Right handers who do things left handed and vice versa

[Tin Pot]

Are we talking guns here or has the swear filter been at work?


GC

I had a severe injury to my right hand and learned to wipe with the left.

 

[Milkfloat]

Are we talking guns here or has the swear filter been at work?


GC

I was talking guns - I am right handed for the other thing, unless I fancy something special, in which case I paint the nails on my left hand red and sit on it for 10 minutes to make it feel like someone else's.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Left handed for writing and brushing teeth.
Right footed in all forms of football.
Could pass equally well, or poorly, off either hand on a rugby pitch.
Right handed in golf and in cricket for batting but left handed as a bowler or fielder.
Left handed in raquet sports.
Right handed for toilet duties though.
Play electric bass right handed.

 

[Dec66]

Mrs. 66 is right handed, but her dad is left handed.

Consequently she tends to set the table with the knives and forks the wrong way round, and it drives me bloody mad.

Though not as mad as her dad's left handed taps when we go round there.

 

[raleighnut]

Fascinating! Not going to make many in a day though!

I used to average 40 boxes a day, but they'd be cast in batches not singly as that was only a demonstration of how it's done. Most of the work I did was ornamental brassware back in the 80s, castings for Grates, Fenders and Fire Irons etc along with Brass Plaques for pubs.
We were the foundry that cast these for Nauticalia as well.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...s.html&usg=AFQjCNElNXJIsH9NuZj83PArR6QP5cPchA

 

[fimm]

... work the little fireman ...

Now that's a euphemism I'd not heard before... there are quite a few references to the activity in this thread...

I'm pretty exclusively right-handed, but I taught myself to use a mouse left-handed as I was getting a bit of RSI and it means I can swap hands if one wrist feels sore.

 

[Dave7]

Ahhh but which hand do you use to wipe your bum ???
Personally I prefer to use toilet paper.

 

[Rezillo]

Where I can, I try to use power tools right-handed that emit clouds of dust, particularly circular saws. They all throw their dust through a duct that eject it to the right. Fine if you're right-handed - the dust is thrown away from you. If you're left handed, the dust goes straight in your face. If you try and filter it, you have to wrestle with tubes and dustbags that instead of hanging off to one side have to be draped over the workspace in front of you . The downside to using them right-handed is ending up with wobbly line cuts.

And then there's the little side button on power tools that is designed to keep the power on by pressing it with your thumb. Left-handed use always switches the bloody thing on just by gripping the handle, so when you lift the power tool away, it is still going. Grrrrrrr.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Left hand dominant when driving, drinking, riding a bicycle , and wc duty. But I write right handed, eat right handed, bat right handed at baseball, yet I'm ambidextrous at tennis. I shoot right handed, as a rule. I take photographs with the left,if I can.

 

[AndyRM]

This thread is a bit sinister...

 

[earlestownflya]

Archery doesn't depend on left/right hand, but eye dominance. I'm left handed, right eye dominant, so I shoot with a right hand bow. I just have to remember to shut my left eye. Same with air rifles. It's a right embuggeration when I'm trying to teach my scouts.......

im right handed.but left eye dominant......can't hit squat with a rifle if i used my right eye to sight...had an air rifle at a very young age ,it's the only way i've ever done it.only noticed it was different when i realised my dads head wasn't lying horizontal on the butt like mine.

 

[Doseone]

Archery doesn't depend on left/right hand, but eye dominance. I'm left handed, right eye dominant, so I shoot with a right hand bow. I just have to remember to shut my left eye. Same with air rifles. It's a right embuggeration when I'm trying to teach my scouts.......

With Archery I'm left handed but right eye dominant. Rather than switch hands I use a LH bow and just close my right eye. I shoot a gun right handed.

I write left handed, play most sports right handed, tend to be fairly ambidextrous with some things and with other things just don't know which hand to use.

 

[hopless500]

As a kid I was apparently left handed - but school soon stopped that. I sew left handed with my right hand (ie from left to right), write and eat right handed, but when doing stuff where one arm will get tired, I'll quite happily swap which hand I'm using - whether it's hammering stuff, or using an egg whisk. I mainly paint right handed but will quite happily add bits with another brush in the left hand.
However, I cannot for love nor money blow my nose using my left hand!

 

[spen666]

Left hand dominant when ... riding a bicycle ....

What is left handed dominant cycling?

 

[Aperitif]

What is left handed dominant cycling?

Front brake on the left - Euro-style! I swap any 'English' bikes to this arrangement. Build companies, like Planet-X for example, offer the purchaser both options.