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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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Hans 8 years ago
Impractical in any means, and they do not really safe space...
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Zori the degu 8 years ago
Whoever invented those inquisitorial-type chairs, may you not rest in peace.
Marissa Bradshaw 8 years ago
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 8 years ago
Hate it.... And there is 1 lefty desk and some jerk who isn't left handed sits there
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Susann Campbell 8 years ago
I'm right handed and drink my coffee, etc with my left hand. Some one asked if I was left handed and I said no I have a right one too.
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Sasy 8 years ago
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.
varwenea 8 years ago
Perhaps this is a grass is greener on the other side statement, but being tall is WAY better than being short. Being constantly looked down upon, literally!!, is annoying as f. As a short person, I have never asked the weather up there question as that is just idiotic. Meanwhile, thank you for bringing things down for me and my peers. We appreciate it.
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Mia Rennie 8 years ago
yes! this is me! even with my friends that have known i'm left handed for years
Shannon M Storey 8 years ago
Now just imagine being both left handed and eight and a half months pregnant while writing an exam in that lectire theatre.
Inkblot Butterfly 4 years ago
"My cousin's dog's friend's owner's babysitter's mom's neighbor's aunt's daughter's husband's brother is left handed!"
Ashutosh Bhardwaj 5 years ago
Me in middle school: *wrote with left hand* Some random Classmate, out of nowhere, when half the academic year passed by: Oh, you're a leftie? How do you write this way? Isn't it uncomfortable? Do you eat with left hand as well (In India most people think that you're not supposed to eat with left coz you're meant to clean your doodle by that hand).
Crystal Williams 7 years ago
Being tall and left handed: Me to right handed short people: I am in my right mind, you can't risk falling into the gutter on a rainy day.
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Ben Smith 8 years ago
Lol, just because your are left handed doesn't mean you don't have a right hand. Use it.
S Missions 8 years ago
It's just as easy for you to use your left as it is for us to use our right. Try lifting that heavy hot mug and drinking from it, it gets really awkward and uncoordinated.
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Jessica Hepler 8 years ago
Yes you can technically use the opposite hand but not comfortably it's like wearing the shoe on the wrong foot you technically can it just
Tanya de Kruijff 8 years ago
Actually I am right-handed but I always hold my cup this way. I love picking up the whole cup instead of the handle.
Geek In the Blue Toolbox 8 years ago
Even if you are right handed, you're still likely to get a horn in the eye.... Who thought that was a good idea for a mug?
Doron Pinkas 8 years ago
I switch hand while drinking tea. I like holding my phone/fork/puppy in my left hand. My mom made me a lefty cup, and then I really noticed it
James Pointer 6 years ago
I do and so do the rest of my family. I honestly don't see how right handed people use a fork in the left, I have way more control with my left hand so why not use that control to poke at food and put it towards my face?
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Isabel Enechi 8 years ago
This person is not left handed I am left handed and there is absolutely 0% difficulty I face while trying to lift a cup.you get used to it right from start just like u get used to ur right hand from start.
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
"Are you left handed?" and "How can you write like that?" Are sometimes a bit in the same percentages.
Zori the degu 8 years ago
In reply I ask those idiots how on Earth do they write with their right hand. Usually it shuts their mouths. If it doesn't, I know that they are so dumb, that it's better to pretend they don't exist.
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June Pixeld 8 years ago
Right handed but i never asked any of these. Why does it matter? Its such a little thing:)
Crystal Williams 7 years ago
People love to judge what they perceive as different, and for most right handed people, lefties are as different as they come.
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Hedgehog_Girl 8 years ago
I think that right handed people aren't often that dumb and this is not really realistic.
danielw 8 years ago
they forgot to include the the 90-ish percent of instances where we just say nothing. memory is funny like that. personally, I'm ambi so whenever somebody notices me writing with my left, I switch to my right. just to screw with them.
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Sean Duggan 8 years ago
I always get "Oh you're left handed, you know left handed people are always in the right mind."
Manuela Simon 8 years ago
That´s me. Plus a German word game insulting them *flush-red-of-shame*
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Var Vas 8 years ago
I had done this too in my school days. Got better after few days. Most of my notes were mirror image and only I could read(i'm a left hander too, btw)
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Brandon Idskou 8 years ago
the fact that this person can write MIRROR IMAGE!!! is more impressive than most of the things i can read about on any day
Deidre Leggett 8 years ago
My mom can do it. She can actually write two separate things, with both hands, at the same time.
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Gabriela Durán M 8 years ago
I used to write like this when I first learned to write, but my mom took me to special classes so they would make me fix my writing haha... they also wanted to make me right handed but I refused
Tammy Ralph 7 years ago
My partner is left handed when he was in school the teacher used to punch him until he put the pencil in his right.
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Daniela Fernandes 8 years ago
I'm right-handed. When I write with my left hand that's the only way I can write. Don't ask why I do this...
Susan-Janelle Silvestri 5 years ago
I have always been a mirror writer, ever since I picked up a pencil!
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Daria B 8 years ago
Again, right handers are not spared the silver (and blue, when you use a pen) surfer syndrome.
Abigail Kreiss 8 years ago
But left handers shafts drag their hands over what they've just written. Eighties always have a clean spot.
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Nikki Chatelain 8 years ago
As an artist this is everywhere and all over everything. Even my face
Connie Davis Jensen 8 years ago
I always feel bad for my left-handed students when I'm teaching calligraphy in art class. For part of the unit, I let them use a dip pen, and inevitably the ink smears. There is a specific way for a lefty to hold their pen, but they still struggle, because it's not a natural position. It's difficult to hold your pen so you're nib is it a 45° angle, even if you're right-handed. ...In the end, if I require the use of an actual dip pen for a project, I would have no problem allowing a lefty to use a calligraphy marker, instead. There's absolutely no reason to add to their frustration.
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Richelle agor 8 years ago
Jesus Christ why does every right hander in the comments want to feel special? And this is coming from a right handed person
Sashana Maitland-Walker 8 years ago
Ikr! xD It's like they post saying "I have the flu" and we of the right-hander nation are like "Well I sneeze too". It's pathetic bros...
Load More Replies... Sashana Maitland-Walker 8 years ago
I understand what they mean. We right-handed people won't have this much a mess. Writing is from left to right. They smudge everything xD
Katrina Stack 6 years ago
ok no they dont at all you have a clean space to write on our hands are going over what we just wrote soo just no :)
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Coolsammillion1sam 8 years ago
Right handlers have that, I'm right handed but I do right weirdly
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Daria B 8 years ago
The notebook rings problem, I'd just turn the notebook upside down, because I don't care.
Caroline Naen 8 years ago
Right handed people have the spiral notebook problem too when they turn the page and write in the other side...
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Joelle Jansen 8 years ago
The first one is me and my family. We're a family of 6 and 3 are left handed. We developed a seating scheme so we don't get in each others way. XD
Sashana Maitland-Walker 8 years ago
We gotta give it to em. We as right-handers don't get this prob as much as they do xD to be honest!
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Keren Levi 6 years ago
Thank god in Hebrew we write the other way around (rtl) so lefties like me get a leverage ;-)
Beverly Kleinman 8 years ago
Sad but true. Worst part was the ink on your hand would smear what you just wrote.
Holly Rossmaier Newingham 8 years ago
When doing poster projects,2 stop the smear factor (& point deductions) I taped gauze on the side of my left hand. It soaked up xtra ink...
