[Sticks]

As it is International Left Handers day I thought I sould set up a poll as to see who is what

I am left handed

[_Tom_]

I am right handed.

[serensilver]

right handed! it would take me twice as long to do my day to day things if i changed to left handed!!

[LemonJam]

Ambidextrous

[DamonJ]

rrright handed

[Ninastar]

right handed because i am always right :P

[andyman]

Somtimes i treat myself by using the left hand.

[Sarah.]

I'm left handed ;D

[Scarlett.]

Right handed

and why dont we get a day?
DISCRIMINATION

[Novo]

our day is every day

[Captain.Remy]

Left handed are the bests !

[Barbie]

Left handed.. and the majority is made for right handed people... and us lefties were classed as disabled years back.. so we deserve a day

[ange7]

Originally posted by Barbie-big-bro
Left handed.. and the majority is made for right handed people... and us lefties were classed as disabled years back.. so we deserve a day

yes a SPECIAL day.... hehe

[hanny08]

Left handed, even though when I started school at 4 the teacher I had used to slap me trying to get me to use my right hand. That was until my dad went up to the school and threatened to slap her if she laid a finger on me again lol!! Her reasoning by the way was that all left handed people were sent by the devil....no i'm serious. She was a nun and thought anything that was a bit different was sent by the devil!!

[Sticks]

Originally posted by hanny08
Left handed, even though when I started school at 4 the teacher I had used to slap me trying to get me to use my right hand. That was until my dad went up to the school and threatened to slap her if she laid a finger on me again lol!! Her reasoning by the way was that all left handed people were sent by the devil....no i'm serious. She was a nun and thought anything that was a bit different was sent by the devil!!

How long ago was this, and how long did you have to suffer before your father intervened?

[ange7]

Originally posted by hanny08
Left handed, even though when I started school at 4 the teacher I had used to slap me trying to get me to use my right hand. That was until my dad went up to the school and threatened to slap her if she laid a finger on me again lol!! Her reasoning by the way was that all left handed people were sent by the devil....no i'm serious. She was a nun and thought anything that was a bit different was sent by the devil!!

you'd think the church/school would screen out nutters like that ... lol or maybe they just "move them on" like they do with naughty priests from one church to the next.

[hanny08]

Originally posted by Sticks

How long ago was this, and how long did you have to suffer before your father intervened?

I was 4 so that would make it 1986. It went on for quite a while as I wouldn't tell my parents, being too scared I suppose, but a friend of mine told her mother and it went from there. It was just me though this woman hit all the kids in the class unless their parents were rich. They got away with it in those days even though it wasn't all that long ago.

[hanny08]

Originally posted by ange7

you'd think the church/school would screen out nutters like that ... lol or maybe they just "move them on" like they do with naughty priests from one church to the next.

i agree but sadly, even in the 80's they wern't veiwed as 'nutters'. Alot of the teachers, nuns or not, hit the kids in their class. The principle just turned a blind eye.

[Leonine]

Originally posted by hanny08
Left handed, even though when I started school at 4 the teacher I had used to slap me trying to get me to use my right hand. That was until my dad went up to the school and threatened to slap her if she laid a finger on me again lol!! Her reasoning by the way was that all left handed people were sent by the devil....no i'm serious. She was a nun and thought anything that was a bit different was sent by the devil!!

I'm left handed & got that too on a less extreme scale (no slapping) from a primary school teacher (Miss Garlic ).

No coincidence she was also one of those devoutly religious types too, big fat old nutjob that she was, gawd bless her.

[hanny08]

Originally posted by Leonine

I'm left handed & got that too on a less extreme scale (no slapping) from a primary school teacher (Miss Garlic ).

No coincidence she was also one of those devoutly religious types too, big fat old nutjob that she was, gawd bless her.

Yeah there are some people who should just not be allowed to teach kids. Alot of the nuns teaching in our school would not even have had any official teacher training, thet were nuns and that was good enough for the state.

[Sticks]

So did he try and approach the head teacher first before threatening the teacher concerned?

Nowadays the father would get into trouble for threatening behaviour.

I find it incredible that this attitude was there as late as the 1980's. I wonder if there are any left handed children out there in our schools still suffering.

A friend of mine from Korea indicated that in Korea it still goes on and from the sound of her voice agreed with it, if I read them correctly. It is considered a matter of shame if the child is left handed at school there, because it means the parents did not care to correct their child.

[ange7]

Originally posted by Sticks
So did he try and approach the head teacher first before threatening the teacher concerned?

Nowadays the father would get into trouble for threatening behaviour.

I find it incredible that this attitude was there as late as the 1980's. I wonder if there are any left handed children out there in our schools still suffering.

A friend of mine from Korea indicated that in Korea it still goes on and from the sound of her voice agreed with it, if I read them correctly. It is considered a matter of shame if the child is left handed at school there, because it means the parents did not care to correct their child.

This is a blind generalisation of a WHOLE nation WOW!! ... ALL based on ONE conversation with ONE Korean which you admit you may not have read correctly. Nice work!!

Re "Nowadays the father would get into trouble for threatening behaviour. "
I think nowadays a teacher HITTING a child would get you into trouble TOO so don't worry about hanny08's dad. We need to keep on eye out for crack pot churchy types who think they alone have God on their side... not fathers who defend their daughters.

[Nicky.]

Originally posted by LemonJam
Ambidextrous

Same here !

[Corkie]

Left handed people are cool.

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : Corkie
Left handed people are cool.

Of course we are !
Today, a man at Uni while writing on the blackboard said 'Sorry I don't write well, I'm a left-handed man' and I was like 'What the hell ? Being left-handed is not an excuse, we are like everybody else.'
Moron lol