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    Look, I'll feel sorry for you, but only if you all stay in the sewers where mutants like you belong. It's just not right having you all trying to integrate yourselves with normal society.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Denmark View Post
    Either teach yourself to do things right-handed, or live with it. We can't help being the majority.
    WE ARE SUPERIOR BEINGS AND WE WILL NOT ASSIMILATE!

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    None of the left-handed people I knew growing up ever seemed to be having any trouble with anything. This proves adaptation of left-handedness to a right-handed world IS POSSIBLE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sagensyg View Post
    Are you going to shank me with your right-handed knife?
    Kotonoha Yaridovich, don't bother.

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    The most annoying thing in the world being left handed is the Nintendo DS. Why oh why did nintendo form their handheld console to be played by right handers? The GBA was fine for us lefties you didn't need to use a stylus to draw pretty shapes or select tiny icons that even the little finger cannot touch without getting it wrong. This recent spree of nintendo ds games involving the whole "use the D-pad and the stylus to control this" system makes me wanna hurl my DS at the wall. I cannot do both of those things with my left hand. A prime example is The world ends with you.

    I however do a lot of things right handed, computer mouse usage (including the use of my touchpad on my laptop most of the time) I hold my pens in a somewhat left handed way though I've seen people using pens with their left hand almost as a fist with the pen stabbing down out of it you gotta wrap it up and put your finger down near the nib to keep flow steady and nice. I do however come across as depressed in my writing a lot of the time since unless my paper is straight it all slants to the left. (according to psychology this signifies depression, according to me this signifies my left handed status) I have little or no problem with computer console games such as halo 3 and many more.

    I also find using a QWERTY keyboard really really easy and since DVORAK was designed for the right handers I will never switch over on that since most of the typing I do at the moment is with my left hand and that suits me just fine.

    PS. Psychotic I'll go get down in to the sewers where I belong with the other mutants when I'm chasing you with dual spikers on Halo 3 next time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪ View Post
    They taught me the righty way, so I curl my hand around my pencil in a way that's supposed to be bad for your hands or something
    I don't know, but the way I hold pencils is weird too. I curl my fingers weird and I get mad hand cramps. I should probably learn to stop that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Azar View Post
    Most of those things should be easy for you. I'm left-handed, and I could use scissors just fine by the time I was, I dunno, in elementary school? Shaking hands isn't exactly difficult either.

    The only thing I dislike about being left-handed is the writing thing. Other than that, it's generally a unique characteristic or an advantage.
    Whenever I use right handed scissors it never cuts ... sharply? It's always really finely torn. It's weird. I taught myself to use right handed scissors, so it doesn't matter. I agree with the rest, writing in binders is hellish.

    The single most annoying thing is that I perpetually have ink or pencil or marker all over the pinky side of my hand. ; - ;

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    I'm left-handed. It doesn't really ever cause problems. In fact, while playing tennis it's an advantage because righties don't really know how to handle it. If you're that horrorstruck by it, pull a Ned Flanders and build a Leftorium.

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    But the Leftorium failed initially! In fact, it only survived because Springfield has a high percentage of lefties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moon Rabbits View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪ View Post
    They taught me the righty way, so I curl my hand around my pencil in a way that's supposed to be bad for your hands or something
    I don't know, but the way I hold pencils is weird too. I curl my fingers weird and I get mad hand cramps. I should probably learn to stop that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Azar View Post
    Most of those things should be easy for you. I'm left-handed, and I could use scissors just fine by the time I was, I dunno, in elementary school? Shaking hands isn't exactly difficult either.

    The only thing I dislike about being left-handed is the writing thing. Other than that, it's generally a unique characteristic or an advantage.
    Whenever I use right handed scissors it never cuts ... sharply? It's always really finely torn. It's weird. I taught myself to use right handed scissors, so it doesn't matter. I agree with the rest, writing in binders is hellish.

    The single most annoying thing is that I perpetually have ink or pencil or marker all over the pinky side of my hand. ; - ;
    I can't cut straight with my right hand

    I had to ask my friend to tidy up some of the things I cut in the sewing class I took because sometimes I needed things to be JUST RIGHT and there were only righty scissors! ;_;

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    Shaking hands with the left hand is rude, and makes baby Jesus cry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yaridovich View Post
    So, I'm urging all lefties to unite and overthrow our right-handed oppressors! How have our right-handed overlords ruined your life recently?
    When do they NOT oppress the left-handed citizen? I have to deal with all kinds of crap; can openers, doors, scissors, pens. If you're wondering about the last one since we write from left to right, us lefties have to put up with having ink marks on our left hand.

    I take solace only in the fact that on average left-handed people are more intelligent than our vastly inferior right-handed cousins.
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    Yeah, well you also die quicker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill View Post
    I'm left-handed. It doesn't really ever cause problems. In fact, while playing tennis it's an advantage because righties don't really know how to handle it. If you're that horrorstruck by it, pull a Ned Flanders and build a Leftorium.

    Lefties also have a serious advantage in fencing. I'm not one and I strongly dislike fencing you guys.


    Though my mother is a lefty and I've used her left-handed scissors a bunch; I never had any trouble with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Look, I'll feel sorry for you, but only if you all stay in the sewers where mutants like you belong. It's just not right having you all trying to integrate yourselves with normal society.
    Look, let's not be so harsh. It is Lucifer who has misled them, after all. They just need a firm cloister education or, for the hopeless cases, a quick chop over the left wrist. There's no need to go to extremes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yaridovich View Post
    *sigh*

    It's so hard! I was trying to cut a sheet of paper today, but the scissors were right-handed. It looked like a five year old had cut the paper.

    Then, while I was trying to scoop ice-cream, the handle was shaped to be held in the right hand. How disappointing.

    Our stupid language is written from left to right, so whenever I use a pen, the side of my hand turns the color of my pen.

    People always insist I use my right hand when we shake hands. What's so bad about my left hand?

    About the only right-handed thing I use is a computer mouse, and that's because i think using it left handed feels awkward.

    So, I'm urging all lefties to unite and overthrow our right-handed oppressors! How have our right-handed overlords ruined your life recently?
    I feel your pain.

    Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow View Post
    The most annoying thing in the world being left handed is the Nintendo DS. Why oh why did nintendo form their handheld console to be played by right handers? The GBA was fine for us lefties you didn't need to use a stylus to draw pretty shapes or select tiny icons that even the little finger cannot touch without getting it wrong. This recent spree of nintendo ds games involving the whole "use the D-pad and the stylus to control this" system makes me wanna hurl my DS at the wall. I cannot do both of those things with my left hand. A prime example is The world ends with you.
    One of the only reasons I didn't by TWEWY.

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