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For those of you who don't now, Sunday August 13th is International Left-Handers Day, so in homage to lefties everywhere, Bored Panda has compiled this list of annoying problems that all left-handers face on a daily basis.

If you're left-handed then you're probably aware that, whether you like it or not, this is a right-handed world. From scissors and desks to ring binders and ice-cream scoopers, everything seems to be designed with the righties in mind, which isn't really surprising when you realize that around 90% of the world's population is right-handed.

Still, there's a pretty impressive list of lefties crammed into that remaining 10%. Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Aristotle and Julius Caesar were all left-handed for instance? And let's not forget Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong, Winston Churchill, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama. And Jimi Hendrix. And Kurt Cobain. And Paul McCartney. And David Bowie, Charlie Chaplin, Robert de Niro, Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Jon Stewart, plus a whole bunch of other people we don't have the space to write about. If we haven't made our point yet then what we're trying to say is that, although left-handed people might be in the minority, that doesn't make them any less awesome, and some of the world's most important contributions have in fact come from left-handers.

Despite this however, non-righties have had a pretty hard time throughout history. The word "left" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft", meaning "weak", and the word "sinister" actually derives from the Latin word meaning "left". Left-handers were also thought to consort with the devil, and being left-handed was sometimes considered proof that a woman was a witch and should therefore be persecuted or even executed! Fortunately those days are long gone though, and the only things left-handers have to worry about these days are using a can opener without making a mess, and trying to write without getting ink all over the side of their hand. Scroll down to see some other problems that the modern leftie has to face. Can you relate? Then let us know in the comments below and don't forget to vote. Happy International Left-Handers Day everybody!

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As A Left Handed Person... F*ck

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Mikleo
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't stand those chairs, even as a right-handed person.

Hans
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Impractical in any means, and they do not really safe space...

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Daria B
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are annoying also if you have a big a*s and thick tights.....

DancingToMyself
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8 years ago

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Oh, common, Daria, nobody has a big a*s THAT BIG. Especially if you 12 lol. ;)

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Zori the degu
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever invented those inquisitorial-type chairs, may you not rest in peace.

Oscar
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those chairs suck for anyone anyways...

Marissa Bradshaw
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know, there were never enough lefty desks. I never used one. Just like lefty scissors--I can't use 'em. I'm good being a lefty anywhere

Laura Arnold
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hate it.... And there is 1 lefty desk and some jerk who isn't left handed sits there

Joumana
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then he left the lecture room. It was the right thing to do.

Zoe Drake
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In England, we don't have those desks; but in school it was hell. You sat two people to a desk and there was only one other left handed person in my class in year four, and after that year I had to sit on my own.

Andrea Miller Blum
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were always one or two desks with the table on the other side. If not we had to twist our body ugh!

Doron Pinkas
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I prefer righty desks, as a left handed person. I bump my elbow with the left ones

DancingToMyself
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, I simply adore those. When I was the only one in the class in stupid "normal" desk, like in the kitchen. And everyone else is behind this "fancy" ones. Where I could only seat, but writing wouldn't be possible, smsh, tough one. :)

Manuel Lopez
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why I always sat at a table in the back.

4x Bill
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All you right handed people complaining about the chair… yeah sure they suck. Then as a left-handed person, you have to contort your body to the right, so you can barely squeeze your elbow on the f*****g desktop to support the rest of your arm for writing anything down. Not to mention the metal bar holding up the desk platform, riding hard into the side of your knee.

Inkblot Butterfly
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NONONO im left handed and this my worst nightmare

Ashutosh Bhardwaj
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Holy eff no!.......*leaves the hall with distant muffed cussing*

Kepi Lukela
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What were they thinking??? Oh yeah, they weren't!!!

Shelley McDonald
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember that in those certain classrooms that had that type of desk, there would be a few left handed desk chairs and since we didn't have many lefties, I migrated to them as soon as I got to the room. Otherwise it was absolutely ridiculous.

Marina Hardy
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, yes, I remember it well. Trying to take notes while twisted around.

Vickie McCorkendale
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Usually they would have a row of lefty desks. This room sucks. :(

Lois Grossman
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was my world all through school.

Josefine Andersen
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

even as a right hand I am glad I never used that kind of chairs

Cibil Sesco
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grew up a leftie using these things

Melissa Bell
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I compensated by using the desk on my left side!

René Gabbard
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the way through school, I hugged myself just so I could use the desk.

Erin Hartman
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if you DID find one of the rare left handed ones you had to fight any other lefties for it.

Sue Grigg
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a leftie I agree, these are the worst.

Jose Baeyens
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't this a university, filled with brilliant minds,.... and no-one ever thought about this problem ? Seriously ?

