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Well...

sinister.

I'm BOOOOOOOTH!!!!

*runs through creme covered door*

Right handed. Aside from working the keyboard and using it to a small degree to drive, not much else it does.

Southpaw myself.

right.

car crash shattered my left wrist a few years back and that hand is kinda useless (in terms of strength and dexterity; bar the fingers, that is... they're fine). so, definatley right.

I was a righty, but then I broke my right hand. I had to learn to do everything left handed, so I am Ambidextrous. I still tend to prefer the right though.

I use both. I write with my right all the time however. So, some smarty will probably say, "Dude, you idiot, your right handed." Well I'm not. Because I said so. Other than the writing, they both get used equally. My mouth is treated as a third appendage.

Righthanded, but i can spot left hander- getting better at it all the time... Left handers just have something about them that make them easy to spot

yarr matey:p

Rightie A.K.A right

I heard on QI that lefties are more common in violent cultures "back you left savages back!" :eek:

Basically ambidextrous.

I generally use the right hand for more things, but there are a few exceptions where I typically use my left hand. In both cases, I randomly end up using the other hand once in a while. And in some cases, I don't have any preference when it comes to which hand I'm using.

I'm generally a bit more clumsy with my left hand for activities where I typically use my right hand, but otherwise I can use it just as well.

Righthanded, but i can spot left hander- getting better at it all the time... Left handers just have something about them that make them easy to spotYou have left -dar? How do you do it? I'm curious, being primarily lefthanded myself. What do you do when you spot one,cross to the other side of the street?;) The only right handed action i do is use a fork and my computer mouse.

I was a righty, but then I broke my right hand. I had to learn to do everything left handed, so I am Ambidextrous. I still tend to prefer the right though.
That's almost exactly what happened to me.

:fluffle:

That's almost exactly what happened to me.

:fluffle:
:fluffle:

What happened with you?

I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

I'm lefty because my right hand is like dead weight because of a birth defect (but please, I'm not a fan of sympathy ^_~). I'd be curious to find out, though if I'm lefty by nature, or just by adaptation...

I've been practicing my right and could potentially near ambidexterity, I am not certain though.

But I am still left-handed.

Hmm... answers converge to the expected values :p about 10% for left handed and ambidex each and about 80% for right handed... just like pig tails.

... it would be 80% if not for the pirates!

I'm ambidextrous. I'm a bit more dextrous with my right hand in certain activities, but that's not many.

I'm working on getting my left hand more dextrous for writing, brushing my teeth, and other similar things (I got quite used to using the mouse with my left hand when I sliced open my right one last year).

:fluffle:

What happened with you?

I broke my arm in 3rd grade, and I became ambidextrius because I couldn't use my right hand.

Left handed, and like all left handers in the oppressive right handed world I've learned to do certain things right handed or use certian things upside down or backwards.

One day we will rise up against our right handed oppressors. And they know it. You don't think they know? You don't think they're afraid of us? Why do you think they give us those blunt nose scissors in school? They know...we're comin'...

I'm right handed.

I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Why? It really isn't that big a deal. You still favor one side or the other when doing things, although it usually is not the same side for everything. I only am because I pretty much grew up not knowing I was left handed combined with the fact that I had a bunch of very old nuns for teachers, with ever vigiliant eyes for evil kids attempting penmanship with their left hand.

Cackhanded :(

Why? It really isn't that big a deal. You still favor one side or the other when doing things, although it usually is not the same side for everything. I only am because I pretty much grew up not knowing I was left handed combined with the fact that I had a bunch of very old nuns for teachers, with ever vigiliant eyes for evil kids attempting penmanship with their left hand.
You missed the joke so hard even I'm feeling it.

I broke my arm in 3rd grade, and I became ambidextrius because I couldn't use my right hand.
Dislocated my thumb in the 4th grade. Pretty grusome, too. The scholl handled it terribly. The secratry called my mom and told her I fell and got dirty.:rolleyes:

Right

Proudly Left-handed.

Rightie - no not the Fascist goose-stepping type ...

PS - my mouse is a Logitech MX-510 which only works for right-handers.

Proud lefty, but I have some degree of ambidexterity.

left handed

apparently there was a girl who was left handed who decided to write and do everything with her right hand. She suffered severe migraines and was told by her doctor to immediately stop doing everything with her right hand, strange

I am correct handed. You see there are right handed people in the world, then there those who are correct handed. :D

I'm certainly sinister. However, I do't get the whole left handed product culture that exists; I mean, who is actually so left handed that they need a clock that runs backwards? I'll tell you - idiots.

