[Sticks]

Like me Kate is left handed.

Kate winning was a great day for left handers

BTW does anyone know when the practice of forcing left handed children to use their right hands at school was stopped. Does it still happen in this country

Could we get Kate to promote Left Handed awareness because I have encountered evidence where parents thought it was something that had to be "fixed"

[James]

If I remember rightly Brian is left-handed as well.

My dad is left-handed but writes with his right hand because that's how he was taught at school.

Schools don't do this any more though. I'd say it's been quite a while since this was the case.

[avriljayne]

Well I write with my left hand although I am not considered to be completely left handed. I remembered doing a test once and it asked loads of questions i.e which hand would you throw a ball with?

I throw with my right hand. Kick with my right foot. Used my left leg as lead when hurdling. Hold a tennis raquet in my right. Play guitar with my left. Use scissors in my right. Use a knife to cut bread etc with my left although I hold a knife at the dinner table in my right and use a spoon in my left. Pick a cup up with my right.

At work I use my mouse with my left and at home with my right.

I could go on and on and on .....

Incidentally I started school in 1961 and was never forced to write with my right hand then.

I am right handed but left footed (or at least I was years and years ago when I could play football).

When I first met Mrs Oldgit she asked which side of the bed I slept on. I told her either, coz I'm ambisextrous!

[Mairi]

Originally posted by Oldgit
When I first met Mrs Oldgit she asked which side of the bed I slept on. I told her either, coz I'm ambisextrous!

When you FIRST met her, Oldgit?

Originally posted by miriam

When you FIRST met her, Oldgit?

Well, not quite!!! There was a time gap but you know how age fades the memory. Or perhaps you don't.

[Janette]

Originally posted by Sticks
Like me Kate is left handed.

Kate winning was a great day for left handers

BTW does anyone know when the practice of forcing left handed children to use their right hands at school was stopped. Does it still happen in this country

Could we get Kate to promote Left Handed awareness because I have encountered evidence where parents thought it was something that had to be "fixed"

I also am left handed, I have to do certain things like use scissors with my right hand because I've never had a left handed pair of scissors. The world is predominately biased against left handed people, how often do you see a left handed knife? the serrated edge is on the wrong side for us. Here are a few things that I've never seen adapted for left handed people:-

Knives (see above)
Pans - the pouring lip is on the wrong side
Potato peelers - I couldn't use one till I was 16!
Scissors - (see above)

The list is endless!!!!!!!

In fact, I had to leave my old job because they insisted I use a right handed machine and could only type with my right hand. I was told left handed machines weren't a priority!

And that was only last year!!!!!!!!!

[LEE]

Pans - the pouring lip is on the wrong side
Potato peelers - I couldn't use one till I was 16!

I am not left handed but used to share a flat with someone who is.

We had a set of left handed pans and a left handed potato peeler. They do exist.

[James]

You can buy these at this on-line store:

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/shop_front.html

[Janette]

James you are an absolute star!!!!!

That site is brilliant! it's also reminded me of the times I've struggled with tin openers!

[susieq]

Thanks for that James. My son is left handed and really struggles with scissors and knives. It looks a really good site - thanks again.

[hauser]

I was a left-hander as well, and was beaten for being one, also called the Devil's daughter. Being left-handed, as many might know, was because the Church ruled that the "right hand" was the correct side, so left-handed kids were forbidden to use their natural ability, and if seen using left had they'd get more than a sharp rebuke.........soooo, I ended up using right hand only, and holding potatoes in left hand with pealer in right was something I couldn't manage well throughout the years, and still can't use the left hand for some things. First time I had to use it, was when I chopped off top of right hand thumb in a door, which the surgeon sowed back, but left hand came into it's own then and was very difficult using it.

I believe you can buy a left-hand pen as well, as someone I know is left-handed and couldn't use an ordinary pen, and had to go buy one for his use.

It's all a stupid prejudice, and time it was stopped.

[Sticks]

Which church was this ?

Did they ever read Judges 3:15 about Ehud the left handed judge of Israel

Prejudice against southpaws is deep rooted.

Consider the modern usage of two Latin words

Dexter means right hand (dextrous, etc)

Sinister means left hand.

Nuff said?

[James]

This reminds me.

Does anyone remember in BB2 that Dean discussed a kitchen gadget he had invented?

He suggested that Paul could draw it on computer and Paul said that Dean could get sponsorship to manufacture it.

Dean didn't want to say what it did or how it worked on TV. I wonder what it was and if he still has plans to sell it.