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#9712 - 11/06/01 10:53 PM Left or Right Handed
Malcolm HOP admin Registered: 18/11/03 Loc: HOP	Running a new poll to see if there are more of left handed or right handed people performing these arts. Left handed people can be more "mystical, musical, creative, visual-pictorial and more of a pattern seeker" Right handed people can be more "step-by-step reasoning, logical, mathematical, talkative, and more of a pattern user" I write with my left hand and play cricket and golf right handed. And manage to play badminton left or right handed But I like to think of myself as left handed To take part in the current Poll click here _________________________ "May your balls always beam"
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#9713 - 12/06/01 01:10 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
adamrice poo-bah Registered: 19/12/00 Loc: Austin TX USA	I'm left-handed, but your right-handed description is a much better fit for me. _________________________ Laugh while you can, monkey-boy
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#9714 - 12/06/01 02:32 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
protozoa member Registered: 02/02/01 Loc: Baltimore, MD USA	Right-handers, uber alles! -prote, a chronic sufferer of GLHS (Gimpy Left Hand Syndrome)
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#9715 - 12/06/01 11:24 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
kmactane member Registered: 25/04/01 Loc: San Francisco, CA, USA	Given an either/or question, I tend to go "Both!". I'm pretty much ambidextrous. My right hand gets a little more use in some situations, just because the world is set up to assume right-handedness. (So I was taught to write right-handed in school, but can write with my left hand anyway if I feel like it. It's not quite as good, because it hasn't had as much practice and drilling -- but at this point, I write pretty pathetically with either hand, because I spend so much time typing!) Things like poi, fencing, and so on, I do just as well with either hand. And I'm kind of in-between the descriptions of the two types, as well. When I hang around with artistic types, they find me too cerebral and logical, but when I hang around with engineers and techies, I come off as much more artistic and intuitive. I tend to split the difference, no matter what.
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#9716 - 12/06/01 11:58 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
CAINED-AND-UNABLE member Registered: 19/02/01 Loc: Manchester	i'm right handed (completely) but i fit the description for both. where did you get the quotes???
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#9717 - 12/06/01 10:27 PM Re: Left or Right Handed
Malcolm HOP admin Registered: 18/11/03 Loc: HOP	CAINED-AND-UNABLE, I got the quotes from a book my partner, Cherry, is using for her "brain behavior" studies. Interesting stuff indeed. Malcolm _________________________ "May your balls always beam"
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#9718 - 13/06/01 01:10 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
Lamar member Registered: 02/06/01 Loc: Dacula, GA, USA	You rock Malcolm. I though I was the only person alive who wrote left handed, but did everything else right handed. My left hand is basically useless unless I'm swinging or shooting pool. When I was growing up and starting playing baseball all the neighborhood kids told me to turn around to bat (righthanded) so it just kind of stuck.
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#9719 - 13/06/01 04:03 PM Re: Left or Right Handed
N8 member Registered: 10/04/01 Loc: NY, USA	definately think that I use both, but quite the interesting question. it would be really cool to find out how many of the proffesional people fit into those descriptions. ------------------ Care of other people's approval and you become their prisoner. Live fully, Rave wholly. Fluid are the movements of my strings... _________________________ Care of other people's approval and you become their prisoner. Live fully, Rave wholly. Fluid are the movements of my strings...
