I know I am not inferior Mr moo. :-)
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I know I am not inferior Mr moo. :-)
I am a lefty. I can do many things right handed because I am forced to because it is a right handed world.
Ed, i eat pasta and rice (not simultaneously) with the fork in my right hand, can i be in the left hander group?
Provided you are not using the fork to eat with then yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by bombay
OK Ed here is the break down.
I eat with both hands depending who I am sitting next to (if I am at the end of the table I use my left hand).
I shoot pistol right hand, rifle left hand.
I primarily write with my right hand,
I golf left handed and bat right handed,
I skate board and snow board Goofy foot (left hand).
I throw a ball with my right hand.
I use my computer mouse with my left hand and get yelled at for moving it. :rant:
I just don't quite belong anywhere.....
Off course you do pfries. You belong with the human race, right along with all of us f'ed up people who use whatever hand is handy to the task. When I painted actively I would look like a whirling dervish because I had paint brush and palette knife in both hands going a mile a minute, one feeding the other or correcting the other. I could have used a good therapist in those days.Quote:
Originally Posted by pfries
but that would make me right handed if i was using my left hand to eatQuote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Are you drunk?Quote:
Originally Posted by bombay
no! proper decorum is to eat with your fork in your left hand.
In that case I am a right handed eater, but I need a lot of space, I am quite elbowy, this seems to be common to a lot of the lefties I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by bombay
is this the point where you start slipping and it comes out how right handed you actually are?Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
whenever i am eating curry with my grandfather, he will look at me and say 'och, i keep forgetting you're left handed'
........noQuote:
Originally Posted by bombay
True. Whenever I have to eat with a group of people I always jump for a corner seat where I'll have my left elbow free to roam, lest a person sitting to the left of me get their desert with a black eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Five pages in and it's becoming obvious everyone wants to be part of the lefty club. Sure, lots of people seem to do lots of things with both hands, but then what would be the point of having both hands if we didn't use them both?!?
Shooting should be disallowed as a measure as that has less to do with hand dominance than eye dominance. I shoot right handed since I'm right eye dominant; and I'd say my right arm is stronger than my left, as I tend to use the right for more menial, heavy lifting tasks, so I can have my left free for the detailed stuff (e.g. holding a bag of groceries in my right while unlocking the door with my left).
I'd say which hand you feel most comfortable writing with would be a good measure. Certainly my handwriting is a-pallll-ing. a-trooo-cious with both hands, but the scrawl just comes more comfortably with the left.
I've always called myself left handed but in reality I'm sort of ambidextrous.
Is it still ambidextrous if you are equally awkward with both hands?
If you are crap with both hands I will call you right handed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
Harsh Ed! I thought we were muckers?Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
I write with my left if that helps :/
Well that is different, you can join :) goto community, groups and find us. If your crap hands cam work your computer :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
I'll do my best but I'm using an app on my iphone to view my forums and whilst it's very convenient, it doesn't have the same layout and can be awkward finding things like that. I'll get there in the end though :)
Why don't you just use t'internet on yer phone? It doesnt use that much data.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
I'm not worried about the data, my app uses as much but I've unlimited data anyway.
It's just that when I try to access the forum any other way it redirects me to the app.
Can you post a link or anything?
No, I have no idea how to. Perhaps someone else can helpQuote:
Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
Like I said I'll get there eventually, slow and steady wins the race. And all that ;)
Aha! Done it
Now when do I receive my membership card and decoder ring?
And I was just about to do a link for you! Ah well. Saved me wasting a post I suppose...;)
Mick
A post is never wasted, think of the leaderboard. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
Thanks anyway Mick. The proper site is very good but not great for the iphone or pad. I am planing on getting a new laptop shortly or getting my PC up and running again
I don't know how any of you blokes can stand using your 'phone for this stuff. I only do it if I really, really need an SRP fix...Or the wife is working from home and hogging the computer. Speaking of work...Nah. Not even going to go there until Thursday...;)
Mick
It's just so handy Mick. I get a little bing if I have a notification and I can check it out straight away.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
God forbid I'd miss out on any of the craic!
That little bing in itself would drive me up the wall! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
Mick
Your starting to sound old mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
What age are you anyway?
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Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
Soon to be 43...And hating every new year that comes in...:(
Mick
You sound older grandad! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
You gotta appreciate every extra year you get on this planet.
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Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
trust me I do, but I just wish they would take their sweet bloody time about disappearing into the past like they do. I only feel 20 in my head, but my body has started developing strange aches and pains and doesn't bend and twist like it used to. And where the hell did the spare tractor tire come from?!?! I did mention in another post, that as a motorcyclist who hits mid-life crisis can't buy a motorbike to re-live their mis-spent youth, I've had to go and buy myself a skateboard instead. I've got it all wrapped up and ready to put under the tree for Christmas morning too. Can't bloody wait! ER here I come. You'll know where to find me on boxing day so you can sign my plaster cast. :)
Mick
I've got aches and pains that no man of my age deserves.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
I hate the whole mid life crisis label. Every man wants a motorbike or a sports car, when they finally reach an age they can afford to spoil themselves with one they are often middle aged!
I blame the women!
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Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
And then their teenage kids take it out for a spin and write it off anyway!...My kids came later in life so they aren't teenagers yet. I get to look forward to that when I'm well and truly into mid-life. :) I hope folks like Jimmy and his fellow refined gentlemen of extended years, don't take too much offence at us young blokes bitching about getting older :).
A wall fan put me in ER on boxing day. I have also noticed that I make all sorts of odd noises when I move, that I didnt used to.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
What the hell were you doing to the wall fan??Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Don't leave the guard off a wall fan when you test it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigirishkev
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You end up with 10 stitches
Bloody hell Ed! Not your brightest moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Bet that made a mess of the walls
Ed, MickR, et al: This is the rejected ambi speaking. Get used to your new utterances and stiffness in places that you never knew existed. Put on your learning caps, you're going back to school to learn a whole new language related to growing older, (and in some cases wiser). A positive attitude is the needed ingredient to keep from doing the 'old men carping about all those young whippersnappers' syndrome. I've frozen my mental age (after regressing) at 18, the brink of adult like foolishness. My new motto posted on the wall is "Let me tell you about old age. Age is old, I am not." Keep up this pissing and moaning instead of celebrating everyday or I'll have to get a quart of energy drink and hit all three continents to deal with the bunch of you 'young'ns' in face to face thumb wrestling. And I'll even let you use your dominant hand!
