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Oh yeah, don't get me started on how many gadgets are nearly impossible for lefties to use comfortably. I also read some horrid statistic about the percentage of lefties who die on the job because the machinery, etc is made for the right handed.
cleome46
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quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino:
quote:Originally posted by cleome: Whoa. Hearing that teachers are STILL peddling this kind of thinking in my lifetime and getting away with it makes me .
The things I went thru in Catholic School( 9 years of it ) still give me nightmares!!
From Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits:
(when the anti-heroine has a nightmare about going to Hell: )
quote:
Demons: Look! A fallen Catholic! The choicest of the eternally damned!
Midge McCracken: But... I'm not a Catholic! I just went this one time to church...
Demons: [as they do unspeakable things to her] You went through the initiation ritual! Yeah, you're the property of the Pope!
Midge: What?! [beats the living tar out of the demons while swearing profusely]
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quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: Oh yeah, don't get me started on how many gadgets are nearly impossible for lefties to use comfortably. I also read some horrid statistic about the percentage of lefties who die on the job because the machinery, etc is made for the right handed.
I wonder how many job prospects got ruined for me because I can't score high enough on their stupid ten-key tests. IRL, it's not so hard for a Lefty to use a standard ten-key because you can actually turn it around. On the tests, you're stuck using the keyboard, and it just isn't gonna' happen.
I looked up the price of a Left-handed ten-key machine once and fainted for a week.
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Count yourself lucky, Dude.
It's a big source of frustration to me, being jobless mostly. I'm not allowed to count my inability to impress anyone with these tests as a "disability," and yet it should be obvious that it's largely a technical limitation and not a sign of stupidity or unfitness to work.
If I'm not careful, this will turn into a huge tirade about employers and their obsession with testing to the exclusion of nearly everything else, and that's a rant that needs a whole other thread. So never mind.
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Ok, I am gonna finally come out of the closet...
I.. am... (looks around)
I am a leftie! (phew! that felt good)
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[gets Mattropolis a membership pin and a complementary drink]
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Let's not forget the Queen of Lefty Guitarists: BarbaraLynn!
(People in the comments are saying she's passed on, but Google says she was performing as recently as March 15th. Confused fan is confused.)
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I write left-handed and bat left, but throw right and play guitar right handed. Can I still be in the club?
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