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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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Jennifer .S
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't holding the cup with your left hand hide the message? Is it supposed to be secret?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think i am only 3/4-lefthanded, i use scissors with my right hand 😂

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Dorlinda Chong
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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Debbie Drake
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scissors are the worst and if you buy left handed ones they charge twice as much.

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Sashana Maitland-Walker
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Zoe Drake
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!

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Abigail Kreiss
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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Nancy Trethewey
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bought that mug and no- the writing was only on the one side. 🤦‍♀️

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Kathryn O'Connor
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I need this cup . I had issues with scissors my entire life and one day, when I broke up with a boyfriend, I screamed at my mom about left handed problems with scissors. The next day< I found a pair of left handed Scissors from Hanover of Germany on my pillow that I still have 25 years later.

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Dorothy Fletcher
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To this day, I can only use right handed scissors. My teacher in a very early grade browbeat and embarrassed me until i learned to use them. Cant cut a straight line to save my life. Teachers tried the same thing with my grandson. For about one minute. Getem G-ma.

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Barbara Howard
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am left hand, just taught myself to cutout with my right hand, can't rely on there being left-handed scissors everywhere

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok all my life I had used right handed scissors and I complained that is hurt my hand. Everyone thought I was crazy. One day my home ect. Teacher bought me a pair of Left handed scissors. It changed my life and my mom cried that day cause she thought it was her fault.

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Jasper Echo
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mind you with this one if you flip the scissors upside down you can generally use them non awkwardly.

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Ingrid Tsai
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay for some really weird reason I am left handed but I have no idea how to use scissors with my dominant hand. Like my hand would just get stuck!

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Saroya Poirier
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't use left handed scissors. To many years using right handed.

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Michel M. Prins
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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Daria B
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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Michel M. Prins
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 rm-ip-tab-default-598ffc81ea14a.jpg

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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Maybe He Was Clever... Nope. Just Didn't Want To Get His Hand Dirty

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Šimon Špaček
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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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