wow, I thought they gave up that militant-right-handedness crap in the 19th century :(

dang first grade teachers. I hated mine too.

OFFENSIVE! OUTRAGEOUS! UNACCEPTABLE!

my dad found out recently that he was forced to be a righty. he never knew why he was so ambidextrous until that news hit him.

one of my teachers tried to convince my parents that they should let her strap my left arm down. my mother had a holy fit and rampaged her way through the school administration until they swore no teacher would ever be allowed to hint at such a preposterous suggestion again. unfortunately that meant most teachers wouldn't work with me during writing classes. it usually was "angle your paper like this and draw your letters like this..... oh.... lefties angle it the other way and use your other hand."

thus the infamous lefty wrist curl.

hmm.. i'm kind of ambidextrous.. with everything i do with two hands, my left hand is dominant (swabbing floor, sweeping leaves, swinging a baseball bat, etc).. other stuff like writing, stirring, using scissors, mousing, i do with my right hand.

sounds like lukku's story, except for the carpal tunnel :)

I'm a rightie in everything...writing, chewing, taking stairs, tennis, etc.

But strangely enough, I am a kickass left-handed ping-pong player. :rolleyes:

mostly right-handed but have a strong left hand from all the drafting and landscaping. i open jar lids for the hubby with my left hand and can paint and cut in trim using either hand.

I use a knife and fork in the "left-hand" manner, but I think that way makes more sense for right handers anyway.

My right hand never takes my left hand for granted.

I'm a left-handed jar-opener as well, and I will use my left hand to do detail painting if I can't fit my right hand into the space.

I was taught to eat with a knife and fork in the "British" manner - fork in left hand, knife in right, not putting down utensils to switch hands like they do in the US. Is this "left-hand" manner?

new question of the day.

yes, it seems like a worthy option


i kinda wish i also had that option as a pedestrian, to deal with drivers who honk their stupid horns at traffic lights :cool:

Yes.
But to smack people on bikes that don't think that they have to follow traffic rules, but get pissy if you don't.

Disclaimer:
I love and admire bicyclists.

It makes me feel happy. I need one for my desk at work.

you know how it makes me feel? it makes me feel baffled by the way the pedestrians have spaced themselves along the road so that the device has adequate time to reload and redeploy. MOVE 3 INCHES TO THE RIGHT, EVERYONE!


i think it should be an option. but i don't think it should be standard. it should be a rather pricey upgrade. there should be an alternate option where instead of a boxing glove, the device has a fistful of pretty posies.

i think it'd take some time to learn how to aim properly with that thing

^^ needs to be computer-controlled and laser guided :)

I want one. Actually, I want the superpower to magically confiscate people's vehicles if they're driving like jackasses. *POOF* you have no car! I'd end up confiscating my own much of the time, though, so maybe that's not such a great idea...

upset. nope. not where I live.

...two parter...
sleep - how do you (usually) fall asleep, on your right, left, front, back?
wake - how do you (usually) wake, on your right, left, front, back?

atm: back - back

Fall asleep on my right. Do not touch me. Wake up on my right.

falling asleep depends on why i'm sleeping. if i'm going to sleep for a full night's slumber i do so on my right. if i'm napping, i do so on my back.

if i'm napping i wake up on my back. i don't roll over when napping. if i'm doing a full night i wake up on my back or right side. i may then make a conscious decision to roll to the left and get 30 minutes more. but i can't do any kind of deep meaningful sleep on my left.

deja vu

;)

^ deja vu again!

right, back.

unless it's a "rotisserie chicken" night :o

sleep - left, looking at the moon
wake - no idea!

^arse

seep - the perfect angle of pillow and shoulder varies
wake - befuddled ness

sleep: on my right side, dream of changing variables within integrals
wake: looking at ceiling, feeling LATE must run must run

to sleep: right side, always.
waking: left side, always.

left to right and then wrong

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¿ question of the day ? for saturday 27th october - i made a poll of it using this little poll thing i found

when was the last time you danced in public?

yeh and you can tell us about it too if you want to

cannie remembre, but i think the last time i went all out and danced in public was at least 3 months ago :confused: .


i'm planning on making a fool out myself on a few dancefloors soon though ;)

it's been donks.

Pressing the button on the little poll thingy was fun. Do I have to do that in public too?

^ 1 question per day, please, lest you incur the wrath of z.


or zwrath, as i like to call it.

^ :D

it remembered me

I think it was last month, but I'm not too sure...

for sun oct. 28

How do you take your coffee (or tea)? Then make some sort of amusing-if-questionable correlation between that and some other aspect of your life.

"amusing-if-questionable correlation", oi that's hard intellectual work for a Sunday, but okey-dokey let's try it... ;)

Drink coffee either with milk (if normal milk is available, concentrated milk is bäh!) or with sugar (2 pieces/teaspoons usually, but 3 if Vanya or another "coffee is only good when a spoon can stand in it" person has made the coffee) depending on mood and/or availability of needed substances - anything else (both milk and sugar) I consider extremely decadent and do so only after sex (of course normal milk and sugar have to be available somehow and I need not have additionally an acute hangover, see below) or in a nobel cafe (where waiters wear bow ties or such), in latter case I even like to be very, very decadent and take the brown sugar. In extreme cases (acute hangover, acute migraine, out in the wilderness, chaotic situations like in the middle of moving from A to B) I drink coffee black, preferably thick so a spoon can stand in it.

Correlates to my life in general being some sort of nested code (could be written by a Japanese theoretically physicist, most probably in unintelligable FORTRAN 66, after he attended a karaoke party involving too much sake - no I don't think about anyone in particular :D) with lots of IF X THEN conditions and randomly thus unpredictable scattered, coding-technically very sleazy GO TO Y clauses, but me nevertheless yearning for simple either / or's, either milk or sugar so to say.