Handedness and Kilts

[GlassMan]

Does anyone know where the term "southpaw" came from?

[CapnJ0]

I write and eat with my left hand and do everything else (golf, bat, throw, etc) with my right. Weird, huh?

The term "southpaw" comes from the old days of baseball, where parks were oriented east-west (home in the west, outfield in the east) in order to keep the sun out of the batter's eyes in later games. This orientation meant that the pitcher's left hand side was the south side.

[timber]

I write and eat with my left hand and do everything else (golf, bat, throw, etc) with my right. Weird, huh?

Not weird to me. I also golf bat and throw right, shoot left, eat left, most other things I do with whichever hand is closest at the time.

When you factor in activities other than writing, only about 72% are strongly right-handed and 5% strongly left. The rest have varying degrees of ambidexterity. At work, I use both hands, sometimes doing 2 different things at the same time, but I move opposite to the right handers doing the same job.

[timber]

Good reason for leftys to wear kilts -- zippers are right-handed

[Nick]

Good reason for leftys to wear kilts -- zippers are right-handed

Are kilts right or left handed, I wonder? There are buckles on both sides, but it opens on the right. Hmm...

[CapnJ0]

Not weird to me. I also golf bat and throw right, shoot left, eat left, most other things I do with whichever hand is closest at the time.

When you factor in activities other than writing, only about 72% are strongly right-handed and 5% strongly left. The rest have varying degrees of ambidexterity. At work, I use both hands, sometimes doing 2 different things at the same time, but I move opposite to the right handers doing the same job.

Aw, shooting! Lefty there too. I have a friend left-eye dominant but shoots righty. That's really messed up.

[cloves]

I write and eat with my left hand and do everything else (golf, bat, throw, etc) with my right. Weird, huh?

nope! doesn't sound weird to me either. I write left, eat left, brush my teeth left, paint left. But throw right, shoot right, play guitar and drums right.
I wouldn't say I was ambidextrous though because I can't do any of my left stuff as a rightie.

Lefties are about 10% of the popultaion? That's interesting... so i'm 10% of a population that's already supposedly 10% of the poplulation??? wow...I must be extra special then.

[efer]

I'm definitely right-handed