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
In regard to the first one, I am constantly asking to switch spots with people to avoid bumping.
cassiushumanmother 8 years ago
I had to do research to understand the eating thing lol. I must have some american blood. In europe i eat like a left handed, the fork in the right hand and the knife in the left. I soon as i get into a restaurant i discreetely change the table placement. I'm right handed but it makes no sense for me to eat with the fork in the left hand as right handed have to do in Europe.I understand left handed because i got some "oh, you are left handed" when people see me ; "no". Strange etiquette french-599...e0ba66.jpg 
Sara Otterstätter 8 years ago
Agree with the spiral notebooks. I try to avoid them. But when I have one, I draw in them from back to front. So, that I have the spirals on the right side.
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Yeah, the notebook thing can be easily avoided. People will look weird at you, but its comfort is worth it in the end.
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Jennifer .S 8 years ago
Wouldn't holding the cup with your left hand hide the message? Is it supposed to be secret?
Polleekin 8 years ago
Sometimes the picture is on both sides, probably the case here.
Load More Replies... Timea Talitha Kumi 7 years ago
I think i am only 3/4-lefthanded, i use scissors with my right hand 😂
Dorlinda Chong 8 years ago
I am technically bimanual, left dominant, hand specific, and hate when people hand me the (usually) ONLY pair of left handed scissors --because I can only use scissors with my right hand. (I can only paint with my left hand, but can write with either).
Debbie Drake 8 years ago
Scissors are the worst and if you buy left handed ones they charge twice as much.
Sharon Hahn 8 years ago
Yeah, what's up with that? They are scissors for heaven's sake!
Load More Replies... Sashana Maitland-Walker 8 years ago
The graphic on a cup is normally placed on both sides so it could be on the other side too. And they put it down after sipping to take a pic
Zoe Drake 8 years ago
I changed which hand I cut things with! When I was in reception I used left handed scissors, but the older I got the less left handed scissors the teacher had and the easier it was for me to teach myself to cut with the right hand instead of fighting with the other left handed person over the only pair of left-hand scissors!
Abigail Kreiss 8 years ago
I got so used to holding right handed scissors upside down to cut (uncomfortable!) that I accidentally do it when holding left handed scissors. Luckily lots of scissors are ambidextrous.
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
And then when you say you're lefthanded, they just don't know what to say anymore
The Cube Cat 8 years ago
As a lefty, I consider this problem and always ask which hand they use
Dustin Strange 8 years ago
I actually broke my right arm, had people saying, "sucks it was your good arm" I then proceeded to tell them I'm left handed, and every time I got an "Oh!"
Kristel Bijnen 8 years ago
I wouldn’t have said anything and show them how well you could write with your ‘wrong’ arm.
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Simon Ascanio 8 years ago
when i was in school i broke my right arm and my clasmates called me lucky but all the teachers knew i was left handed:)))
Leah Almana 7 years ago
i broke my left arm in 4th grade, and my friends were like, " at least it wasn't your good arm. " and i was like, " you've known me for years, and you still dont know im left handed?!" and they were like, " oh yeah sorry. left handed people are so creative!" and i was like, " BRUH, I can barely draw a stick figure." The same thing happened in 6th grade, but I broke my right arm, and right wrist, and the teachers were like, " oh no! how are you going to write?!" and i just sighed and said, " im"left handed. " and they were like " oh. oh! how wonderful! it's extremely rare to be lefthanded!" and I just said, " yeah. " And walked away 😂 like I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ASSUME WERE RIGHT HANDED JUST BECAUSE 92% OF THE WORLD IS LEFTHANDED, AND IT IS LIKE REALLY RARE TO BE LEFT HANDED!! #stoptherighthandedassuming
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I was pushed thru a window in HS & had my right arm in bandages & plaster while the nerves & tendons healed. Everyone forgot I was left-handed. :D
Samantha Golarte 8 years ago
Lol that happened to me earlier this year when I broke my wrist and need surgery. I'm like that was my good hand... and I'm a teacher so writing in the board was a challenge
Merilyn Horton 8 years ago
What about " which hand do you wipe your bum with?" Er, paper, actually 😁
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Fresh leaves but not poison oak. Life's getting rougher & rougher out here in the `Burbs.
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Paula Duarte 8 years ago
happened to me on the first grade... they forced me to be right handed. Kinda worked... But I still confuse everything else...
Jjjane20 6 years ago
It happened to me too and my teacher forced to me to write everything with my right hand. I was really slow and I was not able to read a lot of my notes.. 😕
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Anne Foster 6 years ago
I broke my left arm in the 2nd grade. I believe that was when I became ambidextrous.....
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ADHORTATOR 8 years ago
Less demand = Less production = higher cost per piece
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George Alexander 8 years ago
They are great scissors and last for a long time. The smart thing to do is buy them on sale.
Elizabeth Vajtauer 8 years ago
i was given many many moons ago a pair of left handed scissors all the way from England to coober Pedy, I loved them so much, and finally I could cut straight, they went missing, but I don't mind 'cause I know the person who took them needed them more than me.
Casey Kotyk 6 years ago
I’ve run into this as a left handed drummer.... double lefty pedals are like $100 more than the right handed version if they even make a lefty one
Pobin Rice 7 years ago
If you knew ANYTHING about manufacturing...... you’d know the machine that makes these would need recalibration just to create 0.1% for freaks
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Laura Scott 6 years ago
an exam in an all right handed room was excruciating (a 3-hour written exam)
Prakash Khanal 6 years ago
Appeared late in class, punished to sit in left handed sit, i m rightee, no one in my room are lefty. Learned today, late worms are eaten.
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Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I never noticed why that was hard for me, until now. TY VM.
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Kristel Bijnen 8 years ago
Then it is upsidedown. The string might not be long enough?
Load More Replies... Elizabeth Vajtauer 8 years ago
and in every office I go to when i need to use the computer the mouse is on the right.. I believe I am very ambidextrous
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I used to have mouse on the right, now I have graphics tablet on the L & mouse on the right. Other than that I am extremely not-Ambi. Except I used to play bass RH & guitar LH. Until I got a LH bass.... :S
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Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Oh yes - this one. AND at the bank, AND at the post office, AND at the DMV ...
Joyce Sherwood 8 years ago
Turn the clipboard upside down and turn the paper around! No biggie.
Geckoline 253 (Geckoline253) 8 years ago
signing for a parcel, when the postman holds the pen allways to your right hand...
Alexis Kristine 8 years ago
This seriously bothers me! And then everyone at the bank is always like "Oh! You're left handed huh?! That's cool"... insert major glare and eye roll as I smear my check...
Lazy Panda 8 years ago
It can also be attached on the left or in the middle so you're not the only ones
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Can we just take a moment to admire that solid straight line she erased?
Rabbitt209 8 years ago
And with her Wrong hand, no less! We left-handers develop many special skills! ;-)
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CrystalPanda Gaming 8 years ago
I have to do that and people think I have dirt on my arm. I hate it.
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Daria B 8 years ago
We right handers get our pencils and pens on the side of our hands too. Yeah, no one's afe.
DerpyPandaLover 8 years ago
Yea i agree HOW? How do right handed people get ink on there hand?
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Squiddosnazz 8 years ago
All you have to do is right backwards! I mean... da vinci did it... ahem...
