Happy Left-hander's day!

[Ally_Kat]

Party on fellow lefties. And don't worry you sinistrophobes, it's only one day.

[Little Texan]

I heard somewhere that left handed folks don't live as long as right handed folks.

[Ally_Kat]

I read that, too, a while ago. I think they said it was because the accident rates for lefties was higher because we're backwards of sorts. lol

[binnie]

There's a lefties day!

Well, have fun my fellow left-handers.

Apparently, we are more creative.....

[RuzDNailz]

There's supposed to be one in every family. What about ambidextrous people? Aren't they also entitled to this day? There
are some cities that have specialty stores for us left-handers.
As lefty as I am, I still play my bass right-handed.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Statistics show that older people are less likely to be left-handed than their younger counterparts — the percentages of left-handed people sharply drop off with increased age. In America, 12% of 20 year olds are left-handed, while only 5% of 50 year olds and less than 1% of people over 80 are. These numbers are surprisingly divergent — how can they be explained?

A study <b>(no longer deemed credible)</b> published in 1991 claimed that these statistics indicate that left-handed peoples' lifespans are shorter than those of their right-handed counterparts by as much as 9 years. They explained this gap by asserting that left-handed people are more likely to die in accidents as a result of their "affliction," which renders them clumsier and ill-equipped to survive in a right-handed world.

Researchers now attribute most of the difference between the age groups to the fact that older people would be more likely to have experienced pressure to switch hands, a factor not affecting the younger generations. This is supported by the fact that more women than men switched hands, and women live longer than men. However, this reasoning cannot explain all variation, and "the case of the disappearing southpaws" remains a mystery.

Another theory is that some lefties switch hands later in life, due to conformist pressures, or a "biological imperative." It has also been suggested that the percentage of children born left-handed may have been increasing over time.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

<a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Stop guessing!</a>

[binnie]

Am I going to die young?

If so, I think it'd have more to do with my alchol intake than which hand I write with.....

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by binnie
Am I going to die young?

If so, I think it'd have more to do with my alchol intake than which hand I write with.....

or typing about 50 posts a day...

[binnie]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
or typing about 50 posts a day...

Perhaps, although I have cut down from 70+, so maybe I'll live a little longer!

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by RuzDNailz
There are some cities that have specialty stores for us left-handers.
As lefty as I am, I still play my bass right-handed.

Did you resign to right-handed guitars?

I mean, I'm right-handed, but I can't play otherwise than on a left-handed guitar. Before I finally bought one, I used my friends's, in the "right" way for aminute, then always wound up turning it the other way, even though the strings were reversed.
No need to explain how it felt when I finally bought my own guitar.

[mako_kimura]

I play guitar lefty, and for some reason people keep telling me to learn right handed cause I'll be limited. I just tell em all to screw off

[Last_Child]

Ooh Happy Day.

one of my best friends are left handed... plays guitar right handed though.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by mako_kimura
I play guitar lefty, and for some reason people keep telling me to learn right handed cause I'll be limited. I just tell em all to screw off

Limited?? In your choice for guitars, maybe...
As for playing, it's rather by playing right-handed then hindering your gestures that you would be...
Or maybe you play left-handed with a right-handed guitar with the strings as they are? :eek:

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
<a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Stop guessing!</a>

Jesus Christ on a cross. Do you have an inferiority complex, google something, and then think you know it all based on a webpage that anyone can alter the entry to? I did an in-depth thesis about left-handedness for my child development class. Lefties do have an higher accident rate and, at younger ages, are more likely to die from their accidents. The accidents lefties are more prone to get involved with include car crashes (our reaction often is to jerk the wheel left) and power tool incidents. For the older popular, there are less lefties because of lefty-hate. Many faiths would view the left-handed child as representative of their evil diety and would hit the child whenever he didn't write with their left-hand. Many lefties who switch naturally without any interference (which aren't many lefties at all) do so because there are different levels of handedness and they were in that zone where it could be one or the other. Not so much ambidexterity as it sounds, because they only rely on one hand and all that happens is a change in preference.

I have some recent education journal articles sitting on my floor if you want to look thru them since they did not make the wikipedia cut.