Left-handed Redheads Beware... - Page 2

***azalea*** · 02-01-2003, 02:55 PM

I also heard that ambidextrousness is actually more prevalent than true left-handedness.

Elfmaster XK · 02-01-2003, 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by Rána Eressëa

And people seem to think if you write with your left hand, you do all the other main things with your left hand - like catch/throw balls, hold a sword/staff, etc... I do all that other stuff with my right hand. I guess I'm just weird.

That's very true. i'm not left handed in writing, but all those other things you mentioned, I do better with my left hand. When driving we did a little exercise where you control the car with one hand, and I had mroe control when using my left hand. It's weird.

Left handedness was associated with witchcraft in europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuaries when the church was particularly afraid of magic.

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Imagine him being tried as the spawn of Satan. Unless you think Feanor, is satan, as many do. (But I don't, as he kicks ass.)

Feanor is a cool elf!

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-01-2003, 06:13 PM

Feanor as Satan? What a peculiar, (and rather silly, IMO) thought.

markedel · 02-01-2003, 06:19 PM

Actually it make sense. I'm a lefty, and most things are designed for the right-handed.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-01-2003, 06:30 PM

Not really, to me. Melkor is the closest to Satan; how people can make Feanor as him is rather beyond me.

Yeah, I know. Quite annoying at times, isn't it?

Wayfarer · 02-01-2003, 06:34 PM

Melkor isn't just like satat, he is satan. Or at least 'satanic' according to tolkien.

Coney · 02-01-2003, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by Wayfarer
Melkor isn't just like satat, he is satan. Or at least 'satanic' according to tolkien.

*Nods head*

He's probably left handed as well....nasty wotsit that he is.

I'm a righty!!

Wayfarer · 02-01-2003, 07:25 PM

Let me think... when melkor had to pay off ungoliant, he only gave with one hand, and she takes note of it. Which hand was it again? Grr...

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-01-2003, 07:30 PM

*Grabs Silmarillion and scrambles to find the answer*

He held the Silmaril with his right hand!

Wayfarer · 02-01-2003, 07:48 PM

So does that mean he was right handed (hand he held the silmarils in) or left handed (hand he gave the jewels to ungoliant with)?

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-01-2003, 08:30 PM

Very good question: I was wondering the same thing.

Silverstripe · 02-02-2003, 01:37 AM

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Originally posted by Wayfarer
So does that mean he was right handed (hand he held the silmarils in) or left handed (hand he gave the jewels to ungoliant with)?

Personally, I hold things in my left hand, and if I have to hand something to someone, I naturally use my free right hand ... I don't switch. If this held true for everyone, it would mean he was right handed.

But I suspect that Satan is basically ambidextrous, if that is any help in your search for the answers.

Silverstripe · 02-02-2003, 01:49 AM

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Originally posted by Rána Eressëa
I bet they probably were. I don't believe all that accident stuff. Everyone gets hurt equally the same, it's just that lefties are so few, they make out like they hurt themselves more than righties. If 50% of lefties died from accidents and such and 50% of righties as well, the left-handed poplation would dramatically drop "seemingly" more than the right-handed one, even though they're still losing the same percentage.

I've hurt myself a lot, but they were always little things. I've never broken my wrists at all. My two right-handed brothers have had more health problems than I've ever had.

And people seem to think if you write with your left hand, you do all the other main things with your left hand - like catch/throw balls, hold a sword/staff, etc... I do all that other stuff with my right hand. I guess I'm just weird.

I can write okay with my right hand. I practice writing with it ocassionally just to see if I can do it, and it takes longer, but I'm actually fairly good at it.

Okay, now to reply to this one.

Actually, it does make sense that more lefties that righties would die in accidents, because a lot of stuff is designed for righties, and therefore somewhat more dangerous for lefties to use.

I'm really strongly left-handed and use my left hand for most things (except things like what I mentioned in my previous post).

When eating, I hold my knife in my left hand and my fork in my right hand. Unlike most Americans, I don't switch.

I've tried writing with my right hand. The writing's legible, but just barely. This also changes my writing style, which seems odd.

FrodoFriend · 02-02-2003, 12:17 PM

What about being left-footed?

I'm right-handed and can't do much of anything useful with my left (I tried writing with my left hand and it turned out to be some sort of Orcish sub-writing), but when I play soccer I always kick better with my left and when I start a race or something I always push off with my left too. Is this a normal thing or do other people have opposite foot-hand combinations too?

eowyngirl14 · 02-02-2003, 12:59 PM

I am a righty, my dad and his Dad, my Grampa, are lefties.
I always write with my right hand, and kick soccer balls with my right foot.

But when I start to run I pushoff with my left foot. When i start a cartwheel, I push off with my right ft... I think it just depends on the person.

