# Happy International Left-Handers Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974 "2003-08-13T18:41:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/21 "2003-08-13T23:12:41Z")
We lefties can’t count. We’re _artists_ not mathematicians! (I know it’s simulpost idiocynchrasy (sp?) but it’s kind of amusing to pretend it’s not and pretend that people are having trouble working out what the next number should be. I find this amusing because I am currently at the part in ‘men at arms’ where Cuddy is teaching Detritus to count) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/22 "2003-08-13T23:15:35Z")
ah feet. My feet are strange - I ‘feel’ left-footed, but when playing soccer (I hate not being able to call it football) My accuracy was better with my right foot. (but left foot more powerfull) can’t say the same about my hands. If I try to throw with my right hand I throw like a 7 year old girl with her eyes closed. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/23 "2003-08-13T23:21:59Z")
19! Some of us lefties can count! Speaking of left-handed scissors, I found a pair of Fiskars today that are actually comfortably either-handed – nice soft grips. A very pleasant discovery, since my poor left-handed scissors have been about worn out being used to cut _everything_ over the years. I’m a firm believer that left-handed people are better at doing things with their right hand than right-handed people are with their left hand – mostly from sheer necessity. A few things are made left-handed, but for example, I have yet to find a left-handed computer keyboard, that has the number pad on the left. Something I would _kill_ for. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/24 "2003-08-13T23:26:00Z")
Nah, you’re 18 **Mama Tiger** ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/25 "2003-08-13T23:33:45Z")
So does that make me 20 then? Or will someone happen to post before ME? ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/26 "2003-08-13T23:34:54Z")
Ok, fine, I’m 19. Maybe I just can’t read. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/27 "2003-08-14T00:39:47Z")
Okay, give it up. It’s like this: Dogmom-1 Aunt-2 Curious Canuck-3 Second Star-Many Romansperson-Lots Everybody else is just lots and lots. ---
**Author:** ![herman\_and\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/28 "2003-08-14T00:47:31Z")
Dibs on 20 Please put the mouse back on the left side when you are done. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/29 "2003-08-14T01:02:45Z")
21 And righties who use my computer have the nerve to complain about the mouse. So I’m not using the right side of this thread out of protest. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/30 "2003-08-14T01:22:22Z")
“Lots and lots” + 1 ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/31 "2003-08-14T01:46:24Z")
One more here. I golf left, but putt right, right eye dominant shoot rifles righty but pistols left, left footed, And I can do things with my right hand better than most right handed people can, but they suck anyways. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/32 "2003-08-14T01:52:02Z")
Me too! Fnord is right, right-hand people suck 😃 I myself do not have a right hand. I have a left hand and a wrong hand. It’s not the right hand for much of anything(although I do use it for the mouse), so why call it that? ---
**Author:** ![auntnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@auntnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntnut)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/33 "2003-08-14T02:06:30Z")
DON’T count me again!~!!!..(((I’m #2 !!!))) (uh…well, I mean I responded SECOND) I just had to re-respond…and add my 2cents… I am left handed when I eat, write, smoke, and shoot pool. I am STRONGER with my right hand. I cut with scissors, bowl, bat, golf (miniature), shoot, use the 10-key adding machine (came in handy: add #'s with right, write info down w/left) and use the computer mouse right handed. I am not ambidextrious (sp?) I am an artist I am off the wall I am done. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/34 "2003-08-14T02:24:19Z")
Are there people here who are actually ambidexterous and not realizing it _hint hint_? I hate to say this and I apologise to anyone it applies to but it bugs me (slightly) when I hear people say “I am left handed” and then list loads of things they do with their right hand. I do almost nothing with my right hand - The things I do do with it are out of necesity - All the two-hand jobs must use right hand (duh) such as using keyboard, riding bike, playing gameboy, eating dinner etc… Carrying things - I have terrible shoulder ‘problems’ (it doesn’t hurt, but it feels very very uncomfortable sometimes, especially after long periods of using the mouse) so in the hope of _leveling things out_ I carry heavy things with my right hand as often as possible. I have been told that I was ambidexterous as a child, but I never remember it. \ ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/35 "2003-08-14T02:25:35Z")
P.S. Don’t count me - I am number 15. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/36 "2003-08-14T02:26:29Z")
Why are we doing this number thing? Whatever, count me in 😉 Eat and write with my left I’m right handed (or footed) for all non-racket sports (basketball, football, golf, hockey, bowling etc) - so my right is stronger than my left And the computer-mouse is used by my right-hand too **Lots and lots + 2** ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/37 "2003-08-14T02:27:32Z")
Oops, I guess I just pissed **Lobsang** off… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/38 "2003-08-14T02:29:36Z")
\ sorry guys. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/39 "2003-08-14T02:34:40Z")
Don’t worry about it, **Lob** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/40 "2003-08-14T02:40:03Z")
**25!** (Although Left-Handers Day hath already passed in Australia.) (Here’s an easy way to [count](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?action=whoposted&threadid=204390) number of individual posters to the thread) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974.md?page=3)