Left or Right handed?

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I read this on another forum today:

All societies, religion and language are predicated on the extermination of left handers, if killing them was outlawed then they would be linked with the devil.

The word sinister comes from the Latin word sinister which means ‘left’
The word correct comes from the Greek to mean ‘on the right’
The dictionary has hundreds of words with right, but very few with left. Legal right, right to fight etc.
There are more than 1600 references in the bible in praise of the right hand. Many legends associate misfortune with the left, such as throwing salt with the right hand over the left shoulder to throw it in the face of the devil who resides there. In medieval times all left handed women were burned as witches.

Most societies have a about 11% born left handed people, but the amount of people who survive into adulthood varies as different countries either kill or beat left handedness out. In Britain before 1910 there was only 3% left handed.

The discrimination imbedded about left handedness is still in operation; more left handers are killed or injured at work because the world is orientated right. Clocks are right, dishwashers are designed for right handers, everything in the world is of the right. We drive on the left because before cars when we passed strangers on the road we liked to keep a sword in our right hand to defend ourselves. France drives on the right because Napoleon was left handed.

In the workplace the most dangerous machines are designed for right handers, so if you are using a drill, saw etc you either have to use the wrong hand or your bring your lateral hand over or across the blade etc to operate the machine.

Employers are legally required to protect your safety at work. Larger companies will have to do welfare risk assessments on menopausal and post menopausal women because the recommended thermal comfort zones don’t suit them.

However you do not have to do a risk assessment on the higher hazard of being left handed in a right handed workplace.

There are studies at UCL at the moment trying to link left handedness with over representation in all groups, such as proportionately more artists, geniuses, lawyers, murderers and rapists are left handed.

It shows societies have always liked to get a small number from within, blame them, drive them out or kill them and always will.
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Interesting stuff! I'm right handed.
 
3 out of 5 family members are lefties

in my wife's side 4 out of 8 are lefties.

5 out of 14 colleagues are lefties.

Either statistics are wrong or I'm surrounded by freaks like me ;)
 
I'd love to verify some of those 'facts'.

Very few women were burnt as witches for a start, it's just Hammer Horror films that make everyone think it was a regular Friday Night occurance all over Europe, never mind burning them for something as trivial as being left handed.

There isn't any factual basis for the Napoleon claim either.
 
The word sinister comes from the Latin word sinister which means ‘left’
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It comes from itself? Nah, surely not. Actually the Latin word is "sinistra", I don't tend to trust articles that start without checking their facts.

We drive on the left because before cars when we passed strangers on the road we liked to keep a sword in our right hand to defend ourselves. France drives on the right because Napoleon was left handed.
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Perhaps but why do most countries in the World drive on the right, even those that were ex-British colonies?
 
Im a righty but a little bit lefty in some cases.



No leftys in Japan:)


Well back in the olkd days
 
** France drives on the right because Napoleon was left handed. **

Err not true, was due to the fact he hated anythign English and so made it so they drove on the oppersite side to us.
 
I write left handed, I eat right handed, I kick right handed, I use my mouse left handed allthogh I used to use it right for some reason.
 
Anything for power - right hand
Anything for precision - left hand

so:

writing - left handed
eating - fork in left hand
pc - mouse in left hand (but setup like a right handed person)
snooker - left hand

tennis / table tennis - right hand (my double handed backhand is pretty accurate and powerful though :D )
eating - knife in right hand
fighting - i aint no southpaw
throwing - right hand

many other examples of this for me as well!
 
[FnG]magnolia;11975993 said:
Left handed people are only one evolutionary step above ginger haired people but that isn't saying much :)
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:<

im left handed and ginger :/
 
Right handed here, trying to learn to write left handed though and although it looks even more a mess than my usual writing, it's coming along better and better, soon both hands will be equals :), I can already use mouse with left but it's just less comfy...

Want to be able to use both hands, if I break one or lose one or even when I'm too lazy and can't be arsed to change the hand I'm leaning on at school.
 
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