Left handed or right handed?

[TheSoloChef]

(Mod edit: moved to a new topic KKA)

Looks lovely. I like the way you very often serve things with a good gravy.

But why are your knife and fork the wrong way round? Can't be the effect of a phone photo reversing the image, 'cos the writing on ths table mats is the right way round. Are you left handed?

They're the right way around, it's everyone else who has them the wrong way around!!

The even odder thing is, I butter bread and carve meat with my right hand, but when I sit down to eat I have them the wrong way around and no, I'm not left handed either!

 

[JAS_OH1]

But why are your knife and fork the wrong way round? Can't be the effect of a phone photo reversing the image, 'cos the writing on ths table mats is the right way round. Are you left handed?

I'm left-handed and my eating utensils are on the left.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

But why are your knife and fork the wrong way round? Can't be the effect of a phone photo reversing the image, 'cos the writing on ths table mats is the right way round. Are you left handed?

There's a reason I never show cutlery in my pictures. It totally depends on the meal I'm eating as to what hand I use the utensil in. Some days it's my right hand, some days it's my left. I was left handed, but as a kid was of the generation where it was thought you copying 'cure' it by forcing them to learn to write with the right hand. All that did for my writing was to make me mirror write instead.

Even now, certain letters of the alphabet will be the wrong way round if I'm tired. Mirror writing is still very easy and I can write with both hands. I tend to stick to large knives in my right hand, but small knives can be in either hand and I'm quite happy using a mouse on either side of the keyboard.

 

[rascal]

There's a reason I never show cutlery in my pictures. It totally depends on the meal I'm eating as to what hand I use the utensil in. Some days it's my right hand, some days it's my left. I was left handed, but as a kid was of the generation where it was thought you copying 'cure' it by forcing them to learn to write with the right hand. All that did for my writing was to make me mirror write instead.

Even now, certain letters of the alphabet will be the wrong way round if I'm tired. Mirror writing is still very easy and I can write with both hands. I tend to stick to large knives in my right hand, but small knives can be in either hand and I'm quite happy using a mouse on either side of the keyboard.

So you would stab mrs t with left ot right??

Russ

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

So you would stab mrs t with left ot right??

Russ

I'm happy to use either hand. If I can play badminton with either hand, I'm sure stabbing can happen with either as well.

 

[Morning Glory]

was left handed, but as a kid was of the generation where it was thought you copying 'cure' it by forcing them to learn to write with the right hand. All that did for my writing was to make me mirror write instead.

I'm surprised. You are a heck of a lot younger than me. I'm not left handed but I knew fellow pupils who were and none were ever made to write with their left hand. And I'm talking about UK schools the 50's and 60's. Maybe it was the private school you went to?

Off topic..

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I'm surprised. You are a heck of a lot younger than me. I'm not left handed but I knew fellow pupils who were and none were ever made to write with their left hand. And I'm talking about UK schools the 50's and 60's. Maybe it was the private school you went to?

Off topic..

I started primary school in 77 so it must have gone on in some areas for a lot longer than others because they had only just stopped doing it where I went to school and some of the teachers still encouraged right handedness.

 

[Windigo]

I'm surprised. You are a heck of a lot younger than me. I'm not left handed but I knew fellow pupils who were and none were ever made to write with their left hand. And I'm talking about UK schools the 50's and 60's. Maybe it was the private school you went to?

Off topic..

They still did that at my school too..

 

[TastyReuben]

I started primary school in 77 so it must have gone on in some areas for a lot longer than others because they had only just stopped doing it where I went to school and some of the teachers still encouraged right handedness.

Same here - but it was really down to the individual teacher. Some of them, at the elementary school level (ages 6-11, so for me, 1972-1977) were downright brutal to lefties, others didn’t care.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Same here - but it was really down to the individual teacher. Some of them, at the elementary school level (ages 6-11, so for me, 1972-1977) were downright brutal to lefties, others didn’t care.

It’s a weird thing to get your hair off about isn’t it!

 

[badjak]

They still did that at my school too..

Surprised here as well as you are a lot younger than me.
I'm a right hander, but never saw left handers forced to write right handed.
I heard stories from my teachers at high school though.
One could write mirror image and another started writing left handed on the black board, then changed over to right hand so he could use the whole black board without moving
(Sorry MG, off topic)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I'm surprised. You are a heck of a lot younger than me. I'm not left handed but I knew fellow pupils who were and none were ever made to write with their left hand. And I'm talking about UK schools the 50's and 60's. Maybe it was the private school you went to?

Off topic..

No, Margaret Thatcher back in the 70's and infants school.
The village infants school I went to still did the free school milk back then as well.
I started infants school in '75 or '76.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I'm surprised. You are a heck of a lot younger than me. I'm not left handed but I knew fellow pupils who were and none were ever made to write with their left hand. And I'm talking about UK schools the 50's and 60's.

Me too. I was at school from 1957 - 69. No leftie correction here, thank goodness!

 

[rascal]

My late mum was born in 32 and she was a leftie who had her hands smacked with rulers etc as a kid .
Us 3 boys are right handed. My daughter is a leftie.ive always understood lefties were more brighter than righties. And still do today.
My mums signature was cack handed on an angle. I can still copy her signature now. From writing my own sick notes lol.

Russ

 

[karadekoolaid]

Left handedness has always been thought of as evil - which it's not, of course. Religion is partly to blame, of course; the right hand of God and Muslims eating with their right hand. In Mediaeval times, left-handedness was often associated with witchcraft and the devil.
Then language got in on the act. In Latin , dexter means right and sinister means left. In French, it's droit and gauche.
In English, sinister means something a bit scary, while dextrous means able. If you are adroit, you are clever, or skilful, whereas if you are gauche, you are clumsy or lacking social grace.