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#9720 - 14/06/01 04:32 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
Pele the henna lady Registered: 15/12/00 Loc: WNY, USA	Depends on what I am doing...I use both...and I fit into both descriptions which is why I can be so business minded about Pyromorph sometimes and a1so do the creative stuff as we11. I think it a1so goes with that 1ibra dua1ity I am supposed to have. Either way, it works for me! ------------------ Pele Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir... _________________________ Pele Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir "Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall "And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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#9721 - 14/06/01 11:55 AM Re: Left or Right Handed
Jeff Duncan member Registered: 03/01/01 Loc: sidney, bc, canada	im ambedextrous so what am i????? huh???? what am i???? am i a patern seeker or a logical guy???? so what am i mr moderater malcolm in your oppinion??? (funny thing is im in between actually)
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#9722 - 14/06/01 02:40 PM Re: Left or Right Handed
Malcolm HOP admin Registered: 18/11/03 Loc: HOP	Jeff, You're Clever and very special thats what you are. _________________________ "May your balls always beam"
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#9723 - 14/06/01 10:29 PM Re: Left or Right Handed
Dr.NoodleHead The last of the slime-mould lovers Registered: 22/03/01 Loc: The Giant Mushroom	I'm right-handed and left-footed (so in gymnastics/hurdles etc I always take off from my left foot, I found left-leg splits much easier and I find turning right when horse-riding to be really awkward). On the other hand, I felt much more comfortable playing guitar left-handed (until I was "taught" how to do it "properly") and I've broken so many bones in my left arm/shoulder that it's not really surprising that it's a bit lazy and stiff compared to my right. I'm also flying to Africa in 7 hours which is completely irrelevent to this post but is mindbogglingly exciting for me. I will be taking both arms and legs with me and I hope to return with the same number of each, attached in the same places that they are now. Bestest Noods _________________________ Fish are just like trees except they move and they're invisible
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#9724 - 15/07/05 05:42 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: Dr.NoodleHead]
Sir Nuggit ....is a liability Registered: 10/05/05 Loc: playing with traffic	It is possible (and very normal) for people to display traits of the opposite handedness, for example I am left handed. My Dad is also left handed (it's genetic) but he displays traits much more vividly than I do - he uses his left hand as a right-handed person uses their right whereas I was re-trained in infant school to use my right. It's all to do with which side of your brain is more dominant (right side for creativity and left side for logic and reasoning) and as we know, the left hemisphere controls the right hand side of our bodies. A simple test to find out which side of the brain is dominant is hold out your left index finger in front of you (arm straight) and aim at something in the distance. Now close one eye keeping your finger where it is. Swap eyes and whichever eye the finger stays on target and doesn't jump, you are that eye dominant ergo that-handed. So if you're left-eye dominant, you're left-handed. Geddit? Gottit? Good _________________________ Pull my pin out, roll me in to a room and see what happens
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#9725 - 15/07/05 05:52 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: Sir Nuggit]
Nucleopoi chemical attraction Registered: 06/11/04 Loc: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England	my grandad is right handed,my gran is left handed,my mum is also left handed and i am right handed. i am righr foot dominated and also my right eye is dominant.
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#9726 - 15/07/05 05:59 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: Nucleopoi]
Sir Nuggit ....is a liability Registered: 10/05/05 Loc: playing with traffic	So the right-handed gene is dominant in your family? Did everyone look at you funny when you tested the eyes? Luckily there's only one other guy in my office right now (probably looking up porn) so I re-tested myself - dunno why, it's not like it's gonna change _________________________ Pull my pin out, roll me in to a room and see what happens
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#9727 - 15/07/05 06:43 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: Sir Nuggit]
TheBovrilMonkey Liquid Cow Registered: 03/09/01 Loc: High Wycombe, England	Written by: Sir Nuggit So if you're left-eye dominant, you're left-handed. That's not quite true - I'm left handed (as are both my parents), but right eye dominant. _________________________ But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
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#9728 - 15/07/05 06:46 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: TheBovrilMonkey]
Arty Farty I wear yellow on monday Registered: 05/07/05 Loc: Farnham Ahoy	left handed and proud of it!!! _________________________ You'll find me on the dance floor
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#9729 - 15/07/05 06:55 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: Arty Farty]
Gidg Super Gidg!!!! Registered: 11/04/03 Loc: Portland Oregon USA	The only thing that I do exclusively with my right hand is write. But when I practice, the writing from the left hand actually looks good! I'm going to say both. _________________________ Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT. Proud member of the HoP DPS. Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind. I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy. Gidg
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#9730 - 15/07/05 07:50 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: Gidg]
_Aim�e_ Carpal \'Tunnel Registered: 02/01/04 Loc: Hastings	Right handed I'm pretty naff at doing anything with my left hand.
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#9731 - 15/07/05 09:46 AM Re: Left or Right Handed [Re: _Aim�e_]
.:star:. Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/01/05 Loc: Bristol	I'm right handed but because my wrists are crap (I haven't been able to write more than a sentence without being in agony with my right hand since i was 14) I taught myself to be ambidextrous so i could swap between the two!- definately helps to prevent Gimpy-Left-Hand-Syndrome!
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