bbishop Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 So our sinister friends get their own day. Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Wot.....no one told us??? Wonder how many modelers are? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 I'm cack handed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim49 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Any day is ham-fisted day for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted August 13, 2013 Author Share Posted August 13, 2013 The thread is less than two hours old and is already wandering off topic. Love it! Any comments from left handed people in how they cope in a dextrous world? Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 All the best people are left handed, creative people are even more likely to be so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted August 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2013 When is "ambidisastrous day" for those of us who are I'm just as bad with either hand? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodmin16 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 When is "ambidisastrous day" for those of us who are I'm just as bad with either hand? I give my right hand to be ambidextrous. Note I am a left handed freak! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Another leftie here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Taylor Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 who decided today was lefthanded day? As a formerly ambidextrous now firmly lefthanded chap I have to appreciate the recognitiion of difference, but could they have asked... or picked a better day? Today has been bloody awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted August 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2013 The thread is less than two hours old and is already wandering off topic. Love it! Any comments from left handed people in how they cope in a dextrous world? Bill I find it very difficult to stay on thread with my nuts in my left hand Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryMeerkat Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Another leftidexterous here. The joy of growing up a lefty in the 80s was the need to adapt. I can do pretty much everything with either hand, although my left is my dominant hand. I even use both hands to spray, which really annoys the guys I work with because I find things so much easier than they do. Using knives, scissors, a computer mouse, drill, airbrush, spray gun, I use whichever hand is most convenient. But writing is always my left hand, and NEVER with a fountain pen!! Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O. Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Righty-turned-mouse-lefty... After a bout of carpal tunnel in the right wrist, forced myself to mouse with my left to share the load. Spent the first week with my right hand guiding my left, figured it out after a while. Now phone text with both thumbs... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Equal rights for right handed people - Where's our day? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted August 14, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 14, 2013 Left-handed modeler here - out and proud I'm a bit of a mix. I write and model left-handed but play guitar and hold golf clubs right-handed. I can use a spoon or scissors either way and have had a few comments made to that effect when I do so apparently randomly. Still looking for left-hand thread skyhooks though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 I like being different. besides plenty of fellow guitarists are like me - Lefties playing Righty - Knopfler, Moore (RIP), Allman, Gatton, Chris Rea, Fripp, Winter, etc, etc. It's actually a very long list. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 I am very strongly left handed. I have adapted to use my right more as I have grown older - but I still favour left. Whatever way you look at it though - we live in a right handed world and have to adapt to the majority. It is amazing just how many things are right handed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted August 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 14, 2013 I write with my left hand, and tend towards doing fiddly DIY or modelling tasks left handed, but when it comes to strength stuff it's the right - hammers, saws, sockets, spanners, cricket bats all right handed. I can use either hand on many tasks when the access or circumstances dictate. Strange but I rarely experience the problem other lefties have with smudging my own writing. I have always been able to keep my hand below the wet writing. I have never felt the need for left handed scissors or other gadgets although I did buy a left handed teaspoon from a bloke in the pub and that worked really well. I went back to him and bought a left-handed mirror. Since then I've never looked back. Anyhow, didn't know it was our day yesterday, and don't feel any different today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 I can see the left hand point! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 I like being different. besides plenty of fellow guitarists are like me - Lefties playing Righty - Knopfler, Moore (RIP), Allman, Gatton, Chris Rea, Fripp, Winter, etc, etc. It's actually a very long list. Best, Pete. Playing guitar that way has advantages because the left hand is doing the most difficult bit, my daughter has learnt to play that way but plays the drums with the kit set up right handed. Never seen or played a left handed piano though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 I'm a lefty and proud of it! I write and use a dinner knife left-handed, but tend to paint and use modelling knives right-handed, which may explain my cack-handed models! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodshaw Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 As a schoolboy, my left-handed grip of a pen or pencil was so fierce that I developed a large callus on my middle finger. When I was in sixth form I got interested in calligraphy and started to relax my grip and turned my hand round to be under the writing rather than over it. Not being totally happy with pushing my arm into my body as I wrote, or with the oblique left-handed nibs you could buy, I started teaching myself to write with my right hand. When he saw the essays I started to produce this way, my form master thought I was developing severe psychological problems until I told him the reason! Over the years I've alternated between left and right as the mood has taken me, though I always use my left for signing documents. But over 40 years on, my right-handed writing isn't nearly as steady as my left-handed writing. Oddly enough, apart from holding a spoon, writing has been the only thing I've done mainly with my left hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 14, 2013 I write with my left hand, and tend towards doing fiddly DIY or modelling tasks left handed, but when it comes to strength stuff it's the right - hammers, saws, sockets, spanners, cricket bats all right handed. I can use either hand on many tasks when the access or circumstances dictate. Strange but I rarely experience the problem other lefties have with smudging my own writing. I have always been able to keep my hand below the wet writing. I have never felt the need for left handed scissors or other gadgets although I did buy a left handed teaspoon from a bloke in the pub and that worked really well. I went back to him and bought a left-handed mirror. Since then I've never looked back. Anyhow, didn't know it was our day yesterday, and don't feel any different today. So called right-handed batsmen actually bat with their left hand. If you don't believe me, try batting with just one hand. A "right-hander" can use just the left hand but not the right. But that's cricket for you, a perverse sport in many ways! Are there really more right-handed people than left-handed? I don't see why there should be statistically. Many people are only right-handed because they have been forced to conform to a world made for right-handers. I am one of them although not so badly treated as a friend of mine who, at primary school, had her left wrist tied to the desk to make her use her right hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted August 14, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 14, 2013 i do every thing left handed except when eating with a knife and fork which i do right handed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike Posted August 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 14, 2013 Leftie here, but I do some stuff "right handed" eg use a mouse, bat in cricket (though I bowl LH), golf. Other stuff definitely LH eg play guitar, write etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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