# Left handed Doper Sign in **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918 "2000-07-08T01:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Niggle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Niggle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niggle)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/61 "2000-07-11T05:03:24Z")
Why hello there! Another lefty checking in, and from a long line of lefties as well! Eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son, all left handed. Pretty cool. Err, in case that wasn’t clear… my father is a leftie, my grandfather is a leftie and my great grandfather was a leftie. 🙂 Being a leftie is a great thing for using a computer doing graphics. I can have the mouse in my right hand and the pen for my graphics tablet in the other. All the righties in the office get mad about that. Strangely enough, over 50% of all the artist working at my company are lefties. Creative we are. I also fly left, like JohnnyLA. I love being able to say that. -niggle ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/62 "2000-07-11T06:05:17Z")
Hell yes. Play guitar left-handed. Own a couple very nice left-handed guitars. Love the way the faces of righties fall when they see my guitars and realize they can’t play them. A small retribution. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/63 "2000-07-11T07:39:30Z")
Write Left, no chicken wing Wank Right Mouse right kick right throw right bowl right cut food Left Fire a weapon Right Wow, I’m a messed up lefty! About a year I learned to retardedly write with my right hand on a whiteboard, never on paper though. -Sam ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/64 "2000-07-11T15:27:33Z")
I’m left handed, but I golf right-handed. I don’t want to say what else I do right-handed, but you can guess if you want. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/65 "2000-07-11T22:53:45Z")
I’m a lefty. Don’t count me out. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/66 "2000-07-12T03:54:17Z")
This is the first thread that I have ever started that has gone over 1 page. Pretty cool. Hey, there has to be a few leftys left out there. C’mon, join the fun. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/67 "2000-07-13T13:43:34Z")
I don’t see how anyone can jerk off with a preference for one or the other hand. I alternate, left and right, until I’m done. If I used just one hand my arm would soon grow tired and cramp up. JFTR, I’m a hooking lefty and the most left-handed person I know. Shifting gears in my manual-transmission car is about the only thing I do right-handed. ---
**Author:** ![fluffinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fluffinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffinator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/68 "2000-07-13T21:19:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > \*\*fnord, NO ONE’S going to get that. \*\* \*… from under the Bic Mac… \* _grin_… I got that… ---
**Author:** ![fluffinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fluffinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffinator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/69 "2000-07-13T21:28:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ricepad \* > \*\*It’s been my observation that lefties can read text upside-down fairly easily, whereas righties struggle like hell just figuring out the words. Anybody else notice that? Can you read holding the text upside-down? \*\* I can read in any position… I can also read upside-down text nearly as quickly as I can read it right-side-up… ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/70 "2000-07-13T21:30:52Z")
I’m a lefty, but I love fountain pens. It just takes a little patience. But I detest three-ring binders and spiral notebooks. MR ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/71 "2000-07-14T01:44:53Z")
My righty wife and I both read upside down almost as easily as right-side up. If you’ve got something on your desk and you don’t want me to read it, put it away, fer Pete’s sake! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/72 "2000-07-19T05:47:53Z")
Well, not quite as many lefties as i thought there would be, but hey, if everyone was lefthanded, then the righties would be the cool ones. We wouldnt want that now would we? ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918/73 "2000-07-19T05:54:39Z")
EgegEEv JGc gfc Ng nm AAARRGGGHH!!! _gives up trying to fake_ Okay I was faking it!! I’m really right-handed. _sigh_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-doper-sign-in/24918.md?page=3)