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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Poll: I am X handed 64

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I am:

A) left handed. (Em sucks)

B) right handed. (Xerithane sucks)

C) Ambidextrious (spelling? who gives a shit. can do tasks with either hand, you get the gist?)(Technolust sucks)

D) I have no hands, you insenstive cesspool of human waste. (GMHowell sucks)

E) other*

*I don't possibly know how other could apply here, but I am assuming GMHowell can find a use for this one.

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Poll: I am X handed

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  • Sallright.
  • Why doesn't /. allow user polls likee the one on the main page? It can't be that difficult to incorporate and it would save on the number of commentss created by polls done this way potentially.
    • I dunno. I offered to do polls for slashdot.

      Guess my polls aren't geeky enough, I mean, they don't ever even mention SCO or Linux or star wars or any of that "news for nerds" stuff they seem to do polls about. If I may say so myself, I believe my polls to be much better--I just don't have the readership that the main page has obviously.

      *snort*
      • Your polls *are* better... You know why? Because usually the people that vote will give a reason. In the main-page poll, you just get those that are willing to post. Here a vote, is a post.

        It's always interesting to see what other people think.

  • I'm extremely right handed. More so than most people seem to be. My left is essentially useless for many things. I've been trying to train myself to be able to use it more, with some limited success, but there's a long way to go...
  • I'm lefthanded online, only.

  • B) (Score:1)

    by Mr.Intel ( 165870 )
    For everything but writing, golf, baseball, throwing, cutting and eating...
  • yeah, Em sucks! :)
  • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • B. (Score:2)

    by Xerithane ( 13482 )
    It's more comfortable to write and mouse with my right hand.

    Had an interesting discussion about this over lunch (had a group lunch at work) where a girl revealed her inability to use any eating utensil with her left hand, except to just hold it. If she attempts to do anything complex, like put a fork in her mouth, disasters occur.

    This is the same person who also said, "I don't even know how to lock my car doors without keyless entry." You can form your own assumptions.
    • this looks like as good a place as any to answer my poll here.

      I am left handed for eating and writing. I throw right handed, can hit a baseball or whatever from either side of the plate, but I kick left footed.

      My right leg is stronger than my left, but my left arm is far superior to my right.

      I don't get it. I am an anomoly.

      Your lunch buddy sounds like a class A dumbass. Is she atleast decent on the eyes?
      • Your lunch buddy sounds like a class A dumbass. Is she atleast decent on the eyes?

        Let me get something straight here. She isn't my lunch buddy. She isn't even my buddy, and she most certainly isn't my lunch. Or something. Anyways. No, she isn't easy on the eyes. You know that movie Shrek? You know the princess? Yeah, take her at night, but then give her an annoying personality and have her marry the short ass duke, then have a daughter.

        That could be this girl.
        • Nowhere do I see you mention that you wouldn't have sex with her. Ahh, the male psyche.
          • Nowhere do I see you mention that you wouldn't have sex with her. Ahh, the male psyche.
            Well, one way of phrasing a response to that is I would rather stick my dick in a meatgrinder.

            What's worse is she has actually had boyfriends... what men will do for some poontang.
        • That could be this girl.
          Ow! That hurts my eyes just to think about it...yuck!
      • I do most stuff with my right hand... but if I go to a user's PC and their mouse is on the left, I mouse lefty no prob. I do shoot pool (play billiards for our UK friends) lefty, though. My ambidexterity is most noticable when I am building something. I will hammer until my right arm is tired, then switch hit with the left until it is tired, rinse, repeat. I tried to teach my dad how to do this... however it didn't end well for his right thumb.

        • Re:B. (Score:2)

          by arb ( 452787 )
          I do shoot pool (play billiards for our UK friends)

          You do realise that pool and billiards are two completely different games? ;-)
          • Yes. Around here (I'm not sure about the whole US, but at least in the South) we call anything you play on a billiard table "pool". I have played billiards, and 8-ball, and 9-ball, and cut throat. I have also played snooker and some other interesting games involving a pool table. But to be generic, I say pool. However some UK people look at me funny when I say "pool" so I usually try to clarify.
    • You can form your own assumptions

      Blonde? ;-)

    • Honestly, if I tried to use a fork with my left hand, it would probably end up somewhere in my nose. So I refrain from doing so. Not that you can't eat through your nose, but I hear it's less efficient.

      I can't even brush my hair with my left hand. So...I guess that makes me right handed.
  • So is my Dad and two guys I went to grad school with (completely unrelated). It was very strange. Not only am I then functionally right handed for certain things (mousing, using scissors) but I've also heard that left-handed folks have a shorter life span than right-handers. And they still don't know why (and, no, it isn't because of tool mishaps).

    Man... southpaws getting repressed by the right-handed fascists... wait! It all makes sense now!! Right... right-wing... conservative! All right-handers ar
    • I perfer to lefty mouse and I've actually converted a few righties to the task. I think I've posted before as to how this helps, but a quick recap is that your right hand is free to use arrow keys and number pad while you mouse.

      And, as I joked earlier in another JE, we die earlier because of the lead absorbtion from the pencil smears.

      As you mentioned about grad school, I was in grad class one time and my entire side of the room except one person was left handed. It really freaked her out coming from Ind
  • A) and shouldn't credit go to this post [slashdot.org] and the discussion there?

    • Re:A) (Score:2, Informative)

      by Em Emalb ( 452530 )
      prove to me that that post exists?

      Yes, credit where credit is due.

