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For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 8:10:19 PM   
cuddleheart50


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Status: offline 		I am left handed and sometimes using things made for right handed people makes it a little interesting to say the least..lol...I found this site and I have ordered alot of things for lefties.  It makes life alot easier...

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/kitchen_implements.html#

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 8:13:04 PM   
BrutalAntipathy


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Status: offline 		Right handed can openers, ungh! I always feel like i'm doing it upside down when using them. Made me switch to electric at first opportunity.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 8:16:53 PM   
cuddleheart50


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Status: offline 		I know how you feel, this world is not made for us lefties.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 8:43:07 PM   
FloridaISIS


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Status: offline 		Might have to place an order there. It's amazing what we do to compensate though. I know I don't even think about it much anymore.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 9:37:00 PM   
lisa1978


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Status: offline 		Thanks for that site! Lefties been discrimanted for years (very very very mild use of discriminated for all the politically correct people out there).
 
Number one thing getting marked down on essay tests becasue of ink stains!

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 9:57:15 PM   
SweetSarijane


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Status: offline 		Thank you!! Yes it's definitely a world geared for the right handed. I'm a lefty myself and run into awkwardness, etc. in using things designed for right handed people.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/27/2006 10:02:22 PM   
ArtCatDom


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Status: offline 		The fact you can all write left-handed means you were spared the rod of an angry nun eh?



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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/28/2006 6:40:29 AM   
cuddleheart50


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Status: offline 		My dad wanted to change me to being right handed when I was young, but my mom told him that I was who I was, and to leave me alone...lol

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/28/2006 7:00:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm left handed-  I use my left hand too write - apply makeup and eat.  Most Everything else I do with my right hand

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/28/2006 9:34:15 AM   
LaTigresse


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Status: offline 		very strongly left handed here, however with typing and calculators etc I have adapted. I find that I use my right hand for the heavy stuff and my left for the fine motor skills stuff...ex: armload of hay on right, left hand for opening the gate, so oddly my right arm is stronger, just not as co-ordinated.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/28/2006 10:23:08 AM   
pahunkboy


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Status: offline 		me too!

back in teh olden days when people used pens to write letters- my hands got full of ink.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/28/2006 2:13:31 PM   
MstrTiger


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DISCLAIMER - Please be aware that the flowing post is spectacularly bitchy rant it is more of a diatribe against the nature of humanity though it does accurately reflect my feelings on the issue.

Left handed pencils, wtf is that all about. My life is not complete as a left handed person until I own a set of left handed fish forks Oooooooo and a left handed grapefruit knife never before have I seen such a display of pointless gimmicky crap. I will alert my immediate family to the fact that if they ever see me buying a left handed lemon decorator they have my permission to take me out into a field and shoot me, for the love of Christ what have the people who sell these things been smoking. I can sort of see the point of left handed can openers for people and possibly left handed scissors for some people who have a specific difficulty when it comes to things like that though I have lived my entire life without using a pair so I will not be buying any. I wonder if Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci had a set of left handed pencils and paint brushes. Perhaps one of the main reasons the Mona Lisa has such a strange smile is that Leonardo special needs pencil broke so he had to use a normal one which he would have of course welded like a ham fisted cabbage because after all how else would a left handed person cope without the appropriate drawing instrument.

I am quite pissed off by sites like this personally I find things like that extremely offensive and condescending it almost makes out that being left handed is some sort of spectacular disability that needs to be pandered to. I am quite sure people have lost limbs and don’t require as many totally ludicrous pieces of equipment to cope with their daily lives. In fact I have even seen people with no arms who draw and paint in quite an accomplished fashion using their feet and a perfectly normal selection of pencils and paint brushes.

End of rant.

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/30/2006 7:04:24 PM   
EdwardoBruceo


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Status: offline 		Right on Suger..........and when i say right.....

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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/30/2006 7:26:00 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

I am left handed and sometimes using things made for right handed people makes it a little interesting to say the least..lol...I found this site and I have ordered alot of things for lefties.  It makes life alot easier...

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/kitchen_implements.html#


A leftie here, also. Bat and hit a baseball from the right side. Jab and uppercut are thrown the same way. Wouldn't trade being rightie for nothen'  ;  }



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RE: For all of the Lefties out there. - 5/30/2006 7:36:15 PM   
fergus


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Status: offline 		Scissors was always an exercise in frustration for me.

I write with my left-hand.  I throw a ball with my left hand, do most things with my left hand.

SO when I was REALLY little, and starting school .... they knew I was left-handed.  And gave me left-handed scissors.  Not that I knew one thing or another about it, really.  But I use scissors with my right hand.  Can't tell you the problems I had trying to express myself in a five-year-old way to people who were convinced that whatever hand I was using was somehow wrong!

fergus

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