• @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    Yes. I want to know if they are a south paw before they find out I slept with their wife.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Nah son… that’s not south paw you have to worry about, that’s gun-fu with the little red dot.

  • Thorngraff_Ironbeard [he/him]
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    111 months ago

    Yeah I have people sign stuff for me a lot at work but it’s across a table from me so sometimes my brain fails to figure out for a second.

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    211 months ago

    Only people I know because I like knowing who’s left handed among my friends and family because it helps with things, seating areangements being one obvious example. Or so I don’t just hand them scissors they can’t use or something.

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    411 months ago

    I don’t notice which hand they use, but more often than not, lefties will write with their hand curved over (and smudging) the text they just wrote instead of from beneath (and not smudging.) That’s when I notice. So when I notice, I don’t say, “You know you could prevent getting graphite (or ink) everywhere…” I say, “Ah. Leftie.”

    I have seen righties do the same weird smudging with the arced wrist. Why do people write like that?

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    111 months ago

    I only noticed with my partner after they already told me they were a lefty, and we were working together one day and kept bumping each other.

    Now we make sure that I sit on the right and they sit on the left.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 months ago

    My wife and one of my kids is a lefty. I’ve kinda grown used to half looking out for it in others but only idly. It was fun watching each of the kids to see if any of them would be.

    A friend of mine dropped an absolute bomb one day that I’ll never forget: “There’s only right handed and wrong handed”. Definitely more than 20 years ago now but I never forgot it because I laughed so hard.

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    11 months ago

    I do… but only because I’m left handed.

    Only has ever been brought up, “oh you’re a lefty?” like less than 10 times in my entire life.

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    11 months ago

    Okay I’ll be the hero and say it since nobody yet has:

    I don’t see the world through that lens.
    

    Takes a bow, fends off photographers.

  • Vanth
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    511 months ago

    We have a work area with school desks for some reason, of the crappy right-handed variety. So I notice when colleagues awkwardly try to use the desks and they’re left-hand dominant.

    I have a friend who is left-handed and insists on shaking hands left-handed. She will stare down anyone until they offer their left hand or do a weird fingertip shake with their right. Anyone who manages to shake her left hand without looking like a goober, she excitedly welcomes to the left handed club.