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Poll Question: Which do you prefer, assuming you have one of each
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2007 at 07:09
Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Right: familiar, tried and trusted... sort of like a wife.
 

Left: unfamiliar, awkward, fumbling... like a date, or cheating.

 

Wink


I bet you've tried cutting off the circulation so one or other hand goes numb, therefore making it feel as if somebody else is...

...no?

Just me, then?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2007 at 21:24
I'm right handed.. so since I write with it and is the source of my own version of 'thunder fingers'  I guess I'll vote tor the right. 

Not sure the point though...  it's not like I prefer it.. it is the way we are born I guess
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2007 at 21:19
TO CLARKE2001:
Thanks for the recommendation - I am not aware of it. Certainly sounds interesting though. I'll hunt it down . My wife will love it no doubt - could be an ideal present. It sounds as if she would be considerably bouyed by it's contents.


[When we get it , I'll let my left hand turn the pages while righty sits and sulks. He won't be happy just holding it . I could use a book rest though which would stuff him right up . He'll no doubt sit there plotting his next move the vengeful SOB - I sincerely hope it won't send me to sleep. I am becoming increasingly woried about the psychotic behaviour of ....you know who.....but I will battle on].
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2007 at 10:26
Originally posted by mrgd mrgd wrote:

Ah, now fellow proggers, I am going to propose that this Poll is different to that of our clarke2001 which seems to be more interested in the statistical side of handedness.

This Poll invites you to make a choice- you may well be right handed, but is it your favourite hand? Indeed, are there dark forces at work involved in pitting one hand against the other.

Consider this . Are you dextrous? Are you ambidextrous? What does it all mean?

The derivation of the word 'dextrous' seems to be in heraldry. [Please correct me if I'm wrong. I am no scholar in this area]. 'Dexter'= the right hand side of a shield. Now here's the rub . The left hand side of a shield is 'Sinister.'.......What the.....What is sinister about being on the left. Why is someone gifted enough to use both hands effectively, said to be ambidextrous? Why not ambisinistrous. Is this all some kind of discrimination against the lefties from the dark side?

Is this where the stigma of being left handed emanates from ? Why do I even care when I'm right handed? Well, it's the whole point of the Poll!

My dear wife [bless her left handed heart] regularly points out that lefties are more talented, more artistic. Are they? Who says?

Like me , do you sympathise with all that is your left hand and what it does ? Is there some kind of sinister manipulation going on ? It's almost as if right hands know all this , sitting so dextrously pretty! Right hands can be so smug sometimes. now press..........teh key proply yo..u evil ha..n......ahg!... ahghhh...let ....gooooo............


Dear mrgd, I was often asking the same questions myself. And you seem to be a prime time candidate to read the book A Left-hand Turn Around The World: Chasing The Mystery And Meaning Of All Things Southpaw written by David Wolman, published by Da Capo Press. You won't be any smarter -- it's unfocused pop-science book - but it's a nice food for a hungry lefty brain. Cheerio!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2007 at 06:47
Hasn't changed since the previous poll. Left-handed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 22:09
So, ATOMIC ROOSTER, why aren't you ambisinistrous?[You'll have to read my last post to get a grip, now that my nasty right hand has stopped trying to strangle me........]

I WILL JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE ASLEEP.

Who typed that.......? Oh, my God!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 21:53
I usually do the "stranger", uhhh... you didn't mean that. Embarrassed

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 21:52
I'm ambidextrous, how should I vote?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 21:49
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Oh, and BTW i'm left-handed. I'm glad that PA is not sharing the same ratio as the rest of the world.Smile


They say left-handed people are often more artsy - that might just be why.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 21:37

hmm... I like the sound of the sinister left.

But I use my right for my favourite thingsWink
 
Wait if I only had my left I could still play guitar If I learned tap, who needs picking! Wait I could tap with my right.
 
this is too hard I love them both
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 21:31
Ah, now fellow proggers, I am going to propose that this Poll is different to that of our clarke2001 which seems to be more interested in the statistical side of handedness.

This Poll invites you to make a choice- you may well be right handed, but is it your favourite hand? Indeed, are there dark forces at work involved in pitting one hand against the other.

Consider this . Are you dextrous? Are you ambidextrous? What does it all mean?

The derivation of the word 'dextrous' seems to be in heraldry. [Please correct me if I'm wrong. I am no scholar in this area]. 'Dexter'= the right hand side of a shield. Now here's the rub . The left hand side of a shield is 'Sinister.'.......What the.....What is sinister about being on the left. Why is someone gifted enough to use both hands effectively, said to be ambidextrous? Why not ambisinistrous. Is this all some kind of discrimination against the lefties from the dark side?

Is this where the stigma of being left handed emanates from ? Why do I even care when I'm right handed? Well, it's the whole point of the Poll!

My dear wife [bless her left handed heart] regularly points out that lefties are more talented, more artistic. Are they? Who says?

Like me , do you sympathise with all that is your left hand and what it does ? Is there some kind of sinister manipulation going on ? It's almost as if right hands know all this , sitting so dextrously pretty! Right hands can be so smug sometimes. now press..........teh key proply yo..u evil ha..n......ahg!... ahghhh...let ....gooooo............
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2007 at 21:36
Sorry folks , I normally search but didn't this time. Was in a bit of a hurry and was overwhelmed by some of these polls we get subjected to time and time again - and here I'm guilty of the same thing to some extent.

In the meantime, my right hand is trying it's best to reject the rest of my body after hearing that I went for 'Lefty'. I must have muttered something in my sleep about it - Lefty looks like its swallowed the canary and is even contributing more than normal to the typing of this post. Mr.Right is not happy!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 11:26
I did the similar poll less than the two months ago.

Oh, and BTW i'm left-handed. I'm glad that PA is not sharing the same ratio as the rest of the world.Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 19:34

Thick as a Brick is still better than...

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 19:19
Right handed.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 19:08
I'm left-handed.
 
 
This is the first time I've seen a poll where left-handed outnumbered right.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 16:39
Tony's right hand prefers Geddy Lee....Wink
 
 
Right: familiar, tried and trusted... sort of like a wife.
 
Left: unfamiliar, awkward, fumbling... like a date, or cheating.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 13:40
Left hand.  Represent!!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 13:14
Ah... I thought this was about politics...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2007 at 13:13
Originally posted by N Ellingworth N Ellingworth wrote:

I'm a lefty but I do some things right handed, noteably I play guitar in a right handed way.
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