DancingToMyself 8 years ago
I did it for fun, when was bored at classes. :) I can also write "in mirror like".
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Peter Iorns 8 years ago
I like the "your" in the cartoon. It makes the speaker seem even more r******d.
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Isabel Care 8 years ago
Had a doctors note to affix to all my exams to explain the dramatic changes in handwriting. I write with whichever hand functions best at the time
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Michelle Mendoza 8 years ago
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...
Sheila Levin 7 years ago
In Japan everyone is right handed...or else! A Japanese woman very excitedly asked me, "Why are you using your chopsticks with your left hand?". To which I replied, " Because I'm left hande d. I do everything with my left hand. ". She was somewhat shocked.
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Vera Deme 8 years ago
Because to a right-handed person it is so difficult. That's why. It is like a left-handed who never learned to write with his/her right hand doing it. It's a fascination. Just accept it! And be polite!
Jessica Hepler 8 years ago
Idk when I see right handed people hold a pencil it kinda looks like an awkward position
Lazy Panda 8 years ago
The first time I met a left handed person I didn't give a s**t, why are some righties like that?? It's pretty annoying just seeing that happen
Edward C. La Cava 6 years ago
Nurse observing me (a lefty) in the medical center as a medical resident at the end of 30 hours “on call “ writing my last medical progress notes, “Doctor, ... does it hurt??” (Prior to the electronic medical records era ill-fated era!)
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Zori the degu 8 years ago
My classmates have the annoying habit to ignore my warnings about my left-hand scissors and how uncomfortable they would be for them. Two seconds later they come to me and say that I really ought to buy a better scissor, because mine's completely useless and doesn't work... This moment when you feel like you are the only one in the room who has more brain cells that teeth.
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Sara Otterstätter 8 years ago
Funny thing. I, as a left hander, can't operate scissors for left handers. My mum went to great lengths to get me a pair of left hander scissors. I use my right hand for scissors. Naturally.
Rhonda Pfeffer 8 years ago
Yes, but we baby boomers learned on right handed everything! We can't use left handed scissors - we learned to adapt!
victor kamau 2 years ago (edited)
Some may need to, like teachers and Engineering students. Also, the fact that you have one in the house gives you a lot of peace
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Tea 8 years ago
I'm left handed, but for some reason I can't use left-handed scissors. Well I can if I have to, but I find them uncomfortable.. ??
Rick Coppage 8 years ago
You can't just change the handle the blades need to be reversed as well to make scissors left handed.
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Aiden Gregg 8 years ago
Safety scissors are ambidextrous. Why don't they make craft scissors like that? download-5...1bf31f.jpg 
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Because they are weak & designed not to cut anything? When I was at school the blades had a gap about 1/4" wide between them. Impossible to cut spongecake, let alone paper.
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Renee Quiett 8 years ago
In kindergarten they searched the whole school for lefty scissors for me. Turns out I cut with my right hand. Lol
Andrea Miller Blum 8 years ago
Imagine being a teacher as I am and attempting to cut EVERYTHING for a PK CLASSROOM from Bulletin Boards to worksheets. Ugh! Don't even get me started on how difficult it is to teach CURSIVE to right handed students when you are left handed!
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Patrick Davies 8 years ago
I think this is the dumbest one yet. It's like "Oh God, even though the entire world shakes with the right hand and I have been shaking with the right hand since earliest memory, as a lefty my right hand is paralyzed and useless!"
M. M 8 years ago
exactly - you're supposed to shake with you right hand ... not your left. It doesn't really have anything to do with preference, more so with culture/history.
Load More Replies... James Pointer 6 years ago
In scouts you're taught to shake with your left hand. It's because that hand is nearest to your heart and a hand shake is meant to be a sign of compassion/friendship. There's also a story about a chieftain offering his left hand after being presented with a salute saying "In our land only the bravest of the brave shake hands, with the left hand because to do so we must drop our shields and our protection"
Marie-Louise Chenois 8 years ago
i'm a lefty and never had troubles shaking with right hand...However at fencing we shake left hands cause it's considered impolite to shake with the gloved hand :p
CrystalPanda Gaming 8 years ago
I hate it when we have to handshake right handed it's so awkward
Sheila Weila 8 years ago
You don't want to shake left hands in some countries (who use no toilet paper).
💖 Stacy Rae 💖 8 years ago
Ok who's read The Old Man And The Sea? He's not left handed but this reminded me of how he doesn't trust his left hand. And neither do I.
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varwenea 8 years ago
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.
Princess Jade 8 years ago
Mum used to work in a pub kitchen, it helps to dip it in warm water before each scoop :D
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Dorlinda Chong 8 years ago
My Mom actually found an ice scream scooper that was bimanual, which, like 'left handed playing cards' pissed me off because they accommodated right handers. I was outraged that MY utensil could be used by right handers when THEIR utensils couldn't be used my me. I want the right handers to know my frustration!!!
Sue Prewitt 6 years ago
Well, you are holding it backwards anyway. Don't you want it toward the ice cream?
Jose Baeyens 7 years ago
worst icecream scooper ever. Just use a normal scoop without the pushy thing that doesn't work anyway.
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Ian Lesser 8 years ago
This study brought to you by the Institute of Research on Things You Can't Do Anything About.
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Baran 8 years ago
Do people realize that most pencils aren't made with led anymore
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Marzo Florida 8 years ago
So the guy writing it was left handed, and since left handed people die quicker (supposedly), he died in the middle of his writing 😶
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Inkblot Butterfly 4 years ago
J HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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victor kamau 2 years ago (edited)
Feels like heaven! The relief usually makes me think of the nice(
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Heidi Lewis French 7 years ago
Then you have that one Righty A$$ hole that takes it cuz its close to their friend or something.... THE STRUGGLE!!!
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
For everyone who uses a drawing tablet I advice to try to make it as easy as possible. I have 4 buttons and a ring. The buttons I linked to the functions: Undo (CTRL+Z), redo (Shift+CTRL+Z), brush (B), eraser (E). And for the rocker ring I did this: Brush size increase ( [ key), brush size decrease ( ] key), zoom in (CTRL + =), zoom out (CTRL + - And now everything goes a lot more easily for me personally. Maybe this will work for you too. rm-ip-tab-...1ea14a.jpg 
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Brush size increase ( ] key), brush size decrease ( [ key) *
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M. M 8 years ago
and on my MPB, there's also an alt/option and shift on both sides
Load More Replies... Patrick Davies 8 years ago
Gee, I guess I never learned to compensate for being left handed. It's too bad that my right arm is incapable of doing anything useful.
Beverly Miller 6 years ago
Not any easier to be a righty using a mouse at the same time I have to keyboard with left hand only to input data
Vivian Rentsch 7 years ago
I was born left handed, re trained right handed in preschool 25 years ago. My mouse is still lying on the left side of the keyboard even though my right hand uses it, normally my left wrists lies on my right while gaming and well... with a graphic tablet it looks the same for me. I just can't move it to the other side.
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Mr. Nerd 7 years ago
No. It's hard to use the fork like that. No one likes having to rotate it around every 3 seconds to switch between knife and fork.
Load More Replies... Rama Llama 8 years ago
I'm guessing the knife side isn't sharp (ouch, think about cutting the corners in your mouth) so I really don't understand how that side makes a better cake knife than regular fork
DE Ray 8 years ago
This one isn't sharpened, but there are forks with a thickened, sharpened tine for use by people with only one arm called Nelson forks (after the British Admiral Nelson, who lost an arm in combat).
