# šŸ’Ŗ šŸ—“ International Left Handers Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Monkey Tennis\ **Created:** [13 August 2020 09:32 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680 "2020-08-13T09:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 09:32 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/1 "2020-08-13T09:32:00Z")
![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/6/b66b477c376364f92b3188f1e246a4a8d8984043.png) [https://www.lefthandersday.com/](https://www.lefthandersday.com/) ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 09:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/2 "2020-08-13T09:38:26Z")
[How Left Handed are you](https://www.lefthandersday.com/tour/how-left-are-you) Iā€™m 8/10 LH ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/4/4/44be461c0524bd798cfe0002c54a45793812a9a9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Lets-B-Drinking](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lets-b-drinking/32/1041_2.png) [@Lets-B-Drinking](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Lets-B-Drinking)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 10:48 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/3 "2020-08-13T10:48:04Z")
Wankers! ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 10:54 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/4 "2020-08-13T10:54:38Z")
Thatā€™s not fair. Theyā€™ve already got a special day for them. 3rd December [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_Nations](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations)ā€™\_International\_Day\_of\_Persons\_with\_Disabilities ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 10:54 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/5 "2020-08-13T10:54:49Z")
Smack his hand with a steel rule. ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/6 "2020-08-13T11:04:07Z")
I love that the Italian/Roman for left handed is sinistreā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:07 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/7 "2020-08-13T11:07:27Z")
> [@BTripz](#): > > 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. šŸ˜” This will at a stroke rid the world of its overpopulation problem. LEFT HAND MATTERS! ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:09 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/8 "2020-08-13T11:09:08Z")
> [@lifeintheslowlane](#): > > LEFT HAND MATTERS! Only for wanking when your right hand is tired. ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:14 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/9 "2020-08-13T11:14:25Z")
There is no hope for you. Your name has been taken. ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:16 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/10 "2020-08-13T11:16:23Z")
Its Pike ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:19 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/11 "2020-08-13T11:19:09Z")
> [@PhilippineSaint](#): > > Its Pike How appropriateā€¦itā€™s what youā€™ll be sitting on, come the revolutionā€¦ ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/3/8/38c613719827bed67930c39016df7d06e4a4bcc1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:24 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/12 "2020-08-13T11:24:24Z")
It derives, as youā€™d expect, from Latin. The word for ā€˜leftā€™ in Latin is _sinister_, the word for ā€˜rightā€™ 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. ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:33 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/13 "2020-08-13T11:33:32Z")
> [@Fowllyd](#): > > Pretty appalling really. Yep, youā€™re correct, any one who wants to use their left hand is appallingā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:35 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/14 "2020-08-13T11:35:54Z")
> [@Fowllyd](#): > > **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. @Fowllyd witnessed it, first hand. What was it like in the mid-nineteenth century, @lifeintheslowlane? ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 11:41 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/15 "2020-08-13T11:41:28Z")
> [@saintbletch](#): > > What was it like in the mid-nineteenth century, @lifeintheslowlane? Surprisingly liberal, although as a punishment I was once told to write out ā€œthe times tablesā€ in Glenfield Infants and publicly praised for finally being able to grasp the ā€œthree times tableā€ which I had always found particularly tricky. ---
**Author:** ![Nottarf-Krap](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nottarf-Krap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Nottarf-Krap)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 17:25 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/16 "2020-08-13T17:25:01Z")
Apparently Prince Charles had this treatment when he was a child, naturally left handed but had it smacked out of him. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 17:36 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/17 "2020-08-13T17:36:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 17:36 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/18 "2020-08-13T17:36:52Z")
Never experienced anything like that, Iā€™m the same age as Charlie. Whichever hand I wrote with nobody would have been able to read it. ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 17:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/19 "2020-08-13T17:45:28Z")
Iā€™d give my right arm to be ambidextrous. ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2020 17:46 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680/20 "2020-08-13T17:46:32Z")
But then Charlie went to a very old-fashioned and harsh public school in Scotland. They probably hadnā€™t heard of left-handedness and treated it like a sin. [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/international-left-handers-day/5680.md?page=2)