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[-] Quintus@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

I'm a leftie and god damn I get lots of comments about it.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Oh you are a leftie? I never noticed! Did you now that other guy you don't know or care about is a leftie too?!

[-] drq@mastodon.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@Quintus It can get annoying. It certainly is distracting.

@NahMarcas

[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Yeah, gotta be wary of those sinister people...

[-] NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Edited question, but hahahaha

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Are you left-handed? Because that

Edited question

was kind of sinister.

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago

Yes, I capture them and put them on a pyre.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Praised be our lord! Finally a good person in this thread

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

For the night is dark and full of lefties.

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago

We have a work area with school desks for some reason, of the crappy right-handed variety. So I notice when colleagues awkwardly try to use the desks and they're left-hand dominant.

I have a friend who is left-handed and insists on shaking hands left-handed. She will stare down anyone until they offer their left hand or do a weird fingertip shake with their right. Anyone who manages to shake her left hand without looking like a goober, she excitedly welcomes to the left handed club.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

No. Why would I?

[-] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago

Yes. I want to know if they are a south paw before they find out I slept with their wife.

[-] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay I’ll be the hero and say it since nobody yet has:

I don’t see the world through that lens.

Takes a bow, fends off photographers.

I don’t but I sometimes get comments on why I hold fork and knife like a lefty.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I’m left-handed myself, but I never notice if others are.

It seems like it used to be a bigger thing a few decades ago, when writing by hand was more common.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I don't notice which hand they use, but more often than not, lefties will write with their hand curved over (and smudging) the text they just wrote instead of from beneath (and not smudging.) That's when I notice. So when I notice, I don't say, "You know you could prevent getting graphite (or ink) everywhere..." I say, "Ah. Leftie."

I have seen righties do the same weird smudging with the arced wrist. Why do people write like that?

[-] Bitrot 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because people learn how to write as young children in a place that typically has no experience with a proper technique for left-handed people, and re-learning how to write is not as easy as thinking to yourself that a different way would be better.

It’s probably good you don’t say the “you know” because that would be dumb as fuck.

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 points 3 months ago

That's extremely noticeable with left handed people trying to draw on whiteboards

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago
[-] NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago
[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Happy day to you too!

[-] hostops@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

What about my good day? I am right handed.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Only people I know because I like knowing who's left handed among my friends and family because it helps with things, seating areangements being one obvious example. Or so I don't just hand them scissors they can't use or something.

[-] LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I only noticed with my partner after they already told me they were a lefty, and we were working together one day and kept bumping each other.

Now we make sure that I sit on the right and they sit on the left.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Not really, but I'll notice if someone masturbates with their left hand. That's weird.

[-] d41@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Hey, I need my right hand to navigate to the juicy parts.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I have people sign stuff for me a lot at work but it's across a table from me so sometimes my brain fails to figure out for a second.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

My wife and one of my kids is a lefty. I've kinda grown used to half looking out for it in others but only idly. It was fun watching each of the kids to see if any of them would be.

A friend of mine dropped an absolute bomb one day that I'll never forget: "There's only right handed and wrong handed". Definitely more than 20 years ago now but I never forgot it because I laughed so hard.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I get a few comments a day at work about it, surprisingly.

[-] M137@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago
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