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Message 1615060 - Posted: 17 Dec 2014, 2:08:46 UTC

@ celttooth: har-de-harr

@ Admiral Gloval: I'll have to try that, someday.
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Message 1615086 - Posted: 17 Dec 2014, 3:34:18 UTC

I do not like peas with honey.
I do not like peas with gravy.
I do not like peas with Spam.
I do not like peas, Sam I Am.

(Or mushrooms. Or non-pickled cucumbers. Or tomatoes (unless almost completely disguised as pasta or pizza sauce). Or zucchini. Or most of the other vegetables you could mention.)
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Message 1615094 - Posted: 17 Dec 2014, 4:21:27 UTC

Spam spam spam spam,
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Message 1615335 - Posted: 17 Dec 2014, 16:16:50 UTC
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:)))))))))))))))) @all of you :)

Re the fork hand - I suppose it comes down to which hand is most skilled for the more difficult task of cutting things up, than the fine motor tasks required for the subsequent "getting its contents adequately into your face" you know... without shoving it into your eye... *pause to perform annietanalysis*

Y-e-e-e-e-s :) I find getting things into my face quite easy so leave it to my right hand to do it :) Jim is clearly... different :))))))))

edit: fledgling ambi perhaps? :)
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Message 1615427 - Posted: 17 Dec 2014, 20:10:27 UTC - in response to Message 1615424.  

Would that be a Fambi or an Bambi?


All please forgive the righty....


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Message 1615440 - Posted: 17 Dec 2014, 20:38:15 UTC

In the Pilgrim days, they only had spoons and knives. Forks were for the
European nobility, I guess. The spoons were for the soup, which would be
ladled into depression in the (wooden) table (in an inn), and the knife would
be used to spear the meat. A mug of ale would be passed around, from which
all would drink.
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Message 1615677 - Posted: 18 Dec 2014, 8:33:41 UTC - in response to Message 1615335.  

:)))))))))))))))) @all of you :)

Re the fork hand - I suppose it comes down to which hand is most skilled for the more difficult task of cutting things up, than the fine motor tasks required for the subsequent "getting its contents adequately into your face" you know... without shoving it into your eye... *pause to perform annietanalysis*

Y-e-e-e-e-s :) I find getting things into my face quite easy so leave it to my right hand to do it :) Jim is clearly... different :))))))))

edit: fledgling ambi perhaps? :)

I am right handed but I hold a phone in my left hand, Deal cards with my left hand, Drink a beer or a soda with my left hand. And Like most people catch a ball with my left hand.
Ive tried dealing cards right handed It just does'nt work.
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Message 1615690 - Posted: 18 Dec 2014, 9:01:57 UTC

I am very right handed. But, since I put my right hand/wrist etc out of action quite a bit, it doesn't take long for the left to pick up.
One thing I have not quite mastered is writting with my left hand. Printing is ok, but cursive or a sig, forget it.
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Message 1615893 - Posted: 18 Dec 2014, 18:45:54 UTC

As a small child in school I was known to start a sentence on the black board with
my left hand, then switch to my right to finish what I was putting up on the board.
I don't have occasion to do such things any more.


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Message 1616022 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 0:29:05 UTC

Today, the young folks use their thumbs to tap out messages on their twitter-
boxes. Some schools, I understand, don't even teach longhand, anymore.
Amazing.

For us, good penmanship started with a straight pen, dipped into an inkwell,
and applied to yellow, blue-lined paper. The slightest incorrect pressure
on the nib, resulted in a blot (a no-no).

The jury's out, as far as I am concerned, as to whether people's brains profit more from tapping out words/sentences, or penning them.
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Message 1616025 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 0:34:22 UTC - in response to Message 1616022.  

As a follow-up, the left-handed students -- assuming the teacher allowed them
to write with their left hand (some did, some didn't) -- had to slant the
letters to the right, the same way we right-handed kids had to write.

I felt sorry for them. Perhaps, times have changed -- in schools which still
teach longhand.
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Message 1616052 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 3:09:39 UTC

My father was born left handed, but had it literally beaten out of him by the nuns in the primary school he attended. His hand writing was horrible till the day he died.

I, and my son, are left handed, and have fair hand writing. Of course, we suffer when we use ink, as the left hand moves over fresh writing before the ink dries. Penmanship is the least of a lefties problems today, however. Try convincing the right handed majority that regular scissors don't work, many switches work the wrong way, etc.

