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Dan

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I'm a lefty. I use a pen with my left hand. Scissors in my right. Nearly everything else I'm ambidextrous. Not good at sports. I catch and throw best with my left hand. Golf? Baseball? I have no idea if I hit predominantly one way or another. I have a pretty good right left right punch
 
Hey Dan, I moved this thread to the General Chat.

I'm a lefty myself.

Like you I use my right hand for scissors, but that'a about it, and only because, and you left handed people know what I'm talking about, those crappy green scissors didn't cut anyways.

I love it most of the time, but then I hate it other times. I used the same baseball glove well past it's prime becuase I could never find a replacement.

I shoot, and right handed rifles burn me, so I try to shoot righty from a bench, but what's the point of that?

My son was using his left hand a lot, but he recently switched to right, so it appears I will remain the only left handed person in my family for at least one more generation.

Oh well... there's always the grand kids.
 
Lefty here too, so far the responses are way out of proportion, considering we only hold 10% of the population.

I do everything left-handed, except for bowling, which seems odd.

I only use zebra pens, because they don't smear. I built a lefty AR-15 because I was tired of the gas exhaust and ejected shell hitting me in the face. Next is a left-handed skill saw...also tired of sawdust in the face from right-handed saws.
 
Right handed for everything but shooting...I have a dominant left eye so I shoot left handed, which makes things interesting sometimes.
 
I'm a lefty. I use a pen with my left hand. Scissors in my right. Nearly everything else I'm ambidextrous.

I'm the same way.

My biggest complaint is power tools, specifically circular saws. I hate them.

When I was in 4th grade we had to to use a fountain pen for the entire year. I'm not sure why, but it was required. It was easy to spot a lefty then. I went through the entire year with smudged papers and blue ink all over by left arm.
 
Left handed to the point where I never owned a mitt or played baseball or any other sport other than chess and debate team.
Do not use scissors never learned how and my SWMBO says they are dangerous to me so I never touch them. I use a knife if I can't then SWMBO cuts it for me.
I write left, I eat left and lay left and I do it left... at least SWMBO says so...
I even have the left handers how to book
at least I am in my right mind!
 
I'm not right handed.

I am RIGHT handed.


(SWMBO is left handed so I always say when shes about to write her signature "you're doing it wrong")
 
Lefty, but do almost everything with my right hand, except write and shoot a gun. I tried shooting right handed but just couldn't do it. I bought a left handed shotgun to fix the powder burn on my arm and face. But still dealt with that with the rifles. I used to bow hunt right handed.
 
I'm the same way.

My biggest complaint is power tools, specifically circular saws. I hate them.

When I was in 4th grade we had to to use a fountain pen for the entire year. I'm not sure why, but it was required. It was easy to spot a lefty then. I went through the entire year with smudged papers and blue ink all over by left arm.

Remember those stupid papermate erasable pens? I made it through the first month using them before the teacher made me switch to a bic.

Note for you righties, Lefties have a hard time with twist pins. As we write they close.

Wife and I, both right handed. Both our kids are lefties.


21 Surprising Facts About Lefties
1. Lefties booze more than righties.
:tank:

Wow. That's got to be a little hard.

Left handed to the point where I never owned a mitt or played baseball or any other sport other than chess and debate team.
Do not use scissors never learned how and my SWMBO says they are dangerous to me so I never touch them. I use a knife if I can't then SWMBO cuts it for me.
I write left, I eat left and lay left and I do it left... at least SWMBO says so...
I even have the left handers how to book
at least I am in my right mind!

My wife does all the house work, tools, you name it. She's ambidextrous, so it would make sense that she would.

She can't write left handed, but she can do everything else that way and switch it around.
 
I'm a southpaw myself. Darn automagic rifles sting after a while. I got to be ambidextrous at Ford, but not so much now. I had to teach myself to bowl right handed. Ever try a hook shot left handed in the same direction a righty does? I must've looked like a bowl-legged retard. And don't even get me started on the old-school nuns & fountain pens...
 
Im a lefty
Weve been adapting and overcoming our entire lives.Remember those elementary school scissors.Righty only and we made it work.And EVERYTHING else in life.Wouldnt have it any other way!
 
I can drink with both hands. Still don't know my left from my right so not sure about that other stuff .. why sweat the small stuff?
 
But only when REAL craft beer is not available, right?

Silly question, of course!

The last time I remember doing a twist off was the last bottle of Yuengling Amber Lager in a case I bought 50/50 for the bottles/content during my first home brewing year. Very disappointed to find green twist offs in the case. WTF, now what...? :tank:

Still if there's no craft beer around < ugh, most local BMC bars! > I'll take a Yuengling if they have it on tap. Their Black & Tan is my favorite non-craft, and total ace on tap. Otherwise 16oz cans preferably.
 
I'm right handed but shoot ambidextrously (sort of, snap shooting and pistols am better right handed, deliberate shooting better left handed). I find my left is quite easily trained though, and is very co-ordinated with muscle memory task such as driving stick (I'm from New Zealand where we drive on the wrong side of the road and call it a manual), boxing etc....
 
I'm so right handed my left hand is useless, I can't even catch with it. I'm terrible at baseball. I shoot pool lefty though, because for some reason my dad also shoots lefty.
 
I don't know what you lefties are complaining about, it could be worse.

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Wow, I never thought this subject would get responses so quickly. But I'm glad it did.

When I was in First Grade, back around, in or somewhere around 1969. My teacher, a brutal assed skinny spinster; actually let me be left handed. You know at one point left handedness was some sort of sinister sign.

