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For those of you who don't now, Sunday August 13th is International Left-Handers Day, so in homage to lefties everywhere, Bored Panda has compiled this list of annoying problems that all left-handers face on a daily basis.

If you're left-handed then you're probably aware that, whether you like it or not, this is a right-handed world. From scissors and desks to ring binders and ice-cream scoopers, everything seems to be designed with the righties in mind, which isn't really surprising when you realize that around 90% of the world's population is right-handed.

Still, there's a pretty impressive list of lefties crammed into that remaining 10%. Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Aristotle and Julius Caesar were all left-handed for instance? And let's not forget Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong, Winston Churchill, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama. And Jimi Hendrix. And Kurt Cobain. And Paul McCartney. And David Bowie, Charlie Chaplin, Robert de Niro, Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Jon Stewart, plus a whole bunch of other people we don't have the space to write about. If we haven't made our point yet then what we're trying to say is that, although left-handed people might be in the minority, that doesn't make them any less awesome, and some of the world's most important contributions have in fact come from left-handers.

Despite this however, non-righties have had a pretty hard time throughout history. The word "left" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft", meaning "weak", and the word "sinister" actually derives from the Latin word meaning "left". Left-handers were also thought to consort with the devil, and being left-handed was sometimes considered proof that a woman was a witch and should therefore be persecuted or even executed! Fortunately those days are long gone though, and the only things left-handers have to worry about these days are using a can opener without making a mess, and trying to write without getting ink all over the side of their hand. Scroll down to see some other problems that the modern leftie has to face. Can you relate? Then let us know in the comments below and don't forget to vote. Happy International Left-Handers Day everybody!

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    Sasy
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This just made me think of being tall, and getting all those 'What is the weather like up there' queries from smarty pants short people.

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    Michel M. Prins
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Are you left handed?" and "How can you write like that?" Are sometimes a bit in the same percentages.

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    Daria B
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, right handers are not spared the silver (and blue, when you use a pen) surfer syndrome.

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    Daria B
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The notebook rings problem, I'd just turn the notebook upside down, because I don't care.

    Caroline Naen
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right handed people have the spiral notebook problem too when they turn the page and write in the other side...

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    Joelle Jansen
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first one is me and my family. We're a family of 6 and 3 are left handed. We developed a seating scheme so we don't get in each others way. XD

    Keren Levi
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank god in Hebrew we write the other way around (rtl) so lefties like me get a leverage ;-)

    Beverly Kleinman
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sad but true. Worst part was the ink on your hand would smear what you just wrote.

    Holly Rossmaier Newingham
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When doing poster projects,2 stop the smear factor (& point deductions) I taped gauze on the side of my left hand. It soaked up xtra ink...

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    The Cube Cat
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In regard to the first one, I am constantly asking to switch spots with people to avoid bumping.

    cassiushumanmother
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to do research to understand the eating thing lol. I must have some american blood. In europe i eat like a left handed, the fork in the right hand and the knife in the left. I soon as i get into a restaurant i discreetely change the table placement. I'm right handed but it makes no sense for me to eat with the fork in the left hand as right handed have to do in Europe.I understand left handed because i got some "oh, you are left handed" when people see me ; "no". Strange etiquette french-599...e0ba66.jpg french-599052ae0ba66.jpg

    FHKW
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I write from the back of the notebook so the rings are on the right.

    Sara Otterstätter
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agree with the spiral notebooks. I try to avoid them. But when I have one, I draw in them from back to front. So, that I have the spirals on the right side.

    Michel M. Prins
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, the notebook thing can be easily avoided. People will look weird at you, but its comfort is worth it in the end.

    Evelyn Wrightsman
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    2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    GAH! My binder is flipped because of the ring issue. TECHNICALLY I'm cross dominant but not in the sense of writing.

    Ruyan Wang
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with me!im left handed and my hands,i cant resist it because the pencil would just keep on getting on my hand!

    Romily Valdez
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spiral notebooks! I mean I only just realised it was just a leftie problem, but they piss me off do much

    Cucu Mucu
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same problem for the right-handed people when they write on left page.

    Erik B
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember watching Pulp Fiction and in one of the scenes, Bruce Willis' character was holding a sword with his left hand on top, right hand on the bottom and I thought "oh s**t, Bruce Willis is left handed!"

    Erik Barry
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember watching Pulp Fiction and in one of the scenes, Bruce Willis' character was holding a sword with his left hand on top, right hand on the bottom and I thought "oh s**t, Bruce Willis is left handed?"

    Ashutosh Bhardwaj
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh! I used to get confused and conscious whenever, during my childhood, I came across another leftie.

    Ruth Balaity
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always got C in penmanship because my left handed writing sucked and papers were always smeared with lead.

    Luca Gubernati
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually that is the same problem for righthanded, just on the other side of the page.