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Marnee DeRider 8 years ago
Use your right hand. Unlike most inefficient Americans, I hold both a knife and fork, one in each hand. I don't cut with my right, then set the knife down to use the fork with my right with every bite. My left hand is usable, even though I'm right-handed. I scrub with my left hand when my right gets tired. Now, writing is a different story. Takes a long time to learn to write with the wrong hand. But using a simple utensil with the off hand is not that hard.
Laura Pantazis 5 years ago
I have always cut with my right and eaten with my left. It's more efficient, haha
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Viktė Džiaugytė 8 years ago
You are left-handed, but this doesn't mean that you have ONLY one (left) hand. Your right hand is still usable. Especially in using knife and fork.
criminalgirl 8 years ago
It's not a fork-knife, it's just a cake knife. for cutting through soft cake...but best if you are right handed I grant you....but basically a fork for any hand.
Harrumphulous 8 years ago
Fun fact: it's a cake fork! They used to be made out of very flimsy metal and so they made one tine sturdier to help cut the cake (like a fork-knife!). Their cakes are generally heftier here than in the states (where I'm from). Link to the whole story (I'm really sorry it's in German because it's told in a very cute way.): http://sites.arte.tv/karambolage/de/der-gegenstand-die-kuchengabel-karambolage
cassiushumanmother 8 years ago
I realy love karambolage!aber in France cake forks are like this most of the time: http://www.guydegrenne.fr/confidence-miroir-fourchette-a-gateaux-109472-2862.html
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Rhon 8 years ago
I'm right handed and I'm currently scrolling with my left thumb! Just being lazy!
Sarah Swanson 5 years ago
I’m left-handed and am currently scrolling with my right thumb lol
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Lazy Panda 8 years ago
I'm not even left handed and I scroll with my left, I have done that many times before
Tabitha Strock 8 years ago
I like and unlike so many pictures. I'm pretty good with using my right hand except This!
Michelle Mendoza 8 years ago
I'm left handed, but texted this message, as well as scrolling on my phone with my right hand...
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HauntedForests 8 years ago
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. :/
TC 8 years ago
That's because you are left-handed and you haven't realized yet...
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Cassie 8 years ago
That's a can punch. All it does is punch those little triangles so you can pour contents from the can. It's not for removing the top. It looks like it worked perfectly fine for what it's meant to do in that image and the person using it just doesn't understand they are using the wrong tool for what they want to accomplish.
Celestial Lynx 8 years ago
The dog though 🤣 "It's the fooooddddd from abooovvveeee! Pleeeeeaaassseeee faaaaaaaallllll!"
Patrick Davies 8 years ago
Or you can't open the soup because you are completely brain dead. I'm a lefty and I can open a can of soup with any can opener on the market no problem. Or in a pinch, a steel spoon will also do.
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Destiny Rose 8 years ago
When I'm at a restaurant with my family or friends, i have to sit in the far inside of the booth so i won't elbow anyone lol.
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Deyan Atanasov 8 years ago
As well as this coffee cup. You can turn the cap at 180 degrees.
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Elizabeth Butler 8 years ago
Actually, I am right-handed but taught myself to mouse with my left hand due to tendonitis in my right hand--mouse-caused.
Jessie Busuttil 8 years ago
I loved it at work when IT had to login only to confuse the c**p out of them with my leftie settings on the mouse 😂
Šimon Špaček 8 years ago
Those tapes are a real struggle. Well, no. I'm right handed but I usually have to measure things which cannot be turned around so I just learned to read numbers upside down. And convert inches to centimeters.
Mikleo 8 years ago
Just go to mouse options and set the primary key to the right side.
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Connie Martin 8 years ago
I'm right-handed but a left-handed mouser. It's simple to reverse the left/right buttons in Settings.
Vic Cooper 6 years ago
Using the mouse with left hand is practically the same, as a lefty, you just get used to the buttons from start...
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Nettie Olson 8 years ago
I HATE butter knives!! Just like the gravy ladle! So against us lefties😩
Ricky Couture 8 years ago
If this stuff is all you have to eat, you have worse problems than just being left-handed. I'm just sayin'.
John Faber 7 years ago
I work in a kitchen. Every time I use one of these, chef thinks I'm stupid. "Hey, you know what that narrow part is for?", he'll say. "It's for right-handed people", I'll answer.
DrawnToPerfection 7 years ago
Whatever mutated liquid you are trying to scoop, drop the ladle, move out of the country, and don't look back!
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Deidre Leggett 8 years ago
One yarn shop owner tried to force me to knit right handed. Never went back. I go to a shop now where the owner understands me.
Sherri Mantooth Bagwell 8 years ago
My Mom was a lefty and taught me sitting next to her...I'm a eighty. All my knitting and crocheting is completely backwards. Should've been sitting in front of her. Can't break old habits to relearn the correct way. #thanksmom
Roja Fischer 6 years ago
there is the european way to do it, its supposidly easier for left handed people
Jane Van Balen 8 years ago
there are some things I simply learned to do right handed.... knitting is one of them!!
Just JoLynn 8 years ago
I've never had this problem considering that I see the right handed person
Just JoLynn 8 years ago
(Sorry, had a left handed problem.) ...has the same perspective as me it is easier for me to follow along.
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LizzyM 8 years ago
That's why it's so nice that you can, you know, open de binder clips, take out the paper and write on the paper while it's not attached to the binder 🙄
Nahla O'Rourke 8 years ago
This isn't a left handed thing, right handlers have the exact same problem, just when writing on the left side.
Christina Fitzgerald 8 years ago
Who writes with the paper in the binder anyway?!?!? You're supposed to write I the paper and then put out in the binder.
Mark Daniel 8 years ago
Felt so many time. But what to do? We have to respect natural brain wiring .
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Jeroen de Haas 8 years ago
If I did that my family would think I had someone else write it, because they expect the smudge I usually leave 😅
Nancy Buress 6 years ago
Oh for pete’s sake, angle your paper to the right!! I’m left handed and NEVER had a smudge. EVER!!
Steve Beggs 7 years ago
In the mid 70’s I was in grade 4 and the school gave every Leftie a book that showed you how to write without the dreaded “Left Hand Hook”. Now when I write I don’t get any ink or pencil lead on my left hand.
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Jane Van Balen 8 years ago
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!)
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Also swordfighting. Or hockey, as you can fake them out with a feint to the opposite, expected side.
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Susann Campbell 8 years ago
I'm right handed and my thumb gets stuck in scissors and I get ink on my fingers, hand and mouth. I stopped using ink . I still get messy.
Natasha Mangan 8 years ago
It doesn't matter what hand you write with, smudging occurs when you can't write properly. I learned how not to smudge in 4th grade!!! Ps. Ambidextrous.
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Šimon Špaček 8 years ago
Do you poor lefties know that Jewish write and read from right to left? Think about all those poor right-handed Jews!
michal lev 8 years ago
I am a left handed Israeli - and that's just the best! :-D
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Viktė Džiaugytė 8 years ago
Leonardo's notes lool like a secret code, because he wrote backwards and IN ITALIAN. Oh no! He should wrote in English - all the world must write in English their notes, whatever mother tongue they speak.
