Do You Dress Left or Right?

It is said that a left handed man will wear his watch on his right hand. It is also said that a wallet in the right pocket means a man dresses left and vice versa.

Both are true for this Texan.

I also carry my wallet in my right pocket and am right handed. I think the wallet thing might also go back to the handed thing. Might be useful information to get out of this survey. If right handers dress left you know immediately how the majority of people (all races and creeds) dress.

I dunno about all this - a right hander, I carry my wallet on the left. Think it's so that when I pull the thing out, I can extracate notes with my right hand. Keys are in the right pocket. This thread has got me so confoozed

Dress left - right handed - wallet in right hand back pocket or left hand inside jacket pocket - watch on right wrist - keys on belt clip or in pocket to right - change (coins) rh pocket - diary lh pocket - baccy & Rizlas lh - lighter rh - torch rh - pens pencils comb phone lh breast _{<he said ...>} - screwdrivers lh back - socket set lh - tyre levers rh jacket - shotgun lh jacket - cement mixer won't fit. OK I lied after the pens & stuff.

This is so wrong....I generally keep snot-rags in my back pocket. Hold on....I'll do a check.....yes - wallet in front right pocket. Keys, and some tissue I shoud have disposed of in the left. Round back, it's tissues on one side and nothing on the other. It's currently lying in the normal position (left), which I think is the norm for me, but it isn't the kind of thing I log in my diary.

I now know far more about you that I ever thought I would...or really needed to.......or ever wanted to. I won't be able to look Mrs K in the eye again!

It's just like I said someplace recently - this time of day, and the Brit's are up. very up

Trying to steal the credit from Guests, now? Should be ashamed of yerself.

Ah billhooks. BBT is waay through 11000 which means I'm at least 300 posts behind. Not sure I can face it.....

I'm going for a soak, I may be some time.....

Make that 400....

Wasn't me , It'd distract people from BBT

I now know far more about you that I ever thought I would...or really needed to...

Still you'll be easy to spot on a night out in Reading........you'l be the one limping on the right...

Which way is left again?

My left is on your right.

Oh I see. And which was is right?

Which side are you carrying the 44? Please note that I didn't ask about the back-upS.

I dress left, wallet and mobile phone in left pocket, car keys in right.
Confucious says, 'man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day'
Del

As a young man, I had a (bad) habit of knocking watches to pieces when on the left hand (I am right handed by the way).

I (still) put it down to the fact that a right handed person is better or more aware of where the walls are with respect to the right, rather than the left hand......the watches were cheap ones too which probably did not help......

I then started at 13 to wear watches on the right hand and have never damaged one since! That is about 50 years ago!! I think I broke 3 before swapping....and in those days I had to wind them up each day, but at 17 in Singapore, I bought my first automatic Seiko....

My package is to the left...my jacket, right sleeve first. I might then consider my navel as the equator.

"Right dress." is a command I remember from my time in the army. I didn't see the ambiguity at the time.

Right on !

OK, I'm, a 'righty' but Southpaw do get a bit of a bad deal. 'Sinister', 'left behind', all these things conjure to make life tricky for them. Astute readers will know that Ned Flanders is a Southpaw, and he's going to Heaven. Jus sayin . last time I visited ther pub, I was too embarrased to look see which hand blokes were using. It's not exactly the kind of thing you can try to observe without getting smacked in the gob.

You wrote:-

last time I visited ther pub, I was too embarrased to look see which hand blokes were using.

For what????? Drinking, masturbating, paying for the drinks???

It's not exactly the kind of thing you can try to observe without getting smacked in the gob.

Consider yourself duly Gob-smacked!!

Jeez, I'm slow. Took me about 75 posts to catch on.

So,

What the hell did you think the subject was????????????

As god is my witness, I though he was asking whether you put your right arm in your shirt, then the left arm, etc. You think you'd have sympathy for blokes like me who never make it to the fork in the road.

You watched "Leave It To Beaver" didn't you!

Apparently it has nothing to do with which side of the pond you're on... That's exactly what I thought, until Andy educated me. I admit I have always been known as more than a little naive...

You dear, sweet, innocent boy. Come to Auntie Rose....

