My first - and pointless - poll

[Pix]

Are you left handed or right handed?

[parksie]

What do I choose if I'm cross-lateral? I write with my right hand so I put right-handed

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by parksie
What do I choose if I'm cross-lateral?

Don't you mean ambidextrous??

[parksie]

No. Ambidextrous is, as the name implies, equal ability with both hands. Cross-lateral means I should have been left handed, but was taught right-handed.

I play cricket/football left-sided though

[chrisjk]

Fair enough, I have a mate who was left-handed, but was forced into using right hand. He's very bitter, like the Murpheys

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by honeybee
Left handed people are supposed to possess special abilities

I thought left-hande people were supposed to have a brain defect or something..not being funny I think that really is the reason why most people are right-handed.

[parksie]

Left handed people were thought to be witches and things like that for quite a while. Arts-wise, I'm musical...but I still cope well with techy stuff

Bizarre

Originally posted by chrisjk

I thought left-hande people were supposed to have a
brain defect or something..not being funny I think that
really is the reason why most people are right-handed.

They don't have a brain "defect".. The orientation of the
brain is inverted and that is not a defect as it does not
have any biological implications..

The left side of the brain controls the right side of the
body and vice versa.. for some people the left side of
the brain will be more powerful, so they are right
handed and vice versa

same as parksie.. i play cricket left handed

[crptcblade]

I have never played cricket, but I think I would hold the bat(?) as a lefty.

well, what makes you think so?

seen cricket on TV?

anyway.. i heard that Americans are very much
anti-cricket.. like one of your presidents said that
its a game "played by 11 fools and watched by 11,000
fools"

[crptcblade]

Originally posted by anoop007
well, what makes you think so?

seen cricket on TV?

no, never saw, but I was just taking a guess...By the way, what is the bat equivalent called in cricket? Is it called a bat or something else?

I'm a lefty .

To many damn righty's in the World!
When you are little, you decide which hand you feel more comfortable with, and you use that hand the most for the rest of your life.

Wonder why we can't just learn to use both hands and use them the same for everything...you know, sometimes my right hand gets jealous because my left hand gets to do everything...write, play baseball, eat, turn the page on a book, change the channel, etc. etc.

Although, my right hand gets to do a few things like move the mouse, shake hands, arm wrestle, etc. etc.

Guess they both do about the same, but it'd be better to be both instead of a lefty or righty, which by the way, isn't an option up there .

Right handed people were treated better back then though.

My mom was a lefty when she was younger (still is), and the teacher made her sit in an area by herself because she used her left hand.

Some teachers even tried to get her to use her right hand and make her use it or....hrmmmm, don't really know everything `bout my mommy's past.

How racist is that?

[crptcblade]

I'd like to start trying to use my feet to do all of those things...

[HarryW]

I don't think racism has anything to do with it.

Left-handedness was thought to be a sign of evil in older times, that's where we get the word 'sinister' from (Latin for 'left'). Conversely, right-handedness was seen to be good giving rise to words like 'dextrous' and 'dexterity' (Latin 'dexter').

I have to say I think cricket is much more interesting than baseball. I don't watch much cricket and I wouldn't be that bothered about going and watching a game, but baseball is just so boring. I'd guess a few more than 11,000 people watch each game too... Oh and yeah it's a cricket bat.

Originally posted by HarryW
I have to say I think cricket is much more interesting than baseball. I don't watch much cricket and I wouldn't be that bothered about going and watching a game, but baseball is just so boring. I'd guess a few more than 11,000 people watch each game too... Oh and yeah it's a cricket bat.

At last I've found a cricket fan from UK.!!

yeah.. maybe 11 million??

but Englands making a comeback into Cricket

I use my right hand for most stuff... opening things, using the mouse, writing, etc. But, I use my left hand when I use clubs or sticks...

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When I am Facing the Mirror, I use the Left Hand for doing things my Right hand Would do Normally and Vice Versa.

[Jamagei]

I too am Cross lateral, bastard teachers.

I like cricket, very relaxing. i think i am kinda ambidextrous though, because i can do things with my left hand quite proficently(sp) such as play badminton write, type etc. i would also like to think i am quite constructive and arty, (i did take Art and did well at it in school) but also quite techy. (sorry to sound like parksie, but i yam what i yam and that's all that i yam)

[disclaimer]No offence intended anywhere in this post to anyone[/disclaimer]
left handed people tend to have a higher incidence of mental instability and a higher mortality rate. Simply a fact.

[Jamagei]

REALLY!?! blimey, i am glad the teachers 'converted' me then, hehe.

Im Right and left handed, but i can only write with my right hand and football my left foot is just pittyful

I use the mouse is my left hand most of the time.

Ive seen articles on Left handed people that go on to say that they are more clumsy and they are more likely to have acciedents.

Ive just noticed that there are no induendo's in this thread yet

[Jamagei]

Hehe, everytime someone has put some thing like

I use my right hand for most stuff... opening things, using the mouse, writing, etc

i tend to think that the etc. could mean oh so much more.

[HarryW]

That's probably just your sick & twisted should-have-been-a-lefty's mind at work though

[Jamagei]

cheeky bast*rd

[Pix]

Originally posted by parksie
Left handed people were thought to be witches and things like that for quite a while.

I must be a witch then!

[parksie]

Yep

And I'm almost a warlock...I was taught right-handed but my handwriting's appalling so everyone thinks that it might have been a better idea to use my left hand

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by parksie
my handwriting's appalling so everyone thinks that it might have been a better idea to use my left hand

Mine is too, but I am naturally right-handed. I have a theory though. All users of computers (especially programmers) write with the keyboard, so when it comes to handwriting, we just can't do it neatly as we have so little practice. Applies to Doctor's also (though I don't know what their excuse is, loner's cramp maybe?)

Originally posted by chrisjk
I have a theory though. All users of computers (especially programmers) write with the keyboard, so when it comes to handwriting, we just can't do it neatly as we have so little practice.

Yea totally true, I have VERY bad handwriting to.

S.

My handwriting is horrible... I've gotten D's on countless english assignments because the teacher couldn't read them

[Pix]

Never mind, My handwriting ain't too good either cos I smudge everything I write and break my pens! I'm better at drawing and painting

How do you break *****? In all the years I've been able to use them, I've never broken any..

Originally posted by denniswrenn
How do you break *****? In all the years I've been able to use them, I've never broken any..

I have a slight feeling that hes wasnt meant to do that.

S.

Huh?

Oops! I just noticed my mistake, hehehehehe... those i's can be sneaky.

[Pix]

Huh? I wouldn't know about that. I break pens by pressing really hard. Always have done, I have to else I can't control my writing at all, not that anyone would be able to tell the difference anyway...

[Pix]

Sooner or later this thread was gonna end up like all the others so I'm not surprised about the stray i's

[parksie]

Hehehe