Not to offend anyone, but based on years of reading it appears that there are two kinds of left handed people. Type one - genetic. Given three (at least) generations in my male line, I think we fall into this category. This group appears, statistically, to have higher IQs. Type two - resulting from brain damage at birth. This groups appears, statistically, to have higher rates of anti-social behavior and criminal activity. The Type Twos have given us lefties a bad name down through the ages. "Sinister" originally meant "left handed".

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Message 1616056 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 3:48:06 UTC
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I found out that I was an Ambi in elementary school, when playing baseball, I do write with My right hand, but I did experiment once with My left, I did ok, not great, but that would come in time, somewhat later when I was in the Scouts I would do archery or use a rifle with either side, needless to say I was better with a rifle than a bow and arrows, though I was the best in the troop with a bow and arrow, I got into the red zone with no archery practice, yellow I got close to, but that takes practice and maybe some instruction, in the yellow zone is the bulls eye or dead center, in the US Army I also shot ambi, of course I was a sharpshooter, though the rifle was generally more attuned to a rightie cause of where the ejection port is on an M16. Now I've never owned any weapons, but plinking doesn't really compare to 600m(660yds, moving or static targets) or up to almost 1200m(1320yds, static targets), besides I don't like the idea of having to keep a rifle from rusting, particularly with the cooling this place has, a swamp cooler. I find PCs, a cat and such is plenty today, besides I'm not generally a violent type, just like My Dad, though I could shoot better than He could, only cause I have better eyesight than He did.
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Message 1616057 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 4:00:04 UTC
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Interesting stories, Bill and zoom314.

The report that violent people are often lefties (type 2), is a new one, to me.

As for firing Army rifles, we had M1's and carbines. All were for right-handed
users, and we all had to fire them, accordingly (Some guys complained, but didn't get anywhere.).
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Message 1616080 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 6:00:59 UTC - in response to Message 1616057.  

Interesting stories, Bill and zoom314.

The report that violent people are often lefties (type 2), is a new one, to me.

As for firing Army rifles, we had M1's and carbines. All were for right-handed
users, and we all had to fire them, accordingly (Some guys complained, but didn't get anywhere.).

I'd used 3 types of rifles:

A .22 caliber bolt action in the Scouts,
an M1A(civilian version of the M14) once in NJROTC,
and the M16.

I never complained, kind of useless to complain when the people who owned the rifles didn't make them.

I also learned to do some tasks by watching, archery, rifles, horse riding, first aid, cooking, knot tying, using a mouse with a computer(this was in about 1988), cleaning, washing clothes(from 11yrs old), driving...

I found in school if I was interested enough, I could get A's or B's routinely.
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Message 1616351 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 17:44:21 UTC

Well hello fellow Berks :) and kindly visiting non-berks too of course :)

Had a mini berk convention in Stratford today with Chris :)))) Was lovely!!!! :) Had food whizzing past our noses throughout - for whenever we wanted to trough it! :))) He's probably still on the train so I'll say hello from him too in the meantime :)
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Message 1616360 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 17:55:49 UTC - in response to Message 1616052.  

had it literally beaten out of him


This happened to my oldest brother. He was born in
the early thirties. It was better for one of my other
brothers, and me. Lots of times when the principal
of my junior school came in to the class room, I was
scared of him so I would switch to using my right hand.
My mother found out about it and put a stop to it all.


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Message 1616380 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 18:46:36 UTC - in response to Message 1616360.  
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had it literally beaten out of him


This happened to my oldest brother. He was born in
the early thirties. It was better for one of my other
brothers, and me. Lots of times when the principal
of my junior school came in to the class room, I was
scared of him so I would switch to using my right hand.
My mother found out about it and put a stop to it all.



I had my left hand tied behind my back by my teacher on my first day of school :( The next morning I ran away from home before it was time to be taken to school. Well... when I say ran away - I hid behind the lawnmower in the next door neighbour's shed - with my sister (who wouldn't go to school unless I went with her) and our pets. My mum found us REALLY easily :)))))))

She had a real go at the teacher who then said I would have to teach myself how to write because she couldn't. So I did :) I taught myself to knit too, and crochet, and sew, and everything else I needed to do with my left hand :) My first knitting project was terrifying though. It was a teddy bear and I doubled the number of stitches with every row :))))))) Used SO much wool too... and stuffing :/ Everyone who saw it needed counselling afterwards I think...
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