    Andreas Wærholm
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where I'm from, everyone has the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right.

    Aisha G
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a lefty i cant relate to the third slide because i kinda write upside down

    Crystal Williams
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I learned how to play golf by watching Bruce Willis and Phil Mickelson

    Ann Walker
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I had school dinners I was made to use my right hand when using a dessert spoon! Never, ever again after the day I left!!

    Lois Glaudel
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If taught correctly from the start, left handed people do not have to turn their hand. Their paper is slanted to the right and the pencil eraser points to the left shoulder. A left handed teacher who was taught correctly!

    Harriet Tisch Zimmerman
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, I’m Left-handed, so what! I can do everything that Righties can do......read, write, drive a car and cook a turkey amongst other things, only more creatively because I need to adept to a right handed world! Being.a lefty is not a curse, but a blessing!

    Jose Baeyens
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm right handed, but I use fork and knife in reverse (fork right, knife left) so I know the problem. Concerning the rings of the map : same for both left or right handed, for lefts it's when you start on page two, for the rights is when you start on page one.

    Amanda Harker
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I notice left handed people on TV too and get pen/pencil marks on my hand and I'm right handed.

    Maggie Smith
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The ring binder problem is easy... Fold the notebook in half and only use just the back-sides of the paper. The rings are then on the right. And I'm not a lefty.

    Holly Rossmaier Newingham
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think this one through... attempting to help teach your RIGHT handed Kindergartener how to form letters or hold a pencil "correctly"! OMFG!9

    Adrian Hammersmith
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used gummed-top notepads, so this never happens to me. I only use ringbinders for clear-sleeves for archiving magazine pages, photocopies et al. If you can't find those, use a foldback-clip to turn loose-leaf into a pad. Or to bind photocopies into a book without glueing. You can always take them off to add, remove or rearrange pages.

    Kathleen Lovell
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm right handed and I hate spiral notebooks--the get caught on so many things. I used non-spiral notebooks all the time.

    Jacqlyn C Weir
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why turning the notebook sideways works. No one will have to deal with the spiral again.

    Elizabeth Vajtauer
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so very true, i always notice left handers,, I write left handed but i learned at a very early age to write like i wasnt left handed, if that makes any sense, well it will to a left hander.

    Terrie Brandt
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    notebook rings get in the way for right handers too, when writing on the left page of the book

    CrystalPanda Gaming
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The rings are the worst. I always have to write far away and the teachers like... "Can you please write a 'little' Closer to the rings" Me: (Says in head) SOMEONE HELP ME

    Bonnie Hemmerling
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I told my left-handed son to write on the backs of the pages. Looked same as front, only put spiral on the right side!

    Chris Howard
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The eating is so bang on! I have to literally think about where I sit at a table because of it.

    Shannon Woods
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband and I always have the eating problem when we go out with friends. Especially since I hate eating on the inside of a booth.

    Isabel Enechi
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The one for the eating girls isn't the left-handed person's fault or is it because majority of humans are right handed dat the left handed seems odd

    Shalini Gogna
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is my excuse to sit by the wall when i go out to eat. That way i can lean on the wall and ask people to get me drinks and salads

    Heather Cowan
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dinner table problem involves musical chairs. The notebook I simply turn and ignore metal rings gouging in hand.

    Milda Mockūnaitė
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, notebooks with rings are also right handed people problem too... Like, everything is okay when you write on the right side, but when you have to write on the left side... ...so f**k those f*****g notebook rings!

    Marcie Hanaburgh
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A surprising number of actors and cartoon characters are lefties. (I am not)

    Jennifer Cruts
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad and my sister were left-handed. Growing up I thought it was normal table manners for there to be assigned seats at dinner. It wasn't until my sister moved out (I was 6 years old) that I realized it was so there wasn't a bunch of elbow bumping.

    Master Markus
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm right-handed, but notebook rings are also problem on the opposite page. So I just don't buy ringed notebooks because they're a proven pain in the a*s.

    Zoe Drake
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is totally true but the notebook thing is easy to fix; turning it upside down takes away the margin and puts the title line at the bottom. Just buy notebooks without the ring binder; granted you have less choice of notebooks you can buy but it takes the hassle out of writing in them and puts that hassle into finding notebooks that you can write in and have enough pages in for the year!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother and I have the same problem (dinner table problem) it must suck to be the only left handed person you know.

    Jacqueline Arana
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The food problem is more of being cramped I get that problem with a bunch of fellow right handed prople, as far as the notebook goes i always used front and back so it's only a problem half the time

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend is left handed but everyone thinks he's cool cause of that

    Mikleo
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a solution for the notebook rings, just turn the notebook.

