How many southpaws are there?

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:03 am

Left Handed but politically right!

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:42 am

Daniel_Bingamon wrote:Left Handed but politically right!

Same here!

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:10 am

I am completely left-handed in everything with the weird exception of eating with a knife and fork. I was lousy at soccer but I could only kick the ball with my right foot. I heard somewhere that we can expect to die younger. Don't believe it myself. I have a bad knee, tinnitus, a dodgy foot, a very short-sighted eye and a malfunctioning facial nerve, all on my right side. My mum swears she never dropped me when I was a baby.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:37 am

My vote just made it ten all..I don't know who was leading.

I'm a righty.

It does make me curious how us rightys do all the complicated stuff on stringed instruments with our left hand.

Tricky one that..

Slan,
D.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:31 pm

dubhlinn wrote: It does make me curious how us rightys do all the complicated stuff on stringed instruments with our left hand.

Kurt Cobain was left handed but would play his guitar upside down. So maybe there's something to playing the complicated stuff with your other hand? Who knows.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:38 pm

Oh, and my vote put us righties in front at 11.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:34 pm

I clicked left but I perhaps I should have hit in the "middle"

I completely ambidextrous as well.

I have better muscle control for writing with my left, I just do it more with my left but I draw and paint with both hands. Sometimes at the same time when painting.

I teach fencing (when I coach) with two weapons depending on the lesson.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:27 pm

izzarina wrote:
dubhlinn wrote: It does make me curious how us rightys do all the complicated stuff on stringed instruments with our left hand.
Kurt Cobain was left handed but would play his guitar upside down. So maybe there's something to playing the complicated stuff with your other hand? Who knows.

No comment.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQBbgb_Lvo

Slan,
D.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:37 pm

I have taught myself, so as not to annoy right-handed computer users*, to use the mouse with either hand with equal felicity. I don't change the mouse settings either. I consider this to be the greatest achievement of my already illustrious life.

*I'm lying. The real reason I did it was because I got repetitive strain injury in my left wrist.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:07 pm

dubhlinn wrote: No comment.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQBbgb_Lvo

Slan,
D.

Yeah, but he wasn't left handed, was he?

Admittedly, I didn't know that Hendrix played like that, but then I've never been one of his greatest fans

(waiting for the shoes to fly at her head)

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:51 pm

SteveShaw wrote:I have taught myself, so as not to annoy right-handed computer users*, to use the mouse with either hand with equal felicity. I don't change the mouse settings either. I consider this to be the greatest achievement of my already illustrious life.

Hah! I used to work with a woman that used the sucker upside down!!!

Okay, she was just that kind of girl. Not bad at pool though.

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:28 pm

I'm ambidextrous in a way, but I can't do everything with any hand. I have preference towards one or the other hand in different situations. I write right handed, I'm a north paw in boxing, my right arm is the strongest, I play guitar right handed. But I play whistles and flutes left handed, I eat with knife and fork left handed (but I could switch if I had to). When it comes to kicking (I am an old martial artist) my left leg is the most flexibe, I can easily get a good headkick without warm up with my left leg. My right leg is the strongest though, so when it comes to leg or body kicks I use the right leg. But other than that I guess I'm mostly righty, except in politcs, there I'm rightly lefty!!

Aw, sh*t. I hope no one saw that, with my smart finally I forgot to fulfill my deed. I'll blame it on one to many drams of the
whisky

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:37 pm

izzarina wrote:
dubhlinn wrote: No comment.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQBbgb_Lvo

Slan,
D.
Yeah, but he wasn't left handed, was he? Admittedly, I didn't know that Hendrix played like that, but then I've never been one of his greatest fans

(waiting for the shoes to fly at her head)

Here come the shoes, but since it's you Izz, they are house slippers....

That's a great clip- but it's Hendrix so naturally .....

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:28 pm

cowtime wrote:
izzarina wrote: (waiting for the shoes to fly at her head)
Here come the shoes, but since it's you Izz, they are house slippers....

It's not that I don't like him, because I do. But he was never one of those artists for me where I desperately needed his albums. I've always known he was one of the greats, though

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:32 pm

SteveShaw wrote:I have taught myself, so as not to annoy right-handed computer users*, to use the mouse with either hand with equal felicity. I don't change the mouse settings either. I consider this to be the greatest achievement of my already illustrious life.

*I'm lying. The real reason I did it was because I got repetitive strain injury in my left wrist.

Gasp!!!! I do this, too!!!! It IS an achievement, for which you should be commended!

Question: Did you get the RSI after using the mouse leftie with the settings changed so that the right mouse button was the main one?

I think it's more ergonomically sound to use a mouse rightie with the "left" or main button switched to the right, so that you hold your hand at an angle to press it. If you use it leftie, then you leave the default settings alone so that it's still the left button that is the main one.

If your hand is at an angle over the mouse, you don't have to lift your forefinger at that awkward angle . . . it just rests at an angle over the top of the mouse to operate the wheel or press the left key easily.

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