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Title: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: catherine on January 22, 2009, 10:56:42 PM
I noticed on the news tonight that Barack Obama is a leftie! Obviously a good bloke then.

Of couse, all the best people are lefties, just like me, and I believe Jem is as well, as I vaguely recall him grumbling that you couldn't get left-handed Stylophones.

Just wondered who else on the forum is a leftie?
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Pedro on January 22, 2009, 11:21:45 PM
Quote from: "catherine"I believe Jem is as well, as I vaguely recall him grumbling that you couldn't get left-handed Stylophones.
...but the mighty Racing Hippo apparently put that (erm) right....

All right handed in Clan Pedro. My Mum was left-handed though....
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: RWA on January 23, 2009, 12:10:33 AM
Quote from: "catherine"Just wondered who else on the forum is a leftie?
Completely, totally and utterly!  :D

I play drums "mirrored" and my git is a lefty.
Keyboard's easy; I just play it sitting behind it instead of in front of it. Looks really weird on a Steinway btw. But not as weird as on an upright piano!  :shock:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: RacingHippo on January 23, 2009, 08:41:17 AM
I'm not but Pygmy Hippo is.

Is it possible to get pygmy-sized guitars in southpaw mode?
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Lacklight on January 23, 2009, 08:45:54 AM
Me when I write, hold a snooker cue or tennis raquet etc, but if I ever play cricket, golf or strap on my air guitar, it's right.

Curiously, I work in HR and about 60% of my colleagues are lefties too...
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Cptncanary on January 23, 2009, 09:21:53 AM
I'm a leftie, as is Mrs Canary and daughter Canary. Son Canary is a rightie throwback of some sort.
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: tomskerous on January 23, 2009, 12:58:22 PM
Wife and I - both left-handed.
Kids - both right-handed.

(Aside: I once attended a BBC management training course and out of the twelve people there, nine were lefthanded. I don't know if that means the BBC attracts more creative right-brain types, or if we were just the ones that made the shit managers.)
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: gr8gonzo on January 23, 2009, 08:13:06 PM
I'm left-handed.  My son is also.
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Ash on January 24, 2009, 07:26:48 AM
Freaks!  ;)

You have the devil in you you know  :lol:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: johninblack on January 24, 2009, 07:33:50 AM
Quote from: "Sarah"Freaks!  ;)

You have the devil in you you know  :lol:

Sinister. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: johninblack on January 24, 2009, 07:35:01 AM
Sue is a lefty, me and Sammi are normal. :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: D S on January 24, 2009, 10:09:12 AM
As a youngster, I started out as a natural left-handed writer but was 'guided' to being right-handed by my parents   :roll: .  
OK, it might have saved me 10% on guitars and has given me a greater choice of guitar models, but I often wonder what psychological damage being a repressed southpaw has done to me!   ;) :twisted:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Pedro on January 24, 2009, 05:37:08 PM
Quote from: "D S"As a youngster, I started out as a natural left-handed writer but was 'guided' to being right-handed by my parents   :roll: .  
OK, it might have saved me 10% on guitars and has given me a greater choice of guitar models, but I often wonder what psychological damage being a repressed southpaw has done to me!   ;) :twisted:
...but it just doesn't look correct, does it?

(//http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/waitepb/30571f5c.jpg)
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: D S on January 24, 2009, 05:49:10 PM
:lol:
Brilliant, Pedro!

Sadly enough, it looks familiar to me from too much time spent posing in front of a mirror with the latest acquisition...  :oops:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: landslug on January 24, 2009, 07:44:02 PM
Quote from: "johninblack"
Quote from: "Sarah"Freaks!  ;)

You have the devil in you you know  :lol:

Sinister. :mrgreen:

Count me in!    :twisted:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Pedro on January 24, 2009, 08:08:13 PM
Quote from: "johninblack"Sinister. :mrgreen:
Lovin' your work  :D
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: johninblack on January 24, 2009, 10:27:22 PM
Quote from: "Pedro"
Quote from: "johninblack"Sinister. :mrgreen:
Lovin' your work  :D
Must have been practising my heraldry.
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Onanist on February 04, 2009, 07:37:15 PM
Leftie here...

Well confused Leftie to be honest...

