Left Handed Question!!

**Robert Lamb** · 13th April 07, 01:58 PM

Thescot
We will let be an honorary member but don't look for any pity. It't not our fault you are right handed.
Left handers have to learn to get along in a right hand world you folks have created for us, but we WILL take over someday and set things correct.
Robert "the kilted" Lamb

**drobin** · 13th April 07, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Robert Lamb

we WILL take over someday and set things correct.
Robert "the kilted" Lamb

Yes, because we will not make it RIGHT, which would be incorrect

**Gaisgeil** · 13th April 07, 02:25 PM

I'm a lefty as well! I still wear my sgian dubh on my right side though as a matter of tradition, not like I'm likely to need to draw the thing overly fast anyway.

Lefties generally have a greater propensity for being somewhat ambidextrous in that we live in a right handed world. If you think of how many things are set up that way it makes a lot of sense. I can do a lot of things right handed, but do them better left handed. I'm also a drummer, so that helps me in particular.

I don't have good vision out of my left eye though, so I shoot right-handed and oddly enough I'm a right handed shot in hockey, can't shoot left handed to save my life for some reason.

**turpin** · 13th April 07, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by gangreenfootball

I echo McClef's sentiment, but run with scissors in my left hand.

Try using most scissors. They're made to be used by righties. About 25% of people are lefties, and that is the same percentage as lefties in my children.

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds.

**ccga3359** · 13th April 07, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by turpin

Try using most scissors. They're made to be used by righties. About 25% of people are lefties, and that is the same percentage as lefties in my children.

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds.

I thought it were closer to 10% lefty, 90% normal.

**Gaisgeil** · 13th April 07, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

I thought it were closer to 10% lefty, 90% normal.

The generally accepted number is between 8-15% of the population. The rest of you are trite conformists.

Has anyone else ever heard the term "Ciotóg" before? It's Irish Gaelic for 'strange person' but in everyday use it usually meant someone who is left handed. I thought that pretty appropriate for this forum.

**Richland** · 13th April 07, 02:35 PM

Yup. I'm left handed but play hockey and golf righty. Probably because those were the only sticks/clubs available when i was a lad. Bat righty (extension of the golf motion.) But in all else very lefty. (Right brained Scientist go figure) Was thinking about how this will effect playing the pipes? Might take them up this year.

**Gaisgeil** · 13th April 07, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Richland

Was thinking about how this will effect playing the pipes? Might take them up this year.

On the pipes it will really depend. You CAN play left handed, but you'll be heavily lobbied to just play right handed. That's been the case with all the lefties I know who play.

In highland snare drumming being a lefty is a bit of an advantage, the left hand plays with a particularly unnatural motion that right handed players have a hard time with but lefties pick up easier because of it being their main hand. Right hand technique is a lot more natural in either case.