Are you a Lefty or a righty ?

Probably: I had to double-check the reference to Newark Castle, as there is a bigger one, and an east coast version, and a borders model.

In the days before maps were accurate, this would keep the enemy confused for long enough to heat the oil.

list of some famous people who are lefties !!!

greatest footballers in the history:

Maradona, pele, messi !!!

greatest tennis player !!!

sampras !!!

scientists:

isaac newton, eintsein

artisit:

leonardo da vinci, michael angelo

musicians:

jimi hindrix (guitar player), baach, beethoven (spelling mistakes everywhere !!!!)

also many actors and actresses like keanu reeves, marlin monroe are lefties !!!

its also said that lefties live less than righties, is that right (correct) ?

its also said that lefties live less than righties

I guess it's because we zigged when we should have zagged .

I can´t agree with you on one of the greatest footballers ever being Maradonna, The Hand Of God! Suppose coming from England has something to do with that, not that I hold a grudge or anything! How about the archers of old have long left arms and shorter powerful right arms, Now that would be an interesting sword fight, advantage goes to the longer left!

maradonna isnt one of the greatest footballers !!!

he is the greatest !!

in my opinion he is better than pele !!!

pele is to football what the beatles are to music. both are are very important and are legends, but many bands or footballers later came and were better than them.

You jest my dear friend, Maybe he 'was' the best but now he is just another has been! When you look at the skills of players like Ronaldinio, they would run rings round him! Every great player meets there match sooner or later! It won't be long before even Ronaldinio is sold off to present match of the day!

It's a cultural thing maybe ..

I would rather lose fairly than win by cheating.

The 'hand of God' wasnt 'great' it was an insult to the Goalkeeper.

Maradona is a flawed individual and that's just sad.

What about Maradona's drugs "bad will"? Despite of he was one of the most football talented.

Wow, this thread has legs. More than a simple poll, I suggest an attempt to correlate left handedness with:

- Whether you wear you watch on the left hand or right hand.

- Whether you part your hair on the left, right, center, or not at all.

- Whether you put the tissue on the spindle dispensing in back or in front.

- Whether you eat corn on the cob axially then rotationally, or rotationally then axially.

A search of U.S. Patents turns up 39 with the words "left handed" in the title - most of which have to do with manual dexterity and not chemistry, optics, etc. Sixteen Published apps as well. That's actually not very many. It's probably tough in general to get a patent for something left handed - just doing a mirror image of something probably doesn't qualify as unobvious so each one must have some clever trick to it. (I wondered what was up with the left handed pen, but I didn't bother to look. I've managed this long without one.)

Finally, GM1964, I like that quote by Aesop. But I think this is even deeper: "When all is said and done, there's nothing left to say or do." - By some guy on ESPN SportsCenter.

JHammond

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Whether patented or not, there is obviously money to be made in mirror images.

Why don't they simply burn us lefties at the stake and be done with it.

The Vatican recently reaffirmed and clarified the policy of refusing ordination to men with "deeply seated homosexual tendencies." Unless they can show that they have gone without presenting these tendencies for the three years during their seminary training, gay men would not be ordained. Thank God we finally are seeing a return to traditional moral values. But Rome has stopped too soon. There is yet another grave moral threat that is even more insidious: left-handedness.

For years, we have stood silently by while individuals with deeply-seated left-handed tendencies take over the church and the world. Everywhere we turn, we are subjected to left-handed culture: there are left-handed desks in our classrooms, left-handed scissors and ladles. We can hardly go anywhere for meals without left-handers grabbing the first seats at the table, or knocking into our elbows when we try to eat. Even the main doors to our campus buildings open to the left, favoring "lefties" over decent, right-handed people.

The ubiquity of this problem makes it seem as if a putative "left-handed orientation" is equally as moral as right-handed behavior. But this only reveals the utter depravity of contemporary culture. Nature itself shows that left-handedness is aberrant. Ninety percent of people are right-handed and have no trouble resisting the temptation to use their left hands for social behaviors like eating and writing.

