Tin openers,scissors,tin snips,cameras,cam-corders with foldout screens,printers,computer keyboard and mouse.
What do the above have in common?
Well they are just a few of the everyday items made for right handed people.You can buy left handed versions of scissors and tin openers I have even seen a left handed keyboard ( the number block is on the left) and you can change the mouse simply enough. A camera with the button on the left and a cam corder with the screen on the right I haven't seen but no doubt could be got for oodles of cash. We lefties learn to adapt to a right handed world from children of course to such a degree that I bought a left handed tin opener and find it hard to use.With scissors lefties will find the top blade will obscure a line we want to follow.There are lots more examples these are just a few.
If I was writing this instead of typing I would find it easier to write in block capitals.This is a result of trying to push scratchy old school pens against the flow of words instead of drawing it along behind what you write.
Society and religion in particular have deemed left handers as evil for centuries this is the origin of the word sinister
late Middle English (in the sense 'malicious, underhand'): from Old French sinistre or Latin sinister 'left'
Of course this hasn't stopped us,the list of talented left handers is endless,from artists and the performing arts to sports and science and medicine.
If you have manged to last the course and ploughed thus far through this rubbish chances are you are reading it through the efforts and business brain of a very successful left hander, Bill Gates.
The inventor of the qwerty layout must have been a leftie after revenge because the most common letters seem to be on the left.Maybe to slow those typists who were so fast the keys jammed even more as they would mostly be right handers.
However it came about it's good for us lefties who can't touch type.
If you have managed to get right to the end of this make yourself a coffee or something stronger you deserve it.
Just a note one the morning blog,the cats made 5 attacks on the birds,result a resounding victory for the birds 5 to nil
Time for a brew and a chew
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Good news about the victory of the birds - the cats will soon tire of failure!!
I was born as a lefthander but due to a couple of broken left arm accidents taught myself to become ambidexterous during my school days because I hated not being allowed to go to school.
I prefer to be left handed with knives, potato peelers but use either for screwdrives and spanners. I play fretted string instruments right handedly simply because left handed instruments used to cost twice as much as a "Normal" one, I play mouth organs (Harmonicas) left handedly for some wierd reason. Paul McCartney plays a left handed guitar.
I write equally well with either hand (That is of course if I have a pen or pencil in the hand used)
My son is left handed as is his half brother (Ex wifes son)
I've never seen a left handed typewriter nor keyboard, nor have I ever seen a car built for left handed drivers. Books are not constructed for us either.
As you say Mickey we Left handers were often bullied into using what to us was un-natural during our school years due to stupid prejudices from times past.
Good for the birds.
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