I am yours to instruct. Don't be too harsh; I am but a callow youth, eager to learn the ways of the world.

Perhaps we might dally in the lea, sipping claret while I read Browning aloud, or drift lazily down the canal in a punt, hiding neath gaudy silk parasols?

A couple of amendments:

...sipping claret mead while I read Browning Di'Anno and Harris* aloud...

and we'll tie up the punt in the shadow of a willow....

*

Then methinks I must trade my boater and striped blazer for greaves and a Scythian war skirt.

Be still my beating heart ! <fans herself after pouring water over her head> How am I supposed to work for the rest of the afternoon with that vision in my head?

<pant>

An Iron Maiden and a Deep Purple reference? Hitch up the horses boys. We'll be waterin' from this hole a while yet.

Well, it could go either way...

Damm this thing's got some legs

Yeah, and the thread is going wild!

It does resolve the difficult question of left or right, eh?

But, yes, welcome back. I've missed your sanity and charm.

That was part of the vision that distracted me during my afternoon meeting....

Thank you

OMG... those guys rock like they invented it!

oh wait.... they did!! (at least in my universe )

Chris

The Kinks claim they invented Heavy Metal - with "All Day and All of the Night" their contender for the title of "First Heavy Metal Record".

Not sure I entirely agree....

Isn't US beer like making love in a Punt?

R.Lea or Lea Navigation?

Lea Preston

Ahhh!!

Be interestin' in a punt on this bit of river (from your linked map):

Is this one of those "what's wrong with this picture" things? Or, wait...a 3D image? If I stare at it long enough, will a T Rex pop out?
Where the F*CK is Waldo?

I'm a-goin' back to the BBT....

You are very honest and certainly not alone if the truth be known!!!!!!

In these days of "off the peg" suits, I guess it doesn't matter!!!

But if you get the "pains" previously mentioned, you should go and get measured up and not buy "off the peg".....

I assume GA logic applies here as well as BBT?

logic...BBT....

No, it doesn't compute. What bunch of evil folk got Garthh to ask this in the first place

Hangs to the right. unzip with the right so I can pull it out with the left. That would be the proper hand as it is not the one generally offered in greeting.

I really am curious as to why you wish to know.

Firstly, may I say welcome back to English Rose. I see to have not seen you around much recently...

By the way, there appears to be many men who STILL have not quite understood the question.......

Thank you Andy <curtsey> I've been back about a year, but don't often get out of the Bath....but I've found the towel and am roaming at will (and TVP it seems!)

Such innocence in ones so old....

I am really surprised at just how selfish some men are, or should I say, its a constant surprise to me.......

It is a fact that women married to non circumcised men get cervical cancer because of a particular virus (or whatever) that uncircumcised men can get and carry in their foreskin.

This was first noted many years ago that wives of particular religious groups where male circumcision is practised, suffer many times less with such cancers......

It is also a fact that the prepuce makes a man several times more likely (if sleeping with many different partners) to get HIV and all its consequences.....

You would expect that there would be a huge long queue of men waiting to get the operation!!! Just for their wives and girlfriends alone......let alone a 3-5 times better protection against HIV!!!

No, they make "smeggy" jokes about having something to "play" with.......why should I appear surprised? 99% of men think only of their own comfort......I certainly do NOT believe that the uncircumcised men ALWAYS use a condom......what about when they want to have children for example....

AND I CERTAINLY don't believe that all men are scrupulously clean and disinfect their "pride & joy" each day against that virus........getting most men to wash their hands after visiting the toilet is beyond most of them, I see that daily when visiting toilets in buildings or on motorways etc..Badly brought up people.

A female colleague I knew at my last company said that the women generally were no better, not that it helps at all!!!........

Most people do not realize that colds, flu and diarrhoea (to name but a few) are mostly caught by not washing the hands correctly.....hand washing correctly brings a major barrier into play against such diseases (as already fully discussed on CR4!)

"It is also a fact that the prepuce makes a man several times more likely (if sleeping with many different partners) to get HIV and all its consequences....."

OK, chop it off if you're just going to keep sleeping around. NOT MY WAY.