Traditional cultures all over the world recognize that the left hand should only be used for unclean activities (like toileting), and they rigorously enforce this restriction. But "modern" societies have become lax in this regard. Just as with other moral issues, they would rather be "politically correct" than uphold traditional family values. We must reverse this pattern before it is too late.

It is no accident that the Latin word for "left hand" is "sinistra." From ancient times, Christians have affirmed that Jesus sits "at the right hand of the Father," not the left. The true "Sign of the Cross" can only be made with the right hand. The same goes for other types of blessings. When the Gospel of Matthew speaks of the Last Judgment, the Lord Jesus separates the just from the unjust by putting the sinners on his left, and then consigning them to eternal punishment.

Such is the destiny of those who persist in acting out this left-handedness, and all those who support a culture of left-handedness. We must make certain there are no left-handed priests to tempt good Catholics to succumb to such a fate. We must stop ordaining people with deeply-seated left-handed tendencies—unless they can demonstrate that they have refrained from using their left hands for the previous three years.

Spiritual directors should challenge those priest candidates who have been living left-handed lives to repent and return to the right-handed fold. How can priests teach true morality if they themselves are living in sin? God's mercy is great, and God will forgive those who convert to right-handedness. Even those who may have some residual temptation to left-handedness should be assured that this in itself is no sin; it is left-handed behavior that is sinful. Pastors must remind their flocks that God loves the sinner, but hates the sin.

They might even consider starting support groups for parents whose children are having "handedness" issues. Appropriate pastoral care is critically important to ensure that those who repudiate their left-handed ways are assisted in staying on the straight path. But the priests who are preaching this message and offering such pastoral care must themselves live model, right-handed lives. So, for the love of God, we must stop ordaining "lefties."

courtesy Sheila McGinn, John Carroll University

As always in life, when people in positions of influence fall out with someone over something - either trivial, or taboo - they look to some aspect of their "enemy" with which to castigate their entire race/colour( skin/hair....)/language. By so doing, they take away from the genuine reason of the disagreement.

Were Judas or Pontius left-handed? Or does this go further back?

You're absolutely right. When someone wants to hate someone else, any reason is reason enough.

Sheila wrote this piece last year in response to one of the Vatican's more pathetic (and ludicrous) decrees. Substitute 'homosexual' for 'lefty' and you pretty much get the Vatican's version.

An interesting side-effect are the shear numbers of people who've taken this piece seriously and not in the satirical spirit in which it was written. "My goodness, Henry, this is simply appalling!"

Similarly, people still think H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds and The Time Machine were originally written as science-fiction stories and not as the social commentaries Wells intended them to be.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

After much experimentation I have discovered I'm a righty 50% of the time, a wrongy 50% of the time, and am ambidextrous with both nostrils.

shear numbers ?

Are these the opposite of primes, i.e They can be chopped into pieces?

Mr Arthur Pedant

All thumbs.

Thumbs opposing the fingers on our hands enabled us to become the multi dexterous we are,

and opposing toes on their feet enabled chimps to become the omni dexterous we only wished we could be.

Chimps are bi-pedal for about fifth of their walking time.

Interesting changes as one descends down the tree of homonids...

Monkeys have arms and thumbs and fingers, but they cannot rotate their hands so that they face outward.

Apes can rotate their hands (like humans), but they cannot touch the tip of their thumb to the other side of their palm.

Humans can. Any further than this and you're on your own.

Do I really have to explicitly suggest all the wonderful things we, humans, could do with opposing toes on our feet?

A picture enclosed, for some inspiration. Just in case

Oliver, a bi-pedal chimp, was once hailed as 'the missing link', a title which expressed people's appreciation of of this skill in regard to their own evolution.

Go left young man, go left. Is that to keep your young lady to and on your right?