Evelyn Wrightsman 1 year ago
My dad told me when I was 10/11 y/o to "Write right to left like a normal person" But not only did it help with remembering numbers for math, my freaking hand didn't feel weird
Gale William Ikola 8 years ago
If you hold your hand below what you're writing (like a right hander), you won't smudge.
Beverly Kleinman 8 years ago
Also,just try to make the sign of the cross with our left hand and you find your hand finishes awkwardly near your right shoulder. Everyone looks at you and wonders why you don't even know the basics.
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Yasna Minkovska 8 years ago
As a mother of a left handed kid, I've felt the same way, trying to use her lefty scissors :)
Claire Smith 8 years ago
I'm a lefty and can't use left handed scissors! They didn't exist through my childhood (well not that I was aware of) and I'm so adapted to "normal" scissors that I canny cut a straight line with lefty ones!! 😂 😂 #firstworldproblems
Jane Van Balen 8 years ago
Claire - my situation exactly the same... I think i've coped ok...
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LeAnne Westbrook 8 years ago
I had to learn to use regular scissors since we didnt have enough in kindergarden.
morgan way 2 years ago
yeah well i never GOT lefty scissors or knew they existed until i was nine years old and my fingers didn’t fit in the tiny holes. i still use right handed scissors with my left hand.
morgan way 2 years ago
i never got lefty scissors, i just had to use righty scissors with my left hand. also when i finally discovered that lefty scissors existed i couldn’t use them because the holes for your fingers are TINY
Kira Moody 2 years ago
Still can’t cut that wonderful because of those right-handed scissors even though I finally found some as an adult.
Rafal Balcerzak 5 years ago
I'm 42. Lefty. I have never had a chnec to use left-handed scissors. WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH HAVING PROBLEM WITH "RIGHT-HANDED" SCISSORS???
Jayne Rossetti 6 years ago
You want to make a right handed person feel du b & inadequate? Hand them a pair of left handed scissors and ask them to cut stuff out.
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alexa pretchet 8 years ago
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...
Moriah Tamburello 8 years ago
I've also always thought that and am glad I'm left handed for that at least lol
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Kristina Neeley 8 years ago
I always thought it was for others too... This leftie just learned something new
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Sk123 ILP123 8 years ago
Is it a thing where people only lift cups with their dominant hand, I subconsciously alternate between the two
Out of chocolate 8 years ago
Right handed, drink with my left so I have my hand free for other things.
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Abhisek Chakraborty 8 years ago
I dont see any problem in this as long as the text is insoluble *thinking*
Anita Holleufer 8 years ago
This type of thing as a good exercise for using both sides of your brain!
lakitha tolbert 8 years ago
I'm naturally left handed, but if you teach me how to do something, and you're right handed, I'll just mimic whatever you did...right handed. I knit and crochet left handed because that's how I learned it. I eat and write left handed. With cups, I just switch hands back and forth.
Callum Buchan 8 years ago
Hahaahah! Yeah, I'm sure most lefties could still use their right hand but it still made me laugh
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HauntedForests 8 years ago
I think the reason for this is because it would be really cool to meet someone who is ambidextrous? That's my guess anyway.
Bridget Hunt 8 years ago
The only things I HAVE to do wirh my left hand are write and eat using one implement. Everything else i'm either right handed or ambidextrous. Very handy,,
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Inkblot Butterfly 4 years ago
I actually created a jar so when a some one asks me that ill put a dollar in it and then once it full I'll throw a party for all my lefty friends
Sarah Swanson 5 years ago
I was born left-handed but forced to be right-handed because of my grandparents who absolutely hate left-handed people. My older brother feels my pain because he is also left-handed. Needless to say I am currently 19 almost 20 and I don’t give a f*** what my grandparents’ say to me. I have gone back to being left-handed
Laura Scott 6 years ago
no I am ambidextrous - left handed for fine motor skills - right handed for gross ones - and stare.....
Alice Vivian 6 years ago
In Japan writing starts on the right....are they all lefties? Or is it a challenge to righties to master calligraphy through facing disadvantage to prove that they are resilient, resourceful, creative, critical thinkers and problem solvers.
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Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I use it right-handed, that's my power arm, not my precision one.....
lakitha tolbert 8 years ago
I'm a leftie who uses the can opener with her right hand. It's how I learned it.
Freddie Lynn 8 years ago
I've got to have an electric can opener, even then there are challenges!
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Sara 8 years ago
Normal cuttlery ettiquette is to use the fork in the left hand, and knife in the right. Change restaurant! ;)
Leni 8 years ago
How is it the restaurant's fault if someone doesn't know (western european) table manners?
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Mallory Krieger 8 years ago
Because her dominant elbow and the dominant elbow of the righty sitting on her left will constantly bump into each other. This is more of a problem in booths than tables unless the tables are particularly crowded. My lefty husband and I have this problem often if we're not the first to the table!
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Or, like me and my family, where the table is never big enough, you just learn not to stick your elbows out at ninety degrees!
Miss buzz 8 years ago
Not if you're right handed. If you're right handed then other right handed people (most people) could sit to your right because they're also eating with their right hands.
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Louren Ryan 7 years ago
I'm fine there, because I'm a leftie in absolutely everything except eating, I eat right handed
John Backus 8 years ago
Sometimes I sit to the left of a right handed friend and he flails his arms around anyway and make my eating difficult.
Lucie Burg 8 years ago
God forbid you get stuck in between two big guys in one one of those curved restaurant seats. Not only are you a lefty but if you are a bit busty too, it's a disaster.
Tenike Stoltz 8 years ago
My ex-boyfriend is right-handed but holds his knife in his left hand. When we went out with friends, we would always have to swop sides when our meals arrived as to not annoy the cr@p out of each other.
Lynne Henderson 8 years ago
I switch the place setting and cut with my left hand, normal CUTLERY ETIQUETTE be damned.
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Sasy 8 years ago
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.
Paula Duarte 8 years ago
I was one of those students... got punished a lot for having a bad handwriting... -_-'
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Jacquelyn Hebert 8 years ago
In second grade when we learned penmanship, our nun was ambidextrous and could assist us at the blackboard with either hand. It was super for lefties!
Luke Pettit 8 years ago
Yeah got in a lot of trouble form ignorant religious old fart teachers. Hate Teachers New Zealanders and religion because if it. If they all dropped dead and I'd be so happy. :-D
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
How much of a role did the Islands themselves play in this?
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Allie Orona 8 years ago
I remember this. I used to be ambidextrous, and my teachers made me hold the pencil weird and write only with my right hand. Now I have horrible penmanship, and can only use my right hand.
Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
My teachers forced right-handedness on me as well. It kind of worked, now I right s****y with both hands. But I can use regular scissors, can openers, and other righty tools. I just hope I never break my left arm because no matter how hard I try, I can't wipe myself with my right hand.
Jen Gregory 8 years ago
I went through this as well and am ambidextrous as a result. I still prefer my left tho
Destiny Rose 8 years ago
When i was in kindergarten, i was able to write with both hands and i was confused as to which hand i wanted to use. The teacher made me decide which have to use, so i choose my left hand.
Norman Kukuk 8 years ago
Teacher " remember children you write with your right hand". Me yesterday left turn, passenger "I said turn RIGHT"
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Shalini Gogna 8 years ago
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?"
#45
Patrick Davies 8 years ago
I've just learned to not drag my hand over my writing. There is a reason I can do left handed Calligraphy, drafting, and drawing.
