Wankers!
Thatās not fair. Theyāve already got a special day for them. 3rd December
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nationsā_International_Day_of_Persons_with_Disabilities
Smack his hand with a steel rule.
I love that the Italian/Roman for left handed is sinistreā¦
Watch it! When we finally take over the world you Righties will be first against the wall.
This will at a stroke rid the world of its overpopulation problem.
LEFT HAND MATTERS!
Only for wanking when your right hand is tired.
There is no hope for you.
Your name has been taken.
Its Pike
How appropriateā¦itās what youāll be sitting on, come the revolutionā¦
It derives, as youād expect, from Latin. The word for āleftā in Latin is sinister, the word for ārightā is dexter. That those two words have evolved to mean what they do in English tells us a great deal about our primitive suspicion of those viewed as different.
Even in the mid twentieth century children were often forced to write with their right hand and punished for attempting to use the left. Pretty appalling really.
Yep, youāre correct, any one who wants to use their left hand is appallingā¦
@Fowllyd witnessed it, first hand.
What was it like in the mid-nineteenth century, @lifeintheslowlane?
Surprisingly liberal, although as a punishment I was once told to write out āthe times tablesā in Glenfield Infants and publicly praised for finally being able to grasp the āthree times tableā which I had always found particularly tricky.
Apparently Prince Charles had this treatment when he was a child, naturally left handed but had it smacked out of him. Weird.
Eldest daughter is a lefty. One of her first teachers was also left-handed, and quickly got her using her right hand for a lot of things. Her theory was that the real superpower was training your right hand to become essentially ambidextrous.
Never experienced anything like that, Iām the same age as Charlie.
Whichever hand I wrote with nobody would have been able to read it.
Iād give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
But then Charlie went to a very old-fashioned and harsh public school in Scotland. They probably hadnāt heard of left-handedness and treated it like a sin.