Left-handed human race to make the world a better place

[skooooo]

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/15765_lefthanded.html

Scientists say that the number of left-handed individuals grows rather fast in the world today

Specialists calculated that every tenth human being is left-handed. The total amount of lefthanders living in the world reaches over 600 million. According to experts' estimates, there will be a billion of left-handed people living on planet Earth by 2020. The world will be different against the background of such a trend, scientists say.

"The number of left-handed babies that were born in 2005 doubled the amount of left-handed children, which saw the light in 1990," doctor of biological sciences, Alexander Dubov said. "Mankind is changing slowly. However, it is not about degradation of the human civilization at all. Quite on the contrary, people become more perfect," the professor said.

Latest research works conducted in many countries of the globe showed that the IQ level of left-handed people is higher in comparison with the one of right-handed individuals. Every fifth outstanding person is left-handed as a rule. Furthermore, the people, who can boast of having extraordinary abilities, are left-handed too.

[Claymore]

1. Re: "Left-handed human race to make the world a better place"

...now if we could just teach left handed people to not drive with their left foot resting on the brake pedal when they're driving. LOL!

[Tess49]

6. How'd you know I do that?

[scarletlib]

32. I don't do that. If you learn to drive with a clutch first you will not

use your left foot for the brake. (I am left handed)

[cynatnite]

51. I learned with a clutch-still keep my foot resting on the brake

:shrug:

[Claymore]

40. Rest your left foot...

My best friend is left handed and when I'd follow him home on occasion, his brake lights were always on. It's because he rested his left foot on the brake pedal. I'm told this is quite common for southpaws. I meant no offense.

[Tess49]

45. I wasn't offended at all. Actually, I don't ride the brakes.

I drive a stick shift and ride the clutch. A friend who used to ride in my car sometimes was always scolding me for doing that. I still do it.

[Maru Kitteh]

27. I'm ambi and I had the WORST time overcoming that habit

gave my dad fits teaching me how to drive. :evilgrin: I think it's why I prefer standard transmissions.

[newyawker99]

37. Hi Claymore!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Claymore]

46. Thanks!

Thanks NY99! I've been lurking since the 2000 debacle but didn't know how to break into posting. Looking forward to lots of good interaction. Take care!

[mcar]

47. Um, I don't

and I'm left handed.

Most of the people I know who drive "two footed" are older ladies who learned that way. I've never known someone to drive like that just because they are left handed.

Weird.

[jeff30997]

2. Mmmm...Other headlines from that site:

Scientists discover third eye - the center of telepathy and clairvoyance.

11-year-old child expects a baby in Moscow.

Russian X-ray girl thrills Japanese scientists with her remarkable gift.

Russian man lives normal life with a still heart.

Russian woman gives birth to Cyclops child...

[soup]

7. Blast!

Was feeling fairly good about myself there for about a minute and 1/2 - Then ya gotta go and throw something like that out there.

Oh, well. :shrug:

Life goes on. :-)

[jeff30997]

15. Well I'm left-handed too so...

I had to investigate.:)

[Olney Blue]

3. Thanks for the post!

I made a D in tennis in college because I wasn't able to translate all those right handed instructions quickly enough for my left- handedness. Maybe I'm not as bad as I thought!


:hi:

[mcar]

48. I had the same problem with tennis lessons

I totally couldn't learn and the teacher was baffled trying to teach me.

[BayouBengal07]

4. Sweet.

I'm left-handed. One of these days the revolution will come and all you righties will be first against the wall.

[mcar]

49. Yay. And the first thing we do is ban spiral-bound notebooks

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[GiovanniC]

5. I Am Left Handed and I Have a Message For the Righties

I will be a benevolent overlord.

[bridgit]

8. and some are prepared for the change ~

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk

[NashVegas]

29. I've Been in That Shop and Was Sorely Disappointed

It was all scissors & potato peelers for the most part.

[bridgit]

30. sure, left handed paper clips & such...

[Ezlivin]

9. I'm not left-handed, but I'm willing to learn.

Would they send us to some special school?

[skooooo]

10. Probably better start soon...

...I hear the revolution will happen sooner than later. Gotta get used to having ink-smudged hand after you write!

[Endangered Specie]

13. No, we just will require English to be written backwards...

Ive noticed that lefties (including myself) can write backwards, or upside down fairly well.

[Endangered Specie]

11. The rates increasing are in part because we arent as 'oppressed'

as once, many families used to force lefties to become right handed, that is less so in most the world now that we know it can screw a kid up. But else where, it goes on, especially in China, where less that 1% is left handed, and the language is virtually impossible to write left handed.



In any event, I suggest we rule with an iron (left) fist and convert all the right handed people to the better way :evilgrin: Left power! ;)

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. Born left handed and forced to become right handed.

Guess that explains why I am screwed up. My youngest son is left handed.

[CrispyQ]

12. "Since the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body

then only left handers are in their right mind."

My mother is a leftie & has a tee with that saying on it. I've always thought it was very clever.

[JVS]

14. Western Civilization collapses when leftys' tendency to smudge...

what they have just written when writing from left to right brings written language to a halt.

[Tommymac]

16. Yeah, they also need to fix those

Right handed electronic debit/credit card signature thingys at the grocery store check out lines...I have had to learn to be a contortionist to use them.

[LizW]

17. I've always been fascinated by left-handers

Almost every one I've known has been exceptional in some way, either especially smart, artistic, talented or creative. I always wondered if that was statistically true, or it if was just my perception.

