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Left-Handers More At RiskOf Mental Illness
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 7-31-2007
| Laura Clout
Posted on 07/31/2007 3:19:24 PM PDT by blam
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To: Future Snake Eater
To: Lx
Im left handed and I demand reparations! Wheres Jesse and Al when I need them?
Me too.
Our people have been oppressed for hundreds of years.
They used to burn our people at the stake.
And that legacy of discrimination lives on in every kindergarten classroom where there aren't enough green-handled scissors to go around.
There, in these Classrooms of Shame, our people are forced to huddle around a single pair in the back of the room at the outcast table.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:31:52 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
To: blam
To: Lx
Let’s see... lefties have shorter lives, are more likely to get cancer... now are more likely to be crazy...and are slightly off (well, more than slightly in my case.)
The whole world discriminates against lefties in everything from the way they make tools, to the side of the door with the doorknob — hell even the button on the back of our pants is for the convenience of righthanders...
Yeesh...I think I want reparations too!
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:32:47 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
To: ari-freedom
Well I suppose you’re right.
But I’ve often pondered.....
When I watch my husband hammer a nail or horrors, unscrew a screw, at times I’ve wanted to pull the tool away from him and slap him silly.
Now it could just be him or maybe it looks funny to my right-handed view of the world.
The man does function and he has handyman duties around the house as husbands do.
But my father was a carpenter and I grew up with a hammer in my hand and had many nails in my feet. I know what a guy screwing in a screw should look like, much less hammering a nail like a real man.
A left-handed guy swinging at a nail just looks odd to me.
But I say....hey, let left-handed people pursue their happiness. For they are people too.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:33:03 PM PDT
by
Fishtalk
(http://patfish.blogspot.com)
To: counterpunch
Well you’re making me smile.
This could be a real “cause celebre”...I’m serious.
Get a couple of liberal kooks and soon we’ll be passing laws against left-handed hate crimes.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:34:48 PM PDT
by
Fishtalk
(http://patfish.blogspot.com)
To: Ronin
Yeesh...I think I want reparations too! I'm with you. Tool discrimination should be against the law and punished as a hate crime.
Equal rights for lefties now!
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:37:01 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: blam
This is just more anti-lefty prejudice. A lefty can’t get no justice in a right mans world. Down with righty, down with righty.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:37:25 PM PDT
by
joebuck
To: blam
Left-handed people are OK, I guess. I do have a complete collection of left-handed screwdrivers. And it’s funny as all git out to watch them write... ;-)
To: blam
This is going to validate what my wife has known for years.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:39:06 PM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Leaner, but not meaner)
To: blam
This is going to validate what my wife has known for years.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:39:17 PM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Leaner, but not meaner)
To: blam
I just finished watching the movie, “Wordplay”, and I was astonished at the number of left-handed people in that movie. It’s a documentary about competitive crossword puzzle players.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:39:20 PM PDT
by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: ari-freedom
Ronald Reagan was left handed My brother-in-law is left handed, and he's a raging moonbat. Go figger! I'm ambidextrous. Am I half mentally ill?
To: blam
God is left handed. I rest my case!
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:44:14 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: blam
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:47:56 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Revolting cat!
Is that Eric Clapner? (ahem)
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:49:02 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Well this confirms my suspicion that Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I worked Reception for a Librarary Headquarters for six months after being retired from same system. Sign in is required by all visiting Library staff when visiting headquarters and most were left-handed! Whenever I mentioned that they were another left handed Librarian/Library Tech they confirmed that they had also noticed this. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!
To: blam
I had an old friend who did his doctoral thesis on the differences between right brain/left brain dominance. It’s been quite awhile, but I read a book he recommended and from what I remember, right brain dominant people (left handed) are highly creative with a high preponderance of artists, writers, etc. Interestingly enough, a lot are also very gifted in sports. Left brained people have better language and math capabilities, perhaps including what most perceive as logic and problem solving skills.
Whatever, lol.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:54:33 PM PDT
by
khnyny
(The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away. Ronald Reagan)
To: ari-freedom
About half of all Physicians are left handed, far higher then in the general population. Clearly a sign of superior intellect. (;-)
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:56:59 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: JeanS
I'm with you. Tool discrimination should be against the law and punished as a hate crime.
I'm sure you know how hard it is to find a mouse that's not specifically contoured for right hands!
I was finally able to find a really good preference-neutral rechargeable optical mouse. The drivers even let you reverse the buttons for left-handed use (right-click becomes left, left-click becomes right.)
And it's fairly inexpensive for a rechargeable wireless, too.
It's from Hewlett Packard. highly recommend it.
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posted on
07/31/2007 3:57:00 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
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