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  • Happy International Left Handed Day!

    That is right, we are special and have our own day.
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  • #2
    International is a bit of a stretch. It's six months later in the southern hemisphere.
    Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
    "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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    • #3
      In other news looks like we completely missed International Cat Day Aug 8:



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      • #4
        I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
        Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
        Difference is irrelevant when dosage is higher than recommended!

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        • #5
          I identify as left-handed.
          Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
          RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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          • #6
            My dad wanted me to be left handed since he thought it would be funny since MIng is right handed.
            (actually because he said if you want to play first base, you have to be left handed despite my not wanting to play first base)
            It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
            RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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            • #7
              The Universe is right handed. I still laugh when I remember kids holding up their left hands during physics tests.
              “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

              ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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              • -Jrabbit
                -Jrabbit commented
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                The universe??? I'm used to having to mock Kidicious for massive over-generalizing, but even he usually confines himself to our own planet...

              • pchang
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                A fundamental tenet of physics, is that it is the same everywhere. Possibly the greatest application of this tenet (and its proof) is General Relativity.

              • Lorizael
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                Pfft. The weak interaction laughs at your "fundamental tenet."

            • #8
              Originally posted by pchang View Post
              The Universe is right handed. I still laugh when I remember kids holding up their left hands during physics tests.
              The right-hand rule violates the equal protection clause of the US constitution.
              Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
              "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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              • #9
                Originally posted by pchang View Post
                The Universe is right handed. I still laugh when I remember kids holding up their left hands during physics tests.
                Both angular momentum and electromagnetism follow the "right hand" rule.
                “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                • #10
                  Bet all of you flunked grossly in chemistry

                  With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                  Steven Weinberg

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                  • #11
                    I'm kind of bihanded - writes with the right, eat with the fork in the right hand, shoot hand weapons with right hand but rifles on the left.
                    With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                    Steven Weinberg

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                    • #12
                      I'm generally a lefty, but I was taught to golf, play guitar, and swing a baseball bat right-handed. And still do. With golf and guitar, it was about the available hardware. For baseball, it was just how my Dad taught me. I throw left-handed.

                      In Catholic school, the nuns did try to force me to write right-handed, especially when we learned cursive. I found it was easier to learn learn an overhand grip so my letters would "lean forward" the way they wanted.

                      This is a classic example of how left-handers tend to be more adaptable.
                      Last edited by -Jrabbit; August 13, 2018, 18:54.
                      Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
                      RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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                      • #13
                        At the Catholic school I attended the nuns would rap your hands with a ruler if you didn't hold the pen EXACTLY like they wanted.
                        So I took piano lessons from one of them so the rest weren't allowed to touch my hands again. I still hold the pen wrong
                        It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                        RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                        • #14
                          Fun facts: Roughly 10-11% of the population is left-handed. Yet since 1968, the majority of US presidents -- all but Carter, W, and Trump -- have been left-handed.

                          In the past hundred years, the U.S. presidency has veered more and more to the left — not in policy, but in handedness. Barack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left-handed presidents from the 20th century: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were all southpaws.
                          Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
                          RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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                          • #15
                            Originally posted by Broken_Erika View Post
                            He is raising his right hand.
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