    Juan Alcorta
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you hit someone with your elbow shile eating, you´re doing it wrong wether left or right handed.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then when you say you're lefthanded, they just don't know what to say anymore

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    Daria B
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We right handers get our pencils and pens on the side of our hands too. Yeah, no one's afe.

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    Michelle Mendoza
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ooh you've never seen a left handed person in all your life? Do you get this surprised like this every time you see a left handed person use their left hand to write? Cause I still get grown people who are like this...

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are not worth buying anyway. They don't cut into hard frozen ice cream well enough. Use the scoop/dipper kind or the wide-spoon variety; I have the latter.

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    Michel M. Prins
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For everyone who uses a drawing tablet I advice to try to make it as easy as possible. I have 4 buttons and a ring. The buttons I linked to the functions: Undo (CTRL+Z), redo (Shift+CTRL+Z), brush (B), eraser (E). And for the rocker ring I did this: Brush size increase ( [ key), brush size decrease ( ] key), zoom in (CTRL + =), zoom out (CTRL + - And now everything goes a lot more easily for me personally. Maybe this will work for you too. rm-ip-tab-...1ea14a.jpg rm-ip-tab-default-598ffc81ea14a.jpg

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    Rhon
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm right handed and I'm currently scrolling with my left thumb! Just being lazy!

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    HauntedForests
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have this problem too, but I'm right handed. So, needless to say, I don't know how to properly use a can opener. I've even broken a few. :/

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    Jane Van Balen
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Helps being a lefty on the tennis court... can be quite off putting to opponents who are more used to playing against right handers (even for other lefties!)

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you poor lefties know that Jewish write and read from right to left? Think about all those poor right-handed Jews!

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    Yasna Minkovska
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a mother of a left handed kid, I've felt the same way, trying to use her lefty scissors :)

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me as a right-hander always thought, the designs are for the others, not for me (Because I already know whats on my mug so the design would cheerish the others). Having it on "my side" keeps confusing me a little bit...

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it a thing where people only lift cups with their dominant hand, I subconsciously alternate between the two

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the reason for this is because it would be really cool to meet someone who is ambidextrous? That's my guess anyway.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Normal cuttlery ettiquette is to use the fork in the left hand, and knife in the right. Change restaurant! ;)

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember that in school when teachers would try and force kids to write right handed, as though they did it just to spite them or something.

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    Shalini Gogna
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you see another lefty and you feel a littke excuted like "well hello, we are 9% of the worlds population don't you know?"

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, but this IS customizable. U saw many times the left-handed mouse options. The keyboards mighy be problem, though.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so used to Japanese manga, I instinctively do this for every graphic novel.

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    Michel M. Prins
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the second time in my life I see that kind of spoon. The first time was also in this gallery, a few minutes ago.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The struggle is looking at someone holding a pen like that! I write with my left hand, but I have no idea how to write if I held a pen that way!

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    Elizabeth Gatti
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly!! Went to Interpreter Training and as I signed , the instructor (DEAF) said something is not right.....so I learned to to use right hand as dominant. Had 30 year career as Interp and once in a while I would screw up and switch to left as dominant.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so glad it's not just me. I never thought about this being a righthand design but I can only get them to work half the time and then not well lol

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are there right-handed pens, or is this just a nerd problem? *whispers* Cross Tech 3 is pretty awesome.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a touch confused by this one, I understand the motion aspect, but I guess I believed check marks were like symbols, they have to be the way intended ? example is the L in Lefties it is essentially the same thing, but left hand writers don't write them the opposite way...sorry not trying to be a rightie just had never experienced a left handed checkmark before

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not surprising, is it, considering 90% of people are right-handed...

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    My Left Handed Brother Is Furious Our Coffee Pot Handle Is Slightly Offset For Righties

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    Šimon Špaček
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure about your pot but on mine you just need a screwdriver and about ten seconds to change this.

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    Funny-left-handers-problems

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    Šimon Špaček
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had similar. In Europe. So when I hold it my right hand I saw US. But then I found a trick! Just hold the jar in the less handy hand and my problem was fixed! And I didn't share it on Internet.

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    Justina
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm right handed. i use both hands when i cook. i often lift things and pour with my left hand. i can't understand this photo.

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    Markus McCloud
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You think yours is bad? I'm right-handed, and my handwriting is fairly atrocious!

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    The Struggle Is Real

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    Liorah Balilah
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gross motor skills are not difficult with the opposite hand. So it should not be difficult turn on a tap or pull a lever etc. Writing is another story.

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    Master Markus
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I initially thought that I was supposed to be looking at the nail polish that seriously needs to be removed or touched up.

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    Patrick Davies
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother is also left handed, and she just took a normal guitar, a non-cutaway design, and reversed the string order. Voila, a left hand strung guitar.

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    Lindy Mac
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HEY!! Forget right and left...why is the stupid electric socket damn near over the sink. Now THAT is a problem.

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