I suspect that's correct because they'd still be writing left to right across the page.
Having just tried imagining doing that I feel a left handed writer would maybe turn their thumb and forefinger about 45 degrees clockwise in order to make it more comfortable
Didn't Jimi Hendrix play a right-handed guitar strung backwards (I'm not au fait with the technicalities of instruments)? His parents thought he was possessed by the devil because he was left-handed.
T'was a joke guys. I am actually left-handed myself and it's absolutely true we hold pens differently. As Eric says, you're following the pen across the page, so if you held the pend like a right-hander you'd smudge the ink (even with a biro). So you either have to twist your hand round underneath the pen (as I do) or contort it even further so you kind of loop round the top of the pen and hold it from the right - rare but I've seen it. By the way, my handwriting is shit.
Have a lefty friend... she contorts her hand over the top when she writes.... its a strange thing to witness, but to be fair, her handwriting is pretty good
Funny you should say that. I’ve got two questionnaires sitting on the kitchen table, which I really will get round to completing this year ! One set relates to a UCL stress and health study (conducted by Sir Michael Marmot) in which I have been participating for about 35 years. The booklet of questions (many requiring detailed answers but the majority just a matter of ticking boxes) runs to 20 A4 pages and covers health, medication, lifestyle (including diet, exercise, and daily routine) and life in general.
Now that I’ve had a proper look at the questions I feel confident about completing the questionnaire - not much handwriting involved - so departure from the thread topic has done me a favour.
Got to be a matter of time before Forino and Mehmeti get their first international callups for St Lucia and Albania respectively. The drawback being more games possibly getting postponed in March as Forino, Mehmet, De Barr and possibly Kaikai get called up.
My daughter is a left handed musician, finding a left handed bass when she was a teenager was like finding hens’ teeth. Is it 10% left handed in the population?
My wife is also left handed so 40% left handed in our family.
A lot of left-handed guitarists/bassists play so-called right-handed instruments though - when you first start then both your hands have to learn new and unfamiliar things to do anyway, so there probably isn’t any intrinsic advantage to having one dominant hand over the other.
Depends what you mean by ages. Since the 18/19 season, we've won four to their three, with two draws. They've not scored for the past two seasons but beat us in the three regular season games before that.
Why is it that left handed batsmen look so much more stylish than right hand cricketers? Or is it just me @micra. Similarly left hand snooker players look more natural.
In my younger days I would: bat left handed, bowl right handed, swing a golf club left handed, would have wanted to play hockey left handed ( but the rules don’t allow for it), tennis right handed but happy to play a left hand forehand (swapping hands!) rather than stretch for a right hand back hand. I shoot clays left handed. Still write right handed (badly).
Being ambidextrous is something to do with the cortex of the brain isn’t it? But maybe I’m just really as messed up as certain other posters have suggested in the past!
Pub quiz question of the day: As well as hockey is Polo is the only other sport where you have to play right handed?
Also left handed, I do the weird twist round the pen to raise my hand off the page.
I learnt to play guitar left handed which in hindsight is a completely daft thing to do. You have to use both hands to play a guitar, so while it might feel uncomfortable at first, you may as well just learn right-handed. It will make reading tabs easier, and save you a lot of money and give you a lot more choice when buying guitars.
I'm pretty much the same, when I played cricket I was a right handed batsman, but bowled left handed, I can use both hands to use a hammer, I write right handed and when I played football I was left footed... also used to swap hands when playing tennis, used to drive my missus mad that one !
Interesting question. When I think of batsmen like Strauss, Cook, Gower and Len Hutton, I see flowing, elegant off-side drives through the covers. Note that I’ve not mentioned Boycott (magnificent though he was) or the current England opener (whose name escapes me) who smashes his off-drives with such ferocity that ‘elegant’ and ‘flowing’ sound slightly inappropriate.
I recently watched a snooker final between two left-handers (Mark Williams v Judd Trump) and I only realised they were left-handed after watching for at least an hour.
The way Trump cleared the table in the winning frame was absolutely awe inspiring.
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What's a pen?
The difference between winning promotion to the Championship and potentially not.
How do you hold a pen like a left-handed person despite being right-handed? Do you hold it in your left hand?
Holds the pen between his little finger and the one next to it?
I was told left-handed people hold a pen differently. Perhaps that was BS...
Did they ask you to get a left handed screwdriver too?😋
I suspect that's correct because they'd still be writing left to right across the page.
Having just tried imagining doing that I feel a left handed writer would maybe turn their thumb and forefinger about 45 degrees clockwise in order to make it more comfortable
Ringo is a left handed man who plays a right handed drum kit.
Paul McCartney is a right handed man who plays a left handed guitar.
Tom is a right handed man who uses a pen left handed.