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Rebekah Mure 8 years ago
Don't get this either, left handed but my ticks still go the same way as everyone else.
Angie York 7 years ago
I always did left-handed ticks - but as a teacher in Thailand I've had to learn to do them the other way round, I'm always in trouble because they are not good enough and my writing is 'not beautiful'
Shalini Gogna 8 years ago
I used to do this, then my mom kinda scolded me and taught me to do it the right way... pun intended
Nomadus Aureus 8 years ago
our check marks are mirrored. At least mine are.
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Viktė Džiaugytė 8 years ago
So what's the problem to take the cup in your right hand? It still works!
Joe Dad 8 years ago
Because you always drink with your non-dominant hand and it's very easy and effortless to do.
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Oh and as a travel cup it you would want it to be for you right hand if driving.
Jacqlyn C Weir 8 years ago
If it's a twist on lid that can't be turn tight enough so that you can drink left handed, well I guess one must drink using there right.
Jacqlyn C Weir 8 years ago
Don't buy or use a cup with a twist on lid if you want to use either hand.
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Mark Smallman 8 years ago
The person to the right hand side of him is right handed and when they both swung back they struck clubs together. If you look you can see there is someone next to him.
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BREAK YOUr perceptions 8 years ago
for a second i thought this was just one of those training clubs, then i read the comments.
bianca johnson 8 years ago
He's facing the opposite way of the right handed people so when they seeing their clubs hit each other
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Daria B 8 years ago
Oh, but this IS customizable. U saw many times the left-handed mouse options. The keyboards mighy be problem, though.
Jacqueline Arana 8 years ago
The cord looks long enough to be able to move the mouse to the left.
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madcow 3417 8 years ago
Am I the only left that learned to use a mouse in the right hand right from the beginning? Adapt to survive.
Debi Jean 8 years ago
Exactly! I am a leftie and I have never used my left hand on the mouse.
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Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago
If only the mouse had a cable or something that meant it could be placed on the left side... Hmm...
Vivian Rentsch 7 years ago
I use my pc like this since i can think, born let handed 87, schooled right handed, my mouse is still on the left of my keyboard but i use it with my right hand. 0 problems, just a lot of comments. :)
Jose Baeyens 7 years ago
yeah that cable is so short you just can't move the mouse to your left .... or isn't it ?
Ewelina Kolk 8 years ago
I'm left handed and I use mous in left hand but in right handed mouse option. It works perfectly. I think it may be a problem for first time, but when you use it a lot you can learn it. I've never use left handed options because it's not working for me.
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Markus McCloud 8 years ago
I'm so used to Japanese manga, I instinctively do this for every graphic novel.
Master Markus 8 years ago
I have less of an issue with the pages and more with the speech bubbles. Sometimes I'll read a few panels and think "Hmm... that didn't make any sense' only for me to go back over it and realize I read it backwards.
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Marty Sunderland 8 years ago
I'm a righty, and I've always done this. NO idea why, but it works for me.
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Could you be a highly-closeted Lefty & not know? ;)
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Samantha Parker 7 years ago
I do this...always have...don't know why????. I'm a righty btw, but have more control of the pages w/my left hand.
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I don't read magazines backwards but I do start nonfiction at the index & work forwards, before reading in depth.
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Froganit Gamesy 8 years ago
I wright in Hebrew from right to left, Some how it is not a problem. Don't drag your hand on the paper, it's like walking and lifting your fit instead of dragging them.
Master Markus 8 years ago
Well, that would be great if everyone knew Hebrew.
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Edna Copeland 8 years ago
Yeah.. there's literally two places a lefthanded person can sit of a square or rectangular table.
Liorah Balilah 8 years ago
Erm...if a right hander has no problem sitting in a left handers seat, what is stopping the left handers from sitting in the right handers seat. I see no problem. Just spoiled behaviour.
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Roxy Eastland 8 years ago
What even is it? What is it for? I'm 52 and never had to use one of those things.
BREAK YOUr perceptions 8 years ago
those things legit suck anyway for anything but serving, dont even try cutting with it. total mess.
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PyroarRanger 8 years ago
I'm right handed and play the guitar left-handed. I also shoot a bow and arrow left-handed. Not to mention my left hand is on the handlebars if there's only one hand on my bike handlebars
Margaret Cromack 8 years ago
I actually play guitar right handed. That was something i found easy to convert to. Not anything else though.
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
WHY isn't this #1. You've never suffered as a LH until you've been subjected to this.
Cassie 8 years ago
The best guitar player at my kids' music school is a lefty and plays righty guitars upside down like a boss. My one kiddo is a lefty, but plays guitar and bass right-handed.
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I played LH, but Bass RH, til I got a LH bass. Now I can only LH. I also use drums RH, [toms all round the other way, unlike Phil Collins] apart from Snare & Hat.
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
This is the second time in my life I see that kind of spoon. The first time was also in this gallery, a few minutes ago.
Chris Huennekens 8 years ago
Um, it's not a spoon, it's called a "ladle" and it's hella common.
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Anna Johnson 6 years ago
I always end up dumping it out on my food from the side that doesn’t have the poring thing... 😂lol
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Clifford Smith 8 years ago
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!
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
There are about 8 different ways to grip a pen. Five are very common & have technical names.
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Ian Webling 8 years ago
Right-handed people have the same problem when writing on the opposite page at the end of lines.
Haunting Spirit 8 years ago
You could turn it around of course. Righthanded people are having the same issue if they are writing on the left page.
Ewelina Rak 8 years ago
so, knowing you have an issue its easier to b***h abt it than buy a notebook without the spiral?
Deyan Atanasov 8 years ago
Ballshits. It's the same for right handed - when they write on the left page.
Isabel Care 8 years ago
for both right and left handers the lines should be turned 90 degrees so the top of each page is the spiral binding
Marie Stoia Joseph 8 years ago
One time I had a left handed notebook, the spiral was on the other side but the holes were still on the left. Other than that I always used the tablets with the spiral across the top
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Elizabeth Gatti 8 years ago
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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Jack Tripper 8 years ago
Or, place a clean sheath of paper over the top to rest your hand on.
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Praxant Thapa 8 years ago
It happens to right-handed people too. Tip: Use a small piece of paper underneath so It wouldn't ruin your drawing or even hand if you're drawing with ink.
Jacqueline Arana 8 years ago
Someone told me to stick a sticky note on my hand where it touches the paper, it worked for me.
Rama Llama 8 years ago
Place a piece of paper under your arm while drawing with pencils or charcoal and it won't smudge at all. Tip for lefties and righties both.
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Use another blank paper or see-through paper on the part you want to rest your hand on. This way you can easily continue. This goes for both left- and right handed people.
Markus McCloud 8 years ago
But it looks edgier like that! C'mon, who doesn't want to be a total edge-lord? XD
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CrystalPanda Gaming 8 years ago
Everytime I right on the board I have to put my hand on the board. The teacher looks at me weirdly. Then when I'm done for the next five mins she's erasing the board from my hand prints and smudges
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Ro Maldonado 8 years ago
There are some knives that can only cut if you use it with your right hand... so yes, not being able to peel an apple must suck
Load More Replies... Jen Gregory 8 years ago
My daughter just read this and said it was silly. "Just get your mom to peel the apples for you." She and I are both lefties 😆
BREAK YOUr perceptions 8 years ago
but....what? like. there are peelers out there that dont have hand bias. (tbh im not sure ive seen one that does)
LeAnne Westbrook 8 years ago
Yes!!!!! I hate using a knife, but I cant use a peeler. I use my right hand for can openers though. My hands are constantly fighting each other when cooking.