"You would expect that there would be a huge long queue of men waiting to get the operation!!! Just for their wives and girlfriends alone......let alone a 3-5 times better protection against HIV!!!"

I refer the honourable gentleman to my earlier answer.

"No, they make "smeggy" jokes about having something to "play" with.......why should I appear surprised? 99% of men think only of their own comfort......I certainly do NOT believe that the uncircumcised men ALWAYS use a condom......what about when they want to have children for example...."

Andy, I think you have a lot of good stuff to say - sometimes - but in this case I think you should just get your head out of your fundamental orifice, lighten up, and not exist in an ugly imaginary world (of your own creation) where every man has such a base existence as you propound. Or are you just trying to impress us all with (unspoken) tales of how many times you go out shagging different women?

I find your "holier than thou" attitude utterly abhorrent.

I have to admit I personally had no choice in the "matter", I was "done" when I was less than a year old (I was much later told!), both my father and my brother were also "cut".....

But there are certain interesting facts that have been known for many years (but not the actual medical condition/reason behind them) for very many years.

By the way, its not a "holier than thou" attitude from me, because today, as I just mentioned, its a proven medical fact that women who are married to men with HPV are more likely to get Cervical Cancer......as uncut men are more likely to carry/retain HPV.

Each of you will continue his life as he sees fit, but after reading this blog, better informed about this taboo subject!! I have also leant a lot more....

(Thought I would like to mention at this point that not all forms of HPV are dangerous to women partners, the lower numbers tend not to be dangerous, but numbers above 10 generally are...By the way I forgot to mention, HPV also has a number associated with it!.....)

But many men simply simply do not want to "go down that road" and tend get upset if this is in any way/form pointed out to them......please calm down and think logically for a moment!

Its like in Rome, they tended to kill messengers who brought bad tidings, it appears to be similar on CR4!!

I put it to you all that if women had some unimportant bit of their anatomy that could give men cancer of say the Testicles, you can be damn sure of 2 things (not the Testicles!), but that many women would even pay or insist to have it removed and their men would also be insisting on it being removed too!!!

CC is a disease that if not entirely preventable, can be severely reduced according to many doctors....

I would liken men having HPV as being similar to Russian roulette (to lighten things up a bit!!)....different sort of Pistol though?

Here is some further reading for those who are interested:-

http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv-and-men.htm

http://www.cervicalcancer.org/hpvmen.html

Thanks for your comments AG, there's good info there.

Your comments on reciprocity are well made - like the classic comments that if men menstruated, there would have been practical ameliorations a long time ago. It's only since women got into the workplace (other than single women as secretaries) and into design functions that the practicalities have been more adequately addressed.

John's comment about "behaving the gentleman" is also pertinent in the subject of spreading diseases. I hesitated to mention it earlier, but it is a fact that if all were monogamous (whether that involves matrimony or not) then these diseases would not be spread.

Reality is that this will not happen.

"Reality is that this will not happen."

Maybe true for many, but please don't (you or Andy) tar everyone with the same brush.

I was not "tarring everyone" with the same brush, I was bringing infos to anyone's attention who was interested. No more no less.

You obviously felt you were the target and reacted,but I did not pick on anyone in particular.......I supplied infos and my personal take on people who ignore the problems....

You did not need to post at all!! Then you are out of the equation......

John, we agree on so many other things on CR4, we can surely agree to disagree on this one point I feel without any "permanent damage"!

Pax?

PS. I am a complete believer in parity at all levels between the sexes....I am also the Father of two daughters....

Both are really "Powerful" Ladies and one is studying in Frankfurt Uni to be an Engineer and the other is working in a major Bank in the internal computer department.....I am proud of them both.

Sadly, you are "right on the button" with your comments.....thanks.

Back and front...

Try and figure THAT one out, boys!

I'm sure we could have lots of fun with me clasping you both ways (as long as Big G was off the scene for a while!)

Hey I'm right here

could I interest you in some squid [back only]

Jus' kiddin' - I'm outa here - see ya boss

well Duh

I used to have a Bush T-shirt, now I wear an Obama. I guess I dress for the weather.

You dress for the "whether or not?"

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