It's a crazy world we live in - no use trying to figure it out.
Didn't Jimi Hendrix play a right-handed guitar strung backwards (I'm not au fait with the technicalities of instruments)? His parents thought he was possessed by the devil because he was left-handed.
T'was a joke guys. I am actually left-handed myself and it's absolutely true we hold pens differently. As Eric says, you're following the pen across the page, so if you held the pend like a right-hander you'd smudge the ink (even with a biro). So you either have to twist your hand round underneath the pen (as I do) or contort it even further so you kind of loop round the top of the pen and hold it from the right - rare but I've seen it. By the way, my handwriting is shit.
Yes, he had the right-handed guitar with the strings reversed.
Have a lefty friend... she contorts her hand over the top when she writes.... its a strange thing to witness, but to be fair, her handwriting is pretty good
Yeah, I contort mine over the top as a right-hander. Not quite sure what went wrong there.
I'm a lefty, but I hold the pen in quite a normal fashion, unlike some of the other 'Cack handers' I've witnessed.
But having said that, I struggle to read my own handwriting.
Funny you should say that. I’ve got two questionnaires sitting on the kitchen table, which I really will get round to completing this year ! One set relates to a UCL stress and health study (conducted by Sir Michael Marmot) in which I have been participating for about 35 years. The booklet of questions (many requiring detailed answers but the majority just a matter of ticking boxes) runs to 20 A4 pages and covers health, medication, lifestyle (including diet, exercise, and daily routine) and life in general.
Now that I’ve had a proper look at the questions I feel confident about completing the questionnaire - not much handwriting involved - so departure from the thread topic has done me a favour.
Being left handed sounds awful.
Got to be a matter of time before Forino and Mehmeti get their first international callups for St Lucia and Albania respectively. The drawback being more games possibly getting postponed in March as Forino, Mehmet, De Barr and possibly Kaikai get called up.
I would love a half-and-half Albania and St Lucia shirt...that would raise some eyebrows!
Indeed. Even to this day, left-handed guitars are a lot harder to find than right-handed ones, and you pay a premium on them because fewer are made.
The $$$ obviously wouldn’t have been a problem once he was famous, but would have been starting out as a struggling musician.
My daughter is a left handed musician, finding a left handed bass when she was a teenager was like finding hens’ teeth. Is it 10% left handed in the population?
My wife is also left handed so 40% left handed in our family.
A lot of left-handed guitarists/bassists play so-called right-handed instruments though - when you first start then both your hands have to learn new and unfamiliar things to do anyway, so there probably isn’t any intrinsic advantage to having one dominant hand over the other.
Depends what you mean by ages. Since the 18/19 season, we've won four to their three, with two draws. They've not scored for the past two seasons but beat us in the three regular season games before that.
Why is it that left handed batsmen look so much more stylish than right hand cricketers? Or is it just me @micra. Similarly left hand snooker players look more natural.
Ladies and gentleman, meet the stylish left-handed former England opener, Mr Rory Burns...!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YiCe4n91bUo
In my younger days I would: bat left handed, bowl right handed, swing a golf club left handed, would have wanted to play hockey left handed ( but the rules don’t allow for it), tennis right handed but happy to play a left hand forehand (swapping hands!) rather than stretch for a right hand back hand. I shoot clays left handed. Still write right handed (badly).
Being ambidextrous is something to do with the cortex of the brain isn’t it? But maybe I’m just really as messed up as certain other posters have suggested in the past!
Pub quiz question of the day: As well as hockey is Polo is the only other sport where you have to play right handed?
Also left handed, I do the weird twist round the pen to raise my hand off the page.
I learnt to play guitar left handed which in hindsight is a completely daft thing to do. You have to use both hands to play a guitar, so while it might feel uncomfortable at first, you may as well just learn right-handed. It will make reading tabs easier, and save you a lot of money and give you a lot more choice when buying guitars.
I'm pretty much the same, when I played cricket I was a right handed batsman, but bowled left handed, I can use both hands to use a hammer, I write right handed and when I played football I was left footed... also used to swap hands when playing tennis, used to drive my missus mad that one !
An exception that proves the rule!
Interesting question. When I think of batsmen like Strauss, Cook, Gower and Len Hutton, I see flowing, elegant off-side drives through the covers. Note that I’ve not mentioned Boycott (magnificent though he was) or the current England opener (whose name escapes me) who smashes his off-drives with such ferocity that ‘elegant’ and ‘flowing’ sound slightly inappropriate.
I recently watched a snooker final between two left-handers (Mark Williams v Judd Trump) and I only realised they were left-handed after watching for at least an hour.
The way Trump cleared the table in the winning frame was absolutely awe inspiring.
Arguably the worst ever England opener.