Beware the Beast Man
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:22 AM
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Poll question: Leftie, Rightie, or Ambidextrous? |
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I'm a rightie, but I throw Frisbee left-handed. Also, my left forearm is really strong for some reason...
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:23 AM
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but forced as a child to use right hand. Since, I am ambidextrous.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:23 AM
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ambidextrous are so b/c they were forced to write right handed as a child. Talk about mean! I can't imagine being forced to write left handed. It just isn't natural for me at all!
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:25 AM
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Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 08:25 AM by Richardo
:hi: <-- See? I even wave with my left hand!
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:25 AM
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For writing at least; I do mouse-work with my right-hand, I hold my fork in left and knife in right.
I'm just not going to speculate on the strength of your left forearm. :P
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:27 AM
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5. I'm ambidextrous with a mouse, but prefer it on the left |
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I'm right handed and when I first started using a mouse, back in '91, to me it made sense to use the left hand so my writing hand was free.
It actually feels more natural on the left now and I love watching workmates try to use it.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:29 AM
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9. I use the same logic in reverse - mouse with right, write with left |
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'write with left' Hm. That sounds funny.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:27 AM
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I can switch off when I want to. Though for reallly fine work like writing, I am right-handed.
But for other things: painting, sewing, or things requiring a good deal of strength, I can switch off.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:28 AM
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Sort of a mix - write with my right hand, eat, sew, use a scissor. Throw a ball with my left hand, bat, bowl, golf. More righty than lefty on balance, but still a mix of both.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:45 AM
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22. I could never play baseball |
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Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 08:47 AM by notadmblnd
I was right handed till I was 4 and broke my arm climbing up to get a Popsicle out of the freezer. I learned to write right handed (but it was all backward from right to left with all the characters backward too) but broke my arm again in the second grade and switched to left permanently.
When it came to playing baseball I caught with my right hand and threw with my right hand so I would have to catch the ball take the glove off and throw the ball, I hit left handed though and I bowl left handed. It took me forever to use the mouse right handed.
I really do think that my internal struggle for left/right dominance has left me accident prone ... I have stupid little mishaps all them time.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:28 AM
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but nearly ambidextrous.
I can write left-handed, and with a bit of practice, it'd be as good as with my right.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:29 AM
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10. So right handed that my left hand is only used as a place to display |
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jewelry or to carry my briefcase
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:36 AM
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It's as if I'm almost lop-sided.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:34 AM
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Born left handed, but was always taught how to do stuff by righties. I golf, bat, hammer, saw and and use scissors with my right hand. I can print quite well with my right hand, but have very nice left-handed penmanship. Yes, when I'm in a hurry the letters will lean backwards a bit.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:35 AM
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13. Except for wanking... |
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My right hand is useless in that reguard. Perhaps because it was self-taught!
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Shell Beau
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:36 AM
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15. Talk about too much info! |
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:34 AM
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12. Ambie, raised by the system to be a rightie. A condition I am correcting. |
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Fuck the conformist bushwa.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:35 AM
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14. So, by being a rightie, I am drinking the Kool-Aid? |
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:44 AM
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21. Not at all. I still use my right hand for lots of things too... |
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:37 AM
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:39 AM
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18. When pitching or catching? |
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You played baseball, right?
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:41 AM
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19. I don't have the knees for catching. |
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Must be all the organ meat.
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:43 AM
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20. Right. My left hand is virtually useless. |
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:45 AM
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23. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous... |
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Sorry, very old joke, but it had to be said...
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:46 AM
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24. Right, but sometimes use my left |
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it feels like someone else. :evilgrin:
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Fri Jun-17-05 08:57 AM
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25. Ambie - but it's not what you think. I do some things as a left handed |
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person and some things as a right handed, but I can't switch them back and forth. I could never learn to write with my left hand, but I did gymnastics and skated like a left handed person. It's really weird.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:05 AM
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26. Like a said, I'm a leftie Frisbee thrower. |
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Sometimes, my left hand is useful.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:06 AM
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27. Arrrrrrrgh. It depends on what I'm doing. |
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Right hand for writing, right and left for painting, left for eating, left for using scissors. But this doesn't constitute ambidextrous, does it? :shrug:
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:08 AM
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28. That's the same as me! |
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I thought ambie meant you could interchange at will. There is probably a name for what it is we do, but I don't know what it is.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:12 AM
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Right other wise. Learned to throw the Frisbee right handed lately, helps to have both hands to play ultimate
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:12 AM
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30. very much right handed |
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I heavily favor my right. According to some, I am a tool of the oppressor :o
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