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Poll
Question: Left-handed or right-handed?
Option 1: I am a genius lefty, filled with boundless imagination and creativity votes: 11
Option 2: I am a boring, fascist righty, and act accordingly votes: 37
Title: Which handedness are you?
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 15, 2011, 09:00:02 PM
Have we ever had a poll like this before, anyway?
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: jimmy olsen on May 15, 2011, 09:02:33 PM
I'm a righty, but where's the option for the ambidextrous?
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Grey Fox on May 15, 2011, 09:21:16 PM
Lefty. Like 50% of the population.

All data previously obtained on that question is totally biased towards right handedness.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: katmai on May 15, 2011, 09:24:32 PM
Depends.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: C.C.R. on May 15, 2011, 09:31:22 PM
Mostly righty, but I shoot a goalie stick left handed...
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: katmai on May 15, 2011, 09:36:20 PM
Quote from: C.C.R. on May 15, 2011, 09:31:22 PM
Mostly righty, but I shoot a goalie stick left handed...
Is that what kids are calling it these days?

But seriously same here, along with guitar and wearing watch on right which always makes people assume I'm lefty.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 15, 2011, 09:39:55 PM
Northpaw.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Ideologue on May 15, 2011, 09:41:01 PM
Right-handed.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Pat on May 15, 2011, 09:42:00 PM
Left-handed.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 15, 2011, 09:42:05 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 15, 2011, 09:02:33 PM
I'm a righty, but where's the option for the ambidextrous?

Much like unicorns, bisexuality and black unity, ambidextrous people are myth and legend.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: C.C.R. on May 15, 2011, 09:44:44 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 15, 2011, 09:36:20 PM
Quote from: C.C.R. on May 15, 2011, 09:31:22 PM
Mostly righty, but I shoot a goalie stick left handed...
Is that what kids are calling it these days?

But seriously same here, along with guitar and wearing watch on right which always makes people assume I'm lefty.

Along those same lines:  I can work a computer mouse left-handed...

:shifty:
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Capetan Mihali on May 15, 2011, 09:47:41 PM
Right-handed to a fault.  I'd say I can do shit with my left hand, but I'm not even sure I can.   :(
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: JonasSalk on May 15, 2011, 09:55:24 PM
Right-handed, but do certain things with my left.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Habbaku on May 15, 2011, 09:56:07 PM
Right-handed, but with some functions that default to left for some reason.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: DGuller on May 15, 2011, 11:08:17 PM
Didn't vote, no option for a genius righty.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: jamesww on May 15, 2011, 11:09:32 PM
 :ph34r:
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Barrister on May 15, 2011, 11:46:03 PM
My handedness is like my politics and my correctness - 100% right.

Although I shoot left in hockey.  Probably why I've always been a crappy hockey player. :(

I do deliver curling stones with my right though. :scots:
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: sbr on May 15, 2011, 11:54:40 PM
Very right-handed.  I can go left at all.  :(
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Ideologue on May 16, 2011, 02:52:51 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on May 15, 2011, 09:47:41 PM
Right-handed to a fault.  I'd say I can do shit with my left hand, but I'm not even sure I can.   :(

I've always been curious about the left-hand taboo in Arab and other various societies.  If they largely wipe their ass with their non-dominant hand, aren't they likely to do a significantly worse job?
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: LaCroix on May 16, 2011, 02:59:37 AM
my mother is left handed. my left arm is stronger than the right; many activities either have a left or right preference; i write with the right and do more with it in general, i think--though there's little problem when the left is used in most cases. so, i dunno?
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Caliga on May 16, 2011, 04:08:07 AM
Left-handed.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Monoriu on May 16, 2011, 05:05:55 AM
Right.  I don't know why, but Chinese are also quite adament that children learn to use the right hand. 
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Caliga on May 16, 2011, 05:15:49 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on May 16, 2011, 05:05:55 AM
Right.  I don't know why, but Chinese are also quite adament that children learn to use the right hand.
It used to be that way here, too.  I think we stopped trying to make kids switch to the right in the 1950s or 60s.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Josquius on May 16, 2011, 05:21:56 AM
Right.
Though I eat in the way people say is left handed, it seems so much more logical to me though...
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 16, 2011, 05:26:57 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 16, 2011, 05:21:56 AM
Though I eat in the way people say is left handed, it seems so much more logical to me though...

As I'm a lefty, I use my utensils "European-style" as well. 
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Scipio on May 16, 2011, 06:30:58 AM
Right handed, but I shoot pistols ambidextrously.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: HVC on May 16, 2011, 07:01:38 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 16, 2011, 02:52:51 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on May 15, 2011, 09:47:41 PM
Right-handed to a fault.  I'd say I can do shit with my left hand, but I'm not even sure I can.   :(

I've always been curious about the left-hand taboo in Arab and other various societies.  If they largely wipe their ass with their non-dominant hand, aren't they likely to do a significantly worse job?
in a land with a historically limited water supply and a disuse of eating utensils it's best not to eat with the hand you use to clean your ass.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: HVC on May 16, 2011, 07:02:59 AM
Righty but I use my left for other stuff like most here.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: DontSayBanana on May 16, 2011, 09:23:16 AM
Southpaw for writing.  I play guitar and normally shoot right-handed, though, and I can switch off for everything else (including guns, but it takes a bit more concentration).
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Caliga on May 16, 2011, 09:52:10 AM
I've learned to shoot right-handed, yeah.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Brazen on May 16, 2011, 10:00:43 AM
I can give hand-jobs with either. Helps when one inevitably gets tired.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Caliga on May 16, 2011, 10:14:06 AM
You win the thread.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: jimmy olsen on May 16, 2011, 10:36:11 AM
Quote from: Brazen on May 16, 2011, 10:00:43 AM
I can give hand-jobs with either. Helps when one inevitably gets tired.
:lol:
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: derspiess on May 16, 2011, 10:54:57 AM
Proud right-handed fascist.  Can't figure out how my nephew & niece turned out to be left-handed, since nobody in our family, nor anyone in my sister in law's family is a lefty.

Tommy initially seemed to prefer writing & throwing with his left hand, then switched back & forth for a while, and now he generally uses his right hand. 
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: The Brain on May 16, 2011, 11:22:11 AM
I'm normal.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: DGuller on May 16, 2011, 11:27:12 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 16, 2011, 11:22:11 AM
I'm normal.
Normal normal, or differently normal?
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: The Brain on May 16, 2011, 11:29:57 AM
Quote from: DGuller on May 16, 2011, 11:27:12 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 16, 2011, 11:22:11 AM
I'm normal.
Normal normal, or differently normal?

The good kind.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: garbon on May 16, 2011, 11:41:31 AM
Obviously it is better to be different. It isn't normal to have millions of dollars.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Agelastus on May 16, 2011, 11:57:29 AM
Right handed, although as a kid I held a toy pistol with my right hand but a toy rifle with my left.

And I apparently hold my pen in a left handed fashion, even though it's in my right hand.
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Norgy on May 16, 2011, 01:03:04 PM
Right-handed fascist, 2nd battallion "The Willing Executioners".
Title: Re: Which handedness are you?
Post by: Fate on May 16, 2011, 01:58:07 PM
Lefty.  :)