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What in the definition of CIA training is this?
Common practice up to pretty recently.
Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed
Obviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.
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I’d be careful trying to deduce something from that (to my knowledge not too studied) factoid. It could (pure speculation) also be, that children growing up with the freedom to use whichever hand they wanted at a time when that wasn’t generally the case also had other freedoms like developing their creativity.
Religion is mind poison and this is an example of the symptoms.
So now are you ambidextrous?
I wish this was unbelievable. When/where was this? I’m guessing the US and hopefully a long time ago.
Notebook thing dont really make sense?cuz you flip it for the other page anyway
Panels 2 and 3 happened for me anyway despite not being left handed
I have seen lefties get in on their hand and I always wonder why they don’t turn the paper and write towards themselves. That was the hack I learned from early. It also solves the notebook ring problem.
Yes, I know some people who do this and it’s easy if you do it from early on, but learning it later is like relearning writing altogether. It ain’t impossible but neither is it easy
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Yes but it happens EVERY time we write in pencil
I flip my whole notebook over and use it back to front. Had a friend buy me one made that way for lefties once as a gift, it was actually really nice to have the cover face the right way for once!
Was thinking the exact same thing
I had a left-handed friend in high-school that just oriented his notebook with the rings on the right (180 degrees rotated).
And who could forget granny’s: when you’re left handed, “YOU’RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN” ok, dear?
I’m stumped old people didn’t die on their stupidity.
Eh, living with themselves was punishment enough. I’m just sorry for the few level-headed outcasts who had to live thinking they were weird or pretending to fit in so they wouldn’t be persecuted.
Since handedness is genetic, there is a chance that that’s what she was told when she learned to use the right hand (pun intended)
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning yea, stupid ideas are contagious and latch onto language and culture, apparently. In Italian, left is still “sinistra”, so that creates other fun puns like learning to use the sinister hand.
My grandma is left handed, yes she now can write with both hands because they tried to beat it out of her, they did not entirely succeed.
@Gsus4 In my country kids were beaten with rullers on their hands at school until they were able to write right-handed IIRC. Not sure if this brought to them anything else than trauma anyway.
I’ll gladly be a spawn of satan for people who discriminate over something as handedness
I agree with all but the last one. From my experience, I’m the only one NOT noticing how anyone writes while I get “oh, you’re left-handed” constantly.
But the smudging part reminded me of something that happened to me:
I had a maths teacher who always had one of us do the homework on one of those overhead projector foil things and show them in front of class. I had a geometry task and would always smear the rewritable pen with my palms, or mess the lines up because I had to hold my hand awkwardly high. He did make me do it over and over again because he thought it was sloppy. My mum tried to talk to the teacher and the principal, that I as a lefty kind of faced an uphill battle there, so having me re-do it when I wasn’t able to do it the first time was not really going anywhere. The teacher only told her that I needed to learn ways around my left-handedness. So my mum had me do the homework with a permanent marker. No smearing anymore. The teacher even had a smug face on and was all like “See? You can do it after all”. That smugness was gone when he tried to clean up the foil. No one said that he had to like the ways I found to deal with such BS.
Every time I do something wrong or I’m clumsy my mother blames it on “it’s because he’s left-handed” been this way for 36 years now.
I use scissors exclusively with my left hand just to point out to any lefty around that you don’t need to buy special scissors.
As a lefty who didn’t get my first pair until my 40’s, they aren’t necessary but boy do they make cutting on a line WAY easier. Crazy differences in difficulty level for a clean cut.
Aren’t most scissors symmetric?
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Every time I use right handed scissors I have Soo many issues, the paper usually folds or rips instead of giving me a clean cut, unless I used a certain part of the scissors to cut and no more. To the point that although it was uncomfortable, I used my right hand to cut things with scissors.
When I got older I bout myself a dedicated set of left handed scissors… fucking amazing, I can make clean cuts with my dominant hand utilising the entire length of the scissors, and it works every time.
And those scissors are now the sharpest scissors in the house because I’m the only one who uses them, the other pairs of right handed scissors in the house are blunt af and barely cut even when I use my right hand.
That’s because you are weak. I bet you have a peanut allergy too.
Nope, I actually love peanut butter, goes well with jam/jelly
Vegemite is not bad either.
The second one is stupid though… The rings get in the way 50% of the time regardless of handedness. If you are right handed, writing on the back of the page sucks. If you are left handed, writing on the front sucks.
Huh, was it just me always getting super dirty hands when writing despite being right-handed? I even thought it looked kinda cool with that metallized skin color
It is advantageous in ancient combat though. When everyone is carrying a shield with their left hand and their sword on their right hand, the leftie can strike their relatively unprotected opponent’s right shoulder, unless the opponent is in formation and has an ally to its right.
The opponent can just as easily strike one’s unprotected left shoulder though.
But the leftie is more accustomed to fighting right-handed opponents than vice versa.
Lefty trains against right handed people, but it’s not the same in the other way
Also helpful when storming a tower; spiral staircases are generally spiralled to give a right-handed defender the advantage against a right-handed attacker
But as long as neither you nor your opponent plan to fight in formation, it’s all good! This “fighting in formation” thing probably isn’t going to catch on.
I hate number 3 with passion. It happens to me all the time, you know, a leftie. I’m a leftie everyone! Isn’t being leftie the best thing in the world? Man we are the bes…
I’m left-handed and I relate to none of these
I’m not left-handed and I constantly point out lefties in movies and tv shows to my partner.
Hey lefties, how do you feel about the right-hand-ification of Link from The Legend of Zelda?
don’t care in the slightest. Why would I? I write with a different hand than most people, I’m not some kind of suppressed minority in need of media-representation.
I’ll always have “A Link to the past” in my memory, and some other derivatives from that game.
I don’t care much, but it is too bad that they’ve made him a bit more of a blank slate. Makes him a little blander.
The first three definitely. The last one not at all.
I solve problem 2 by flipping my notebook upside-down. Reading my notes back is a little more annoying but I’m not in physical pain while writing, so I consider it a win
Even tho I am right-handed, I can relate to the top left pic. For some reason, I started eating like a left-handed person when I was little and now it’s weird to do it the correct right-handed way, so I won’t change it.
In my country the ‘correct’ way to eat is to hold the knife in your dominant hand and the fork in your off hand. I have always maintained that that’s wrong. You keep one utensil close to your plate, and jab the other towards your face. Which one do you want in your most favoured hand?
Yea, here in Germany, the “correct” way is also to use the knife with the dominant hand. Will Never understand this. I use the fork with my dominant hand till I’ll die and no one will ever stop me!