      I ripped this post from LG and someone else. Too lazy to look up who.

      Feel better AF? ;)

      Now, somebody mod this to +5 informative like they used to do to ChrisD's posts.
      • I beleive LG and I were talking about handedness in Xerithane's JE when she asked about how many of us are lefties, I'm not quite sure what Antifreeze has to do with this unless you're just really tired and confused him and myself.
        • Dude, I am a dumbass. I got so much stuff going on right now...I am just retarded.

          Monkeys fucking footballs are my inspiration right now. I doubt I could pour piss out of a boot with directions on the bottom of the heel.

          I'm too poor to pay attention, etc.

          In short, I'm retarded. Forgive me? ;)
  • when i was in kindergarten the teacher kept putting my crayons in my right hand when she saw me hold them in my left.
  • yeah...my left hand is reasonably pathetic.
  • Feel the wrath of my sink-plunger, pitiful hu-mans! :-)

    (In real life, however, I'm right-handed)

    EM-IS-THE-EN-EMY-OF-THE-DA-LEKS!!!
    EM-IS-THE-SU X-XOR!!!
    DE-STROY!!! DE-STROY!!! DE-STROY!!!

  • I'm right handed, but Em sucks. And you thought only GMHowell could find a use for Other. :-)

  • I can use either hand... does that make me suck? Maybe so, but regardless, I'm honored to be included among such names as Xerithane, Em Emalb, and GMHowell.
    • I'm honored to be included among such names as Xerithane, Em Emalb, and GMHowell.

      The last the I ever thought I'd read. Someone being honored to be included in a group with me.

      Most people like having me around just to tell people they're fucking idiots... who woulda guessed.
    • Heh... how about trained ambidextrosity? I can do most things either right or left side... I have spent a good portion of my life training to do this so does it count or am I just a right side dominant over acheiver with left side tendancies?

      And does writing count? I mean, I can write mirror style with my left rather legibly but I smudge the ink when I write proper with the left.

      How about neither matters as the use of keyboards moots writing anyways...
  • I use my right hand to wank off, so.... yes I'm right handed... B...

  • E. (Score:1)

    by gmhowell ( 26755 )
    I'm double right handed, like Zaphod Beeblebrox.

  • A.) Left-handed, aka 'sinister' in Latin. Right, of course, being 'dexter'.
    Right handed bastards.

  • I'm naturally right handed (regular foot on skate/snowboard as well) but after breaking my right thumb 6 years ago and developing repetitive mousing stress (hours of programming and more hours of Quake 2) I switched to mousing with the left hand and have done so ever since. Now a days, I find myself unconsciously occasionally manipulating things with my left hand such as taking the off pool shot, eating with silverware, screwdrivers, pulling weeds, etc. The one thing I can't do which makes me even less of a

  • ...although for some reason, I can bat better left.

  • b. (Score:1)

    by subgeek ( 263292 )
    i am mostly right-handed. if i fold my hands, my left thumb is on top. i can use my left hand for most things well, but my habit is to use my right. writing with my left hand is sloppier than normal, but legible. i am goofy-footed (skate- and snowboarding).

    my favorite way to play house of the dead 2 (and similar arcade shooters) is john woo style, playing both player one and player two at the same time. if you haven't tried that, you should give it a whirl sometime.
    • You play two players simultaneously? Ok, I can't say I've played House of the Dead, but I'm guessing that it's no simple task and requires both game pads either way. You're my hero.
      • i'm not as great as it sounds. house of the dead is a shooter game where the only control is one of those light guns (for each player). so really it's just like playing with a pistol in each hand. i call it "john woo style." the game is a lot more fun that way, in my opinion.

        i was just at an arcade this week and saw house of the dead 3. i didn't play it because they've replaced the pistols with shotguns, which are definately designed to use two hands for operation. oh well, they still had HotD.

        sorry
  • Those of us with "bonus" limbs & protrusions, don't appreciate being forced to select the "misc."/"other" option. Maybe you should be a bit more considerate next time. ;^)

    I am similar to some of the others in that I use both hands for different situations. For things like chopsticks, I use whichever hand is closest to the chopsticks or more convenient. For skateboarding, I skate goofy-foot, so I guess I'm left footed. For shooting pool, I play equally incompetant with both hands. For writing, I can pri
  • C) ambidextrous (or ambidextrosus, a, um) I just do most stuff with the right hand because
    I'm used to it, but there are a couple of notable
    exceptions...
  • I knew this girl who could write her name without using her hands... or feet... or mouth. She was pretty good with her mouth though...
  • Bonzai Buddy does it all for me! Including reminding me what these things called 'hands' are for!
  • I'm pretty much right-handed ... but I do have some quirks. When I fold my hands together my right thumb goes on top, which a psychologist I know tells me is NOT normal for right-handed people. I also beat off with my left hand. I can't explain it - it just doesn't feel right with my right hand at all, and I can't get off.
  • I use my Gripping Hand.

    Bonus points to anybody who has a clue of what the hell I am talking about.
  • I'm right handed in most everything.

    Skate favoring the right leg in crossovers and stopping.

    Use a right handed stick.

    Play tennis right handed (though I've been known to switch hands for a diving lefty shot for the extra reach).

    Bowl right handed.

    Bat right handed.

    Toss darts right handed.

    Shoot pool right handed

    Play beer-pong either (when you're good, you can't be stopped).

    Strangly, I touch type left-handed and use the index finger of my right.

    I mouse right handed and Quake/FPS right handed with left

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