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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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Daria B
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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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Daria B
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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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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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Sheila Levin
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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!

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

Idk when I see right handed people hold a pencil it kinda looks like an awkward position

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

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

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

yea its weird like OMG you write with a hand thats different to ours

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Edward C. La Cava
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

Jesus Christ why are you all so triggered over a simple question, its a person that is curious, just answer them and move on.

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

No what they mean is...”why haven’t you taken your own life yet”

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

I am so guilty of this....I want to apologize to every person including my grandson that I asked that dipshit question!

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

Who are these people asking these questions? Left handed people aren't that rare that they should be getting these questions.

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

Until the last few years it amazed me how stupid people are about this.

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

Had a left handed friend ask how I could write with either hand. Got her to write right handed and what she produced was far neater than my best ever scrawl

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

I want to preface that my comment is not meant to be that I observed with an OMG LOOK AT THEM! kind of amazement.  I just find it interesting.  ......... I have some cousins that are left-handed and it amazes me how some of them hold their pencils, like curving their entire wrist/hand in a kind of C shape.  If that makes any sense. Or I remember someone in school would hold ther pencil like myself and most right-handed people (that I've observed) with a straight arm/wrist/hand but would turn their notebook to the east/west on the desk.  Again, I hope I'm making sense and also that I wasn't coming across offensive in any way.

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

So they don’t get pencil or pen stains on their hands. That’s why they write like that. Though they still might get it on their hand/wrist.

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

And "how can you write upside down"....so I don't cover myself in ink double dipshit😁

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

Okay - if I was writing with my *foot* - then maybe they'd have a point. Oh FFS!

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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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