Timea Talitha Kumi
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never seen that, horrific anyways! But for me as a lefthanded Person it would‘nt bother me, i think. I‘d anyway would press my weight more on to the right (arm/ellbow-) side while using my left hand

WhiteFox
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is just discrimination against lefty's

Kristel Bijnen
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just a question. Are they even fitted for wheelchair users? I am in a wheelchair and far out of school. But are they even accessible for wheelchair users? They seem uncomfortable for righty’s and lefties. But I’m asking myself how uncomfortable they would be for wheelchair users? Anyone who experienced this or knows someone who experienced this?

Kristel Bijnen
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Late reply, so a small chance anyone reads this. But still trying.

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Kamaal Lalani
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hahaha, I actually had a single left-sided one among all the righties, back in the day! :P

bikefanatic
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How odd...the same thing happens with right-handed people? Unreal.

Beks Czar
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a tall person, I say the same thing.

Vaibhavi tikariya
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i know the pain cause i am left handed

Elizabeth Vajtauer
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yep i understand this one, most definitely.

WhiteFox
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the world was not fit for left-handers like us ;_;

CrystalPanda Gaming
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate those chairs WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK WE'RE RIGHT HANDED lol I'm not mad

lindsayaotter
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many left-handed people have worked through and overcome this horrible invention; that leaves hands and arms cramped up.

Bonnie Hemmerling
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even way back in the dark ages (when I was in school), we had a few of those designed for lefties around.

Bev Applebee
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Htted, hated, hated lose as a Lefty!!

Jessica Hepler
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just constantly awkwardly knocked everything over and twisted myself ... it was not a good look

Beverly Kleinman
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hated those chairs! Once and awhile a classroom had one for us and the race was on trying to claim it.

Richard Myers
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had to sit sideways and the teacher thought I was cheating on a test.

Erin welch
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I AM LEFT HAMDED AND I CAN CERTAINLY EMAPATHISE W/ALL LEFTIES AND THE PROBS. WITH BEING LEFT HANDED EVERYWHERE!

Simon Ascanio
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it was hell as a leftie...i couldn't keep up with others...so i had the genius ideea to take pics :))))

Simon Ascanio
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and on exams it was easy-er to cheat cuz i was looking at the guy standing to my right cuz i was turning a bit to the right so i can write properly:)))

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Michelle Mendoza
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a left handed person, these desks never bothered me, cause I just had to turn slightly to the right and my left hand was free to move around and do its job... lol

Diana Berulyte
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just use a laptop/tablet instead! Typing is far quicker than handwriting and definitely much easier to read afterwards! If sketches are needed, use touchpad - did it while studying in university, works 100%.

M. M
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

handwriting it is better for memory, but that works too.

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Merilyn Horton
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Luckily, I have never encountered these.

GENESIS HUNTER
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

true true but i am not left handed i am right handed but who ever out there that is a left handed person ill pray for you images-2-5...66b4b.jpeg images-2-5becadcb66b4b.jpeg

WhiteFox
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

reasons that i want to just die especially as a left-hander

Teresa Hyatt
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8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im a leftie, you learn to adapt rather than complain! I am now 59. It makes no sence to complain, no one listens. This is when we teach ourselves to use both hands, now what? This only makes one how to acclimate in any situation. What HORRORS? COME ON GROW UP! TBHYATT NC

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    Jacqueline Arana
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or instead of a heart you get an ace of spades... ♠

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    Sasy
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This just made me think of being tall, and getting all those 'What is the weather like up there' queries from smarty pants short people.

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    Michel M. Prins
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Are you left handed?" and "How can you write like that?" Are sometimes a bit in the same percentages.

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    #7

    Silver Surfer Syndrome

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    Daria B
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, right handers are not spared the silver (and blue, when you use a pen) surfer syndrome.

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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The notebook rings problem, I'd just turn the notebook upside down, because I don't care.

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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then when you say you're lefthanded, they just don't know what to say anymore

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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't forget the numbers on the rulers that drives me nuts

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    Michel M. Prins
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we just take a moment to admire that solid straight line she erased?

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    Daria B
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We right handers get our pencils and pens on the side of our hands too. Yeah, no one's afe.

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    Michelle Mendoza
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ooh you've never seen a left handed person in all your life? Do you get this surprised like this every time you see a left handed person use their left hand to write? Cause I still get grown people who are like this...

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    varwenea
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are not worth buying anyway. They don't cut into hard frozen ice cream well enough. Use the scoop/dipper kind or the wide-spoon variety; I have the latter.

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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    Sara
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But turn the fork-knife upside down when using it? It works!