Although, I did have a small surgery on my right leg, and I hurt my right knee trying to go over a jump on skiis...

Inderjit Sanghera · 02-02-2003, 01:56 PM

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Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
Feanor as Satan? What a peculiar, (and rather silly, IMO) thought.

It was just a joke as to how some people vastly exagerate how evil Feanor is and how much they hate him. (i.e Turgon. Wait he's not real...

)

Rána Eressëa · 02-02-2003, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by Silverstripe
Actually, it does make sense that more lefties that righties would die in accidents, because a lot of stuff is designed for righties, and therefore somewhat more dangerous for lefties to use.

When eating, I hold my knife in my left hand and my fork in my right hand. Unlike most Americans, I don't switch.

Yeah, I guess so. I have to take paper out of a three-ring-notebook before I write on it, otherwise I'll take it out later once my hand bumps into those stupid rings.

When I eat things I have to cut, I hold my fork in my left and my knife in the right. I generally use my right hand for holding utensils all the other times, but ocassionally I'll use my left.

Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn · 02-02-2003, 06:11 PM

i havent heard this before..but its weird that people thought that, of course, the salem witch trial was because people thought "weird" things

Rána Eressëa · 02-02-2003, 09:18 PM

Yeah, if science hadn't intervened, I might just be dead today.

Wayfarer · 02-03-2003, 12:10 AM

Actually, what intervened was not science, but the due course of law. The court proceedings that went on at that time were a travesty, and would have benifited greatly from an 'innocent until proven guilty' mentality. Certainly if there had been people using supernatural powers to injure and kill their neighbors, they would have deserved death.

02-01-2003, 06:13 PM	#23
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Feanor as Satan? What a peculiar, (and rather silly, IMO) thought. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-01-2003, 06:19 PM	#24
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	Actually it make sense. I'm a lefty, and most things are designed for the right-handed. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

02-01-2003, 06:30 PM	#25
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Not really, to me. Melkor is the closest to Satan; how people can make Feanor as him is rather beyond me. Yeah, I know. Quite annoying at times, isn't it? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-01-2003, 06:34 PM	#26
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Melkor isn't just like satat, he is satan. Or at least 'satanic' according to tolkien. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

02-01-2003, 07:25 PM	#28
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Let me think... when melkor had to pay off ungoliant, he only gave with one hand, and she takes note of it. Which hand was it again? Grr... __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

02-01-2003, 02:55 PM	#21
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I also heard that ambidextrousness is actually more prevalent than true left-handedness.

02-01-2003, 07:30 PM	#29
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Grabs Silmarillion and scrambles to find the answer He held the Silmaril with his right hand! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-01-2003, 07:48 PM	#30
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	So does that mean he was right handed (hand he held the silmarils in) or left handed (hand he gave the jewels to ungoliant with)? __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

02-01-2003, 08:30 PM	#31
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Very good question: I was wondering the same thing. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-02-2003, 12:17 PM	#34
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	What about being left-footed? I'm right-handed and can't do much of anything useful with my left (I tried writing with my left hand and it turned out to be some sort of Orcish sub-writing), but when I play soccer I always kick better with my left and when I start a race or something I always push off with my left too. Is this a normal thing or do other people have opposite foot-hand combinations too? __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

02-02-2003, 12:59 PM	#35
eowyngirl14 i don't know what i am talking about either, so don't ask Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,353	I am a righty, my dad and his Dad, my Grampa, are lefties. I always write with my right hand, and kick soccer balls with my right foot. But when I start to run I pushoff with my left foot. When i start a cartwheel, I push off with my right ft... I think it just depends on the person. Although, I did have a small surgery on my right leg, and I hurt my right knee trying to go over a jump on skiis... __________________ 'The coming of dawn is ever the hope to the heart of men' -Aragorn 'Then I will die as one of them' -Aragorn TTT movie “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” - Benjamin Franklin arms are made for hugging avatar from the avatar shop! made by Eowyn, Lady of Rohan

02-02-2003, 06:11 PM	#38
Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn The Elven Queen Of All Pyros Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Im like a little bug stuck in the lamp...never going anywhere Posts: 795	i havent heard this before..but its weird that people thought that, of course, the salem witch trial was because people thought "weird" things __________________ Would you judge my future based on what i did in the past? Procrastinators Unite!!!.....tomorrrow.... Kids in backseats cause accidents...accidents in backseats cause kids As long as there are tests..there will be prayers in school

02-02-2003, 09:18 PM	#39
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	Yeah, if science hadn't intervened, I might just be dead today.

02-03-2003, 12:10 AM	#40
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Actually, what intervened was not science, but the due course of law. The court proceedings that went on at that time were a travesty, and would have benifited greatly from an 'innocent until proven guilty' mentality. Certainly if there had been people using supernatural powers to injure and kill their neighbors, they would have deserved death. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

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