More than one Catholic Nun or any denomination school teacher, (40 years ago and further) beat left handedness out of a person.. Thing the poor and foolish girls didn't understand was they could NOT change the had you write with. Everything else, lefty's learn right handed.. it's screwed up but is how it is.

I had to qualify on a shooting range when I was a military man. I shot a pistol left handed and shot poorly. Did the same test a year later and shot right handed. I scored "Expert". Same type pistol, same range, everything was the same less the date and the hand I shot with.

I enjoy the saying about left handed people are the only ones in their right minds.. but its just a saying.

I'm trying to remember great athletes who were lefty's. Not sure but I think Babe Ruth was one.
 
I'm left handed for the most part. I'm only righty in baseball and basketball. When I get my shotgun its definitely going to be left handed.
 
I'm a lefty, kind of ambidextrous.

I write, eat, and do detail oriented things left-handed.

I also use right-handed scissors because I am pretty sure right-handed people make left-handed scissors which is why they don't work.

I play most sports right handed most likely because that is how I was taught to play them.

I shoot right-handed because I am right eye dominant.

I am surprised at how many lefties are on HBT! This thread should have been a poll!
 
I'm the same way.

My biggest complaint is power tools, specifically circular saws. I hate them.

I am right handed, but I bought a Milwaukee circular saw that runs opposite the others, motor and all are opposite. Not certain it's intended to be left handed, but I like it because I can see the blade as it cuts..... drives me crazy to not see the line.
Crazy enough, I used to swing a sledge hammer left handed, but I too only have my left hand/arm for symmetry.
Wife is left handed and I bought her a can opener from the Lefty Store, not really thinking it was a big deal....she says it's the best gift she got this year. She's one of those 'refuse to conform to a right handed world' kinda people. :rolleyes:
 
Remember those stupid papermate erasable pens? I made it through the first month using them before the teacher made me switch to a bic.

Note for you righties, Lefties have a hard time with twist pins. As we write they close.

Don't forget about the writing desks in college. They are all setup for righties. Lefties are forced to write with the paper sideways from top to bottom with their elbow dangling in mid air.

Don't forget about lawn mower, chainsaw, and snow blower pull cords.

My wife just bought a set of spoons made by Rachael Ray. They are silicon with a notch so you can hang them on the side of a pot. I can't even use them. They are bow-shaped, but the bow makes it impossible for a lefty to use it. The spoon bends away from me.

I always get yelled at because whenever I put a card in an envelope and give it to righty, when they open it the card is upside down.

It's a righty world!
 
I am right handed, but I bought a Milwaukee circular saw that runs opposite the others, motor and all are opposite. Not certain it's intended to be left handed, but I like it because I can see the blade as it cuts..... drives me crazy to not see the line.

Don't you get a face full of sawdust when you use it?
 
I used to think that in soccer 'left footer' was a playful term for a gay player. The original term left footer was a Scot and Irish reference to a Roman Catholic but that evolved over the years to other meanings .. not limited to soccer.

The urban dictionary has this entry ...

Left footer
Slang term for a homosexual male, usually used as a polite reference to a gay rather than as a derogatory term
'I began suspecting he was a left footer when I found his stash of homosexual porn'

Cheers - you Left Footers :D
 
Don't you get a face full of sawdust when you use it?


Don't recall anything horrible. Might get a little, but I'm the guy that always has the safety glasses on during the whole process, so I don't really notice. Just feel like I get a better cut being able to watch it every second. Probably do just as well with a guide but never got the hang of using one.

My wife even has her computer set up all left handed. I can use it, but payback being what it is, I use a trackball.....now that's some funny **** watchin a lefty try and use a righty trackball!
 
Left handed, and left footed. I do most things with my left, including scissors, but play musical instruments like a righty. When I played baseball in my younger years (never actually on a team though) I needed my left to throw, and preferred batting left handed but could bat either way. Golf clubs I could do right handed, but golf sucks anyway. Pool, bowling, guns, anything involving throwing or kicking, it's left handed. Writing is left handed. Pretty much everything.

Back before I got fat when I was a badass left midfielder, my coach referred to me as his secret weapon since I had a powerful and accurate enough left foot kick to score from the halfway line on a couple occasions.

I actually never thought about eating. It always seemed natural to me to have the fork in the left hand and the knife on the right, as tables are usually set, which made me question that. Apparently my wife (right handed) will hold with fork with left while cutting with right, and then transfer fork to the right to eat. I've just never paid attention to it. Huh.
 
Don't you get a face full of sawdust when you use it?

As far as I know the heavy duty worm drive skill saws have always had the blade to the left of the motor. I prefer that arrangement, even though I am right handed, because I can keep my eye on what the blade is doing. My 18 volt Dewalt saw also has the blade on the left.

I use either hand purty much interchangeably except I write right handed.
 
Don't forget about the writing desks in college. They are all setup for righties. Lefties are forced to write with the paper sideways from top to bottom with their elbow dangling in mid air.

I always get yelled at because whenever I put a card in an envelope and give it to righty, when they open it the card is upside down.

It's a righty world!

So many struggles for left handers(I am one).

I never thought about the envelope things, I LOL'd pretty hard thinking of all the people pulling things out of the mail from me upside down.
 
Right handed, though I eat with the fork in my left hand & the knife in my right, no switching. I've been told the whole switching eating utensils thing is almost exclusively an American thing, not necessarily a left/right thing. When I was a kid, riding a skateboard, my right foot was forward, whereas most other kids rode with their left foot forward. I called them "left footed." These days, I'm called "goofy footed" by other snowboarders, cuz I still put my right foot forward. For some reason, I tend to box southpaw though, no idea why.
Regards, GF.
 
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