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    Rhon
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm right handed and I'm currently scrolling with my left thumb! Just being lazy!

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    HauntedForests
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have this problem too, but I'm right handed. So, needless to say, I don't know how to properly use a can opener. I've even broken a few. :/

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    The Struggles Of Being Left Handed

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    Šimon Špaček
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    Mikleo
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right-handers have the same problem on the left pages.

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    Jane Van Balen
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Helps being a lefty on the tennis court... can be quite off putting to opponents who are more used to playing against right handers (even for other lefties!)

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    #36

    Maybe He Was Clever... Nope. Just Didn't Want To Get His Hand Dirty

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    Šimon Špaček
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you poor lefties know that Jewish write and read from right to left? Think about all those poor right-handed Jews!

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    Yasna Minkovska
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a mother of a left handed kid, I've felt the same way, trying to use her lefty scissors :)

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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me as a right-hander always thought, the designs are for the others, not for me (Because I already know whats on my mug so the design would cheerish the others). Having it on "my side" keeps confusing me a little bit...

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    Sk123 ILP123
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it a thing where people only lift cups with their dominant hand, I subconsciously alternate between the two

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    HauntedForests
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the reason for this is because it would be really cool to meet someone who is ambidextrous? That's my guess anyway.

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    Sara
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Normal cuttlery ettiquette is to use the fork in the left hand, and knife in the right. Change restaurant! ;)

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    Sasy
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember that in school when teachers would try and force kids to write right handed, as though they did it just to spite them or something.

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    Shalini Gogna
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you see another lefty and you feel a littke excuted like "well hello, we are 9% of the worlds population don't you know?"

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    Daria B
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, but this IS customizable. U saw many times the left-handed mouse options. The keyboards mighy be problem, though.

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    Michel M. Prins
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    Clifford Smith
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The struggle is looking at someone holding a pen like that! I write with my left hand, but I have no idea how to write if I held a pen that way!

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    Elizabeth Gatti
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly!! Went to Interpreter Training and as I signed , the instructor (DEAF) said something is not right.....so I learned to to use right hand as dominant. Had 30 year career as Interp and once in a while I would screw up and switch to left as dominant.

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    Lazy Panda
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right handed people do that too, just on the other side

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    Brigitte
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soooo... you don't know how to use a simple knife?

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    Marie Stoia Joseph
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so glad it's not just me. I never thought about this being a righthand design but I can only get them to work half the time and then not well lol

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    madcow 3417
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are there right-handed pens, or is this just a nerd problem? *whispers* Cross Tech 3 is pretty awesome.

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    Sasy
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a touch confused by this one, I understand the motion aspect, but I guess I believed check marks were like symbols, they have to be the way intended ? example is the L in Lefties it is essentially the same thing, but left hand writers don't write them the opposite way...sorry not trying to be a rightie just had never experienced a left handed checkmark before

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not surprising, is it, considering 90% of people are right-handed...

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    #66

    Left Handed/first World Problems...

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    #67

    My Left Handed Brother Is Furious Our Coffee Pot Handle Is Slightly Offset For Righties

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    Šimon Špaček
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure about your pot but on mine you just need a screwdriver and about ten seconds to change this.

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    Manuela Simon
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the worst prejudice about left-handed people, isn´t it?

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    Šimon Špaček
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had similar. In Europe. So when I hold it my right hand I saw US. But then I found a trick! Just hold the jar in the less handy hand and my problem was fixed! And I didn't share it on Internet.

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    Justina
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm right handed. i use both hands when i cook. i often lift things and pour with my left hand. i can't understand this photo.

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    #75

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    Markus McCloud
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You think yours is bad? I'm right-handed, and my handwriting is fairly atrocious!

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think those keys are really THAT far away, are they?

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    Nomadus Aureus
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only thing I use the right-handed way. Can't get used to a lefty mouse...

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    #78

    The Struggle Is Real

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    Liorah Balilah
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gross motor skills are not difficult with the opposite hand. So it should not be difficult turn on a tap or pull a lever etc. Writing is another story.

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how when I write on these boards, my hand never touches it.

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    Master Markus
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I initially thought that I was supposed to be looking at the nail polish that seriously needs to be removed or touched up.

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    Patrick Davies
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother is also left handed, and she just took a normal guitar, a non-cutaway design, and reversed the string order. Voila, a left hand strung guitar.

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    Pi...
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aw... you shouldn't feel deprived. Left handed ppl rock!

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    WhiteFox
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah i can still use them and I'm left handed

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    Lindy Mac
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HEY!! Forget right and left...why is the stupid electric socket damn near over the sink. Now THAT is a problem.

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    Kim de Beer
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a lefty I learnd just the right one... not that hard.

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