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Especially Lisa! But especially Bart…
I’m right handed and play the guitar left handed…
Guitar makes a lot of sense to me either way. The really technical part is up on the frets.
just one anecdote, but I’m solidly right handed and I’m quite comfortable fretting with my left hand. It’s a challenge to learn guitar regardless of which hand. But I have absolutely nothing against folks making and playing left-handed instruments either, folks should go with what they want
Yeah left-handed stringed instruments are actually quite rare, and are only used when you can’t use a right-handed one due to disability. You’re using both hands to do different but coordinated movements, so being left- or right-handed doesn’t make that big a difference.
I’m the opposite. Legato stuff is much easier.
We lefty’s do things rightyandedly. Those kidney-shaped mouses weren’t left-hand friendly.
Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Or paddled.
A wizard did it.
A wizard spanked him.
Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.
a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said “Im going to have a leftist insurgency” and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
“Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction”
them
It was Lego, by the way…
I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn’t political. What do people think politics is?
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza…
Yeah… Like honestly, someone’s gonna get beat for the wrong opinion. Get some!
Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.
You’re welcome
And where exactly was he supposed to find a left-handed bowling ball? Huh? D’jever think of that?
Not sure if your serious but I’m a left handed bowler. You normally buy the bowling balls without holes, then have a shop measure your hand and how you throw and drill the holes to based on you.
Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.
I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there’s a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn’t know that.
I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like… What?.. I didn’t even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.
We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.
Oddly, using a fork is something that only feels comfortable with my left hand. I can eat right handed but it feels off somehow.
I’m like that with putting my contacts in. For whatever reason I can do it right handed without any problem but when I use my left hand it’s a shitshow.
I’m righty for everything except specifically throwing a Frisbee. I just can’t do it with my right hand, unless it’s an overhand chuck. Makes disc golf a bitch because no matter how I throw, it usually breaks right from the spin.
On some courses that’s a big advantage. I always threw left and my dad always threw right, it was interesting how the geometry of the course could tilt our fortunes.
I wonder how much of handedness is really “real”. I’m sure there’s a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.
For example, I started using my phone in my “off-hand” years ago to keep my “main-hand” free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I’m much better with my “off-hand” with my phone than with my “main-hand”.
I always felt like a lot of sites and apps were made to be used left handed anyway. It seems like the controls are often on the left side. Maybe it’s just that I primarily used reddit and now lemmy though.
n=1 of course, but my dad was forced to write right-handed in school (early 60’s and an old-school teacher for those days). The result was more punishment as no matter how he tried, he simply couldn’t (and still cannot) write very readable with his right hand. So no, I don’t think practice is enough to make somebody ambidextrous. Might work for some, but certainly not for everybody.
It certainly felt real to me growing up. No matter how much teachers would insist that I use scissors right handed, I just couldn’t. That being said, with enough training and descipline you can certainly overcome that. As an adult, I can use scissors in either hand but not particularly well.
My school did this to me in the 2000s :(
Why :( ?
We have a skill that most don’t have. Give someone who’s single hand dominant only, a steak. Watch as they constantly have to shuffle the silverware back and forth. Or go play like baseball or racquetball or tennis or badminton, etc. and just keep swapping the hand, it’ll throw them off.
shuffle the silverware
This is a telltale sign of an American. In other regions everyone uses both hands. https://youtu.be/fypq2qhRZnI
Literally people who don’t know how to properly use silwerware.
I cannot do pretty much any precise stuff with my left hand. I can however eat perfectly fine without switching the fork to my right hand (unless there is nothing left to cut I sometimes switch).
Oh! I had no idea that was very much an Americanism! Next time I travel overseas I’m definitely going to pay more attention to that.
Why :( ?
No idea. They did this thinking they were doing a good thing for me, for some reason. It was just ignorance and lack of information from them, I think.
Well, at one hand, I became ambidextrous, and got no bad side effects that I’m aware of, but on the other hand, this didn’t improve anything in my life. Pun partially intended :D
Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I’m sure that’s true of other tools and hobbies.
Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it’s just easier to get a right handed guitar
a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive
I’m 70 years old, so maybe things have changed, but my left handed brother was FORCED to use his right hand for everything, as we were growing up. Apparently left handedness is a sign of the devil, or some such crap. As a result, he was effectively ambidextrous, as an adult.
Which country did you grow up in out of curiosity? They definitely did this in soviet union because it was more optimal to not have to design anything for minority of left handed people.
I grew up in Australia, but my parents are Ukrainian, so this makes sense.
This rings true of my experience as a left handed person, which is more like being ambidextrous, at least for people who were born at the tail end of society tending to think you’re evil if born left handed.
Many older southpaws actually know how to write with their right hand, as teachers used to force the southpaw students to learn it
wizard do things