[Tommymac]

18. Nah, we're just pluggers

who have had to learn how to deal with a Right handed world....like Avis, we had to try a bit harder. B-)

[Carla in Ca]

20. That is so true

Back in the dark ages (50's) it was still unacceptable to be a lefty. I was constantly teased by the rest of my family and had many teachers insist my parents "make me normal". Sitting in the back of the class with the clowns wasn't fun either but if you didn't, someone was always bumping my arm.
Now, it is never a problem to find 'lefty' stuff and I am thankful to my parents who taught me to celebrate it. As the sign in my kitchen says 'Lefty's have rights, too!'

[Tommymac]

21. In the 1920's...

my mother went to a Catholic school...the nuns tried to force her to be right handed ... and hit her with a ruler everytime she tried to write left handed.(Left handed was considered the mark of Satan and all by the Church back then). Her mother heard about it and went in and basically told the nuns that if they tried to force my mother to be right-handed one more time she was going to stuff their habits where the sun doesn't shine, nuns or no nuns!

[Carla in Ca]

25. I was going to mention something about that

in my post as well, but I'm glad you brought it up. My husband has told me of students having their left arms tied behind their backs when he attended Catholic school. I thought the relentless teasing I got was bad, but that humiliation had to be the worst.
I also read somewhere that more children afflicted with polio were lefties forced to be right-handed. It could very well be true since studies suggest doing that created an imbalance and thus weakened the immune system.
Amazing what harm is done in the name of ignorance. We who had parents that allowed us to be ourselves were the lucky ones.

[tabasco]

39. Oh, you're absolutely correct.

We're better in bed too !

[omega minimo]

19. Human mind is expanding

beyond the confines of the left brain.

[skooooo]

38. Us lefties..

...really use more of our brain, it's true.

:evilgrin:

[Gemini Cat]

22. Yes, I totally 100% agree with this!

Especially this part:

Latest research works conducted in many countries of the globe showed that the IQ level of left-handed people is higher in comparison with the one of right-handed individuals. Every fifth outstanding person is left-handed as a rule. Furthermore, the people, who can boast of having extraordinary abilities, are left-handed too.

My agreement of course, would have nothing to do with the fact I'm left handed myself. }(

[Hidden Stillness]

23. We (Left-Handers) More Acceptable Now

They don't treat it as a mental disturbance or a willful refusal to cooperate anymore, the way they used to. As a kid, in kindergarten, I was taken to a school psychiatrist, held back a grade (until they had to move me right back up again) because they assumed left-handers were either stupid or "not facing reality"--actually said to me once--and they tried for a while, to force me to "change." Thank God for my wonderful Mom, who when she learned of all this, fought them until they stopped. I don't think they do these things anymore, as if there were something "wrong" with left-handed people. They used to. The only thing wrong with us is that they don't build things for us, and you are always having to think reversed. I think it helps the brain.

[deadparrot]

24. Proud lefty here!

Politically and manually. :)

As are my mom and brother.

[OneBlueSky]

26. substitute the word "homosexual" for "left-handed" . . .

and re-read the article . . . sounds about right to me . . . :)

[NashVegas]

28. Yes! Yes! I Am Part of the Master Race!

Woo-hoo!

:bounce: :bounce:

On edit:

My grandfather was a leftie whose arm was tied behind his chair in school (1910s). I think he must have griped about that over the ages, my mom mentioned it many times and she left my leftiness alone because of it.

[scarletlib]

31. I'm left handed, my husband is left handed.

We had two right handed but quite intelligent right handed children. I have a left handed grandson.

[im10ashus]

33. My boyfriend is left-handed.

So is my sister. Both are VERY smart and articulate and have had teachers and the like try to dissuade them from using their left hand to write. It's sick and wrong that people assume it's some sort of mental illness.

[arwalden]

34. I'm Left-Handed... Left-Footed... Left-Eyed...

even left-eared. Honestly... I favor my left side in everything I do. (Except bowling... I bowl right-handed.)

[arwalden]

35. Is It True That Among Homosexuals There Are More Left-Handers Than...

... compared to the percentage of left-handers of the general population?

Anecdotally: Among my gay friends, almost HALF are left handed... but among my straight friends, it's not as common. Perhaps it's just a coinkydink.

[Maine-ah]

36. woo-hooo!!

I'm a lefty too! But I do alot of things right-handed, which I think stems from growing up the only left-handed person in a family of six.

At work, I use an adding maching with my right hand, while at the same time I will write stuff down with my left hand. People say I have "unusally neat hand writing, for a left-handed person".

I failed hand-writing class in grade school, because the teacher claimed "your letters don't slant the correct way for a left-handed person". WTF? Who cares, you can read it, right?

I can't use left-handed scissors, I play baseball right-handed.

When I read this article to my Mother, she told me that my grandfather (my father's side) used both. I assume that's where it came from. It's also possible, I was really meant to be right-handed, but when I was born, neither of my arms worked (breached with my arms twisted up behind my back) Doc's said I might have use of my right arm, most likely never my left. My mom had me put through some serious pysical therapy, and they worked with my left arm more than my right. So, that might be why I'm left-handed.

[Spirochete]

42. A lot in our family

Both my sisters are lefthanded, as am I. My mother was lefthanded. Her mother was lefthanded, and so is her brother(my freeper uncle).
Seems there were a few others who were lefthanded, too, but don't remember which ones.

[Coexist]

43. I'm a leftie - by hand preference and political leanings

do I get a prize?!

[antigone382]

44. I've always been proud of being left-handed.

Sure, sometimes it's a hastle, like trying to get my arm comfortably through the rings of a three ring binder so I can write on the title page, all while sitting at a right-handed desk, and then washing the ink smudge off my hands. But I'm creative and artistic and obviously smart enough to be a liberal, so it's all worth it in the end!

[SeattleRob]

50. Hooray!

Not surprsing. As southpaws, we are known for both our extraordinary intelligence and our sense of modesty.

:hi:

[cynatnite]

52. Now, if only us lefties could put such power to good use

I say it's take over the media time:smoke: