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| Thread ID: 53780 | 2005-01-26 21:25:00 | Ambidextrous / left handed people in here? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | PC World Chat |
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| 318426 | 2005-01-26 21:25:00 | Gidday all, Out of ALL the people in this forum, are any of you Either Ambidextrous, or left handed? If Ambidextrous, which hand is more dominant? Left or right?? I'm more left handed than right. I only write with my right hand. (NO dirty comments, answer with a "CLEAN" answer). If left handed, research has shown that you can be clumsy and accident-prone. Do you feel as if you're clumsy or accident-prone? I know I am. I've had 3 or so accidents over the past 20-30 years which required a visit to a hospital, and plaster on all 3 occasions. If you DON'T know what ambidextrous is, then you're not ambidextrous |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 318427 | 2005-01-26 21:36:00 | Write with my left hand, use a knife and fork in opposite hands to most people, but I do everything else with my right hand. Can't say I've been accident prone at all so far in my life, though I suck at catching things. |
agent (30) | ||
| 318428 | 2005-01-26 21:41:00 | lol good one Agent . Another thing is, if u eat left-handed, do people think you're odd? When and if they set a table, and you change the knife and fork around? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 318429 | 2005-01-26 21:47:00 | My family set utensils around the right way for me, but if it's not done I just switch them. So far I've had no comments on that - either they don't notice or already know I "eat left-handed". :) | agent (30) | ||
| 318430 | 2005-01-26 21:49:00 | I use a knife and fork left handed,Think i must have picked that up off my older brother who is 100% cack-handed. | Metla (12) | ||
| 318431 | 2005-01-26 21:55:00 | Thats good Agent . Yup I think people thought I was pretty strange at the table . As most set a table for "normal" people I spose you could call them . With everything back to front . Which can be "annoying" at times . lol Metla . Yeah, I know the feeling . Altho I'm one of 6 . (3 sisters) . And I'm the only ambidextrous or left handed in the family . The rest of the family are only right handed :( Kinda puts you outta place doesnt it? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 318432 | 2005-01-26 22:01:00 | Right and draw with my left hand (I can write somewhat with the right hand though not fluidly). Use tools, knife and fork, mouse etc in my right hand. Shave ambidextrously, switching the razor to the other hand when I get to the other side of my face. And yes, I am famously clumsy, although hospital visits have seldom been required. At our previous work premises (The Black Hole of Augustus Terrace, as it was known) many years ago, I twice put my hands in an overhead ceiling fan while stretching, thus combining the disadvantages of clumsiness and above average height. I’ve also got my hand caught in an anchor winch on a yacht (yep, hospital visit that time), have cut my fingers multiple times with kitchen knives, and broken toes by failing to avoid sofas while walking in the lounge. As a young child, the only time I got close to winning a running race at athletics, I tripped up before the finish because I’d forgotten to take my Roman sandals off. As a teenager at school, I once fell down a series of concrete outdoor steps because I walking down them with my hands in my pockets. I tripped, couldn’t grab the rail (because my hands were in my pockets) and bounced the rest of the way to the bottom. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 318433 | 2005-01-26 22:02:00 | Hi Folks. Cack-handed. Haven't heard that expresion since I was kid in Liverpool. "The direct association is with cack, another fine Old English term, for excrement or dung. Cachus was Old English for a privy, and both words come from Latin cacare, to defecate. It almost certainly comes from the very ancient tradition, which has developed among peoples who were mainly right-handed, that one reserved the left hand for cleaning oneself after defecating and used the right hand for all other purposes. At various times this has been known in most cultures. Some consider it rude even to be given something using the left hand. So to be left-handed was to use the cack hand or be cack-handed." :cool: |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 318434 | 2005-01-26 22:09:00 | And on a similar note, the word "sinister" comes from a Latin root meaning "left". | Biggles (121) | ||
| 318435 | 2005-01-26 22:22:00 | Speaking of clumsy... I was exiting a rather large front-end loader one day by going down the ladder fowards,...where you take the weight of your body on your hands/handrail and run down an almost vertical ladder at a great speed,reaching the ground almost instantly....anyhow,this one day i had the seatbelt hooked around my foot,instantly upside down,face fisrt into the ladder,while still dazed and damaged the belt let go of my foot,where i plummeted headfirst into the ground. And to make it even better on the previous day i had been doing some carpentry and thrown some of the off cuts into the long grass that i was now falling into,hands out-stretched to take the impact, I first made hand contact with the offcuts ruining one of my wrists,and then made head contact. Lmao. Damn was i sore. |
Metla (12) | ||
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