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Dean 
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:00 |
Normally I don't stir drinks in a circular-motion because I'm an agitator who uses the spoon in a jiggling-motion as you would a whisk. The reason for doing it this way is simple - it dissolves the sugar quicker, I've proven this to myself using clear liquids and glass cups to be fairly confident this is true and not some affectation designed to annoy others. Stirring creates a whirlpool that concentrates the undissolved sugars into the quiet-spot in the centre whereas jiggling causes turbulence that keeps the granules in motion.
This morning my dear lady wife was in a fragile state so as not to compound her headache with the noisy rattling of spoon against china I stirred her tea in a circular-motion. ...Only to be chastised for not stirring in a clockwise direction.  So I changed direction to appease her and found that to be no more or no less comfortable or natural for me, yet when I went to stir my own tea I found myself stirring it in an anti-clockwise direction again so it seems I have a natural bias towards that direction.
Since I could see no logical/scientific reason for there to be any rational difference in the direction of the stir I presume here that there was some irrational, superstition-based justification for admonishing an anti-clockwise stirring associated with the devil or somesuch as there is in left-sided things (sinister, gauche, Judas etc.). But it did get me thinking.
I'm not ambidextrous but I'm not wholly right-handed either. While I favour my right hand in most things and do a few things left-handedly (stop giggling at the back!), there are a times where I have no preference at all. [I have no left-right preference when playing darts, but as a friend of mine once remarked - I'm rubbish at throwing arrows with either hand]. I suspect some of that could be related to my dyslexia, though not all dyslexics have problems with left & right and not all people who have difficulty telling left from right are dyslexic, I am a left-right confused dyslexic.
The idea of the poll is pretty straight-forward two-part question to see if there is a correlation between favoured drink-stirring direction and left or right handedness.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:11 |
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Left-handed, clockwise (from my P.O.V.)
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:14 |
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It sounds like you've stirred several drinks today already, Deano, and I don't mean tea.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:19 |
^  It's Saturday morning - what do you expect? As for myself: I am righthanded (ie normal) and stir in an anticlockwise fashion - if stirring is needed. Much more of a shaker fan myself. That obviously destroys the fizz but I generally don't drink drinks with fizz. Beer is for that.
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Dean
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:20 |
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It's only 9:20 am here in sunny Hampshire, Davideo, so the sun isn't over the yardarm yet. I am on my third mug of tea thou'
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:22 |
circular motion with a vertical sense But in a bottle, I like better shaken than stirred   
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Atavachron
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:24 |
 Dean wrote:
It's only 9:20 am here in sunny Hampshire, Davideo, so the sun isn't over the yardarm yet. I am on my third mug of tea thou' |
Ah, caffeine. Or it's me-- on my third whisky here.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:25 |
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That's right you're (slightly) behind. As a member of the aweinspiring Club of David I'm proud to be on my second serving of Gammel Dansk (horrible snaps) and coffee.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 03:33 |
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Yeah it's prime drinkin' time in California. And I'm a wildman, so ...
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 04:28 |
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...well, we won't say what my afternoon journey has consisted of........(kite flying aside......)
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 04:47 |
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Right-handed, clockwise.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 05:10 |
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Right-handed and counter-clockwise, but if left-handed clockwise.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 05:40 |
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Almost exclusively right and clockwise.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 08:06 |
Atavachron wrote:
It sounds like you've stirred several drinks today already, Deano, and I don't mean tea.
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More than a couple if this poll is any indication....
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 08:28 |
awesome.... A little too early to join you there dean... not by what the clock says of course.. that has never stopped me. It is just I haven't finished my morning coffee yet.. I do have a routine to follow you know.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 09:59 |
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I usually go clockwise, but soemtimes i add up and down motion and end by stirring against the current. If stirring milk into tea or something i don't stir much at all and just jiggle the spoon a bit because by the time i go to drink it'll have properly mixed.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 10:10 |
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Left handed, clockwise.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 10:12 |
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Right-handed, no preference. I'm not that good at stirring anyway.
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 10:26 |
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lack of practice here... can't say I have stirred anything in some time. I take my coffee black.. I mix drinks the old fashioned way.. dump in 3 parts booze and 1 part whatever.. and mix them the traditional way.. through moving the glass in vigorous up and down motions to ones lips..
no vote.. sorry Dean... but great poll man..
Edited by micky - April 23 2016 at 10:27
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Posted: April 23 2016 at 11:44 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
Left-handed, clockwise (from my P.O.V.) |
This. However, I usually drink vodka or tequila without a mixer.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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