Need to complain to school

mildred1978

I only recently discovered this, but cameras and camcorders are set up for right handers, making it harder for lefties. I guess I didn't use either much before my son was born!

mildred1978

ailuro2 wrote: »

I never knew there was a difference in things till I bought my first pair of left handed scissors in my twenties - it does make a difference. It's the only "left handed" thing I have.

I do have to remember when I'm teaching my right handed DD to cook that she will do it the right handed way, so I make sure she has the knife in the correct hand for her - but I don't expect they'll be chopping onions with a sharp knife at nursery, so don't really see what the problem is. Same goes for scissors - the kiddy ones they have in nurseries tend to be useless and it's the staff who end up cutting stuff out beforehand.

Left handed bread knives can make a difference too. Most lefties can't cut bread neatly with a right handed knife, and normal butter knives cause us to mash the bread up because the grooves are on the wrong side.

fluffnutter

fluffnutter wrote: »

I remember someone posing an etiquette question about the way the knife and fork go. She said she was going to a dinner party, she was left-handed and she held her knife in her left hand. She was wondering whether she should phone or write to her host asking whether he'd be so kind as to set her place with the knife and fork the other way round.

Talk about over-reaction! Here's a thought... when you pick your knife and fork up, swap them from left to right, eat your dinner. Simple.

mildred1978 wrote: »

But the fork is normally on the left............???

Yeah, have I described it right? The knife normally goes on the right doesn't it. She wanted her knife on the left.

fluffnutter

mildred1978 wrote: »

Left handed bread knives can make a difference too. Most lefties can't cut bread neatly with a right handed knife, and normal butter knives cause us to mash the bread up because the grooves are on the wrong side.

What's a butter knife? I'm just being facetious, I do know what they are. They're just not a critical piece of life's armoury are they?

One thing I did read about lefties: apparently they're more prone to suicide, alcoholism and early death in general. I've always wondered if that's a reaction to a life led without ever being able to hold a pair of scissors properly (or indeed a butter knife )

fluffnutter

I always wanted to be left-handed It just seemed cooler.

neverdespairgirl

fluffnutter wrote: »

More languages are written from right to left than the way we do it. If you think about it, it makes sense if you're using a chisel and hammer. Most people are right handed and it's easier to chisel moving to the left than to the right.

Yes. But it's not a universal thing.

fluffnutter

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Yes. But it's not a universal thing.

No, and some write top to bottom. Weirdos!

mildred1978

fluffnutter wrote: »

Yeah, have I described it right? The knife normally goes on the right doesn't it. She wanted her knife on the left.

Yeah, I read the knife as fork. Must be a leftie thing .

aliasojo

I'm right handed but eat in a left handed way. Go figure.

Lotus-eater

aliasojo wrote: »

I'm right handed but eat in a left handed way. Go figure.

But you're speshul