much as I like me). And that sig is the greatest.

Now, now. I'm just joking. I don't even know the DRS, I've only seen their sig. However, I do know they have inferior fun.

[Juan_Bottom]

Hey, I like the DRS(obviously, not as much as I like me). And that sig is the greatest.

Now, now. I'm just joking. I don't even know the DRS, I've only seen their sig. However, I do know they have inferior fun.

Agreed.

[strike wolf]

I'm a leftie, but I write with my right, use scissors with both and throw a frisbee (the normal way) right handed and the reverse way left handed. Though the frisbee was probably because I learned to throw it that way before my parents found out I was left handed.

[Nickbaldwin]

Leftie for most, righty for some other stuff.

[strike wolf]

As for Jonesthecurl's comment about more lefties. I do remember hearing something about how back in the day a lot of parents as well as teachers tried to influence kids to use their right hands dominantly.

[brooksieb]

As for Jonesthecurl's comment about more lefties. I do remember hearing something about how back in the day a lot of parents as well as teachers tried to influence kids to use their right hands dominantly.

I remember that, growing up in the 60's whenever you used your' left hand they used to take your' pencil and put it in the other hand or even smack your' hand. But growing up in the 70's aswell they didn't do that.

[jiminski]

As for Jonesthecurl's comment about more lefties. I do remember hearing something about how back in the day a lot of parents as well as teachers tried to influence kids to use their right hands dominantly.

I remember that, growing up in the 60's whenever you used your' left hand they used to take your' pencil and put it in the other hand or even smack your' hand. But growing up in the 70's aswell they didn't do that.

in the 30's they just hacked your left hand-off with a set-square!

[jonesthecurl]

As for Jonesthecurl's comment about more lefties. I do remember hearing something about how back in the day a lot of parents as well as teachers tried to influence kids to use their right hands dominantly.

I remember that, growing up in the 60's whenever you used your' left hand they used to take your' pencil and put it in the other hand or even smack your' hand. But growing up in the 70's aswell they didn't do that.

in the 30's they just hacked your left hand-off with a set-square!

I had a teaacher who wrote right-handed, having been quite literally beaten into it. But when he wrote on the blackboard with chalk, he used his left ('cos he never used a blackboard till he was a teacher, by which time they'd stopped beating him hopefully, or maybe he thumped them back).

[pimpdave]

I had a teaacher who wrote right-handed, having been quite literally beaten into it. But when he wrote on the blackboard with chalk, he used his left ('cos he never used a blackboard till he was a teacher, by which time they'd stopped beating him hopefully, or maybe he thumped them back).

That's just despicable. I hope he did get a shot in at those degenerates.

I know I may make jokes about lefties being demon spawn, or sinister/evil, but I do honestly hope I haven't brought up any troublesome memories for any southpaws reading this thread.

There really is nothing wrong with lefties, except for their scissors.

[jonesthecurl]

and their pencil sharpeners...

[KoreanJellyfish]

I had a teaacher who wrote right-handed, having been quite literally beaten into it. But when he wrote on the blackboard with chalk, he used his left ('cos he never used a blackboard till he was a teacher, by which time they'd stopped beating him hopefully, or maybe he thumped them back).

That's just despicable. I hope he did get a shot in at those degenerates.

I know I may make jokes about lefties being demon spawn, or sinister/evil, but I do honestly hope I haven't brought up any troublesome memories for any southpaws reading this thread.

There really is nothing wrong with lefties, except for their scissors.

I think you're jealous.

[muy_thaiguy]

Where's the option for ambidextrous people?

Don't count as people.

[Nickbaldwin]

I don't get leftie scissors what are they for

[Neoteny]

and their pencil sharpeners...

Those things are beasts.