left handed?

[McKenzie]

I am. I had always thought it meant I was more creative but it seems it might just be nature's way of giving us lefties the upper hand in a fight. Actually, it's not a conclusive study; fun reading though for lefties.

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Dr Faurie said: "We have found a direct correlation between the level of violence in a given society and the proportion of left-handers. This indicates that fighting can be an important selection pressure in the evolution of left-handedness."

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=590838

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. My son is left handed....should I be frightened?

;) :hi:

[motely36]

2. I'm a south paw too.

:hi:

[Bobbie47]

3. Lefty here too

:grouphug:

[Maddy McCall]

4. I'm a lefty, politically and prehensilely.

:-)

[unblock]

5. power right, fine tuning left.

for writing and eating i'm lefty.
for sports i'm generally righty, though i can hit (baseball) either way.

[Selteri]

11. Same here

And I'm a glassblower.

[Bertha Venation]

20. left-handed glassblower?

I know nothing about glassblowing. Is it harder as a lefty?

[carnie_sf]

12. Me too

I think more of us lefties are ambidextrous because we live in a right handed world.

[Lost4words]

16. me to! n/t

[parkening]

35. I'm with you unblock

I write and use chopsticks with my left. I used to eat with my left but my mother made me switch (she apologizes for that now).

Play sports, guitar and everything else right-handed.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. Yo!

Southpaw here!

:hi:

[unblock]

7. left handedness is correlated with a number of things

including genius ability, artistic creativity, homosexuality and schizophrenia.

just very broad statistical correlations, very hard to know much about any causation. and obviously, individual results may vary.

[rurallib]

8. lefties must be watched

I am opposed to allowing lefties to marry. I don't think they should be allowed to hold jobs with the government. Thgey probably should not be allowed in public schools.
Left-handedness is a choice, not a normal lifestyle. Lefties can choose to use their correst hand. The old latin gives us a clue of the evil of left-handedness. Their word for lefties was 'sinistra', from which we get our word sinister.
The Bible doesn't specifically condone left-handedness and by not so doing condemns it.
I believe we should pray that the left handed can be set straight. We should have prayer circles for you. Left handers will never get to heaven. Since everything is backwards for them they will think they are going to heaven when they are headed the opposite way. When the rapture comes they will be 'left' behind.

[Maddy McCall]

9. LOL!

We are the scourge of western civilization. :-)

[bunkerbuster1]

13. the left-handed deserve no "special rights"

like equal housing and employment opportunity.

[Richardo]

14. Nicely done, rurallib

:D

Welcome to DU!

Signed,

Left-handed Richardo ;-)

[Lost4words]

18. Earth is the only Heaven!

is your sarcasm switch on or off??

[China_cat]

23. You think you're joking

but a lot of what you wrote was used as justification for kicking my grandmother out of her church as a child and villifying her for a lot of the rest of her life. She was left handed and couldn't learn to do thing right handed, therefore she was a child of satan and content to stay that way.

[rurallib]

34. I am always amazed

that you can't make up crap that's weirder than reality, especially the current reality. BTW, I think one of Clinton's biggest sins was being left-handed.

[Richardo]

47. But Bush Sr. is also left-handed, as is Ross Perot.

The '92 election featured ALL southpaws.

There's a Sinisterian Conspiracy for ya. :tinfoilhat:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. I wish I could nominate responses to the home page!

Genius, dude, pure genius! :yourock:

[parkening]

33. Not to sound too dorky here...

but the Bible does mention lefties --- and in a positive light, too!

[rurallib]

37. Maybe your bible does, but not mine.

I was making crap up. But the bible is an interpretted work. I'd bet you can get a bible to be interpretted so it validates any idiotic belief you want.

[parkening]

45. Yours says it, too!

Look up Judges 20:16 Among all this people seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair , and not miss.

Not a lot of room for interpretation there.

You can interpret the Bible any way you want. But there are very few valid interpretations.

Anyway, didn't mean to touch a raw nerve there.

Lefties rule! Woohoo!

[bunkerbuster1]

41. and DON'T mention my Left-Handed Daughter!

you bad, bad man!

[StopTheMorans]

10. I'm a righty. Freaks!

:evilgrin:

[Lost4words]

15. ambi, but I have always favored the left!

I was sent to Catholic school in K-2 The Nuns tried to force me to write with my right hand. The more they tried the more I fained left only. Even though I could use my right with equal dexterity. I was suspect of authority even then.

Didn't know how lucky I was not to be molested by members of that cult.
They could never answer logical questions for me. I avoid organized religions to this day.

[demnan]

17. I am

and I think we have a unique perspective on the world. I don't know about the fighting but I could beat my brother at badmitton.

[Bertha Venation]

19. We lefties are the only folks in our right minds.

Not original, but true. :evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

49. I like that one, though.

As another leftie, I agree that it is so true.

[Frogtutor]

63. I saw a t-shirt in a catalog the other day: Everyone is born right-handed;

but only the gifted overcome it.