Lucie Svobodová 7 years ago
left handed peeler - my mom bought it for me when I was 10. No more excuses :(
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Or you could use a peeler which works in either hand? I have 3 & they're all now LH wear on the blades from decades of use. :D
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Marie Stoia Joseph 8 years ago
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 8 years ago
Are there right-handed pens, or is this just a nerd problem? *whispers* Cross Tech 3 is pretty awesome.
earringnut 8 years ago
the refillable style screw together in a manner designed to keep them from unscrewing when used with a right hand. they almost always start to unscrew when you use your left.
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 8 years ago
At junior school we all had to learn to write with the same make of fountain pen. There were left and right handed versions.
Kristina Neeley 8 years ago
Sharpie pen! They're amazing. Or the Pilot G-2 is great too, just don't ever let a right-hander use your pen else they stop working as beautifully
Suzanna Grossman 8 years ago
I'm a lefty. My favorite pen for the past few years is Tul extra fine point gel. It's at Office Max/Depot stores. The point lays down the ink fine enough that it almost completely dries before I drag my hand over it, and the gel ink is darker and easier to read than standard ink at the same point size.
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Sasy 8 years ago
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
Jeroen de Haas 8 years ago
Me neither... I don't have any issues at all with check marks...
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Mitchel Mote 8 years ago
I'm left handed and I have never made a backwards checkmark in my life. It's natural (if you normally write in English from left to right) to start on the left and move it right, with the longer stem on the right as you finish the mark. That's just the flow.
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
What? There's no excuse for a left handed artist to not do the regular checkmar. It's almost the same movement.
Michele Hedlund 8 years ago
I dunno what y'all tryin to pull. I do not make my left handed writing checks backwards like you people are saying. That's weird. It's a symbol and looks stupid backwards.
Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
I just checked a list I wrote earlier, I checkmark the 'right' way. I don't see what's hard about most of this stuff.
Geckoline 253 (Geckoline253) 8 years ago
boss@work: are you kidding me? can´t you make checkmarks like all other people??
Deborah Lindsey 7 years ago
I close to be a lefty, but use my right hand for many things. I do write left handed but have never made the check mark backwoods.
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Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago
Not surprising, is it, considering 90% of people are right-handed...
Darryl Kerrigan 8 years ago
250% of Astronauts are lefties!: http://www.lefthandersday.com/tour/left-handed-facts#.WZWng1WGOUk
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Roxy Eastland 8 years ago
Again, that the heck is this? A peanut butter knife? Just use a normal table knife.
Jose Baeyens 7 years ago
This is a FISH knife.... You know, to eat fish. Not disgusting smudge from a jar. And considering I'm right handed, but hold my fork and knife inversely, this is for me too bent in the wrong direction. Still I've been managing to do that for about 50 years.
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Šimon Špaček 8 years ago
I'm not sure about your pot but on mine you just need a screwdriver and about ten seconds to change this.
Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
you can tell by the opening on the lid that it's adjustable. screw you righties.
Isabel Care 8 years ago
when I am at my parents place we have a battle with which way the handle on the kettle should face
Katie O'Brien 7 years ago
I’ve needed seen one with a sideways spout.. mine is directly across from the handle.
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I generally pour with my right, unless that [power] arm is sore. I just stand ready to whip my precious L hand away if I'm about to spill.
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Mikaela Stewart 6 years ago
It's a major struggle, lots of ppl get annoyed by it, don't dis it
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Eventually many of us just grew used to it and treated it as signature mark! :D
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Darryl Kerrigan 8 years ago
Is this from that Bollywood film that Thom Tuck talked about in his radio show?
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Šimon Špaček 8 years ago
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.
Laura Herendeen 8 years ago
Actually, just set it on the counter while you pour. And you will get a more accurate measurement too as the cup will be level, and not probably tilted in your hand.
Isabel Care 8 years ago
put it on a flat surface and turn it round. More accurate than holding it
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
You're already discriminated against, as the entire planet is metric, except for USA, Philippines, & Burma. How'd you like them "fluid ounces"?
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Markus McCloud 8 years ago
You think yours is bad? I'm right-handed, and my handwriting is fairly atrocious!
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
LH seem to have either very bad or very good handwriting. I suspect it's less about Handedness & more about overall penmanship. My Tengwar is much neater than my ordinary writing, but it took longer to master, as an almost-adult, & I took more care to make the letters neater.
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Patrick Davies 8 years ago
but on my keyboard, my left hand can reach Ctrl, Z, S, and the mouse pad on the lap top easily... Confused.
Isabel Care 8 years ago
I'm old enough that I learnt to touch type on a manual typewriter. Use both hands, one for each side of the keyboard
CrystalPanda Gaming 8 years ago
it depends on what kind of keyboard layout your using. But either way it can be hard for both lefties and righties
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Use the Express Keys and / or the RockerRing on your tablet. A lot of problems will be avoided.
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Nomadus Aureus 8 years ago
The only thing I use the right-handed way. Can't get used to a lefty mouse...
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I never really bothered. These days I have a graphics tablet on the L, so mouse is conveniently on the R already.
Load More Replies... Deyan Atanasov 8 years ago
On my laptop all connectors are on the right side. So, I'm right handed and have the same problem. Try another laptop.
Edna Copeland 8 years ago
I use righthand mice. It's easy. You just depend on the ol' middle finger more.
Marie Stoia Joseph 8 years ago
I can't use the left handed mouse either but I use a mouse with my left hand...adapting again
Tabitha Strock 8 years ago
I never really had a problem with this. Never had a left handed mouse growing up so you adapt as much as you can. Somethings you can never adapt and must be done with my left hand.
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Liorah Balilah 8 years ago
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.
Debbie Drake 8 years ago
True, but your brain makes you automatically reach for things with your dominant hand.
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Isabel Care 8 years ago
Which hand is the hanky in to blow your nose? I trained myself to use whichever hurts least
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Bertha Garcia 8 years ago
Same, the smudging is easy to prevent if you write with your hand under the words. Even with your hands above the words.
Load More Replies... Mikaela Stewart 6 years ago
My handwriting looks like trash whenever I try to not drag my hand
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I always saw teachers (used to blackboard adapt) to whiteboard pens by holding the pen further back on the barrel so their hands were clear of the surface. No smudging.
Marie-Louise Chenois 8 years ago
Or you just learn as most lefties to write with hand not touching the paper/board/..
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Master Markus 8 years ago
I initially thought that I was supposed to be looking at the nail polish that seriously needs to be removed or touched up.
Zori the degu 8 years ago
You know, in my first school years I got really mystified by that. I woke up every morning at the crack of the dawn and I was like a zombie all morning round, so when I got back home I noticed that and I wondered: "Omg, what did I do, don't remember having my arm rubbed into a 8B pencil picture..." Then I realized...
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Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Never had any LH at uni. They were all RH, swung down for access, & all BOLTED. To. The. Floor.
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Patrick Davies 8 years ago
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.
Master Markus 8 years ago
"Only having right-handed friends"? Am I supposed to get salty about not having any friends who are natural blondes or something else super unimportant?
