Are you right or left handed?

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Total Head

Total Head

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kinetic said:
Total Head did your parents force you to use your right hand growing up?
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no, i'm naturally right handed. my mother is left handed and they did that shit to her and she would never do that to me. she has horror stories from the 40s and 50s about inkwell pens in schools and them trying to force her and the anxiety it caused.

i think i forced myself. the idea that one of my hands was not as good as the other just bugged me i guess, so i just always made a point to use my left hand. i did a lot of mirror writing when i was bored as a kid and it helped a lot. especially with grip.
 
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gioua

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no clue said:
Doesn't left handed mean sinister in latin? Myself right handed, my dad is a lefty. I usually grip the bowl with my left and light it with the right though.
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in latin "LEFT" means


[h=1]E pluribus sucketh.. Out of one............. many sucketh.[/h]
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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no clue said:
Doesn't left handed mean sinister in latin? Myself right handed, my dad is a lefty. I usually grip the bowl with my left and light it with the right though.
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Technically sinister means left and dexter means right. Anatomists and biologists who need a Latinate term for left that doesn't come off as sinister use "sinistral". cn
 
Carne Seca

Carne Seca

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Total Head said:
no, i'm naturally right handed. my mother is left handed and they did that shit to her and she would never do that to me. she has horror stories from the 40s and 50s about inkwell pens in schools and them trying to force her and the anxiety it caused.

i think i forced myself. the idea that one of my hands was not as good as the other just bugged me i guess, so i just always made a point to use my left hand. i did a lot of mirror writing when i was bored as a kid and it helped a lot. especially with grip.
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Catholic boarding school for my mother. The nuns would beat her knuckles with rulers for using her left hand and fucking up her piano lessons. As soon as she got out she started using her left hand again and didn't touch the piano until we were born. First thing they did when she arrived was shave her head. It was down to her waist. My grandfather held her hair for hours when she became deathly ill and the doc wanted to shave her head. He wouldn't allow it. Then the government came in and forced her into a boarding school (common practice for native children) and the abuse was horrific.
 
shrxhky420

shrxhky420

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For thousands of years, the Devil has been associated with the left hand in various ways and is normally portrayed as being left-handed in pictures and other images. In the seventeenth century it was thought that the Devil baptised his followers with his left-hand and there are many references in superstitions to the “left-hand side” being associated with evil. As an example, in France it was held that witches greet Satan “avec le bras gauche” or with the left hand. It is also considered that we can only see ghosts if we look over our left shoulder and that the Devil watches us over the left shoulder.

  • Evil spirits lurk over the left shoulder – throw salt over this shoulder to ward them off. In Roman times, salt was a very valuable commodity, giving rise to the word “salary” and was considered a form of money at the time. If salt was spilled, that was considered very bad luck, that could only be avoided by throwing some of the spilled salt over your left shoulder to placate the devil.
  • Joan of Arc (burned at the stake in 1431 for being a heretic and a witch) was not necessarily left-handed, she may have been depicted in this way to make her seem evil.
  • Getting out of bed with the left foot first means that you will have a bad day and be bad tempered . i.e. getting out of bed the wrong side.
  • A ringing in the right ear means that someone is praising you. In the left ear it means that someone is cursing or maligning you.
  • An itchy right palm means that you will receive money. An itchy left palm means you will have to give money.
  • Wedding rings worn on the third finger of the left hand originated with the Greeks and Romans, who wore them to fend of evil associated with the left-hand
  • The Romans originally considered the left to be the lucky side and used for augury. However, they later changed back to the Greek methods and favoured the right-hand side.
  • The right hand often symbolises ‘male’ while the left hand is ‘female’.
  • If you hear the sound of a cuckoo from the right it will be a lucky year. If the sound comes from the left it will be unlucky.
  • The Meru people of Kenya believed that the left-hand of their holy man has such evil power that he had to keep it hidden for the safety of others.
  • If your right eye twitches you will see a friend, if it’s your left eye that twitches you’ll see an enemy.
  • When dressmaking it’s believed to be bad luck to sew the left-hand sleeve onto a garment before the right sleeve.
  • When leaving to go on a journey, if your right foot itches you’re bound to have a good journey. If your left foot itches it will end in sorrow.
  • It is thought to be bad luck to pass a drink to another person with your left-hand or anti-clockwise around a table.

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Jadesjewel

Jadesjewel

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I'm a lefty ..I remember getting yelled at by one of my dance instructors that I spin the wrong way , took me some time to spin the right way ...who knew..hated her after that
 
HydroDawg421

HydroDawg421

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I'm a lefty who grew up in a right handed world. I do everything right handed except eat, write and tie my shoes.
 
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