Oh, the only things I do right handed are batting in cricket, eating, and certain other activities too unsavoury to be mentioned on NS. ¬_¬

I use my third hard for everything. Inculding this post.

>.> <.<

I use my third hard for everything.
*has sense "hard" isn't a typo of "hand"*
...
*maybe it was*
*shifty eyes*

*has sense "hard" isn't a typo of "hand"*
...
*maybe it was*
*shifty eyes*
But what does that make the first and second hard? :confused:

But what does that make the first and second hard?
*tries to not think about it*
*ends up thinking about it anyhow*
*forces thoughts out of head*
Ahh, much better.

I am naturally right handed, although I can write, play cricket etc left handed too.

*has sense "hard" isn't a typo of "hand"*
...
*maybe it was*
*shifty eyes*

Best typo ever!

I heard that in the olden days, boys used to shun and bully left-handers. Man, people are stupid. Or actually mobs.

The normal brain is right-handed. Left-handers actually have minor brain "damage". (Every time you say the word "brain damage" you should know that in the early stages of its development, the brain is also highly adaptable, and even major damage may have no symptoms at all.) Their behavior is not something that can be chosen, but a direct consequence of their neurology. Also, left-handers are more likely to become creative.

left handed

apparently there was a girl who was left handed who decided to write and do everything with her right hand. She suffered severe migraines and was told by her doctor to immediately stop doing everything with her right hand, strange

Strange.

A lot of people voted on the poll and quite a large number are ambidextrous which I find interesting as I don't know anyone who is.

being left handed is a sign of witch craft, we should burn all lefties on a stake while we dance naked around the fire, writting silly notes to them with our right hands just to spite them

You missed the joke so hard even I'm feeling it.

No I didn't is was simply too corny to make note of, yet it is still a common belief that there is some sort of advantage to being able to use either hand which there really is not.

No I didn't is was simply too corny to make note of, yet it is still a common belief that there is some sort of advantage to being able to use either hand which there really is not.

I found it amusing and I would think that it helps to be able to use both hands. In sports like tennis or if you injure one hand you can just switch to the other or just in daily life I would find it helpful.

Proudly Left-handed.
There's something positively wrong about a society if there's left-hander pride. Cut down on the forced conformity if this happens.

I'm a right-hander myself. I once fell down onto my right hand, when it was a cold day and slippery, and I rode a bike downhill straight into a "ice bump". I couldn't write anything but nearly illegible scribbles with my weakened right hand. Seriously, it was like three convolutions per line in a letter "A". The funny thing is, that it was the same with the healthy left hand. I've thought about learning ambidexterity since then...

I write with my left hand, but with everything else I'm right handed.

There was a U.S president who was assasinated (being British I can't remember his name) who could write in Greek in one hand and Latin in the other at the same time. How I wish I could do that...

Strange.

A lot of people voted on the poll and quite a large number are ambidextrous which I find interesting as I don't know anyone who is.

That's because a lot of people mistakenly think it somehow makes you superior or more talented, so they lie. Stand a few feet from them and toss something (soft) toward their face. You will find the truth very quickly. No one naturally uses both hands equally for any given task. Most people that are ambidextrous tend to favor the left side for more complicated tasks such as writing and throwing (non sissy style). They simply learned to do most things right handed because they grew up watching how a right handed world does things.

That's because a lot of people mistakenly think it somehow makes you superior or more talented, so they lie. Stand a few feet from them and toss something (soft) toward their face. You will find the truth very quickly. No one naturally uses both hands equally for any given task.

I would be surprised if anybody lied in the poll to try and look 'superior', I wonder who would bother.

On another note 200th post!

I would be surprised if anybody lied in the poll to try and look 'superior', I wonder who would bother.

On another note 200th post!

People lie for any sort of reason, some for the sake of lying. Feeling superior for someone who has a bit of an insecurity complex is actually one of the more understandable reasons I've come across over the years and I've heard thousands of them.

On another note 200th post!
I think you mean 2000th post.

This a good and worthwhile thread.

The following things would make it perfect:

1. Meaningless comedy option on poll (quasi-relevant pirate-related one much appreciated, thanks! :)).
2. Ability to select all options.

I started writing with my left hand and then suddenly switched at age 3 to writing with my right...now I switch at pleasure :)

I would be surprised if anybody lied in the poll to try and look 'superior', I wonder who would bother.
It's not conscious. Unfortunately, the fact is that what you're seeing on the poll results is not the fact, but a theory. People make up, on the spot, a theory of their "handedness", to justify the answer they just want to give, just for vanity.