So who here is left handed?
Thu, 2006-05-11 16:14
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So who here is left handed?
...devil's children, may you be birched with sticks until you bleed...
My guess at handedness
Hox - R
Styx- R
Pesky - L
Camus - L
Fergal - R
Tony - L
Rokkit - R
George - R
My estimations are based on the way their typing leans!
I am only musing because I was at a meeting the other day with 3 others and noticed that everyone apart from me was taking notes with their left hand
maddan
fun facts about the left handed
they are more likely to be dyslexic
they are more likely to be gay
they are more likely to have the left and right sights of their brains reversed (a curious condition, only identifiable by dissabling one side of the brain and seeing what happens)
they are more likely to be evil
they are more likely to present scurrilous rumour and hearsay as facts
I myself am a wholesome right hander as god intended.
mississippi
Yeah, I'm a right-hander, BUT I'm a left-ear guy, by virtue of my right ear hearing only what I want to hear.
And it's a bit deaf as well!
So what is the reason for southpaws being more likely to be homosexuals? I've never heard that before. It must be my right ear playing up again.
maddan
I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
An unfair proportion of them seem to become software engineers too.
I am left eyed.
poetjude
Maddan those facts are fascinating. Did you know that people born in February are more likely to be schizophrenics and poets are more likely to suffer from bipolar. So if you're a left handed poet born in february you are truly f****d!
jude
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http://www.judesworld.net
tom_saunders
Right-handed, I'm afraid.
If you want to buy my book, visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/
styx
You're right and wrong Jude. Born left-handed but changed over at school. It was the early fifties and it was still the mark of the devil. I write right-handed, play tennis right-handed prefer playing cricket left handed but can play right. If I throw anything it's left-handed. I bowl left-handed but can bowl right but the left side is better. Lots of spin. I once got 4 people out in one over. Is that clear Jude? No wonder I became alcoholic.
styx
Oh forgot, all my 3 brothers are naturally left-handed but my elder brother like me was forced to chang over at school.
camus
Sorry Jude wrong guess, I am right handed...and also now a little worried about my husband who is not only a leftie but was born in February too!
hox
Like Styx, I was naturally left handed, but forced to change at school. Consequently my handwriting is slow and untidy, I'm clumsy with tools, can't catch for toffee, and as for masturbation..... best not to go there.
bobblehat2023
I'm left-handed and wasn't forced to change at school.
I grew up in loony left Haringey in the 1980s. In those days, the only things the teachers imposed on you were communism and basic Indian cookery.
Luckily my parents taught me to read and write. Unfortunately I can't remember how to cook chapatis.
tcook
I boxed as a southpaw - despite all attempts to teach me the conventional stance - it meant I had a great jab and a lousy hook. I was born in Feb, but, sorry jude, I am most definitely right handed. I have a leftie (handed) brother and daughter but for me it's got to be right.
fergal
I'm right handed too, though that's the only right leaning you'll get from me.
poetjude
well bugger my predictions...Bobble, I think your handedness is a political statement!
Mystic jude
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span
I am ambidexterous....
I don't even know if that is how you spell it.
I find it quite fun.
God only knows what that makes me.... weird.
Span o
mickleinapickle
http://www.freewebs.com/michaeljamestreacy/index.htm
I'm right-handed, left-eyed and I dress to the left. I'm also a mediocre poet and a mediocre oil painter.
My youngest brother is left handed, two-eyed and a fantastic water-colour painter. He's a crap poet, mind.
My Dad was truly ambidextrous in every sense of the word, a crap painter and a crap poet.
...and that's all I have to say about that.
poetjude
Following on from this...what blood group are you?
I am
A (RH+)
At least I'm not common old O
jude
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maddan
I have no idea, how do you tell?
poetjude
give blood and they'll tell you
The famous geneticist Steve Jones's book In the blood describes how researchers have measured the heart rates of people of different blood groups while they listened to music. They found that group As were attracted to harmony, Bs to rhythm, Os to melody and ABs liked all three (especially Bach)!
jude
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tom_saunders
AB positive.
If you want to buy my book, visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/
poetjude
oooh you rare thing Tom! Well AB negative is the rarest group but AB+ is rare enough!
jude
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mississippi
It's obviously better to belong to the commonest group.
Especially when you're on the operating table and need gallons of the stuff!
I was told my blood group was 'not required', which I guess means it's better to have none than have what I've got.
poetjude
Actually this isn't true George. Because the blood group proportions in donor populations match the proportions of blood groups in recipients the supply/demand situation is pretty constant across the groups.
Also 'O' the most common can be received by A's and B's.
The stocks are measured in 'days stock' http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/stocklevel.html
The resus factor seems to be more important than group in demand (Rh- comprise only 10% of population) O pos, the most common group has less days supply than rarer A pos B pos and AB pos
Anyone can receive O the commonest type (universal doner), but an O can only receive O. AB's can receive A, B AB or O (universal recipient) so whilst O is the commonest it is not the type we have the most supplies of!
jude
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mississippi
Well that put me firmly in my place! I always wanted to be under you, Jude.
camus
AB+
styx
Tony Hancock: Resus, that's a monkey isn't it?
poetjude
it is...the rhesus factor so named as it was first identified in rhesus monkeys.
A pint...that's nearly a whole armful!
jude
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