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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 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?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

@NahMarcas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For the night is dark and full of lefties.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Edited question, but hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Are you left-handed? Because that

Edited question

was kind of sinister.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 β€œyou know” because that would be dumb as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

No. Why would I?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What about my good day? I am right handed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Happy day to you too!