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We don’t have to switch hands with our forks in order to pick up a knife.
Why would you need to switch hands?
Forks are on the left for a reason.
When I play basketball, it gives a slight advantage in the beginning when opponents don’t know I’m a lefty because they automatically assume I shoot with my right.
Also, being able to naturally drive one handed in a left-hand drive car.
Meanwhile those of us ambidextrous…
Yes but good luck with scissors 😭😭😭 I fucking hate that thing
After 30+ years, I finally bought myself a nice pair of left handed scissors.
If I’m being honest, I’m so used to right handed ones, that the lefty ones feel wrong anyway.
Fortunately, me and a pal were the reason our kindergarden bought some lefty scissors.
it’s actually a good idea. I once saw a store with many “for left handed” products. But most of them aren’t really necessary because you just get used to the regular ones.
Damm it now I realize why I feel too much uncomfortable with scizzor
Training people in surgical techniques is way easier in lefties because most have been imitating right handed people so have some degree of ambidexterity. When you tell a right handed person to do precision movements with their left hand it fucks them up for a while.
Notable advantage in a lot of beginner and intermediate level sports. By the time you get beyond that everyone knows how to compensate for left handedness.
Easier for you to assault a castle with spiral staircases while using a sword.
Either everyone knows how to compensate for a southpaw or everyone is a southpaw. Fencing is a lefty’s game.
I’m told that Ferniehurst Castle on the border between Scotland and England was built with the stairs spiralling in the opposite direction because so many of the clan that built it were left-handed.
May also have been a subtle way to help protect in case the castle was stormed. I’ve certainly heard of castles where the steps were sometimes irregular heights - those who lived there would be used to it, but invaders would not and would find it harder to move effectively. A differently spiralling stair might have the same effect.
Seems that doesn’t work quite as well in tennis, where pretty much all the time 15 to 25% of the top 100 ranked players are left handed.
I fence, and lefties have a significant advantage, just because we’re used to fencing opposite-handed opponents.
Back when automated toll booths had baskets to throw coins in, I could easily pay tolls at around 45 mph.
EZ pass eventually became a thing, probably saved me from my own young stupidity.
From memory, we are statistically more likely to be geniuses. Unfortunately we are also equally as more likely to be clinically insane.
There a fine line between genius and insanity. Apparently that’s the line between left and right.
You say paranoid delusion, I say let me see those notes you’re writing-!
You are born an outsider. This allows you to understand the world more clearly at a younger age. Not sure what advantages this may give but it’s reality.
My gf thinks lefties are hot. I don’t understand but I got an advantage there 🤷♂️
Good thing you’re lefthanded!
It’s a conversation starter when you see another leftie in the field.
We save money on potato peelers because the right handed people in the family use the other side of the blade and so it lasts twice as wrong.
Downside is right harders want to trade peelers with us not realizing that there are right handers in the family and so ours are dull on both sides.
A boxing coach once told me it’s harder to fight lefties because they go against what you’ve trained for.
It’s true of all combat sports, and, to some degree, any other sport in which you go face to face with your opponent.
And although it might be true that at the very very top levels people both learn to be more ambidextrous (so that there’s less of a mismatch between sides whether right or left handed) and are more experienced/skilled at dealing with left handed opponents, the early years of learning the sport will weed out fewer left handed people so that the top levels have more left handed people.
