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What's the point of banning the tugging posters if threads can't help but devolve into tugging regardless? Can't go 5 minutes without someone talking about playing wit theyself
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Catastrophe posted:But yeah I also do things like use a mouse, play guitar, or use scissors right-handed. A lot of it is just muscle memory and getting used to whatever action it is. When I got really into regularly writing, I tried to force myself to try writing right-handed here and there. It was horrendous, at first. Practicing, it got better and better. Just like learning to write at first when you were a kid, you can't give up right away just because it isn't immediately comfortable. I gave up eventually, though. I am 99.9% lefty except for one major thing: playing guitar. I taught myself to play lefty and was pretty decent at it until my dad told me to switch to righty because he felt my dominant hand should be the one on the fretboard. He was correct and I got really good by almost the first day; it was incredible, like an untapped mutant power I had. Haven’t touched a guitar in years, though. Kinda wanna start playing lefty again just because. I always subconsciously air guitar as a lefty  I mouse lefty at home that came about because I used to have a Wacom tablet I drew with and it just kind of stuck (no longer use a tablet). I can mouse righty, though and have since my middle school days in the early ‘90s. Never understood the thing with scissors, though. I learned early on you’ve got to push the handles away to cut cleanly in the left hand because that pushes the blades together. The weird thing is I actually bought truly left-handed scissors where the blades are reversed and my muscle memory of using righty scissors in my left hand caused me to curse the drat things and never use them.
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Jun 28, 2023 16:43
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the only thing I do with my left hand is shoot a basketball so I'm technically allowed to post itt 
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Jun 28, 2023 17:01
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Smugworth posted:I think it's great you people have your own thread its adorable. a safe space
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Jun 28, 2023 17:37
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A sinister space.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:52
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loving finally. We are superior in every way and will inherit the earth.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:53
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:its adorable. a safe space We are an adorable practical people.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:07
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Now that they're in one place, send in the nuns to beat them.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:26
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is it okay to be here if i throw right handed because i broke my arm as a kid
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Jun 28, 2023 22:36
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I am left handed, but use a mouse with my right hand. I feel like a traitor but its all I know now. Also, gently caress scissors and saws.
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Jun 28, 2023 22:44
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To be left handed is to have ink stains on your fingers growing up
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Jun 28, 2023 22:49
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Charles Bukowski posted:To be left handed is to have ink stains on your fingers growing up
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Jun 28, 2023 23:19
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those erasable ink pens sucked poo poo
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Jun 28, 2023 23:21
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Oh no wait it wasn't our fingers, it was along the left edge of your hand. You couldn't help but smear as you dragged it across the page.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:45
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Charles Bukowski posted:Oh no wait it wasn't our fingers, it was along the left edge of your hand. You couldn't help but smear as you dragged it across the page. The edge of my left hand was always a shiny, dark grey from all of the pencil lead.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:49
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What if I was born a lefty but my teachers forced me to do things with my right hand so it became the dominant hand?
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Jun 28, 2023 23:51
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Regrettable posted:What if I was born a lefty but my teachers forced me to do things with my right hand so it became the dominant hand? Then you're old as gently caress maybe Shoulda shoved that nun into a fish tank
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Jun 28, 2023 23:52
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Regrettable posted:What if I was born a lefty but my teachers forced me to do things with my right hand so it became the dominant hand?
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Jun 28, 2023 23:53
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I'm right handed and I'm doing the jerk off wiseguy motion all over this thread right now (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 28, 2023 23:55
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Charles Bukowski posted:Then you're old as gently caress maybe 38 which is old but not really around these parts. And it wasn't a religious school just very southern. Jelly posted:If you weren't born in the 60's your teacher(s) were batshit insane Regrettable posted:very southern. Checks out.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:55
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Regrettable posted:38 which is old but not really around these parts. And it wasn't a religious school just very southern. It comes from left handedness being associated with the devil, so religious school or not, your teachers fuckin blew and I hope they weren't happy in life. I hope you are, you deserve it for that hardship. They did that to my uncle as well, but he's a bad person so maybe they were right to do so.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:58
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Charles Bukowski posted:It comes from left handedness being associated with the devil, so religious school or not, your teachers fuckin blew and I hope they weren't happy in life. I hope you are, you deserve it for that hardship. They did that to my uncle as well, but he's a bad person so maybe they were right to do so. Things could always be better but I'm doing alright, thanks. 
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Jun 29, 2023 00:04
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im righthanded but i have lefty leanings
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Jun 29, 2023 02:39
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socially i’m very left handed, but fiscally i use my right
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Jun 29, 2023 02:47
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Toxic Mental posted:I'm right handed and I'm doing the jerk off wiseguy motion all over this thread right now When you get to hell, tell em Lefty sent ya.
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Jun 29, 2023 02:50
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Regrettable posted:38 which is old but not really around these parts. And it wasn't a religious school just very southern. 43, grew up in very rural northern California. I could write with both hands until 3rd grade, when my public-school teacher mandated that I only write with my right. I sorta/kinda kept it up for a little bit in grade school, and I can still write legibly with my left hand (s l o w l y) After my right hand cramped up writing notes in college I tried writing with my left hand once, but other than being 10x slower, I didn't memorize the material the same way. I could switch hit AND switch pitch equally well throughout childhood, also shot basketballs with both hands, but after I tore my rotator cuff in high school I stopped doing ambidextrous athletic stuff and that was that. Charles Bukowski posted:It comes from left handedness being associated with the devil, so religious school or not, your teachers fuckin blew and I hope they weren't happy in life. I hope you are, you deserve it for that hardship. They did that to my uncle as well, but he's a bad person so maybe they were right to do so. IIRC my teacher hated me smearing the ink with my left hand. Also my 3rd grade teacher was old as gently caress - she had been teaching at that elementary school for years when my parents went there as children 
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Jun 29, 2023 02:50
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being left handed rules, except for the fact that you always have to switch the mouse to the correct side and sometimes you have to remap controls for mouse and keyboard games
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Jun 29, 2023 02:54
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Pencil smearers, have y’all considered retraining your hand to underwrite? Much more comfortable and practical than overwriting with the hooked hand or dragging your hand across the paper which is how I used to write. I took a few college courses over a decade ago and got tired of my hand cramping up every other sentence. I also couldn’t jot down notes as fast as I wanted, so I started tilting the paper to the right and trained myself to write under the line instead of across it. It’s gonna suck butt at first and you will definitely cramp up and curse your sinistrality, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes second nature. I can write super fast now and never cramp up, and as a bonus it also helps when you write on a whiteboard. Just pick a phrase or two and write it over and over on a piece of paper until you get the hang of it.
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Jun 29, 2023 03:03
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When I was in kindergarten I kept failing the writing tasks because the teachers were putting the pencil in my right hand, they didn't even think a left-handed person could exist until I couldn't cut felt for a craft project. How ever long two report card periods were, that's how long it took for them to figure it out lmao
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Jun 29, 2023 03:58
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I always think it is weird how often righties feel like they have to point out that I'm left handed when they see me doing something with my left hand.
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Jun 29, 2023 04:17
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Catastrophe posted:Is skating goofy-foot stance a common trait for us lefties or is that unrelated? Because that's how I skate. Trying to skate the normal way = fall down. There is such thing as being left-footed -- I learned that I'm left-footed when I took a dance class in college. Something about how you like to lead, or whatever. There's also eye dominance, and it's not just which eye sees better. Put your hands together and mess around until you make an empty triangle shape between them. Now put some distant object in your room inside the triangle while viewing with both eyes. Then, look with just your left eye; finally, with just your right eye. The eye with which you still have the object centered in your hand triangle is your dominant eye!  I'm left-handed, left-footed, and left-eyed, so I like to think I'm pretty sinister.  In short,Jelly posted:loving finally.
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Jun 29, 2023 05:11
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I'm an everything-left (write left, eat left, kick left, left eye dominant, etc.). Commit to the bit, I say. WASD + mouse? Huh, that's cute. Let me tell you about a little something called the numpad.
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Jun 29, 2023 05:13
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im left handed but i use my right hand for writing, holding stuff, opening doors, and a whole host of other day-to-day activities. it's pretty nice being accepted by society.
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Jun 29, 2023 05:32
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My Spirit Otter posted:being left handed rules, except for the fact that you always have to switch the mouse to the correct side and sometimes you have to remap controls for mouse and keyboard games It's helped me avoid carpal tunnel. I use a mouse right handed at work and left handed (but not remapped) when on my own computer. I amaze people by having pretty good handwriting. My secret was to angle the paper but not my wrist.
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Jun 29, 2023 05:49
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muscles like this! posted:I always think it is weird how often righties feel like they have to point out that I'm left handed when they see me doing something with my left hand. Two decades into the 21st century and there's still people who think we're some kind of novelty.
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Jun 29, 2023 05:58
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I've found that lefties learn to do a bunch of stuff right-handed/ambidextrously just from living in a right-handed country, but right-handers don't until they have their right arm in a cast. My classmates were astonished when I chose to learn "touch-typing" the calculators right-handed (so that I didn't have to set down my pencil between writing the answers in the workbook). I'm lefty, but ambi on my eye-dominance. Never wrote with a hook, have decent handwriting, but I tilt the paper way to the right. I use scissors right-handed, but tend to hold the scissors still and move the thing I'm cutting around. I would really like to know how to make my touch-screen phone move the scroll bars to the left, though.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:05
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GoodyTwoShoes posted:I've found that lefties learn to do a bunch of stuff right-handed/ambidextrously just from living in a right-handed country, but right-handers don't until they have their right arm in a cast. L Yeah lefties rock
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Jun 29, 2023 19:31
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Every time I see a lefty dragging their hand through a parasite pencil trail I can't help but giggle. Do you carry little wet wipes?
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Jun 29, 2023 19:38
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being a lefty was a big benefit when i was a competitive fencer. but it didn't make me a better driver when I rented a stick-shift in the uk.
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Appoda posted:There is such thing as being left-footed -- I learned that I'm left-footed when I took a dance class in college. Something about how you like to lead, or whatever. Left foot forward is actually referred to as "regular" in snowboarding. I'm right foot forward which they've discriminatorily labeled "goofy". But I think somehow this is still left foot dominance, which is a little confusing to me because I feel I do more with my right foot when boarding, but if you move to a skater perspective, I would use my left/dominant foot to push. Jelly fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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