Writing, snooker, darts - leftie

Guitar, javelin, cricket, bowling (both 10 pin and cricket) - rightie

And..

racket sports, both, I have no backhand I just swap hands.

And total confusion when using a knife and fork, I never seem to feel comfortable even when I swap hands.
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Mouse on February 13, 2009, 05:22:42 PM
I'm left when it comes to writing and drawing, but right when it comes to everything else (including arguments!  :twisted: ).
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: catherine on February 18, 2009, 02:48:53 PM
Quote from: "Mouse"I'm left when it comes to writing and drawing, but right when it comes to everything else (including arguments!  :twisted: ).

Does that mean you punch them with your right fist? Otherwise I can't see how handedness is relevant to an argument!
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Twang on February 18, 2009, 05:30:37 PM
I am sinister as they used to call it. Left handed Rocks. Years ago we were put to death ya know. Jeez :twisted:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Mouse on February 18, 2009, 06:15:45 PM
Quote from: "catherine"
Quote from: "Mouse"I'm left when it comes to writing and drawing, but right when it comes to everything else (including arguments!  :twisted: ).

Does that mean you punch them with your right fist? Otherwise I can't see how handedness is relevant to an argument!

Well I was actually going for something like 'in an argument, I'm always right', but you may have something there...  :)

That is, if I ever got angry enough to punch anyone. I'm a natural pacifist, every time I get angry enough to lamp someone in the middle of their face all the muscles in my upper body relax and I'm rendered useless. Which is why I'm rubbish in a fight.

Bloody hell, I don't drink a lot, I don't do drugs, I don't go for nights out, I don't fight, I'm not loud, I don't endlessly persue females, I carefully look after my finances... I'm a rubbish student as well!  :shock:
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: DueyC on March 07, 2009, 04:56:14 PM
I'm a lefty too - so's my boyfriend - and my brother and his wife.

@D.S. - Dave Kilminster and John Wetton are both left-handed but play their guitars right-handed. JW told me he thinks it's better that way because you can do all the nifty fretwork stuff with your better hand. I'm not a guitarist so I wouldn't know.

Julie :-)
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: DannySoisSage on March 07, 2009, 05:09:37 PM
Quote from: "Julie"I'm a lefty too - so's my boyfriend - and my brother and his wife.

@D.S. - Dave Kilminster and John Wetton are both left-handed but play their guitars right-handed. JW told me he thinks it's better that way because you can do all the nifty fretwork stuff with your better hand. I'm not a guitarist so I wouldn't know.

Julie :-)

You can add Robert Fripp to that list. Not a bad list either!
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: D S on March 07, 2009, 07:44:52 PM
Interesting!  So in order to play 1970s King Crimson material properly, you need to be a leftie playing a right-handed guitar! (Dave Kilminster plays Fripp's guitar parts brilliantly on Wetton's best live album IMO 'Nomansland' so there is an extra connection there!)
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Geetar on March 07, 2009, 08:03:07 PM
Quote from: "Mouse"Bloody hell, I don't drink a lot, I don't do drugs, I don't go for nights out, I don't fight, I'm not loud, I don't endlessly persue females, I carefully look after my finances... I'm a rubbish student as well!  :shock:

Er, Mouse.... what do you actually...y'know........ do?
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: Mouse on March 07, 2009, 09:55:58 PM
Quote from: "Geetar"
Quote from: "Mouse"Bloody hell, I don't drink a lot, I don't do drugs, I don't go for nights out, I don't fight, I'm not loud, I don't endlessly persue females, I carefully look after my finances... I'm a rubbish student as well!  :shock:

Er, Mouse.... what do you actually...y'know........ do?

 :lol:

Well when I'm not in Hull College doing a Foundation Degree in Music Production, I spend my free time messing around with guitars and keyboards and going for walks. I've just aquired a plug-in which contains about 80 Rick Wakeman Moog sounds, so right now I'm having fun with that!  :D

And no, I don't have a lot of friends. Must be the Prog thing...  8-)
Title: Re: Southpaws - stand up and be counted!
Post by: wickedwitch on March 07, 2009, 10:02:11 PM
i used to be married to a leftie and it looks like daughter the third might be one, but she's only 2 so she might just be hedging her bets! x