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Kind of a fun question for southpaws. I am a leftie and I think there are def. things that all lefties have in common. Even if it's having to struggle in a world made for righties.

MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT LEFT HANDED:
>I think lefties are usually very creative (we think with the right portion of the brain) which is cool becuase I am an artist
>When I play softball, pitchers hate me becuase I can switch hit, I have won the game for my team several times
>When I arm wrestle I can beat people with either arm
>It's unique
>We tend to be very successful and rich in life (most of the US presidents are lefties including Obama)

MY LEAST FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT BEING LEFT HANDED:
>Ink stains on my hand
>Scissors and knives
>Those stupid desks made for righties (you know what I'm talking about)
>watches and wedding rings
>I get my directions confused
>How waitresses in resturants always put my drink by my right hand

What do you like about being a leftie? What do you hate about being a leftie?

I'm left handed too. I agree that lefties, for what ever reason, tend to generally be more creative, or have a different way of thinking. I love art. I've even won 1st place in the high school art show for the past 3 years (hoping to make it 4 years in April). Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and M.C. Escher, who are some of my favorite artists, were left handed too, which I've always found interesting.

Down sides:
-Pencil/Ink smudges on your hand when writing.
-The metal spiral in spiral notebooks always get in the way.
-The computer mouse is usually setup on the right.
-Defiantly the desks in school.
-Sometimes the logos on coffee mugs only faces outward if you grab the handle with the right hand. If you pick it up with your left, the logo faces you. (I don't know why this bothers me so much)
-Bumping arms with right handed people when sitting at a table.

I enjoy being unique, as you've mentioned. I think it might run in my family. My dad is left handed, and so is my grandma, so it's a possibility. Maybe if I have kids someday, they'll be left handed too.

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“To enlist. To slam the door impulsively on the past, to shed everything down to my last bit of clothing, to break the pattern of my life–that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing–I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap! bitten off in an instant, and nothing left in my hands but spools of khaki which could weave only a plain, flat, khaki design, however twisted they might be.”

Also, is this quote considered symbolism or is it a metaphor?

it basically means that the speaker wants to start over new, with all the past deeds and misdeeds forgotten. to have a new life, free of pains and manipulations. and it has both symbolism and metaphors.

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I was born left handed, but for some reason I write with my right hand. I also use scissors with my right hand, but I draw with my left hand.
When I play baskeball, my left hand is stronger. I can also dribble a basketball with both my left and right hand.

I think it's pretty cool I can use both hands. But is it possible to be both right handed and left handed or is it considered bad to be both?

no! it's not bad at all! : ) haha it's funny that you're worried about it

it's called AMBIDEXTERITY, state of being equally adept in the use of both right and left hands.

totally normal, just a little special cuz not everyone is ambidextrous.

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1) Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2) 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3) 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4) On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5) Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6) Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

7) Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8) Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10) Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

12) The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

13) By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

14) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

15) Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

17) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18) Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19) Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20) The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21) To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22) The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23) The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

24) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

26) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

27) "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

28) It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29) In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

30) A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

31) We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

32) Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

33) Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

34) Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

35) Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

36) When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

37) There are more chickens than people in the world.

38) The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

39) There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

40) The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

41) The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

42) The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

43) The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

44) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

45) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

46) Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

47) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

48) A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

49) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

50) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51) When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

52) Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

53) A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

54) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

55) Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

56) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57) "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

58) Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

no. those are all amazing

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will it be easier to be straighten?

thank you =]

your hair should be thinner but still the same texture you started out with.

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