RaroaRaroa 8 years ago
What's with all the ones about sitting next to someone to eat? I sit next to my left-handed daughter to eat every day and it's never a problem. Yes, I'm right-handed and she's sitting on my right.
Mallory Krieger 8 years ago
It's more of a problem in tight spaces like small booths. My husband is a lefty and I am a righty. It's fine at decent sized tables but very annoying at small ones.
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Liorah Balilah 8 years ago
If you practice writing with your otherhand, you'd strengthen the muscles. You'll find a lot more things will be easier to do with your other hand, such as pouring a kettle or pot. Serving food etc.
Arthur Barnhouse 7 years ago
For those saying just restring the guitar the other way around, it's unfortunately not that simple. String heights are different, as are the pickup settings if it's electric. Proper lefty guitars need to be built that way.
Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Never mind expensive, think about just hard to find. And never, ever exotic shapes....
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Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
Talented RH guitarists are like countable on one hand. Talented LH guitarists are all famous: Hendrix, McCartney, Ocasek...
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lasagna's underrated 8 years ago
The thumbs down emoji is impossible to do either hand. And the thumbs up is let handed.
lasagna's underrated 8 years ago
And the sideways pointing are also impossible
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Lindy Mac 8 years ago
HEY!! Forget right and left...why is the stupid electric socket damn near over the sink. Now THAT is a problem.
Jared Ludlow Jr. 8 years ago
It's really not that hard to do simple tasks with the other hand...
Debbie Drake 8 years ago
So you do things with your left hand without thinking about it? We are not saying it's hard, it's annoying.
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Ian Bodey 8 years ago
One of the Everly Bros and was taughtt to play left handed, this works because if you have never played left handed there's no conflct.....
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Matthew Cooper 8 years ago
Just pick one up and see which way you naturally hold it. I play lefty, my mate plays righty, just naturally started like that.
Debbie Drake 8 years ago
When I took giutar my teacher gave us the choice but said it's easier to fret with left because you have more strengh.
Cassie 8 years ago
If you can learn it righty, do it because you can then easily play the readily-available guitars. Not all lefties pick it up, though. My lefty kiddo plays right handed, but the best guitar player in the school is a lefty and couldn't learn to play a righty the typical way, but did teach himself to play a righty guitar upside down. Sometimes, a lefty instrument just isn't available.
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
The strange thing with me is: I am left-handed with writing and drawing, but everything else (using scissors, playing guitar, using the mouse) I'm doing with my right hand. I have only met one other person in my life who has exactly this same thing.
John L 8 years ago
I used to think of myself as being left handed, because I write left handed and use it for all of my dexterity. However, I also do things right handed, and do a lot of power movement right handed. Its called "Cross-Dominance(or mixed laterality) , and is considered rare. I'm surprised so many here are addressing this. But take heart, people with cross-dominance are usually smarter, and more imaginative. But we have more depression on the negative side. I just thought I would chime in here on something that has been on my mind for decades. :D
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Marissa Bradshaw 8 years ago
You know what? I'm a lefty and I don't think about it. It's a first-world problem and I have so many other legitimate hurdles in life--
Christina Brundage 8 years ago
I'm left-handed and I think these people have very easy lives if this is the worst problem they have.
Rivkaka 8 years ago
But these were never supposed to proclaim as their biggest problems rather just some annoyances. Like we all have in our daily lives.
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The Cappy 8 years ago
As a left-hander myself, let me just say: what an incredibly trivial list of horrors. Inconveniences, some of them, but minor ones. Such drama queenery.
Eileen Joy 8 years ago
I think you and Marissa are supposed to understand it's all in fun. Plus, I don't know any lefty who is not super-proud of being a lefty.
Load More Replies... Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
Aside from the coffee cup issue I thought this post was just a bunch of sniveling, woe is me, bs. I'm a left handed person who learned to be efficient with both hands. What's so hard about a can opener? or a faucet? get a quick dry pen and tighten it up when it feels loose. I've got all of you beat on the rare factor, I'm a lefty with blue eyes and type O- blood. :P lol
Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
and what if right handed people refused to flush their toilet or open their car door because they had to use their left hand? what about refrigerators with the handle on the right, or any door with the handle on the right? and the hot water faucet on a split set up?
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José Sousa 8 years ago
we right-handed people have that notebook rings problem too....in the other 50% of the pages...
William Jacobs 8 years ago
One time I came home from music and asked my parents "Why aren't there left handed Orchestras?"
Zori the degu 8 years ago
I think that all those products featured are rather discriminating indeed, did you know that around 10% of the human population is left-handed? Can't understand why they don't bear this in mind when manufacturing new products and stuff. Despite that, plus all the problems I have in my every day routine as a left-handed person, I'm proud to be a bit different and I'm sure all fellow "lefties" feel the same way. :)
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
The strange thing with me is: I am left-handed with writing and drawing, but everything else (using scissors, playing guitar, using the mouse) I'm doing with my right hand. I have only met one other person in my life who has exactly this same thing.
John L 8 years ago
I used to think of myself as being left handed, because I write left handed and use it for all of my dexterity. However, I also do things right handed, and do a lot of power movement right handed. Its called "Cross-Dominance(or mixed laterality) , and is considered rare. I'm surprised so many here are addressing this. But take heart, people with cross-dominance are usually smarter, and more imaginative. But we have more depression on the negative side. I just thought I would chime in here on something that has been on my mind for decades. :D
Load More Replies... Marissa Bradshaw 8 years ago
You know what? I'm a lefty and I don't think about it. It's a first-world problem and I have so many other legitimate hurdles in life--
Christina Brundage 8 years ago
I'm left-handed and I think these people have very easy lives if this is the worst problem they have.
Rivkaka 8 years ago
But these were never supposed to proclaim as their biggest problems rather just some annoyances. Like we all have in our daily lives.
Load More Replies... The Cappy 8 years ago
As a left-hander myself, let me just say: what an incredibly trivial list of horrors. Inconveniences, some of them, but minor ones. Such drama queenery.
Eileen Joy 8 years ago
I think you and Marissa are supposed to understand it's all in fun. Plus, I don't know any lefty who is not super-proud of being a lefty.
Load More Replies... Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
Aside from the coffee cup issue I thought this post was just a bunch of sniveling, woe is me, bs. I'm a left handed person who learned to be efficient with both hands. What's so hard about a can opener? or a faucet? get a quick dry pen and tighten it up when it feels loose. I've got all of you beat on the rare factor, I'm a lefty with blue eyes and type O- blood. :P lol
Tasha Lacroix 8 years ago
and what if right handed people refused to flush their toilet or open their car door because they had to use their left hand? what about refrigerators with the handle on the right, or any door with the handle on the right? and the hot water faucet on a split set up?
Load More Replies... José Sousa 8 years ago
we right-handed people have that notebook rings problem too....in the other 50% of the pages...
William Jacobs 8 years ago
One time I came home from music and asked my parents "Why aren't there left handed Orchestras?"
Zori the degu 8 years ago
I think that all those products featured are rather discriminating indeed, did you know that around 10% of the human population is left-handed? Can't understand why they don't bear this in mind when manufacturing new products and stuff. Despite that, plus all the problems I have in my every day routine as a left-handed person, I'm proud to be a bit different and I'm sure all fellow "lefties" feel the same way. :)
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