:)

[dr.strangelove]

21. I'm mixed up

I use my left hand in most sports and daily activities (i.e. brushing my teeth, combing my hair . . .) but I use my right hand to write and drink with. I don;t remember if I fight lefty or righty.

[Demit]

22. Proud lefty here--or "cacky-handed" (what my Aussie uncle called me)

But I do a lot of things right-handed, as I'm sure all lefties do. Having to grow up in a righty world, you adapt.

Can anybody else here write backwards?

[ewagner]

24. Lefty here

although I gave in and learned to play golf right-handed...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Proud lefty here

in terms of both handedness and politics.

Supposedly, left-handedness goes together with creativity, stammering, foreign language ability, musical ability, allergies, and mathematical ability. If that's the case, I've been cheated! I didn't get the math part!

[McKenzie]

53. I got cheated too Lydia L...I'm crap at music though

but my job is creative and I sometimes need maths to do bits of it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

56. Another proud southpaw here

My mother's a lefty, too. I love to write, but I have no musical ability and I stink at math. LOL

[Bertha Venation]

26. I know a cat named Lefty, a beautiful green-eyed bullseye tabby...

He's the hospital cat at my vet's office. He's named Lefty because he had a horrible abcess around his left eye and was to be put down, but Dr. Terry rescued him from the shelter and fixed him up. Lefty's face is perfect. He's an amazingly beautiful animal.

[Left Is Write]

28. I'm left-handed. I always rather liked the distinction.

My mother is left-handed too, and I'm the only one of her five children to be left-handed. It gave me something special that I share with her and that I shared with my grandfather too.

[babylonsister]

29. 'Nother lefty checking in! And proud to be!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. Rightie except for the mouse

Trying to use the mouse with the right hand feels weird. I always swap mouse and keyboard when I sit at someone's computer. For everything else I'm right-handed.

And I don't swap buttons -- I left-click with the Bush-saluting finger, and right-click with the index finger.

[Eurobabe]

31. yeppers

and proud of it.

[Phillycat]

32. Why yes, yes I am.

[Ravenseye]

36. Mom and I both born lefty, both forced to switch.

My mom forced to be a righty by the school she was in. Back then all 'leftys' were forced to be 'righties'. Sound familiar?

When I had it to, for some reason my mom was so brainwashed from her upbringing they made me be a righty too. Now i'm all screwed up. I'm not quite ambidextrous, but I do alot of things as a lefty. I still write as a righty though and my handwriting looks like it.

[Frogtutor]

38. Oooo, Evil-Kindergarten-Teacher-From-Hell tried that with me, too

In the early 70's. I was eating dinner one night, had been holding my fork with my left hand, put it down, and picked it back up with my right to continue eating. My mom asked me why I did that, and I told her, "Mrs. Morris said I'm not supposed to use that hand." Mom went to school the next day and went ballistic on Mrs. Morris...

That was not her only evil deed, either! That woman scarred me for life, but by God, I'm still a proud lefty!

[Mad_Dem_X]

57. Good for your mom!

I grew up in the 70s, but fortunately no one ever tried to convert me to righthandedness. :)

I only use my right hand for three things: The computer mouse, scissors, and something personal which I won't mention. lol

[Frogtutor]

39. Clinton, Bush Sr., and Peroe are ALL lefties;

kinda freaky that they all ran against each other at the same time, huh?

[bunkerbuster1]

42. It was fun, though, predicting that

"the lefty will win."

[Frogtutor]

43. hee hee n/t

[AngryAmish]

40. Sinister

[parkening]

50. Gauche

[bobthedrummer]

44. I'm a lefty, so is daughter

[arwalden]

46. Yes.

[chaska]

48. Me lefty too (but bat right handed)...

French people eat left handed. And Asians (sorry, can't be more specific) eat their pho (Vietnames soup) using chopstick in the right hand and a spoon in the left. Just weird observations.

[Coventina]

51. Proud lefty! In every sense!

:-)

[Spirochete]

52. Try to guess whether I'm left-handed

but no fair looking at my username. hehe

[Huckebein the Raven]

54. Another lefty here

[Hard_Work]

55. Annnddd, another one...

Lefty here. Apparently, so is my wife, although her mother forced her to right(wrong) handedness...

Luckily my own mom wouldn't hear of it...

[IHeart1993]

58. I'm left handed

When I was in 7th grade, I was in a left handed row. There were many lefties in the class, plus my homeroom teacher was left handed.

A good left handed website:
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/

I Heart 1993

[achtung_circus]

59. Well, I dress to the left. nt

[lumberingbear]

60. Yo

Lefty here!!!

[Cymbaline68]

61. Another Southpaw here

with bad memories of using spiral notebooks in school....

[Frogtutor]

62. Oh! I HATE that! LOL

You know, most of the time I don't even think about being left handed until something like that happens. Also, I used to get ink stains or pencil lead all over the side of my left hand because it was dragged across my writing...