# On Which Side Do you Hang? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2004, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927 "2004-05-13T09:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/41 "2004-05-14T06:46:39Z")
After a bit of experimentation I can report that I dress “up”. Everything is way well above the seam that divides leg from leg, and symmetrically arranged. ---
**Author:** ![handmelder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4af34b/32.png) [@handmelder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handmelder)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/42 "2004-05-14T08:26:42Z")
I have found that if I don’t Re- Dress my quadratus lumburum becomes stressed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/43 "2004-05-14T12:33:51Z")
A slight highjack: My Radiologist father told me that in X-rays of a man with an injured leg the penis will be on the side that’s injured. He had a medical term for it, but I can’t remember what it was. I better go google this out. My dad liked to tease me by making stuff up! ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/44 "2004-05-14T14:50:22Z")
How do I hang? I’ll need 30mg of Valium, a 5-foot drop, and the knot behind the _left_ ear, if you please. No hood - I’d prefer to shock and dismay the witnesses as much as possible, thanks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/45 "2004-05-14T17:49:22Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > After a bit of experimentation I can report that I dress “up”. Everything is way well above the seam that divides leg from leg, and symmetrically arranged. Well technically, I dress “up” as well, because I prefer briefs that offer support and find dangling down the pant leg to be uncomfortable, but it still leans to the left. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/46 "2004-05-14T17:50:58Z")
I hang to the left, but don’t own any tailored pants. So could someone please explain _why_ a tailor would need to know the angle of my dangle? Is there some sort of casement involved? Happy ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/47 "2004-05-14T18:25:35Z")
OK, I’m left handed (I do _everything_ with my left hand). I wear my watch on my left wrist (I hardly ever wear one though) and I dress left. My tailor(if I still had one) gives me more room on the left side. ---
**Author:** ![Riqay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Riqay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riqay)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/48 "2004-05-14T20:23:06Z")
Many years ago, back in high school when anything and everything related to sex was starting to crop up in casual conversation, my buddies and I would occasionally greet each other not with, “How’s it goin’?” or, “What’s up?” but with, “Which way ya hangin’?” Back then, sometimes right but mostly left. Nowadays, pretty much always left. Never been asked right-or-left by anyone in a professional capacity, though. Guess I need to get out more. Can you imagine turning the tables? Walk into Old Navy and ask the clerk, “Excuse me, but where do I find the pants for dressing left?” ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/49 "2004-05-14T20:36:29Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > I hang to the left, but don’t own any tailored pants. > > So could someone please explain _why_ a tailor would need to know the angle of my dangle? Is there some sort of casement involved? > Happy Just in case **VenusProbe** didn’t make it clear, yes, a tailor will make that pantleg slightly roomier for comfort. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/50 "2004-05-14T21:00:34Z")
Now, you see, this wouldn’t even be a concern if you all wore kilts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/51 "2004-05-14T22:00:22Z")
I’m so glad I didn’t know this term when I was in Tha Army. :prep. command: Dress Right (Everyone grabs their junk) :command of exec.: DRESS (Everyone flops it over to the right & returns to Attn) ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/52 "2004-05-15T02:02:05Z")
[Cartman] I hang on West Side! WEST SIGH-EEEED!!! [/Cartman} yeah… probably pushing… especially for the second page… but it’s time to get off work, been a looong day, and I have taken entirely to much Afrin after the amount of alcohol I had at lunch… I may be a bit punchy… left, generally… fwiw ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/53 "2004-05-15T02:35:12Z")
Left, and i call him Lefty ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/54 "2004-05-15T02:55:32Z")
The tailor will also very slightly offset the fly to the “free” side, so it doesn’t rub against sensitive areas. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/55 "2004-05-15T03:51:12Z")
If you wear briefs, and not boxers, you don’t ‘hang’. You keep it in the garage. I can’t imagine ‘hanging’. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/56 "2004-05-15T04:18:10Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Would you like for me to check it out to make sure which way you hang? 😉 I think I’m pretty sure about which way it’s going… I’m a little far away for a quick trip for you, though, and that would be pretty awkward… “Parents, this is a guy I barely know from an online group. He’s going to feel me up and make sure my penis is on the left. Carry on.” ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/57 "2004-05-15T13:35:56Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > I’m so glad I didn’t know this term when I was in Tha Army. > > :prep. command: > Dress Right (Everyone grabs their junk) > :command of exec.: > DRESS (Everyone flops it over to the right & returns to Attn) We dress right in marching band too. But for some reason I didn’t think of that until I read this post. Thanks. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/58 "2004-05-15T14:04:03Z")
_Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie 'em in a knot? Can you tie 'em in a bow? Can you throw 'em o’er your shoulder Like a continental soldier Do your ears hang low?.._ ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/59 "2004-06-21T22:11:10Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > After a bit of experimentation I can report that I dress “up”. Everything is way well above the seam that divides leg from leg, and symmetrically arranged. Ok, I gotta ask for clarification here. Do you mean “up” as in **pointing** up? Or do you simply mean that the seam in question is low enough that all concerned parties are above it, and are therefore unconcerned with the whole left-right issue? I’m a tighty-whities guy myself, and that places all concerned parties in a neat package that doesn’t reach the seam. However, within that package, things are still more right than left. And never “up”. I don’t think I’d be able to sit down. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-side-do-you-hang/244927/60 "2004-06-21T22:51:38Z")
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