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Poll Question: Are You Left or Right Handed?
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So which will it be?
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

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I'm left handed and so is my daughter and son.In our house my wife is the only righty.

We are the majority(you don't see that too often).


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My father, a History teacher, had an interesting theory. He said that in the past the humankind was 50/50, but when wars started, the lefties were in misadvantage because they had to use the sword with the left hand leaving the heart exposed and consequently they died hugely. The only lefties that remained were the non-warriors, generally shamans, priests, sorcerers, etc. so all present lefties descend from these guys and that's why they're all mysterious and surprising.

BTW: I'm a righty surrounded by lefties!

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Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

My father, a History teacher, had an interesting theory. He said that in the past the humankind was 50/50, but when wars started, the lefties were in misadvantage because they had to use the sword with the left hand leaving the heart exposed and consequently they died hugely. The only lefties that remained were the non-warriors, generally shamans, priests, sorcerers, etc. so all present lefties descend from these guys and that's why they're all mysterious and surprising.

BTW: I'm a righty surrounded by lefties!



Really interesting theory

BTW I'm a righty

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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

I'm bi




I'm left handed and so is my daughter and son.In our house my wife is the only righty.

We are the majority(you don't see that too often).

What do ya know, I'm also left handed.
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Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

My father, a History teacher, had an interesting theory. He said that in the past the humankind was 50/50, but when wars started, the lefties were in misadvantage because they had to use the sword with the left hand leaving the heart exposed and consequently they died hugely. The only lefties that remained were the non-warriors, generally shamans, priests, sorcerers, etc. so all present lefties descend from these guys and that's why they're all mysterious and surprising.

BTW: I'm a righty surrounded by lefties!

Wow, that almost makes sense!

I'm a lefty, and can play racket sports, shoot guns, and bowl with either hand, but I can only throw overhand (American football, baseball, etc.) with my right hand.  One of my school teachers told me when I was a kid that most left-handed people were conceived right-handed, but adapted to the left hand because of fetal brain damage in the womb.

I like your father's theory better. 

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So, Im a mysterious and surprising person  
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

I'm bi


That's ambi you n00b.

I'm right handed myself.
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I'm right-handed

Yes, Atkinani,  I remember a tour of a medieval fortress where they said that staircases were always built in such a way that left-handed people were at an advantage ... and so the ruling aristocracy would spread stories about the left hand being the "hand of the devil" ... dunno how valid it is!

Interestingly, my uncle really benefitted from being a lefty ... he's in his 70s now and when he was going to school in the post World War II era, those idiots forced him to write with his right-hand ...

The benefit was that he became ambidexterous, which really helped him ... because he went on to be one of the best field hockey wingers in the world (being able to dribble on both sides with equal strength!) ... and played for Malaysia in three Olympics in the 60s!
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Aaaah! I thought this thread was about political stance and voted "left" without reading what the poll question asked.

But I am right-handed.

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"Sinister" or "dexter"? "Dexter".

Right, that's the Latin word for right.
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right handed

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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

My father, a History teacher, had an interesting theory. He said that in the past the humankind was 50/50, but when wars started, the lefties were in misadvantage because they had to use the sword with the left hand leaving the heart exposed and consequently they died hugely. The only lefties that remained were the non-warriors, generally shamans, priests, sorcerers, etc. so all present lefties descend from these guys and that's why they're all mysterious and surprising.

BTW: I'm a righty surrounded by lefties!

Wow, that almost makes sense!

I'm a lefty, and can play racket sports, shoot guns, and bowl with either hand, but I can only throw overhand (American football, baseball, etc.) with my right hand.  One of my school teachers told me when I was a kid that most left-handed people were conceived right-handed, but adapted to the left hand because of fetal brain damage in the womb.

I like your father's theory better. 

Clem, your teacher could then explain us why our "cousins": chimps, bonobos and gorillas are 50/50.  
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Did you know that left handed people tend to have more accidents with tools than right handed?...That´s right!....huhuhu now, how funny was that!?!?!
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Being tools, knives, forks, scissors, etc, made for righties it's not surprising.  
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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Did you know that left handed people tend to have more accidents with tools than right handed?...That´s right!....huhuhu now, how funny was that!?!?!



That's a lie, well at least for me, I can use every tool made for rigth-handeds without any problems.
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